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Adolf Hitler. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Your guide to Adolf Hitler: key facts about the Nazi dictator

Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

Speech of Adolf Hitler to the Reichstag inthe Kroll Opera in Berlin after the Declaration of war to the USA, in addition to the lectern to the right: Press Chief Otto Dietrich and the personal adjutant of Hitler Albert Bormann the Brigade Commander o

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“One of the most puzzling decisions of WW2”: Ian Kershaw on why Hitler declared war on America

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in 1961

Forgotten voices: the history behind Holocaust Memorial Day

Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

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Tim Grady gives a lecture exploring the varied experiences of German Jews in the First World War. (Image by Getty Images)

German Jews in WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler

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German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

Germans who resisted the Nazis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Holocaust

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

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Max Hastings on the HistoryExtra podcast

The story of the Dambusters . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

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Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

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Daniel Lee on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Roger Moorhouse on the HistoryExtra podcast

Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

What was the Roman Empire’s greatest defeat? It might be Teutoburg Forest in AD 9