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The German chief of staff General Alfred Jodl signs an unconditional surrender to the Allies in Reims, France, 7 May 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain at War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Harold Wilson in 1971, after his first period as prime minister. He would take power again in 1974. (Photo by Getty Images)

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VE Day revellers blowing party trumpets

Second World War

In pictures: jubilant VE Day street party celebrations

Members of the royal family: Prince Louis; Prince George; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Charlotte; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; and Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's annual birthday parade on 8 June 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

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Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

“The war without an end”: what happened in Europe after VE Day?

Bird's eye view: An old woman with a 'fortune telling' parakeet in 1920s London. Those who questioned science and reason in postwar Britain were

The rise of spiritualism after WW1

Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett

Percy Fawcett and the search for the ‘Lost City Of Z’

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Who killed JFK? The case that can never be closed

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Otto Wächter pictured with his family, 1944. (Photo by Orion Publishing Group)

A Nazi mystery . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Elizabeth 1939

The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen

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Coco Chanel photographed in Paris, c1936

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In writing his classical novel, Orwell drew on the very real horrors of the 20th century. (Illustration by Ben Jones for BBC World Histories Magazine)

Rewriting the past: the history that inspired Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

A Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

Your guide to... the Great Depression

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

Second World War

A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

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Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in a scene from the 1962 film 'James Bond: Dr. No' (Photo by United Artist/Getty Images)

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