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Coco Chanel photographed in Paris, c1936

Chanel and the Riviera . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live before they were sent to concentration camps as part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution’. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Hollow victory: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, attends Paris VE Day celebrations. But many faced privation and uncertainty as the war drew to a close. (Photo by Getty Images)

VE Day at 75 The bitter taste of victory: why May 1945 was not a time of celebration for everyone

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

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

Children in Auschwitz

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The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

Steve McQueen stars in the 1963 film that turned the 'Great Escape' into a symbol of Allied pluck and ingenuity. (Image by Alamy)

The not-so Great Escape

Frances Griffiths poses with the fairies

Fairies, rabbit births and an ‘ancient’ tiara: what are the greatest historical hoaxes?

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US Army 7th Division's tanks equipped with flame throwers climbing a ridge on Okinawa. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

Okinawa: the battle and the bomb . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The US assault on Okinawa

The WW2 battle of Okinawa: the bloodiest assault of the Pacific War

Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous after World War II for his work as a 'Nazi hunter'. (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The real Nazi hunters: how the infamous escaped – and those who brought them to justice

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London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Blitz spirit: how ordinary people coped with WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Children play as air raid wardens during the Blitz in London

Q&A How did WW2 affect schools in London?

A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The dangers of the Blitz spirit

German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme

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The woman who gave birth for Hitler

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12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary