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Go west: Refugees crowd the quayside in the port of Kolberg. Between them and their destination in the west lay freezing waters, mines and enemy submarines. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Operation Hannibal 1945: the Germany evacuation that dwarfed the ‘miracle of Dunkirk’

Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel (Image by Wall to Wall Media/Laurence Turnbull)

Confronting Holocaust denial: “History is more of a battleground now than ever” says David Baddiel

US academic Deborah Lipstadt exults the High Court in London after winning a libel case brought against her by British historian David Irving, 11 April 2000. (Photo by Martyn Hayhow/AFP/Getty Images)

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Holocaust denial on trial: the story of Irving v Lipstadt

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The rise of Hitler. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The ruins of Dresden after the bombing by Allied forces in early 1945. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

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Confronting evils.

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Actress Emmy Goring and her husband Hermann

Nazi wives: the women beside Hess, Goebbels, Göring and Himmler

Photo of Adolf Hitler

Rise of a dictator: how did Hitler gain power and become the führer of Germany?

Youths salute Adolf Hitler

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Hitler Youth: how the Third Reich used children’s organisations to wage war

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Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

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Child survivors at Auschwitz

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A brief history of Auschwitz

Sir Nicholas Winton

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The ‘British Schindler’ who saved 669 children from the Nazis

German prisoners of war

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

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The perimeter fence of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. (Photo by Getty Images)

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