Second World War

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Hitler plans Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The Führer’s decision to invade the Soviet Union was a dire miscalculation that would prove fatal to his regime.

What if Hitler hadn’t sent the Wehrmacht into the Soviet Union? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Alec Ryrie - WW2 sacred cows WL

Has WW2 become a national religion? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Naoko Abe - Martyr and Kimono WL

War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Winston Churchill. (Photo by Getty Images)

Churchill’s evolving perspective on D-Day . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life - Eisenhower WL

Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photographs of some of the victims of the 1944 Nazi massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: the brutal SS atrocity that still haunts France

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Winston Churchill. (Photo by Getty Images)

D-Day: was Churchill really against the operation? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Map showing departure points for British troops ahead of the Normandy Landings on D-Day

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D-Day beaches map: where were the D-Day landings?

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Woman reads about the D-Day invasion in a newspaper

The women’s work that made D-Day a success . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Memorial to the U.S. Navy at Utah Beach, where it fought on D-Day in Normandy, France

From the USA’s ‘good war’ to Britain’s ‘great hurrah’: how is D-Day remembered around the world? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British troops land in Normandy on 6 June 1944. D-Day, and the complex operations that followed, would not have been possible without Allied sailors (Photo by Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The seaborne invasion: why we must remember the forgotten heroes of D-Day and the battle for Normandy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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D-Day Social WL

D-Day: Land . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA D-Day WK4 Quiz

HistoryExtra Academy D-Day and the Normandy Campaign quiz: week four . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HEXA D-Day Vod4

HistoryExtra Academy video lecture: launching Operation Overlord . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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D-Day Social WL

D-Day: Sea . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.