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A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

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A British soldier uses a searchlight to spot German aircraft during the Second World War. Britain has lived with the fear of invasion for several centuries, a fact reflected in its architecture, its art and its people’s mental health. (Photo by David Savill/Getty Images)

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Marie-Louise Colombain, shown here in her prisoner photo from Auschwitz, was a partisan sergeant who carried out militant actions against the Nazis before her arrest in 1941. During her imprisonment at Auschwitz, she made clothes for the Nazi elite alongside the camp's other dressmakers. (Used with permission from Lucy Adlington/History Wardrobe)

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