Second World War

Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg, 1933. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Enigma before Bletchley: the German spies who betrayed Hitler to steal codes

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Q&A Mein Kampf: what happened to Hitler’s money after his death?

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Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Books interview with Daniel Todman: “Everything that happened in 1940 isn’t somehow down to Winston Churchill” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s Second World War and the Country House . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the 'Desert Dance', a staging in the Jewish theatre in the Warsaw Ghetto (from a Nazi propaganda series), July 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The Library The Holocaust on stage

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Operation Barbarossa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

When Britain tamed ‘superman’

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. (Photo by Oliver Duerre/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Second World War

My favourite place: Berlin

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Monopoly maps: the history of MI9’s secret Second World War escape programme

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

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Q&A Why did the Germans never convince the Japanese to start a serious invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War?

Photo of British troops in World War I

Q&A When were the terms ‘World War I’ and ‘World War II’ coined?

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How has public memory of the Holocaust changed over the years?