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Frank McDonough discusses his new book charting the demise of Hitler’s Germany from 1940-45. (Image by Getty Images)

The collapse of the Third Reich . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler

Actress Lily James and actor Michael Huisman looking at each other in a still from the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Life under Nazi rule: the occupation of the Channel Islands

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German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

Germans who resisted the Nazis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

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Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

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Daniel Lee on the HistoryExtra podcast.

An ‘ordinary’ Nazi . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Roger Moorhouse on the HistoryExtra podcast

Poland 1939: The invasion that sparked WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson: “Caste is like the wind. You may not be able to see it, but it’s a quietly destructive force” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A mother and her children amid the smoking rubble of their city in 1940. (Photo by Getty Images)

Hitler’s vengeance . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

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Why did WW2 happen?

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Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revisiting the Kindertransport . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler reviews storm troopers

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How did the Nazi party rise to power in Germany in 1933? And what were Hitler’s motivations?

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

Aftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich