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Young Nazi supporters wave flags in the Saar territory in Germany, 1934. (Photo by Getty Images)

Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A spiritual swastika on a lotus background.

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Why did Hitler choose the swastika, and how did a Sanskrit symbol become a Nazi emblem?

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

“The war without an end”: what happened in Europe after VE Day?

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Otto Wächter pictured with his family, 1944. (Photo by Orion Publishing Group)

A Nazi mystery . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live before they were sent to concentration camps as part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution’. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen

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A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

Children in Auschwitz

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The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

Steve McQueen stars in the 1963 film that turned the 'Great Escape' into a symbol of Allied pluck and ingenuity. (Image by Alamy)

The not-so Great Escape

Simon Wiesenthal, who became famous after World War II for his work as a 'Nazi hunter'. (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The real Nazi hunters: how the infamous escaped – and those who brought them to justice

A woman is carried away on a stretcher following a German bombing raid on London, c1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The dangers of the Blitz spirit

German women carrying children believed to be part of the Lebensborn programme

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The woman who gave birth for Hitler

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman in Amazon Prime's 'Hunters'.

A historian’s review of Amazon’s “Holocaust revenge saga” Hunters

Anne Frank - Getty Images

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12 things you need to know about Anne Frank and her diary

Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictators's visit to Germany. (Photo by Getty Images)

How do dictators seize power? The malevolent careers of eight 20th-century leaders explained

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’