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The PoWs who survived Nagasaki . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ghetto in Charkov Photo 1941 World War Two Russian Campaign Occupation of Charkov capital of the Ukraine

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The Black Book of Soviet Jewry

A montage of Adolf Hitler and a purple starry sky

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Conspiracy Did Hitler escape from his bunker and live in Argentina after WW2?

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Refusing to fight in WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The commandos head off in José Ferrer’s Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

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Cockleshell Heroes: the real story of WW2’s Operation Frankton

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Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

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Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

Dancers demonstrate the Charleston, c1926. The dance is often associated with ‘flappers’ – newly enfranchised women with bobbed hair, short skirts and supposedly looser morals – and characterised by frenetic up and down movements and swivelling, akimbo limbs. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Forbidden dances and deadly marathons: 5 facts about the history of dancing

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The hell of the Pacific War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edda Mussolini, c1929

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Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler

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British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS

Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

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Ben McIntyre on Colditz: “The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable”

A member of a Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrol, May 1942

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Desert raiders: the Long Range Desert Group in the Second World War

A German soldier captured during the battle of Kursk, July–August 1943. Germany’s last major offensive on the eastern front ended in crushing defeat (Photo by STF/AFP/ GettyImages)

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Bitter end: Hitler’s downfall and the end of the war and the Third Reich