The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by German forces during World War Two. Hitler was proud of the conquest, which he saw […]
Second World War. World War II
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This week marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. One of the most pitiful sights to greet the liberators were the concentration camps. Eva Schloss […]
Harm van der Wal was coming of age during the Second World War, and he kept an insightful diary of those formative and dramatic years of his life: the front-line […]
“Throughout the history of warfare technology changes rapidly. A revolution in technology can occur in the space of 20 odd years, but the human emotions of those involved in a […]
This documentary, broadcast ten years after the end of World War II and fifteen years after the bombing of Rotterdam, looks back on a decade-and-a-half of occupation, liberation and reconstruction […]