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    Witness History: World War Two

    Witness History: World War Two

    Witness History: World War Two

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    Episodes1 - 10 of 109 episodes

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    The 'comfort women' of World War Two

    Between 1932 and 1945, hundreds of thousands of women and girls across Asia were forced...

    9 minutes
    		Mar 20, 2024

    The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    The Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii in 79AD is well known, but far fewer pe...

    9 minutes
    		Mar 15, 2024

    French child evacuees of World War Two

    In August and September 1939, tens of thousands of children began to be evacuated from ...

    10 minutes
    		Mar 05, 2024

    The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis

    In 1940 a daring rescue operation began to help Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occu...

    9 minutes
    		Feb 12, 2024

    Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?

    In 1937, Japan invaded China committing atrocities including the Nanjing Massacre. Wang...

    9 minutes
    		Jan 24, 2024

    Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis

    In 1949, Mildred Gillars – otherwise known as Axis Sally – became the first woman in Am...

    9 minutes
    		Jan 23, 2024

    Vidkun Quisling: Norway’s traitor

    In December 1939, fascist Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling travelled to Berlin from...

    10 minutes
    		Jan 22, 2024

    Japan surrenders in China

    In the autumn of 1945, World War II surrender ceremonies took place across the Japanese...

    10 minutes
    		Jul 19, 2023

    Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

    Vogue's war correspondent Lee Miller found herself in Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment w...

    9 minutes
    		Jun 12, 2023

    Last communist march before Hitler

    On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin.Just a few days la...

    8 minutes
    		Jun 08, 2023