The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2025.
In WW2, a Japanese American troop was one of the most decorated army units in US history
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2024.
Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2024.
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2024.
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Published on Wednesday, 5th June 2024.
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
Published on Wednesday, 20th March 2024.
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Published on Friday, 15th March 2024.
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2024.
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
Published on Monday, 12th February 2024.
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2024.
Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2024.
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2024.
The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.
Published on Wednesday, 19th July 2023.
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
Published on Monday, 12th June 2023.
On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2023.
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
Published on Wednesday, 17th May 2023.
Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside
Published on Tuesday, 16th May 2023.
It is 80 years since the Allies in World War II declared victory in North Africa
Published on Friday, 12th May 2023.
In May 1943, the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in Poland came to an end
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2023.
In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.
A first-hand account of being sent to a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai as a child
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs
Published on Monday, 19th September 2022.
A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
How sex, jazz and 'fake news' were used to undermine the Nazis in World War Two
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2019.
How the BBC reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2019.
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2019.
Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937.
Published on Monday, 17th December 2018.
At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.
Published on Monday, 3rd December 2018.
In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
Mountaineers risked their lives to camouflage landmarks in the Russian city during WW2.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers.
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2017.
Italy's great works of art were threatened by bombing and looting during World War Two.
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2017.
Thousands of women and girls worked on farms throughout WW2 to produce much needed food.
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2017.
A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two
Published on Monday, 21st August 2017.
We hear from one of the last survivors of a forgotten World War Two disaster
Published on Friday, 16th June 2017.
In 1942, the fascist government of Romania deported its Roma citizens to Transdniestria
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2017.
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were executed in the USSR during World War 2.
Published on Tuesday, 11th April 2017.
In March 1939, German troops occupied Prague; hear the story of one young boy who escaped
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2017.
A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.
Published on Tuesday, 13th December 2016.
Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2016.
The brother and sister who took part in the struggle to free Italy from fascism in WW2.
Published on Monday, 5th September 2016.
In June 1940, most of the residents of Paris fled as German soldiers occupied the city
Published on Friday, 17th June 2016.
During World War Two, Soviet propaganda promoted a heroic feat that never happened.
Published on Monday, 9th May 2016.
America's legendary military commander, General George Patton, died in December 1945
Published on Monday, 21st December 2015.
How one US Navy mechanic made it through the surprise Japanese attack on his Pacific base
Published on Wednesday, 2nd December 2015.
How a devastating air raid on Bari during WW2 led to the deadly release of mustard gas
Published on Tuesday, 1st December 2015.
The story of a survivor of Ravensbruck, the Nazis' concentration camp for women
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2015.
In 1942, the Allies launched an offensive in Egypt that helped shape the course of WW2
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2015.
In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony
Published on Friday, 18th September 2015.
How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.
Published on Saturday, 29th August 2015.
The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.
Published on Tuesday, 18th August 2015.
On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began
Published on Tuesday, 28th July 2015.
In the 1930s Hitler began to rebuild Germany's air force.
Published on Friday, 3rd July 2015.
In 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed into Theresienstadt concentration camp
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2015.
The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann gave hours of interview before his capture and trial
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2015.
In February 1941, a ship carrying nearly 30,000 cases of whisky was wrecked in Scotland.
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2014.
In 1939 tension was growing in Europe, over Nazi Germany's expansionist plans
Published on Monday, 10th February 2014.
In 1946 tens of thousands of British women went to Canada on the first 'war brides' ship
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2014.
In February 1944, the first electronic computer began attacking coded Nazi messages
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2014.
In 1943, Rome's Jewish citizens were promised safety if they gave gold to the Nazis.
Published on Monday, 27th January 2014.
The WW2 attempt to understand how best to care for starving civilians in war-torn Europe
Published on Monday, 20th January 2014.
On the 3rd of January 1946 Britain's most famous wartime traitor was hanged.
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2014.
Thousands of foreign civilians were interned when Japanese troops invaded in WW2
Published on Friday, 27th December 2013.
In November 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill all met together to discuss WW2
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2013.
In 1937, the Nazis staged an exhibition to ridicule modern art - it was seen by millions
Published on Monday, 4th November 2013.
In 1949 Iva Toguri was falsely accused of making Japanese propaganda during World War Two
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2013.
Hundreds of Jewish slave labourers staged a revolt in a Nazi death camp in October 1943
Published on Monday, 14th October 2013.
During WWII, most of the Jews in Denmark evaded Nazi plans to send them to death camps
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2013.
During World War II, African soldiers were a vital part of the Allied forces in Burma
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2013.
In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.
Published on Monday, 30th September 2013.
During WWII Britain set up a secret organisation to wage war in Nazi occupied Europe
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2013.
How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2013.
Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945
Published on Friday, 9th August 2013.
In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2013.
The day the leader of the French Resistance was killed by German forces on July 08, 1943
Published on Monday, 8th July 2013.
A crewman's account of the famous British raid on Hitler's dams in 1943.
Published on Friday, 17th May 2013.
Allied ships battled arctic storms, bombers and U-boats to ferry supplies to Russia in WW2
Published on Friday, 10th May 2013.
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2013.
Jewish fighters in the Polish capital rose up against the German army in 1943
Published on Friday, 19th April 2013.
How severely burnt Second World War airmen learnt to overcome their terrible injuries.
Published on Wednesday, 10th April 2013.
It is 70 years since 173 people were crushed to death at an air-raid shelter in London
Published on Friday, 1st March 2013.
In February 1942 Britain's stronghold in South East Asia fell to the Japanese.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2013.
It is 70 years since German troops lost their battle to take the Soviet industrial city.
Published on Friday, 1st February 2013.
In January 1946 a young British woman was given Hitler's will to translate.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2013.
How millions of Dutch faced starvation at the end of World War Two
Published on Tuesday, 22nd January 2013.
In 1944 the Yugoslav partisan leader found sanctuary on a tiny island in the Adriatic.
Published on Wednesday, 9th January 2013.
How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war
Published on Monday, 17th December 2012.
The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.
Published on Friday, 9th November 2012.
At the end of WW2, many ethnic Germans in Central Europe were forced to leave their homes.
Published on Monday, 1st October 2012.
One girl's story of exile and soldiering during World War II.
Published on Monday, 17th September 2012.
For six years following the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the US.
Published on Tuesday, 14th August 2012.
During World War II, Allied bombing raids brought death and destruction to German cities.
Published on Friday, 29th June 2012.
In June 1947 the diary of Anne Frank was published for the very first time.
Published on Monday, 25th June 2012.
A Frenchwoman remembers life under Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2012.
How a British psychiatrist examined the deputy Nazi leader after his flight to Scotland.
Published on Wednesday, 9th May 2012.
Throughout World War II, Myra Hess organised concerts in London's National Gallery.
Published on Tuesday, 13th March 2012.
In February 1942 all Japanese Americans were ordered to internment camps.
Published on Friday, 17th February 2012.
It is 70 years since senior Nazi officials met to plan the killing of European Jews.
Published on Friday, 20th January 2012.
She was one of Germany's greatest battleships during World War II.
Published on Monday, 26th December 2011.
On 29 September 1941, the organised massacre of Ukrainian Jews began.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2011.
The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945.
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2011.
The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.
Published on Friday, 2nd September 2011.
A Battle of Britain pilot reflects on being shot down and almost drowning in the sea
Published on Wednesday, 13th July 2011.
During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs
Published on Monday, 20th June 2011.
When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned
Published on Friday, 10th June 2011.
One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2011.
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
Published on Monday, 16th May 2011.
On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.
Published on Friday, 6th May 2011.
In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad.
Published on Friday, 28th January 2011.
The story of a boy who escaped Nazi Germany on a kindertransport train heading for Britain
Published on Monday, 17th January 2011.
The Japanese attack on American ships in Pearl Harbour forced the US into World War II.
Published on Tuesday, 7th December 2010.
In December 1938 the Kindertransports began, carrying Jewish children to safety in Britain
Published on Friday, 3rd December 2010.
