World War Two
The attacks, landings, deceptions and codebreakers that decided the Second World War.
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The HolocaustThe systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.
Archibald McIndoe and the Guinea Pig ClubSurgeon Archibald McIndoe rebuilt burned pilots' faces, and 39 founding members started the Guinea Pig Club in 1941.
HiroshimaOn August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, instantly killing tens of thousands and changing warfare forever.
Alan Turing and the Thinking MachineHe conceived the computer and broke the Enigma code, but Alan Turing's revolutionary career was cut short by a criminal conviction.
The Death Match: Football Under OccupationIn August 1942 a Kyiv bakery team beat a German air force side 5-3, but the legend of their doom was written later.
The Nuremberg TrialsThe landmark trials where, for the first time, Nazi leaders were held individually accountable for Crimes Against Humanity.
Viktor Frankl and Meaning in SufferingPsychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that the primary human drive is not pleasure or power, but a will to meaning.
The Monuments MenIn 1943, the Allies formed a unit of 345 experts to protect Europe's cultural treasures from the Nazis.
The Hitler DiariesStern paid 9.3 million marks for 62 supposed Hitler diaries that Konrad Kujau forged in a Stuttgart cellar.
D-DayOn June 6, 1944, roughly 132,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, beginning the largest amphibious assault in history.- Operation MincemeatHow a corpse carrying fake secrets tricked Hitler into diverting troops and clearing the way for the invasion of Sicily.
The Winter WarIn 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, expecting a quick victory, but met fierce resistance that gave the world the 'Molotov cocktail'.
Rudolf Hess Flies to ScotlandOn May 10, 1941, Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess bailed out over Eaglesham, Scotland, after a solo flight of nearly 1,000 miles to seek peace.
Han van Meegeren Fooled Göring With a Fake VermeerA forger who baked fake Vermeers sold one to Göring for 137 looted paintings, then escaped treason by painting another.
The Fake Epidemic That Fooled the NazisTwo Polish doctors injected patients with dead bacteria so a blood test said typhus, and 8,000 people escaped deportation.
Yalta and Potsdam: Dividing the Post-War WorldAt Yalta in February 1945 Stalin secretly promised to fight Japan within two to three months of Germany's defeat.
Hiroo Onoda's 29-Year WarHiroo Onoda kept fighting on Lubang Island for 29 years, until his old commander read him a formal order in 1974.
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