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A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, has died in Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda was 91 years old. 
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The D Day landing at Omaha Beach, Saving Private Ryan.
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From D Day to the liberation of Paris.
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That's how it looked like just after the Second World War in Berlin! Fascinating moving pictures in color show the situation of the city in summer 1945, just...
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Extraordinary colour footage of Berlin from July 1945.
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Find out more about the history of Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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Resources on the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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A BBC dramatised documentary.
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In August 1945, former medical officer Shuntaro Hida survived the world's first atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima.
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'Shuntaro Hida was a young doctor working in the Japanese army at the time. On the day the bomb fell, he was called away to a neighbouring village to treat a patient. That unplanned journey would save his life.'
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This GCSE and IGCSE level revision podcast looks at experiences of three broad groups in Nazi Germany - young people, women and families, and the persecution
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Some revision material on Nazi Germany.
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D-Day was the largest naval, air and land operation in history. Here's everything you need to know about this historic WW2 campaign.
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Some excellent resources on D-Day from the Imperial War Museum.
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Landing on Omaha Beach: German and American experiences of D-Day.
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'On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in then Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company. A new village was built nearby after the war, but French president Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.'
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The death of Adolf Hitler, then 56, and Eva Braun, 33, in this bunker in the heart of Berlin on April 30, 1945, is widely regarded as the fall of the Third Reich.
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Two weeks after their death and the subsequent fall of Berlin, William Vandivert became the first western man to photograph the so-called 'shelter for the leader' - with this collection of images published shortly afterwards in Life Magazine.
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Seventy-two years ago this month, Japanese forces conducted a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The anniversary of this event provides us
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Pearl Harbor propaganda posters.
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Soviet Union researchers captured the harrowing footage of the flattened Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki around a month after the US bombings took place in August 1945.
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'This newly released video shows the utter devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after atomic bombs obliterated the cities in August 1945.'
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Some revision films on the First World War.
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A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, has died in Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda was 91 years old.