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Year 9: World Wars; Nazi Germany
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Haig: The Unknown Soldier. 'This Timewatch production reassesses the leadership of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander charged with sending thousands of British soldiers to their death on WWI's Western Front. Condemned by many historians for his outmoded battle strategies and a seeming indifference to the devastating consequences of his orders, this video offers a different perspective on his role, using the testimony of leading historians and military experts.' 
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'In the 1944 'July Plot', the German officer Claus von Stauffenberg narrowly failed to assassinate the Nazi leader. His success would have changed the course of history – but for better or worse? Roger Moorhouse and Nigel Jones debate the issue ...'
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'Trench warfare is one of the defining features of the First World War, but why? Dan Snow and One Show regular Michael Douglas find out why they were necessary - with the help of paintball guns.'
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'Dan [Snow] puts to the test two of the most iconic weapons of the war. The Mauser Gewehr '98 and the Lee Enfield Short Magazine MkIII were the standard issue rifles for the German and British armies respectively.'
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'An army is as good as the kit its soldiers use. In 1914, which army was the best equipped? Historian Dan Snow finds out.'
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A 4 minute introduction to Stalin
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From The Lost Battalion, US 77th Dvision Attack Argonne Forest, Oct 1918
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'The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 has remained one of the more controversial aspects of World War Two. Dresden, a city unaffected by bombing up to that point in the war, lost many thousands of civilians in the firestorm that was created by the Allies. As the Russians advanced to Berlin from the east and the Allies from the west, why was Dresden bombed when it did appear that the war would be ended in the near future?'
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Smithsonian film: archaeology at Treblinka.
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'On April 6, 1944, U.S. marines faced a battle unlike any they had faced before: the Japanese intentionally crashed over 1,900 planes in suicide kamikaze dives on them.'
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'A century after the disastrous campaign in the Dardanelles, Gary Sheffield challenges some commonly held assumptions about this failed attempt to change the course of the First World War ...'
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"Every Holocaust survivor has a different story. This is certainly true for the story of the three Oppenheimer children, Eve, Rudi and Paul, who were fortunate to survive for five years under the Nazis in Holland, and in the camps of Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, and who finished up on ‘The Last Train from Belsen’."
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1936 Olympics: 15 minutes.
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'Thanks to the famous BBC series, which has inspired a new comedy film, the image of 'Dad's Army' as a group of bumbling misfits has been burned into the British consciousness. Yet, in reality, the Home Guard was a tough, dynamic fighting force. Leo McKinstry reveals five ways in which it readied itself to repel a Nazi invasion.'
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'In World War One it wasn't easy to escape the trenches. The British only managed to get out by using some very smart technology. Historian Dan Snow finds out how they did it.'
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'Dan [Snow] takes a deep breath as he prepares to have an extremely close encounter with some of the deadliest weapons of the war in an attempt to understand how they were able to wreak such havoc.'
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'Wars naturally create myths and legends. Some of those from the First World War still persist to this day.'
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North Africa campaign. The Desert Fox.
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Battle of Berlin, 1945
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Missiles in World War II: V1s and V2s.
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On June 1, 1942, bombs rained down on Canterbury. Canterbury Christ Church University lecturer Dr Martin Watts and student Jordan Newton look back at how the city united in the face of terror.
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'In May 1942, two partisans assassinated the reviled Nazi grandee Reinhard Heydrich. For the beleaguered Allies, Heydrich's death was a major coup. But, says Robert Gerwarth, the consequences for countless civilians across occupied Europe were catastrophic.'
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Andy Robertshaw recovers the words of soldiers in the trenches with the help of a forensic lip-reader.
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'Shortly after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, 15-year-old Hetty Verolme spoke to the BBC's Patrick Gordon Walker. The Dutch teenager had been a prisoner with her two brothers for over a year. More than 70 years after the liberation, Hetty returns to the site of the former Nazi concentration camp. Now 88 years old, she tells Witness of the horrors she saw and listens again to the interview she gave to the BBC just days after gaining her freedom.'
Andrea Patrick's curator insight,
April 24, 2018 5:32 AM
Compelling images, footage and audio from the concentration camps as well as 88 year old Hatty speaking of her experiences as a 15 yr old prisoner within one of these camps
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'Infantrymen recall first-hand the tension and terror of going over the top in WWI, to face the combined firepower of rifles, machine guns, and artillery.'