Witness History: World War Two history

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Last communist march before Hitler

On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin. Just a few days later Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Soon the Communist Party was banned and the Nazi grip on power was complete. Eric Hobsbawm was a schoolboy communist at the time. He spoke to Andrew Whitehead in 2012. (Photo: Communist rally 1932. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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  The Chindits

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  Nagasaki bomb

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  World War Two’s Rome escape line

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  VE Day celebrations

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  The death of Adolf Hitler

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  Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal

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  'I wrote Schindler's List'

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  The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

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  The Purple Heart Warriors

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  The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

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  Saving lives on D-Day

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  The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

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  The 'comfort women' of World War Two

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  The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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  French child evacuees of World War Two

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  The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis