Witness History: World War Two history

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Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

Vogue's war correspondent Lee Miller found herself in Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment when the news broke that he was dead. Earlier that day, she and fellow photographer David Scherman had witnessed the harrowing scenes at the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Lee Miller's son and biographer, Antony Penrose, explains to Josephine McDermott the significance of the photograph taken in the final days of World War II in Europe. (Photo: Lee Miller in Hitler's bathtub. Credit: David E. Scherman © Courtesy Lee Miller Archives)

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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