D Day, traitors and evacuees
On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin
It is 80 years since the Allies in World War II declared victory in North Africa
In May 1943, the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in Poland came to an end
In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay
A first-hand account of being sent to a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai as a child
A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s
Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937.
The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.
In 1937, the Nazis staged an exhibition to ridicule modern art - it was seen by millions
How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany
In the 1930s Hitler began to rebuild Germany's air force.
In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.
In December 1938 the Kindertransports began, carrying Jewish children to safety in Britain
The story of a boy who escaped Nazi Germany on a kindertransport train heading for Britain
Children were evacuated from Britain's towns and cities at the beginning of World War Two.
In March 1939, German troops occupied Prague; hear the story of one young boy who escaped
The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.
In 1939 tension was growing in Europe, over Nazi Germany's expansionist plans
One girl's story of exile and soldiering during World War II.
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were executed in the USSR during World War 2.
One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk
The story of the British soldiers who didn't get rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk.
We hear from one of the last survivors of a forgotten World War Two disaster
In June 1940, most of the residents of Paris fled as German soldiers occupied the city