D Day, traitors and evacuees
Hundreds of Jewish slave labourers staged a revolt in a Nazi death camp in October 1943
How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.
In November 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill all met together to discuss WW2
The WW2 attempt to understand how best to care for starving civilians in war-torn Europe
Hundreds of thousands of civilians died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad.
In 1944 the Yugoslav partisan leader found sanctuary on a tiny island in the Adriatic.
In February 1944, the first electronic computer began attacking coded Nazi messages
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.
How the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
In 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed into Theresienstadt concentration camp
On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began
In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland
How millions of Dutch faced starvation at the end of World War Two
How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers.
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.
In April 1945 British troops discovered the horrors of the Holocaust in a camp in Germany
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.
Thousands of foreign civilians were interned when Japanese troops invaded in WW2
In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters
The dropping of the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima in the last days of World War II.
Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945
The Yalta conference that decided the shape of post-war Europe
At the end of WW2, many ethnic Germans in Central Europe were forced to leave their homes.