The Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin In February 1945, three men met in a holiday resort to decide the fate of the world. Nazi Germany was on its knees. Soviet troops were closing in on Berlin, while Allied forces had crossed Germany's western border. In the Pacific, US troops were steadily but bloodily advancing towards Japan. As their armies poised for victory,

Primo Levi - one of the most famous survivors - was lying in a camp hospital with scarlet fever when the liberators arrived. The men cast "strangely embarrassed glances at the sprawling bodies, at the battered huts and at us few still alive", he would later write.

The story of a family of dwarves snatched from the gas chamber by Josef Mengele himself sounded incredible. But how to verify the testimony of Holocaust survivors? And should you even try? 'I was saved by the grace of the devil," Holocaust survivor Perla Ovitz told us. Again and again, she recounted in detail how she and her family were taken to the gas chamber and ordered to strip naked. A heavy

Slowly, gently even, young soldiers scrape away the dirt of decades from human bones. Tangled with the remains are shreds of cloth and the soles of shoes. They're uncovering a little-known chapter of the Holocaust on a construction site in western Belarus.

Karl Lehmann was one of some 1,000 people working at Caversham Park by the end of the war It was late in the evening on 1 May 1945 and Karl Lehmann was working at his desk on the outskirts of Reading, 40 miles (65km) to the west of London.

In 2012, Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic gaffe that set off a small diplomatic crisis - he referred to the "Polish" - and not "Nazi" - death camps of the Second World War. For Poles, it was an acutely painful faux-pas. The nation has for years objected to the term "Polish death camps", saying it implies complicity in the Nazi camps built on its soil during occupation.

Christopher Nolan's World War Two thriller Dunkirk hits the screens in the US and the UK this month, dramatising the daring rescue of 300,000 Allied troops from the approaching German army. But as they escaped across the English Channel, thousands of civilians were left to fend for themselves. This is the story of one family. It was May 1940 and Eva Zusman, her husband Stanislas and four-year-old

Hitler spent the last phase of World War Two stuck inside a bunker, as recreated here in a Nazi-era air raid shelter in Berlin.

For three years, thousands of Greeks stayed in refugee camps across the Middle East The influx of more than a million refugees and migrants to the Greek islands in the past year has stirred up difficult memories for a dwindling group who followed the same route during World War Two, but in reverse. As German and Italian troops occupied Greece, tens of thousands of people fled by sea to refugee cam

なにかに夢中になって眠れなくなったことはありませんか。今回登場する武井先生は、歴史研究が楽しすぎて夜中に何度も目が覚め、出産数時間前まで研究をし続けたほど。学部選択に悩む高校生に、最先端の研究をお届けする「高校生のための教育入門」。歴史ってそんなに面白いの？ ユダヤ史を研究する武井彩佳先生に、歴史を学ぶ楽しさについてお話を伺いました。（聞き手・構成／山本菜々子） ――武井先生は『ユダヤ人財産はだれのものか』をご執筆されるなど、ホロコーストの生命や身体だけではなく、カネとモノといったテーマを扱っていますよね。それはなぜでしょうか。 人間はイデオロギーだけで人を殺せないと考えたからです。 よく、ナチスの支配下で洗脳され、ホロコーストに至ったと考えられていますが、政治的な信念だけで人を殺せるのか。そこまで強固な信念や信条を持つ人はなかなかないでしょう。隣の人の持っている土地が欲しいとか、あの人の

After World War Two, the BBC attempted to find relatives of children who had survived the Holocaust - they had lost their parents but it was believed they might have family in Britain. Seventy years on Alex Last has traced some of those children and found out what happened to them. It all began with a rare recording of an old radio broadcast, which starts with the words: "Captive Children, an appe

In the summer of 1942, Leningrad was starving. It had been under siege and bombardment by German forces for nearly a year. And yet an orchestra managed to perform a new symphony by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and broadcast it across the city. When conductor Karl Eliasberg received instructions to rehearse Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony he had a problem. After a performance the previous Dece

Sidney Ashcroft was deported to a Nazi prison for stealing food and punching a German officer By punching a German officer in Nazi-controlled Guernsey, 20-year-old Sidney Ashcroft sealed his own fate. He was trying to protect his single-parent mother but his act of resistance meant he would never see her again. Not a Guernsey native, she remained there until she died decades later - waiting in vai

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That's how it looked like just after the German surrender! Fascinating moving pictures in color show the situation of the city in summer 1945 and daily life in the ruins. ----- Watch here the preview of the brandnew documentary "Spirit of liberation", restored original color and High Definition: https://goo.gl/Ae1ouI Suscribe at: https://goo.gl/Ppmmk2 ----- Pictures from the destroyed city, the

IamA 95 year old german women from a village in the Black Forest, and experienced Nazi Germany as a civilian. AMAA Hello, As a thank you to you all, here is a video of her I recorded. She was already tired and not as fluid, but I think it's nice to see and hear her talk. I hope you all enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t901cbbjzQw on /r/videoUse the new feature Sort by Q/A to read all questio

The USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two 70 years ago is seen as the nation's most glorious moment. But there is another story - of mass rapes by Soviet soldiers of German women in the dying days of the war. Some readers may find this story disturbing. Dusk is falling in Treptower Park on the outskirts of Berlin and I am looking up at a statue dramatically outlined against a lil