D Day, traitors and evacuees
Maureen Flavin鈥檚 weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
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
