D Day, traitors and evacuees
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.
For six years following the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the US.
At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.
America's legendary military commander, General George Patton, died in December 1945
On the 3rd of January 1946 Britain's most famous wartime traitor was hanged.
The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945.
In January 1946 a young British woman was given Hitler's will to translate.
In 1946 tens of thousands of British women went to Canada on the first 'war brides' ship
In June 1947 the diary of Anne Frank was published for the very first time.
The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann gave hours of interview before his capture and trial
A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two
