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    Hitler's favourite city
    Answer this question and win a signed, hardback, first edition copy of Laurence Rees' 'Their Darkest Hour'.

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    Western

    1939

    German soldier in Poland
    A German soldier reveals some of the terrible atrocities committed in Poland.

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    Western

    1944

    War in Italy
    The mountainous terrain of Italy proved tough going for the Allies- did the success justify the sacrifice?

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    Holocaust

    1941

    Member of Einsatzgruppe
    In the Baltic states around 80% of the killing squads were eventually made up of locals – men like Petras Zelionka. In this devastating testimony he describes how he personally took part in the murder of Jews in the autumn of 1941.

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    Pacific

    1941

    Pearl Harbour
    President Roosevelt appeared before Congress on 8 December 1941 and asked for confirmation of the fact that since the Japanese attack the previous day ‘a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire’.

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