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World War II: A chronology
Every aspect of the conflict, including all the major events and personalities and all theatres of war, accompanied by links to relevant websites.

The Holocaust
An umbrella website covering all aspects of the Holocaust of World War II, including a chronology (1923 to present) and information on victims and survivors, war crimes trials and later controversies.

• Adolf Hitler
  The Nazi leader from his birth in Austria to his suicide in Berlin.
• Adolf Hitler
  A brief biography of the German dictator.
• The Airships
  The story of the largest and most romantic aircraft ever conceived – from the flight of the first Zeppelin in 1900 to the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 and beyond – and its role in intercontinental air travel, exploration and warfare.
• Battle for the Holocaust
  Jewish historians look at how understanding the Holocaust has changed since the end of World War II, and ask whose agenda is being served by the proliferation of museums, memorials and commemoration events.
• Blitz: The diary of an air raid
  29/30 December 1941: when German bombers launched on London their most devastating attack yet. Accompanied by computer reconstructions.
• Children and war
  The history of child warriors is a long and bloody one that extends from the youths of Sparta in the 1st millennium BC to the young people engaged in military activity around the world in the early years of the 21st century.
• Classic Weapons of World War II
  This database catalogues nearly 100 machines and tools of war that shaped the outcome of the 20th century's defining conflict and laid the foundations for the world we know today.
• The Holocaust
  An umbrella website covering all aspects of the Holocaust of World War II, including a chronology (1923 to present) and information on victims and survivors, war crimes trials and later controversies.
• Howard Goodall’s Great Dates
  Goodall shows that great pieces of music are not freak accidents of genius but the direct products of their time, place, culture and politics (Channel 4 Learning).
• The Nazi Expedition
  Robin Cross reveals how a curious mixture of ancient Teutonic myth, Eastern mysticism and late 19th-century anthropology lay at the heart of the SS.
• Nazi Gold
  The desperate attempt of the Nazi leaders to hide their ill-gotten gains at the end of the war.
• The Nazi Officer’s Wife
  An extract from the autobiography of Edith Hahn, a Jew who married a Nazi  during World War II and survived to tell the tale.
• Not Just Fade Away: Adolf Hitler
  Evidence and rumours about Hitler's death.
• The Nuremberg Trials
  Examines the origins of the Nuremberg trials and their counterparts in Tokyo, how they were carried out, the sentences they passed and their legacy.
• Pagans
  Delve deep into the pagan past, find out whether the old religions were obsessed with sex, learn about modern followers of the faith, and discover how many traces of ancient paganism remain in 20th- and 21st-century culture, including the Nazis.
• Paul von Hindenburg
  Germany's leading general in World War I who was responsible for Hitler’s rise to chancellor.
• Pink Triangle: The Nazi persecution of gays
  The events that led to the deaths of at least 15,000 gay men.
• Secret History: Television in the Third Reich
  An account of the TV service run by the Nazis 1935-44 and its spreading of anti-Semitic propaganda.
• The Sinews of War
  The curator of the Bank of England Museum reflects on the Bank's role in funding Britain's wars and protecting its currency.
• Sink the Bismarck
  If you want an accessible version of the dramatic pursuit of the Bismarck in May 1941, this 1960 film is, according to Dr Eric Grove, as good a place to start as any.
• Tit for tat
  Acts of vengeance and their consequences – including such ‘triggers’ as the murder of Genghis Khan’s envoys in 1218, the murder of the Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972 and the storming of the Golden Temple of Amritsar in 1984, as well as other examples of retribution from Japan, Czechoslovakia and Korea.
• U-234: Hitler’s last submarine
  The astonishing contents of the submarine that the Nazis sent to Japan in the last days of the war.
• U-571
  It may be have the right period details, but this purely imaginary tale purporting to show that the Americans, and not the Brits, captured a vital Enigma codebook in 1942 fails to win over Daniel Lee.
• The War of the World
  According to historian Niall Ferguson, from the Russo-Japanese war of 1904/5 to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the 20th century was by far the bloodiest in history. In this website, Ferguson explains why this came about, and there is an extensive chronology of the events that made this the ‘age of hatred’.
• Warlords
  World War II was a series of private psychological battles waged between Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. This website examines the lives of these four leaders and compares eight significant psychological traits.
• Weapons of War
  This C4 Learning website charts the development of weapons technology from World War I to the present.
• Women in the 20th Century
  This C4 Learning website examines the roles of women during the last century in terms of war, work and the family.

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