Eighty years on, the BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from the UK's D-Day veterans – some now more than 100 years of age. Rachel Burden traces their stories in Normandy and hears memories of the massive beach invasion and the battles that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...
The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Rooseve...

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who play...

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and O...

While Nazi ideology dominated Europe, Adolf Hitler used all dogmas to his advantage and fed the cult...

Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Divis...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...

This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small ...

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I a...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...

The youngest protagonist of the documentary is Wartburg, an automobile over 50 years of age. The car...

The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark da...