Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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Monica de Wichfeld awarded Blue plaque honour in Derrylin, Northern Ireland – was a leading member of the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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The race to catch the last Nazis
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Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
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Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
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Götterdämmerung in the East - The Eastern Front in WWII after Stalingrad
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Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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Jerry cans: The true secret weapon of WWII
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What happened to flying wings?
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Landseaire, the crazy Catalina flying camper of the 1950s
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A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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The most powerful computers you've never heard of
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WWII animated: Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1941
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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When hope is a hindrance
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What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2?
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Why Hitler was obsessed with Iceland
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Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's worst naval defeat
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