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Sachsenhausen, Soviet POWs and the origins of the Final Solution
In 1941 Sachsenhausen concentration camp became the first of the existing pre war concentration camps to become a site of mass killings as 9,000 Sovi…
5 years, 7 months ago
The British Communist Party, Popular Fronts and Spain 1932-36
After the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933, Stalin began to privately regret his decision to prevent a popular front of communist an…
5 years, 7 months ago
Guadancanal and Ironbottom Sound
Following the victory over Japan at Midway, the US Navy was unprepared for a devastating defeat inflicted on its landing force at Guadalcanal. The Ja…
5 years, 7 months ago
Collaboration and Vengeance in Europe 1945
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, civilian governments struggled to establish law and order and in many cars failed to prevent a wa…
5 years, 8 months ago
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was the first major victory of the US Navy in the Second World War, resulting in the loss of four out of Japan's six carriers. T…
5 years, 8 months ago
Britain and the Central African Federation 1951-59
During the 1950s, as Britain attempted to hold on to its African colonies, it had to deal with the ambitions of white colonial settlers for dominatio…
5 years, 8 months ago
Abandoned children in Stalin's Russia 1928-39
The rapid industrialisation of the USSR, poor housing, poverty and family breakdown led to countless children being abandoned to fend for themselves …
5 years, 9 months ago
France's road to Dien Bien Phu 1954
As French power and influence declined in Vietnam from 1953 onwards, the conflict started to become a proxy for the wider cold war and not simply an …
5 years, 9 months ago
French political crisis and the First Indochinese War 1951-54
Despair and defeatism defined the French political class's response to the worsening situation in Vietnam following the French defeat at Cao Bang in …
5 years, 10 months ago
Hunting Evil: Nazi War Criminals in South America. Explaining History in conversation with historian Guy Walters
In the half decade after the Second World War, a stream of wanted Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele fled from Germany an…
5 years, 10 months ago