Anne Frank: life of the week

Anne Frank: life of the week

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Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War

They 'haunted' an Indonesian general with a talking ghost and planted fake hippies in a Bulgarian youth festival. But did they change the course of the Cold War? Rory Cormac introduces Spencer Mizen to the comically absurd – and dangerously controversial – tactics deployed by a g ...  Show more

Churchill's toughest decision

In the summer of 1940, the Royal Navy attacked a French fleet moored off the coast of north Africa, killing almost 1,300 sailors. Winston Churchill described his decision to greenlight the operation as the toughest he ever had to take. But was it the right decision? Edward Abel S ...  Show more

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Anne Frank
Short History Of...

Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous writers, yet she didn’t live long enough to see her work published. At the age of thirteen, Anne was a normal teenager, who poured her heart into a diary. But what made her diary different, was that she created within its pages a snaps ...  Show more

Dans la classe de, Anne Frank
Quelle Histoire Présente

Anne est une jeune fille de confession juive, née en Allemagne en 1929. En 1933, sa famille fuit aux Pays-Bas. L’oppression nazie oblige les Frank à entrer dans la clandestinité. Anne commence alors à rédiger un journal. En 1944, ils sont déportés. Le père d'Anne, seul rescapé ...

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A History of Auschwitz
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On January 27th 1945, the Red Army liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz unveiling its almost unspeakable horrors to the world. 


The concentration camp system began almost immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. It was an int ...

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Auschwitz Commandant: Rudolf Höss
Dan Snow's History Hit

Every day Rudolf Höss oversaw the killing of thousands of people at the death camp and then went home and acted like a doting father to his family. Höss was brought in by top Nazis to pioneer the industrialisation of the mass murder of Europe's Jews and others. He lived in a h ...

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