WW2

From the Battle of Britain to Operation Barbarossa, from U-boats to Spitfires, explore Sky HISTORY’s extensive guide to the greatest conflict of all time, featuring eyewitness accounts and defining photographic images.

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Anne Frank and her family go into hiding

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America occupies Iceland

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Ruins of Nagasaki after atomic bombing
Emperor Hirohito announces Japan’s unconditional surrender

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Lusitania is torpedoed

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US battleships severely damaged at Pearl Harbour
Pearl Harbor is bombed

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Part of the exhibition at the Memorial to the Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany.
Nuremberg trials begin

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Wrecked museum in Hiroshima
U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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Munich Pact signed

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Soviets capture Warsaw

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Tojo makes himself "military czar"

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J. Robert Oppenheimer dies

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Hitler sent to Landsberg jail

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WWI. German prisoners being marched through the ruins of city of Ypres after the Battle of Menin Road
The battle for Passchendaele begins

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Battle of Stalingrad Ends

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Anne Frank is captured

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Noor Inayat Khan

The real-life women who inspired WW2 screen heroines
J. Robert Oppenheimer holding a cigarette

Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb
Colourised image of Allied troops landing on Normandy beaches

Surprising D-Day facts you haven't heard before
Churchill shows the 'Victory' symbol to the crowd on VE Day

The beginning of the end: What happened on VE Day?
Gary Oldman attends the 'Darkest Hour' UK premiere at Odeon Leicester Square in London, England.

Their finest hour: Which actor portrayed the most convincing Churchill?
Left: Statue of Nicholas Winton in Prague Railway Station. Right Nicholas Winton in 2017

The British Kindertransport hero who saved 699 children from the Holocaust
The Battle of the Halbe

The Battle of the Halbe: The destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army
Several Tuskegee airmen, Ramitelli, Italy, 1945

The Tuskegee airmen: America's first black aviators
Hitler and his nephew

How Hitler's nephew fought against him during WWII
John Jellicoe Blair and an RAF Plane

John Jellicoe Blair and the Black RAF
Photo of the 303 squadron

Fighter Boys: The heroic Polish pilots of the Battle of Britain

Photo of a projector and a World War Two image of a flugzeugträger bombing

WW2 films based on real-life events from The Great Escape to Dambusters
A dummy tank

Dummy tanks and fake radio broadcasts: WW2's biggest deception campaigns