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  Answer this question and win a signed, hardback, first edition copy of Laurence Rees' 'Their Darkest Hour'.

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  Western

  1939

  German soldier in Poland
  A German soldier reveals some of the terrible atrocities committed in Poland.

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  The Nazi Mind
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  Western

  1945

  The bombing of Dresden
  The morality of the Allied bombing campaign during the Second World War is still hotly debated. What should we feel about the decision to attack Dresden?

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  Western

  1945

  War Widow
  Having lost her husband on the last day of the war, she helped found the War Widow's Association.

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  Eastern

  1944

  Operation Bagration
  The Soviets launched this gigantic offensive against German Army Group Centre on the third anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union. In scale it dwarfed the Battle for Normandy which was taking place at the same time in the west.

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