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The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean: Putin's Russia
Does Putin feel like he is in a position of strength or is his troublemaking a profound weakness? Does Rory MacLean think we might be looking back at our failure of underestimating the Putin regime? The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory...
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MOT: 1938: German refugees in the UK
Jewish refugees arrive in the UK, money is given to them, refugees eating in large dining hall / refugee children, teens given training on farm.
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean: Optimism of days past
What became of Rory Macleans optimism of those days when the wall fell? What are his thoughts on what went wrong in Russia? The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean, Part 3
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MOT: 1938: Nazi persecution of the German Jewish population
Crowds on the street, stormtroopers painting Star of David on shop window, inside pulling out sheet music written by Jewish composers.
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MOT: 1938: German refugees in the UK
Jewish refugees arrive in the UK, money is given to them, refugees eating in large dining hall / refugee children, teens given training on farm.
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MOT: 1938: Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany
Truck at road checkpoint, train station, German ID card with J indicating Jewish checked, Jewish refugees flee to Holland, Belgium, France, and Swizterland.
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MOT: 1938: Nazi persecution of the German Jewish population
Newspaper headline for Kristallnacht / night, crowd saluting Hitler as he salutes back, house burning, soldiers destroying jewish property, forcing jewish families to leave their homes.
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean: Revisiting West Berlin
What was West Berlin like just before the wall fell? When in West Berlin, how obvious was the wall at the time? The Fall of the Berlin Wall with Rory Maclean, Part 1
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George Orwell's 1984 with Dorian Lynskey: The re-emergence and influence of 1984
Why are people talking about George Orwell again? How much did the Spanish civil war influence and affect George Orwell as an individual and politically? George Orwell's 1984 with Dorian Lynskey, Part 1
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Gladiator of Auschwitz: New film tells the story of Pole who boxed his way through hell
January 27, 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz -- the Nazi-operated concentration camp where more than a million people met their deaths during World War II. Now a new film tells the story of boxer Tadeusz...
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Italy's Uffizi Gallery demands Germany return painting stolen by Nazis
The Uffizi art galleries in Florence called on the German government on Tuesday to repatriate a painting stolen by Nazi troops during World War II. "Vase of Flowers" was painted by Dutch master Jan van Huysum in 1722. It was exhibited in...
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Parliament clash: MEP history lessons, apologies and ripostes
At the European Parliament a political debate descended into a slanging match when MEPs took turns to give History lessons. It began when British MEP Syed Kamall compared socialists to Nazis. "I would remind you when you talk about right...
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State of the Union: parliament clashes and rule of law
Tempers flared in the parliament in Strasbourg as MEPs talked history and Italy's budget was rejected. That's in this week's State of the Union.
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LA exhibition to remember children who escaped the Nazis
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust remembers the Jewish child refugees sent overseas in the 1930s by their parents from a continental Europe that was falling to German conquest. The exhibition marks the 80th...
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Nazi memorabilia for sale in EU summit city
On the sidelines of the EU-Balkans summit in Sofia, there's a vintage market with a twist. One where you can find Nazi memorabilia and Soviet souvenirs, banned in several EU countries. A Euronews camera captured a few shots of the items,...
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New film shines a light on the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy.
British actress Lily James stars in "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society." Based on the novel of the same name, the film is set during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy during World War...
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Nazi-era art to go on show in Bern
After a long legal battle, Nazi-era artwork from the Gurlitt collection is finally set to be displayed at Germany’s Bern Fine Arts Museum this autumn. The museum says the pieces were all acquired legally during the Nazi era, as its...
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Ouija board and head-measuring kit among Nazi relics hidden behind sliding bookcase
Federal police in Argentina discovered a collection of Nazi artefacts believed to be the largest in the country’s history during a raid carried out on June 8. Over 75 items were found in a collector’s home in northern Buenos Aires after...
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New German film addresses Nazi child ‘euthanasia’
‘Fog In August’ (‘Nebel im August’) is the first feature film to address the Nazis’ ‘euthanasia’ programme. Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa, who was committed to a...
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New German film addresses Nazi child “euthanasia”
‘Fog In August’ (‘Nebel im August’) is the first feature film to address the “Nazis’ “euthanasia” programme”:https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200. Based on Robert Domes’ 2008 novel of the same name, the film tells...
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Cillian Murphy stars in Nazi-era thriller
Irish actors Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan star in war-time drama ‘Anthropoid’ – after the code name of a World War Two plan to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich. Shot in some of the locations where the real...
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Fritz Bauer: Sometimes the only way to save your country is to betray it
Little is known about the hunt for Nazi criminal Adolph Eichman. Most people have heard about his abduction by Mossad in Argentina in 1960, his trial in Israel and his hanging. But what many do not know is that the man responsible for...
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Victory Day: Ukraine and Russia to mark end of World War II
The war on Ukraine is overshadowing Russia's Victory Day celebrations.
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Manuscripts of pro-Nazi French author rediscovered after 78 years missing
'Guerre' (War) a novel written by one of France's most controversial literary figures, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, is set to arrive in bookstores on Thursday, some 78 years after its manuscript disappeared. A new exhibition in Paris aims to...