Witness History: World War Two
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MAR 20, 2024
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
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MAR 15, 2024
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War Two
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MAR 5, 2024
French child evacuees of World War Two
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
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FEB 12, 2024
The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
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JAN 24, 2024
Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
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