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The World at War

Index The World at War

The World at War (1973–74) is a 26-episode British television documentary series chronicling the events of the Second World War. [1]

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith.

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Adolf Galland

Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland (19 March 1912 – 9 February 1996) was a German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe.

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Adolf Hitler in popular culture

Adolf Hitler (born April 20th 1889 died April 30th 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and Chancellor of Nazi Germany from 1933 (Führer from 1934) to 1945.

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Adolf Hitler's possible monorchism

The possibility that Adolf Hitler had only one testicle has been a fringe subject among historians and academics researching the German leader.

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Albert Speer

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany.

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Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.

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All Our Yesterdays (TV series)

All Our Yesterdays was a television series, produced by Granada Television, giving an historical account of the 1930s lead-up to the Second World War and to the war itself.

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American Heroes Channel

American Heroes Channel (AHC; formerly Military Channel and originally Discovery Wings Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. The network carries programs related to the military, warfare, and military history and science.

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André Beaufre

André Beaufre (25 January 1902 – 13 February 1975) was a French Army officer and military strategist who attained the rank of Général d'Armée (Army General) before his retirement in 1961.

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Anthony Eden

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British Conservative politician who served three periods as Foreign Secretary and then a relatively brief term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.

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Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

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Battle of Stalingrad in popular culture

The Battle of Stalingrad (1942–43), a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, often regarded as the single largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, and one of the most decisive battles of World War II, has inspired a number of media works.

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BBC History of World War II

BBC History of World War II (1989–2005) is a 30-hour, 12-disc collection of 10 BBC television films about World War II.

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Ben Shephard (historian)

Ben Shephard (1948–2017) was an English historian, author and television producer.

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Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops (born 28 November 1926) is a British dramatist, poet and novelist.

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BFI TV 100

The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.

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Bill Mauldin

William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist.

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Bombing of Hamburg in World War II

The allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians.

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Boum !

"Boum !" (onomatopoeia similar to "boom" in English) is a popular 1938 song by the French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet which won him the Grand Prix du Disque.

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Brian Horrocks

Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, (7 September 1895 – 4 January 1985) was a British Army officer, chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War.

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Brian Tesler

Brian Tesler (born 19 February 1929) is a British television producer and executive.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcasting syndication is the license to broadcast television programs and radio programs by multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network.

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Carl Davis

Carl Davis CBE (born October 28, 1936) is an American-born conductor and composer who has made his home in the United Kingdom since 1961.

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Charles Sweeney

Major General Charles W. Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

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Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is a British television review programme created and presented by Charlie Brooker and broadcast on BBC Four.

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Christabel Bielenberg

Christabel Bielenberg (18 June 1909 – 2 November 2003) was a British writer who was married to a German lawyer, Peter Bielenberg.

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Cold open

A cold open (also called a teaser, or just a cold, especially in production circles) is a narrative tactic used in television and/or films.

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Cold War (TV series)

Cold War is a twenty-four episode television documentary series about the Cold War that aired in 1998.

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Curtis LeMay

Curtis LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau concentration camp (Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners.

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David Elstein

David Keith Elstein (born 14 November 1944), is Chairman of openDemocracy.net and an executive producer at Portobello Films.

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Don't Fence Me In (song)

"Don't Fence Me In" is a popular American song written in 1934, with music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter.

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Eddy Christiani

Eduard "Eddy" Christiani (21 April 1918 – 24 October 2016) was a guitarist, singer, and composer from the Netherlands.

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Edward Spears

Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, (7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.

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European Civil War

The European Civil War is a concept meant to describe a series of 19th and 20th century conflicts in Europe as segments of an overarching civil war within a supposed European society.

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Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (10 July 1922 – 8 March 2013) was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998.

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France Falls

"France Falls" is the third episode of the 1973 Thames Television documentary series The World at War.

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Freddie de Guingand

Major-General Sir Francis Wilfred de Guingand, KBE, CB, DSO (28 February 1900 – 29 June 1979), better known as Freddie de Guingand, was a British Army officer who served with Montgomery from El Alamein to the surrender of the Wehrmacht in the West.

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Günther Rall

Günther Rall (10 March 1918 – 4 October 2009) was a German lieutenant-general, the third most successful fighter ace in history and later head of the West German Air Force during the Cold War.

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Genocide (disambiguation)

Genocide is the systematic murder or destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

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Gordon Waterfield

Gordon Waterfield (1903–1987) was a British journalist, broadcaster and author.

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Grigori Tokaty

Grigori Aleksandrovich Tokaev (Григорий Александрович Токаев; Гогки Ахмæты фырт Токаты, Gorki Axmætî fîrt Tokatî; also known as Grigory Tokaty; (October 13, 1909 – 23 November 2003) was a rocket scientist and long-standing critic of Stalin's USSR.

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Hamish Mahaddie

Group Captain Thomas Gilbert "Hamish" Mahaddie, (19 March 1911 – 16 January 1997) was a Scotsman who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Heinz Linge

Heinz Linge (23 March 1913 – 9 March 1980) was an SS officer who served as a valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler.

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HMS Bluebell (K80)

HMS Bluebell was a that served in the Royal Navy in World War II.

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Husband E. Kimmel

Husband Edward Kimmel (February 26, 1882 – May 14, 1968) was an admiral in the United States Navy.

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Im toten Winkel

Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (titled Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary in English) is a 2002 Austrian documentary directed by André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

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Index of World War II articles (G)

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Index of World War II articles (T)

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Invasion of Normandy

The Western Allies of World War II launched the largest amphibious invasion in history when they assaulted Normandy, located on the northern coast of France, on 6 June 1944.

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Isamu Noguchi

was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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James Stewart

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history.

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James Stewart filmography

James Stewart was an American actor who appeared in multiple film roles.

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Jeremy Isaacs

Sir Jeremy Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, winner of many BAFTA awards and international Emmy Awards.

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Jetty Paerl

Jetty Paerl (née Henriette Nanette Paerl; 27 May 1921 – 22 August 2013) was a Dutch singer, who was most famous in the 1950s and 1960s.

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John J. McCloy

John Jay McCloy (born John Snader McCloy; March 31, 1895 – March 11, 1989) was an American lawyer and banker who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-born economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.

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John Pett

John Pett is a British film director/producer active from 1954 to 1993.

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John Russell (diplomat)

Sir John Wriothesley Russell, (22 August 1914 – 1984), British diplomat, Ambassador.

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Karl Dönitz

Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz;; 16 September 1891 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II.

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Karl Wolff

Karl Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a high-ranking member of the Nazi SS who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer in the Waffen-SS.

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Ken Finkleman

Ken Finkleman (born 1946) is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor.

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Kiyoshi Tanimoto

was a Methodist minister famous for his work for the Hiroshima Maidens.

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Kleve

Cleves (Kleve; Kleef; Clèves; Clivia) is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the river Rhine.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Laurence Olivier on stage and screen

Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Leon W. Johnson

General Leon William Johnson (13 September 1904 – 10 November 1997) was a United States Air Force general who was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the attack on the Ploesti oil fields during World War II.

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Lili Marleen

"Lili Marleen" (also spelled "Lili Marlen", "Lilli Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlène" among others) is a German love song performed by Lale Andersen, which became popular during World War II throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troops.

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List of air operations during the Battle of Europe

Symbols German Luftwaffe German OKW V-2 forces NOTE: V-2 rocket air operations were conducted by various German Army units, but operational orders were issued by a Joint Services (OKW) command.

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List of British television programmes

This is a list of British television programmes.

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List of documentary films about World War II

The following is a list of World War II documentary films.

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List of Holocaust films

This is an index of films that deal with the Holocaust in Europe.

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List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network

Programs previously aired by the Radio Philippines Network and CNN Philippines broadcasts a variety of programming through its VHF terrestrial television station RPN TV-9 Manila.

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List of television theme music

The following list contains scores or songs which are the primary theme music of a television series or miniseries.

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List of years in British television

This page indexes the individual year in British television pages.

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List of years in television

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Look-in

Look-in was a children's magazine centred on ITV's television programmes in the United Kingdom, and subtitled "The Junior TVTimes".

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Mark Arnold-Forster

Mark Arnold-Forster, DSO, DSC (16 April 1920 – 25 December 1981) was an English journalist and author.

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Michael Darlow

Michael Darlow (born 13 June 1934) is a British television producer, director and writer.

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Michael Foot

Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.

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Mike Calvert

James Michael Calvert DSO and Bar (6 March 1913 – 26 November 1998) was a British soldier involved in special operations in Burma during World War II.

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Neal Ascherson

Charles Neal Ascherson (born 5 October 1932) is a Scottish journalist and writer.

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Noble Frankland

Anthony Noble Frankland CB, CBE, DFC, DPhil (born 4 July 1922, Westmorland), is a British historian and a former Director General of the Imperial War Museum.

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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.

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Otto Kretschmer

Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) was the most successful German U-boat commander in the Second World War and later an admiral in the Bundesmarine.

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Outline of World War II

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War II: World War II, or the Second World War – global military conflict from 1939 to 1945, which was fought between the Allied powers of the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, with their respective allies.

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Paul Tibbets

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.

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Peace in Our Time

Peace in Our Time may refer to.

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People's Century

People's Century is a television documentary series examining the 20th century.

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Peter-Erich Cremer

Peter-Erich Cremer (25 March 1911 – 5 July 1992) was a German U-boat commander during the Second World War.

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Preußens Gloria

Preußens Gloria, Armeemarschsammlung II, 240, is a well-known military march of the 19th century, composed by Johann Gottfried Piefke (1817–1884).

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Raymond Hart

Commodore Raymond Hart (24 June 1913 – 6 August 1999) was a British seaman and a Royal Navy officer who served during the Second World War.

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Richard Böck

Richard Böck (April 2, 1906 – May 13, 1973) was an SS-Unterscharführer of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

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Richard O'Connor

General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor & Bar, MC (21 August 1889 – 17 June 1981) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of the Second World War.

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Richard Schulze-Kossens

Richard Schulze-Kossens (2 October 1914 – 3 July 1988, born "Richard Schulze") was an SS officer during the Nazi era.

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Rick Moranis

Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter.

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Service record of Karl Wolff

The service record of Karl Wolff was a collection of official SS documents maintained at the SS Personnel Main Office in Berlin from 1934 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945.

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Siegmund Weltlinger

Siegmund Weltlinger (born March 29, 1886 in Hamburg, died 18 May 1974 in Berlin) was a founding member and first Jewish president of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin from 1949 to 1970.

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Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.

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Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet

Sir John William Maxwell Aitken, 2nd Baronet, (15 February 1910 – 30 April 1985), briefly 2nd Baron Beaverbrook in 1964, was a British fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War, a Conservative politician, and press baron.

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Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

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Stomach division

In military terminology, a stomach division is a unit created for the purpose of containing combatants of disuse in the front lines.

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Target for Tonight

Target for Tonight is a 1941 British documentary film billed as filmed and acted by the Royal Air Force, all while under fire.

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Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The Great War (2017 film)

The Great War is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Stephen Ives, Amanda Pollak and Rob Rapley.

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The Great War (TV series)

The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War.

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The Secret War (TV series)

The Secret War was a seven–part television series produced by the BBC in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum documenting various technical developments during the Second World War.

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The Unknown War (documentary)

The Unknown War (Russian: "Великая Отечественная" (The Great Patriotic War) or "Неизвестная война" (The Unknown War) is an American documentary television series. The 20-part series documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The show was produced and syndicated for international distribution by Air Time International, and the executive producer was Fred Weiner. Each episode is about 48 minutes long, similar in format to the film The World at War. The footage was edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war during Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 until the Soviet entry into Berlin during the Battle of Berlin in May 1945. Most of these films have never been seen outside this documentary series. The series is hosted by Academy Award Winner Burt Lancaster, who spent three weeks in eight cities in the USSR for location filming. Film footage from Soviet archives comprises a major portion of the series, supplemented by film from both the United States and British archives. Appearing in exclusive interviews would be Russian Commanders like Georgi Zhukov and Vasily Chuikov. Other interviews shot for the series included Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev and Averell Harriman, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during World War II. The series was produced with Soviet cooperation after the release of The World at War, which the Soviet government felt paid insufficient attention to their part in World War II. Released in 1978, The Unknown War is sympathetic to the Soviet struggle against Nazi Germany. It was quickly withdrawn from TV airings after it ran in 1978. Later it returned to airings on cable, including A&E, the History Channel and YouTube.

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The Untold History of the United States

The Untold History of the United States (also known as Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States) is a 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone about the reasons behind the Cold War, the decision to drop the atomic bombs, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism.

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Traudl Junge

Gertraud "Traudl" Junge (née Humps; 16 March 1920 – 10 February 2002) worked as Adolf Hitler's last private secretary from December 1942 to April 1945.

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Vera Lynn

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (born 20 March 1917), widely known as "the Forces' Sweetheart", is an English singer of traditional pop, songwriter and actress, whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War.

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W. Averell Harriman

William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat.

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Wait for Me (poem)

Wait for Me (Жди меня), written by the Russian poet and playwright turned war correspondent Konstantin Simonov, is one of the best known Russian World War II poems.

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Warsaw airlift

The Warsaw Airlift was a British-led operation to re-supply the besieged Polish resistance Home Army (AK) in the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi Germany during the Second World War, after nearby Soviet forces chose not to come to its aid.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance, led by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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Werner Pusch

Werner Pusch (1913–1988) was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the years of the Weimar Republic and witnessed first hand the coming to power of Adolf Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany.

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Whirlwind (disambiguation)

A whirlwind is any kind of vertical wind vortex.

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Wilhelm Hoffman

Wilhelm Hoffman was a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, and is cited in many documentaries and books concerning that topic.

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William Eyton-Jones

Captain William Edward Rawlins Eyton-Jones, OBE (1894-1984), often shortened to 'Pop' Jones, was a Merchant Navy Captain and Master Mariner who served in various theatres during World War I and World War II, most notably in the Battle of the Atlantic.

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William Reid (VC)

William Reid VC (21 December 1921 – 28 November 2001) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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World at War

World at War can refer to.

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World War One (TV series)

World War One is an American documentary television series that was shown on CBS during the 1964–1965 television season to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the war.

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Yesterday (TV channel)

Yesterday is one of the UKTV network of television channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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100 Greatest (TV series)

100 Greatest is a long-running TV strand on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom that has been broadcasting since 1999.

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1973 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1973.

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1974 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1974.

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1989 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1989.

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2010 in home video

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War

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