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World War Two: 60 years on
Page last updated at 08:41 GMT, Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Akiko Seitelbach as a young woman
Surviving Nagasaki
Volunteer factory worker Akiko Seitelbach was 22 years old when the atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki.
'Black rain falling'
'I didn't know what to do'
A soldier's tale
SURRENDER OF JAPAN

Asia marks end of war in Pacific
Duke leads commemorations
Memories of the 'forgotten army'
Silent prayers in Tokyo
In pictures: VJ day in Asia
Hiroshima remembers the bomb


Japan's 1945 surrender Past problems
Japan's wartime role casts shadow on 60th anniversary of defeat
Impact of the bomb
Before and after images of Hiroshima

Soviet soldiers fighting in Germany Who won WWII?
Russia and the West often disagree who played the bigger role

FEATURES

Enola Gay crew The men who bombed Hiroshima
Three men involved in the attack share their memories of a day that has lived with them for 60 years.

Hiroshima arguments rage on
Survivors keep memories alive
Coming home
Shadow of Stalin
A peace tainted by horror
Reconstructing VE Day
India's war heroes
'I witnessed the surrender'
The fall of Berlin
THE END OF THE WAR IN EUROPE

VE day celebrations VE Day slideshow
Images from Britain, Europe and America accompanied by audio reports and sound archives from the time.

Leaders mourn Soviet dead
Europe honours dead on VE Day
Prince lays wreath at Cenotaph
Moscow celebrations in pictures
Reporters' log: Marking VE Day
King's address: Full text
Eyewitness: Hitler's last days
Veteran recalls 'war of words'
'Hitler's nurse' breaks silence

HOLOCAUST REMEMBERED

12-year-old Belsen inmate suffering from typhus. Picture: USHMM Belsen liberation
Images of the horror that greeted British troops accompanied by an original radio report.

Berlin unveils Holocaust memorial
Jews recall escape from Nazis
March of Living marks Holocaust
World marks Auschwitz liberation
Images of Auschwitz
Auschwitz survivors remember
The fight against Holocaust denial
Why wasn't Auschwitz bombed?
The Daily Telegraph In pictures
How the UK's papers covered VE Day

Margaret Salter, aged 8 Midnight party
How an eight-year-old told her father about VE Day celebrations
Karl Doenitz Q&A: Admiral who?
The man who took over from Hitler, for just 23 days

Kim Gunja Still fighting
Sex slaves for Japan's WWII troops continue to fight for justice
US marines raise the American flag in Iwo Jima, 1945 In pictures
WWII in the Pacific and Japan's surrender

St-Pierre church, Caen, northern France Then and now
Images of Europe's cities after WWII hit


D-DAY 60 YEARS ON

Then and now
See 360 degree images of key battlegrounds and landmarks in occupied Normandy from 1944 and 2004

D-Day in pictures
Ceremonies mark D-Day
'I watched D-Day carnage unfold'
'I invaded my own country'
'British bombs meant this is war'
D-Day: I was there
KEY WAR EVENTS

Bust of Marshall Zhukov Hitler's nemesis
The man who really won World War II was enigmatic Russian General Georgi Zhukov, a new book suggests.

Terror of the V2
Monte Cassino bloodbath
Hitler's would-be assassin
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