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The History Hour: The outbreak of World War Two

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The outbreak of World War Two

07/09/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, The outbreak of World War Two

Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.

Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland, the world's first all-female peacekeeping force plus the man who resisted the Mafia and lunar astronaut quarantine.

On September 1st 1939 German forces invaded Poland. Douglas Slocombe, a British cameraman, was there at the time and filmed the build-up to the war.  Also the man who resisted the Sicilian Mafia in the 1990s plus the first all-female peacekeeping force, the defining trial of holocaust denial and why Apollo 11's astronauts were put in quarantine after their historic landing on the moon.  

(Image: German citizens in Gdansk (also known as Danzig) welcoming German troops during the invasion of Poland on September 3rd 1939 . Credit:EPA/National Digital Archive Poland.)

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