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During WWII, the IRA's "S Plan" aimed to bomb Britain, drawing German support to weaken the British. "Operation Green" and "Plan Kathleen" envisioned IRA aiding a German invasion of Northern Ireland, but both failed due to bungling and infighting.

The controversy surrounding Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, stems from his Nazi collaboration. He recruited Bosnian Muslims and advocated for a Palestinian homeland with Nazi help. His diaries reveal awareness of the Holocaust and anti-Semitic sentiments.

In Hitler’s Germany, those with Jewish ancestry faced harsh Nuremberg Laws. Full Jews faced death; Mischlinge endured discrimination, job bans. Some, like Helmut Schmidt, unaware of heritage, found protectors like Milch in high places.

Anton Adriaan Mussert, initially resisted Hitler’s anti-Semitism despite modeling his NSB party, even welcoming Jewish members. His failed attempt to kidnap Queen Wilhelmina led him into hiding, after which he collaborated in hopes of gaining power.

During WWII, Greek Prime Ministers Tsolakoglou, Logothetopoulos, and Rallis collaborated with Nazi occupiers, imposing fees that caused a famine.

Finland defended itself in the Winter War under Marshal Mannerheim. Finland allied with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in 1941. Finland later negotiated peace with the Allies and switched sides as Nazi defeat became apparent.

In Ukraine and Lithuania, Nazi invaders were welcomed as liberators. In Lithuania, Antanas Gecas led a militia that executed hundreds of Jews. Ukrainian nationalists participated in pogroms slaughtering 34,000 Jews in two days.

Revisiting the Nuremberg Trials, where Nazi leaders were brought to justice and the foundations of modern international law were laid.

The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.

The Battle of Solomon Islands in WW II was a series of naval and air engagements between Allied and Japanese forces, fought around the strategically vital Guadalcanal, resulting in a pivotal Allied victory and turning the tide in the Pacific theater.

World War II aircraft included iconic planes like the Japanese Zero, American F4U Corsair, and the Grumman F6F Hellcat, engaging in intense dogfights and strategic bombing campaigns across vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean.

The Kokoda Track in World War II was a treacherous mountainous trail in Papua New Guinea, where intense jungle warfare unfolded between Australian and Japanese forces during the Kokoda Track campaign, marking a crucial phase in the Pacific theater.

The Battle of the Gilbert Islands in WW II was a pivotal amphibious assault by the U.S. against heavily fortified Japanese positions, resulting in intense, costly fighting and ultimately securing a crucial step in the Central Pacific island strategy.

The Marshall Islands were strategically significant in World War II as their capture by the United States provided forward bases for airfields and naval operations, facilitating the Allied island-hopping campaign towards Japan in the Pacific theater.

Battle of Guadalcanal in WW II was a fiercely contested six-month-long campaign between Allied and Japanese forces, primarily fought on land, sea, and air around the Solomon Islands.

The Battle of Peleliu in World War II was a grueling amphibious assault by U.S. forces against heavily fortified Japanese positions on the Pacific island, lasting from September to November 1944 and resulting in significant casualties on both sides.

The fighting on Iwo Jima in WW II involved intense and brutal combat between U.S. Marines and entrenched Japanese forces on a strategically crucial volcanic island in the Pacific.

The Battle of Okinawa in WW II was a fierce and prolonged amphibious assault by Allied forces against well-defended Japanese positions on the island, marking the largest and bloodiest battle in the Pacific theater.

The end of World War II in the Pacific was marked by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, prompting Japan's surrender, formalized on September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri, effectively ending the conflict in the Pacific.

December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Empire of Japan. Now the people who were there share their memories of that fateful day.

The series begins before WWI when military commanders struggled to understand what uses aviation might have. The Wright Brothers had been the first to fly a powered aircraft in controlled flight in 1903, but even by 1914 aircraft were still underpowered.

The 1920s and 30s were uncertain times for the RAF as well as all other armed services. With peace came cuts in spending on new aircraft development.

By the end of the war the RAF had aircraft that could escort bombers to targets deep inside Germany and back. With the Gloster Meteor, the RAF had also entered the ‘Jet Age’. Aircraft like the Hawker Hunter and F-86 Sabre took the RAF supersonic.

By the end of the First World War the RAF had bombers that could fly to Berlin and back. For the first time in a thousand years British civilians found themselves under direct attack - by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers.

After the war, RAF transports helped keep Berliners alive during the Soviet blockade of the city in 1948/49. As well as flying round-the-clock operations into the airport, Sunderland flying boats delivered supplies by landing on Lake Havel near the city.

In this programme we bring the RAF story into the modern era. Another aircraft to have extended the RAF’s capabilities is the C130 Hercules. This aircraft has proved its capabilities in countless environments from resupply, to dropping paratroopers.

The SIG consisted of German speaking Jewish volunteers from Palestine. They had a highly dangerous job: which was to pose as Germans behind enemy lines and extract intelligence and do acts of sabotage. Few had a long-life expectancy.

Operation Ratweek’s existence has always been denied. However WMR has now discovered evidence that it existed and was carried out.

Lucky Luciano, a mafia boss of the 1930s, was in jail in 1942 on charges of running prostitution rings. US intelligence services did a deal with him and he got the Italians to share intelligence on German U boat movements.

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