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In a Christmas broadcast in 1940, actor Leslie Howard explained why British sovereignty was worth fighting for.
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A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.
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After a thousand years of uneasy cohabitation, Edward I decided that there was no place for Jews in his Kingdom.
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Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.
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Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens took his wartime protest straight to the top.
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The story of the once magnificent Temple in Jerusalem, the city God chose for Israel’s capital.
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Wilfrid Israel used his Berlin department store as cover for smuggling thousands of Jewish children to safety in Britain.