More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2. Looking back at almost six years of global conflict, from Hiroshima to the Holocaust. BBC World Service - Witness History, World War 2 Collection
Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour The rise of Hitler Degenerate Art and the Nazis Scientists Flee Nazi Germany German Re-Armament Appeasement Kindertransports Kindertransport - Oliver's story Fleeing Hitler on the St Louis The Germans Occupy Prague The Scoop of the Century The Buildup to World War Two A Polish odyssey The Katyn Massacre Finland’s Winter War Retreat from Dunkirk Left Behind at Dunkirk The Sinking of the Lancastria The Fall of Paris Charles de Gaulle France under Nazi occupation Italian internees Child Evacuees Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain The Guinea Pig Club The Blitz Coventry blitz The Bethnal Green tube disaster Australian evacuee The Climbers of Leningrad World War II concerts The Psychiatrist and Rudolf Hess Special Operations Executive The True Story of "Whisky Galore" Britain's Land Girls Marooned in Stalin's Russia The Arctic Convoys The Krakow Ghetto Operation Barbarossa Babi Yar Bomber Command Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot Stalin's Interpreter Pearl Harbour Surviving Pearl Harbor African Troops During WWII The Wannsee conference
The M Room The Imaginary War Heroes Japanese Internment Tokyo Rose - The Most Hated Woman in America The fall of Singapore The Roma Victims of the Holocaust Lidice Must Die Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan The Leningrad Symphony Sabotage of Nazi Nuclear Programme The Battle of El Alamein Saving Italy's Art during WW2 The Battle of Stalingrad Surviving Ravenbruck Women's Baseball in WWII Auschwitz Train Escape The Dieppe Raid WW2, the Holocaust and Rome Dambusters The sinking of the Scharnhorst The Bari Raid 1943 Warsaw Ghetto: A Survivor's Tale The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Auschwitz Convoy Escape
The Death of Jean Moulin Danish Jews Escape The Holocaust Italy's Partisan Fighters Escape from Sobibor Death Camp The Auschwitz Cellist The Tehran Conference of World War Two Tito on Vis Auschwitz Story Colossus: the World's First Electronic Computer D-Day Broadcasting D-Day Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp The Plot to Kill Hitler The Warsaw Uprising Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising The Liberation of Paris The Death of Mussolini Freckleton Air Disaster Japanese Prisoner Breakout The Arnhem Parachute Drop The Hunger Winter
The Battle of the Bulge Surviving Auschwitz The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff The Bombing of Dresden The Battle of Iwo Jima The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen The death of Hitler Hitler’s Death The fall of Berlin VE Day Victory in Europe Day Prison Camp in WW2 Manila, Philippines The Manhattan Project The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Hiroshima Bombing of Nagasaki Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta German refugees in post-war Europe US Occupation of Japan Berlin's Rubble Women Belsen The Death of General Patton Hitler's Book Lord Haw Haw - Britain's Most Hated WW2 Traitor Translator at Nuremberg A holocaust survivor meets Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials Hitler's will War Brides Anne Frank's Diary The Marshall Plan Rationing in Britain The Eichmann Tapes Eichmann Trial The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Lost Children of the Holocaust
There are 133 stories at around 10 minutes long. If any of the links do not work or are not correct do let me know.