Despite a sense of victory and elation, home movies from the time reveal Dunkirk was ruined - far more than any photograph

What was life really like within Nazi Germany? These amateur home movies reveal all.

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This remarkable BBC history documentary takes a candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under, Hitler’s Third Reich in Nazi Germany. Recently discovered home movie footage offers a unique insight into what people in Germany were thinking and how their day to day lives were affected by fascism. This is a distinctly personal experience of the rise, and fall, of Nazism.

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