The outbreak of World War Two
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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- Sat 7 Sep 2019 14:06GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service News Internet
- Sun 8 Sep 2019 14:06GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service South Asia & East Asia only
- Mon 9 Sep 2019 23:06GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
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