On the 27th July 1942, Allied forces in North Africa stopped the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
3rd October 2017
On the 10th May 1941 Deputy Fuhrer of the German Party, Rudolf Hess, flew from Germany to Scotland on a mission to strike a peace deal with the British government.
The 8th May 1945 was Victory in Europe Day – a public holiday to celebrate the end of the Second World War.
On the afternoon of 26th April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica experienced what is seen by many as the first large-scale modern air raid against a civilian population.
The Nazi Party founded a paramilitary organisation that became the Schutzstaffel, better known as the SS.
On the 1st April 1924, Adolf Hitler was found guilty of treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch and sentenced to five years in jail.
On the 27th February 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin was set on fire in an arson attack.
On the 22nd February 1943, the first three members of the White Rose resistance group were put on trial and executed by guillotine in Germany.
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017