BBC Witness History - World War 2 Collection

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.

 

Just listened to 'The Death of Adolf Hitler', an interview with Traudl Jonge.

Fascinating!

Witness History - The death of Adolf Hitler - BBC Sounds