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Witness History Episodes

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    Lebensborn Babies

    In the 1930s the Nazi party hatched a secret plan to breed an elite Aryan race.

  2. Vietnam Photographer

    The great British war photographer Don McCullin remembers the Vietnam war.

  3. Garbage, the City and Death by Fassbinder

    In 1985 a Frankfurt theatre attempted to stage a play by the controversial German writer.

  4. Russian Revolution

    It is 95 years since the October Revolution which led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

  5. Howl

    Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, in San Francisco in October 1955.

  6. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Showdown

    Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba

  7. The Iran-Iraq War

    In the autumn of 1980 one of the longest wars of the 20th Century began.

  8. The Wall Street Crash

    On 24 October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange began to plummet.

  9. The Moscow Theatre Siege

    It is 10 years since Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage.

  10. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles

    The gradual build up of weaponry - Soviet built ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads

  11. The Guggenheim Bilbao

    It's 15 years since an extraordinary building was opened in a Spanish industrial city.

  12. The death of Hanns Martin Schleyer

    35 years ago a German industrialist was kidnapped and killed by the Baader Meinhof Gang.

  13. Colombia Peace Talks

    The last serious attempt to end Colombia's long civil war was more than a decade ago.

  14. The Greek Civil War

    British troops liberated Greece from the Nazis in October 1944.

  15. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Photos

    CIA expert Dino Brugioni interpreted the ariel photographs of missiles in Cuba

  16. Modern art in Tehran

    It is 35 years since the opening of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

  17. Search for the Loch Ness Monster

    It is 25 years since the most in-depth and expensive survey of Loch Ness.

  18. Solzhenitsyn and the Nobel Prize

    How the Soviet dissident smuggled his writing to the outside world.

  19. Che in Congo

    In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.

  20. The Achille Lauro Hijacking

    In 1985 a luxury cruise liner was held by Palestinian gunmen in the Red Sea.

  21. Fifty years of the Beatles

    It is half a century since the Beatles released their first single.

  22. US Support for Nicaraguan Contras

    In October 1986 a CIA plane carrying arms to "contra" rebels was shot down in Nicaragua

  23. Black Hawk Down

    The battle in Mogadishu in 1993 which had a dramatic impact on US foreign policy.

  24. The Taliban take Kabul

    It is 16 years since the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital.

  25. German refugees in post-war Europe

    At the end of WW2, many ethnic Germans in Central Europe were forced to leave their homes.

  26. Arafat goes to the United Nations

    In the autumn of 1974 a young Palestinian was sent to NY to pave the way for Yasser Arafat

  27. Sharon at the al-Aqsa compound

    In September 2000 the Israeli opposition leader visited the Al-Aqsa compound.

  28. IRA jail break

    In September 1983 a group of IRA prisoners escaped from jail in Northern Ireland.

  29. Ireland's Magdalene Laundries

    The story of a young girl who survived Ireland's notorious Catholic workhouses for women.

  30. West Side Story

    It is 55 years since a groundbreaking musical, West Side Story, opened on Broadway.

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