Witness History Episodes Available now
VE Day
VE Day saw Londoners celebrate the end of the Second World War in Europe.
The Soviet occupation of Berlin
After Germany's surrender to Allied forces in May 1945, Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin
The battle for Berlin
Eyewitness accounts of the final battle for the capital of Nazi Germany in 1945
The death of Hitler
First-hand accounts of Hitler's death from the BBC's archives
The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany
An exhibition about the German army’s role in WW2 caused a scandal in 1995.
Hiroshima's trees of hope
Trees which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima are still growing in the Japanese city
The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute
How fishermen and conservationists battled in the species-rich waters of the archipelago
The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator
The first Middle East mediator, Count Bernadotte, was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948
The 1957 flu that killed a million people
In 1957 a new strain of flu emerged in East Asia and quickly spread around the world
Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia
The transgender Indonesians who fought for their rights in the 1970s and 1980s
