Mounted Knight, Siege of Jerusalem, 1244

New Model Army Musketeer, Battle of Naseby, 1645

"a series of 13 photographs by Thom Atkinson, illustrating equipment carried by the British and English Soldier over the past 1000 years."

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a virtual lecture by the University of Tilburg

"In his book 'Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Batallion 101 and the Final Solution', Christopher Browning studies the actions of a German police squad that killed thousands of Polish Jews during the Second World War. The squad consisted of ordinary men: none them were hard core Nazis, none of them were exceptionally violent, none of them had volunteered for the mission, and none of them were especially trained. And yet a majority of them quickly became ruthless and efficient killers. How, Browning, asks, was this possible?"

• Watch the lecture at videocollege.uvt.nl

dw-world.de: "World War Two started on 1 September 1939 when German forces unleashed an attack on the Polish garrison on the Westernplatte peninsular on the territory of what was then the Free German City of Danzig, later Gdansk.

But that historical wisdom is not strictly true. The first shots opening Nazi Germany`s war were fired just a few minutes earlier when German Luftwaffe planes launched a ferocious attack on Wielun', a Polish town which had no military or industrial targets of any significance.

For the first time, in a joint German-Polish project, film makers from both countries describe the events that marked the beginning of Hitler's assault on Poland. A co-production between DW-TV and TVP Polonia." Read on

• Download Part 1 and Part 2