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Witness History Episodes

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    Angela Merkel's Rise to Power

    Angela Merkel rose to power in German politics after the fall of her mentor, Helmut Kohl.

  2. Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

    Ramiro Osorio Cristales was five when his family was massacred by the Guatemalan army.

  3. The Armenian Earthquake

    A catastrophic earthquake hit northern Armenia on December 7th 1988, hear from a survivor

  4. The Coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa

    On 4 December 1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa was crowned Emperor of the Central African Republic

  5. Berlin's Rubble Women

    At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.

  6. Norway's EU referendum

    In November 1994, Norwegians voted in a referendum not to join the European Union

  7. The Discovery of Dinosaur Eggs

    The fossil find in 1923 in Mongolia helped to prove that dinosaurs hatched their young.

  8. The man who inspired Britain's first Aids charity

    In 1982, Terrence Higgins became the first known British victim of HIV/AIDS.

  9. The Antarctic Whale Hunters

    Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.

  10. The Destruction Of Iraq's Marshlands

    When Iraq's marshes became a hiding place for rebels, Saddam Hussein destroyed them.

  11. The USSR Opens Up to the West

    Four years after Stalin's death, Moscow threw a festival for 30,000 foreign students.

  12. The Last Days of Yasser Arafat

    The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in November 2004

  13. The Story Behind The Man Who Shot JFK

    What did Lee Harvey Oswald do for two years in the Soviet city of Minsk?

  14. The 'Braceros', America's Mexican Guest Workers

    How hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were hired to work legally in US farms.

  15. The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

    Recorded memories of the funeral in 1852 of the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.

  16. Britain's Little Blue Disability Car

    For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled, turquoise cars

  17. Japanese Murders in Brazil

    Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.

  18. The Shah in Exile

    Iranians stormed the US embassy in Iran in November 79 after America allowed in the Shah

  19. Jewish in Imperial Russia

    A young woman's rare account of Jewish life in imperial Russia.

  20. How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear

    Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva remembers the day his father was taken by the military.

  21. Armistice Day 1918

    On November 11th 1918, at 11 o'clock, the guns of World War One finally fell silent

  22. WW1: Revolution in Germany

    Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of war in November 1918

  23. Women Nurses during World War One

    Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.

  24. African Troops during World War One

    Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and Germany during WW1

  25. The Battle of Passchendaele

    It was one of the battles which symbolised the horror and futility of WW1

  26. A Kristallnacht story

    Nora Krug investigated Nazi attacks in her German hometown on 9 November 1938

  27. Why I Slapped the German Chancellor

    In November 1968 a young activist hit Germany's leader to draw attention to his Nazi past

  28. Princess Margaret And The War Hero

    How a love affair between the Queen's sister and Captain Peter Townsend gripped Britain.

  29. Life With America's Black Panthers

    Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.

  30. The KGB's Whistleblower

    KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992

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