A Rare Look Inside Auschwitz’s Restricted Areas

We got exclusive access to the Duke of Wellington's priceless private collection at Apsley House! Join historian Dan Snow MBE as he tours the former home of the 1st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, hero of the Battle of Waterloo and defeater of Napoleon Bonaparte. In his visit Dan is shown some of the most extraordinary objects from the Duke's private collection, including priceless artwork from conquests on the continent, stunning military uniforms, swords, medals and downright whacky inventions from his later life! Make sure to explore Apsley House for yourself! Links below 👇 Wellington Arch (English Heritage website): Wellington Collection website (for further information on the site and collection): You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world-renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

The Rohingyas: Trapped in Exile | Investigate Asia Following massacres by the Burmese army in 2017, 740,000 Rohingya fled en masse to neighbouring Bangladesh, which confined them in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. Five years after this massive influx, Cox’s Bazar has become the most densely populated refugee camp in the world and the most dangerous too… threatened by floods, fires, and gang wars. Conditions are squalid but the alternative may be even worse. Two years ago, the government of Bangladesh decided to move some of these refugees to the isolated island of Bhasan Char in the Bay of Bengal. Located four hours away, this military base, nicknamed “prison island”, has been transformed into a reception camp for the Rohingyas. Already 23,000 have been relocated and Dhaka hopes to transport 100,000 in total. For the first time since the camp opened in December 2020, Bangladesh has allowed a Western team to travel there. The aerial images are striking: a horizon of identical barracks that inevitably evokes a detention camp. The island is vulnerable to cyclones and it is not certain

Historian Dan Snow explores the most iconic viking sites in Iceland! You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world-renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

For seventy years, Noina lived in chains. As a blind Asian elephant working in the trekking industry, her world was limited to the sting of the bullhook and the weight of tourists on her back. This story follows conservationist Lek Chailert on a high-stakes mission to rescue this elderly giant and transport her across Thailand to a place where chains are replaced by grass. You will see the dark reality of the tourism industry and the brutal process known as the crush box that every captive elephant must endure. This is a look at the architects of the earth and the woman who risked her family and her reputation to ensure they have a future in the wild.

Luke Tomes gets special access to a selection of incredible artefacts related to British hero Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, including a part of the white ensign flown by HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, a lock of hair taken from his Nelson’s pigtail and presented to Captain Hardy, a front page newspaper headline ‘extraordinary’ reporting on the death of Nelson in 1805 and an original architectural plan of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square dating to 1843. You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world-renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

Brutal Battles of WW1 & WW2 told by one German Solider. German Soldier’s letters and dairies reveal what life was really like for men fighting in the trenches on the frontline in the First World War. Published for the first time in this feature documentary, Wilhelm's letters and photos have been entrusted to History Hit by his family. Born in central Germany in 1888. Wilhelm studied to become a teacher, but like so many of his generation, was called to serve in the First World War. From 1914 to 1918 he saw action on the western front, where he experienced the horrors of trench warfare and endured the loss of some of his closest friends. Unlike many of his comrades, Wilhelm survived the war but returned to a defeated nation in the grips of political turmoil Wilhelm would play no part in the violent political battles of the early 1920s and instead would return to the classroom - but the coming of the great depression and the rise to power of the Nazis - would alter the course of his