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History.com site visitors can become a virtual eyewitness to history with the downloadable WWII Experience. Surrounded by realistic graphics, visitors can see what it was like to escort bombers into enemy territory, defend PT boats in a naval battle and engage in tank warfare in North Africa.

System Requirements:
  • Broadband Internet Connection
  • Windows 2000/XP and/or higher
  • 2.4Ghz processor
  • 512 MB RAM (512-1024 recommended)
  • 128 MB DirectX 9 compatible video card
  • DirectX 9 compatible sound card
  • DirectX Version 9
  • 600Mb hard drive space

WWII Experience

History.com site visitors can become a virtual eyewitness to history with the downloadable WWII Experience. Surrounded by realistic graphics, visitors can see what it was like to escort bombers into enemy territory, defend PT boats in a naval battle and engage in tank warfare in North Africa.

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  • Death of Hitler
    Death of Hitler

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    What really happened on April 30th, 1945? Six decades after his supposed death, some people still believe Adolf Hitler didn't die in Germany.

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  • Hitler's Military Blunders
    Hitler's Military Blunders

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    During WWII, Hitler's decentralized and paranoid military command structure spells disaster on the battlefield.

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  • Hitler's Followers
    Hitler's Followers

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    Modern-day organizations continue to promote racial violence and hatred that began with Hitler's idea of racial purity.

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  • Hitler's Remains
    Hitler's Remains

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    It has been documented that Hitler took his own life at the end of WWII, but what happened to his remains?

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  • Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's
    Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's

    Video Clip (2:55)

    As the allies closed in on Germany in early 1945, Adolf Hitler was reduced to a physical wreck. Among other symptoms, he suffered from tremors that made him seem weak and frail. Was it Parkinsons Disease?

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Address
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Address

    Audio Clip (2:07)

    In a broadcast from his home in Hyde Park, New York, on July 4, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt warns Americans who wish not to get involved in the war that "the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship."

    Audio Clip (2:07)

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On July 20, 1944, a group of senior German military leaders attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by planting an explosive-filled briefcase under his table in a conference room at Rastenburg.

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