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New WWII exhibition opens [video 3 min 31 sec]

It is 70 years since the outbreak of World War II and to mark the occasion London's Imperial War Museum is hosting a new exhibition.

Outbreak 1939 explores the build-up to and preparations for war.

As Colette McBeth explains, among the items on display for the first time is then Prime Minister Neville's Chamberlain's brief diary account of the day.
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