@RealTimeWWII is a
Twitter
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feed describing the events of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, created by
British historian and
Oxford
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graduate Alwyn Collinson (born 1987).
Collinson began the feed in late August 2011, to coincide with the start of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
with the German
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week aft ...
in September 1939. He has tweeted the events of the war as they happened on each date and time exactly 72 years earlier. The feed has over 500,000 followers and has received worldwide media attention.
Collinson has described his project as a method of helping people understand history in real terms, rather than statistics, once stating it's about "turning numbers back into people." He has lectured and given interviews on the project.
[Daily Motion/Huff Post Live: History Re-Tweets Itself – Live-Tweeting The Past: A History Lesson? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuki7z_history-re-tweets-itself-live-tweeting-the-past-a-history-lesson_tech#.UMT3wpPjn9c]
Collinson concluded the project in August 2017, but resumed tweeting again from 1939 on 1 September.
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Historiography of World War II
Twitter accounts
History websites of the United Kingdom