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Operation Ruppert
In 1944-45 the Allies caught many POWs who were willing to surrender and work with the allies, for a better life. A secret mission was put together to explore what was driving all these foreigners to fight so hard inside Germany, and to also study how the Germans built up such a strong network of…
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Escaping the Soviets
As World War Two drug on, the red army advanced closer and closer to Berlin. Many people who help the Germans tried escaping to the west, and into the hands of the allies, where they though that they would be treated more fairly. Millions of refugees from Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and the Baltic…
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Curiosity after D-day
Allied intelligences had suggested the German Nazis had built an extensive network of back collaborators across Europe. What they didn’t realize was how loyal they were to the Nazi cause. It wouldn’t be until days after the D-day landing that the allies learned how deep this alliance was. Many of the prisoners captured in those…
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Antisemitic Stalin
One of the most mysterious men of World War Two, had to be Joseph Stalin. Being born in Georgia and moving to Russia to be involved in a revolution, he is definitely an interesting man, similar to how Hitler is viewed in the west. Not only did he rule his country with an iron fist…
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Operation Long Jump
Breaking the enigma code had led to many discoveries of how the Germans were working, but the Germans did the same thing to the allies. They were able to break American Naval codes which led them to the discovery of a conference being held Tehran in mid-October 1943. At this conference Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill,…