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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,…
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Stephan Bandera and OUN
OUN or Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was a paramilitary which was first organized in 1920 to help fight for Ukrainian independence. They originally formed in Prague, after the Soviets took over Ukraine after World War 1. Before World War Two OUN was a terrorist organization which mainly focused on attacking Polish Officials, who were deemed…
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Kedia and his Network
Michael Kedia was an organizer for many of the Caucus partisan groups, which would later work with the Germans in order to defeat the Soviets. Throughout his life Kedia would refer to himself as a Georgian, even though his background was much more complex than that. His family was ethnically Armenian. Born in the Sudetenland…
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The Fifth Columnist
Alfred Rosenberg wouldn’t be doing any more work with eastern Europeans until after the Beer Hall Putsch end the Aufbau Vereinigung, until operation Barbarossa was initiated. He had already proven himself as a competent organizer, and now he had a new job, to handle logistics, and other forms of networking in the newly conquered region,…
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Operation Zepplin
Operation Barbarossa commenced in June 1941, where the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Many Russians who felt betrayed and mistreated by the Soviet, didn’t want to fight for the communist. This led to many disenfranchised Russian to surrender. Over the course of a year this amounted to many prisoners of war falling into the German’s…
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Lithuanian Activist Front
One lesser-known fight, which the Americans studied was the June Uprising. This was an uprising which occurred when the Germans attacked Soviet occupied Lithuania, and Lithuanian nationalist rose up to help the Germans. It occurred after the Soviet Union invaded Lithuania, many Lithuanians were humiliated and mistreated by the new occupiers. They did many mean…
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Problems in Poland
After World War One, Germany was forced to give up much of its territory. Along with this was the creation of a new political state known as Poland, which gained much of Germany’s old territory. Along with its new territory, Poland also acquired multiple pockets of ethnic German populations. The Pols were not kind to…
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Peace Deals
While the whole world was looking to start a war and finish Germany, Germany was doing to exact opposite, trying to look for ways to form peace instead. Germany was trying to rebuild her military back even before Hitler got elected to power, it was in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Many of the…
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Bunds Camp
Just like all other groups of immigrants in America, the Americans Germans liked to stay together in their own community. In 1937 enough German immigrants were able to pull their money together and buy themselves their own recreation area in Andover New Jersey. The Germans built a meeting hall, and that same year Camp Nordland…