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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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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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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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