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Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
03/01/2013

Tampering with Nature as weapon

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"That iconic atomic bomb mushroom cloud image could have been a towering tsunami wave. According to archival military records uncovered...
25/11/2012

Spying, it's a women's world

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"On a moonlit night in June 1943, Noor, fresh from spy school at Beaulieu, was the first female radio operator ever to be dropped into ...
24/08/2012

Espionage Monopoly

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"In WWII, agents of the British secret service unit MI9 oversaw the development and distribution of special-edition versions of the boa...
17/01/2012

Concentration Camps

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On this day in 1945 the Nazis began to evacuate the Auschwitz concentration camp, ten days later liberated by the advancing Soviet troops. L...
11/01/2012

Amir, the legendary Soviet spy

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"One of the legendary Soviet agents of World War II who infiltrated a British spy school and assisted in the Tehran conference has died...
12/12/2011

The double agent spy who came back from the dead

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Juan Pujol "Garcia, code-named "Garbo" by his MI5 handlers because he was "the world’s best actor," was the man who...
01/12/2011

Spies you don't hear about

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"Born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1894, Eugene Jacques Bullard stowed away to Europe as a teenager, earning money as a prizefighter and in...
23/11/2011

Camp 020, MI5's secret interrogation center

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"The silence [...] gave little indication of the intensity and importance of the work being done in the building known as Camp 020, MI5...
12/11/2011

The largest Nazi espionage operation in North America

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“Bermuda proved a geographically convenient location for the scrutiny of mail exchanged between North America and Europe. All correspondence...
02/10/2011

Royal secret agent

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Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, was employed as a secretary to the head of MI6. "The daughter of the 16th Lord...
21/08/2011

Sex hormone plan to feminise Hitler

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"British spies looked at an even more audacious way of derailing the man behind the German war machine - by giving him female sex hormo...

Coco Chanel 'was a Nazi agent during Second World War'

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"according to Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War, the creator of the mythical Little Black Dress was a numbered Nazi...
30/10/2010

British Female Spies of WWII

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"One of Britain's most-decorated female spies was initially dismissed as "scatterbrained" and "not very intelligent...
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26/01/2010

Auschwitz espionage

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A fascinating story of a Polish military spy who willingly entered Auschwitz concentration camp to organize insurrection. A biography of Wit...
16/10/2009

"I need your help in the killing of the children"

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Mr Wogersien found details of a confession by SS doctor Helmut Kunz at a 1959 trial not covered by the press. After the trial he walked free...
27/01/2008

Sad wedding story: Honeymoon in Auschwitz

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My grandparents were wed in a Catholic church in Warsaw in the Spring of 1940. On the way from the church they got caught up in one of those...
23/12/2007

The bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

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Russian security service comes clean on the whereabouts of Hitler's remains: On May 4, «in a shell-hole nearby the bunker of the Fuehr...
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