In the first week of May, following Adolph Hitler’s suicide on April 30, the Nazi regime collapsed. Berlin fell to the Soviets, and Axis armies in Italy gave up. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered, ...
Britain hired close to 30,000 German soldiers, many from the principality of Hesse-Cassel, to augment its forces in America.
Stationed in Cairo during World War II, Dudley Clarke devised false military operations to fool the Axis powers.