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.
My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...
By last week some 200,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were across the Channel and safely in place. They continued arriving by night, three or four transports at a time, ...