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Operation Epsom: The bloody battle that shattered Hitler's youth on D-Day's flank

As the largest British artillery barrage of the Normandy campaign thundered to life on June 26, 1944, it heralded a brutal ...
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Operation Nordwind — Hitler’s last offensive

In January 1945, Hitler launched his final offensive in the West. Codenamed Operation Nordwind, it sent exhausted German units against the U.S. Seventh Army in Alsace. Through snow and confusion, both ...
The American Spectator

Operation Grenade: 80 Years Ago Hitler’s Western Wall Crumbles

After the failure of British General Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group in September 1944 to capture key bridges at the Rhine River in Operation Market Garden — a single thrust airborne and infantry ...
Time

Last Survivor of “Operation Valkyrie,” a Hitler Assassination Plot, Dies at 90

The last surviving member of a plot to kill Adolf Hitler has died at the age of 90. Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist once volunteered for a suicide attack on Adolf Hitler, and was later involved in the ...

The true story of the ‘ne’er-do-well tramp’ whose corpse fooled Hitler

Relatives in Wales reveal the family man behind the Operation Mincemeat body - and the questions they still have about his ...