When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...
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From elite paratroopers to frozen infantry: How Hitler burned his best troops in Russia
After the costly airborne invasion of Crete, Germany’s elite paratroopers were pulled into the grinding war in the East, not as shock troops but as emergency reinforcements sent wherever the front was ...
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The sergeant who eliminated 33 snipers in World War II
In May 1941, during the German invasion of Crete in World War II, Sergeant Alfred Clive Hume of New Zealand made a decision that would alter the survival of his battalion. As German Fallschirmjäger ...
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