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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Balkans in Nazi Hands - A Greek Tragedy
Greece falls as Axis troops push through the last Allied defences. New plans are made for a German invasion of Crete, and a new war breaks out between Great Britain and Iraq. ‘Not Constitutional’: ...
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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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