4 obscure facts from the depths of WWII history. Even Mike might not know these.
Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately allowed himself to be captured in Warsaw on September 19, 1940. Assigned prisoner number 4859, he spent 2.5 years inside Auschwitz and organized a resistance network called ZOW with hundreds of inmat…
In the mountain village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in southern France, the entire Protestant community — led by Pastor Andre Trocme and his wife Magda — conspired to hide Jewish refugees and French resistance fighters. Magda Trocme hid resistance fight…
British-French SOE agent Violette Szabo provided covering fire outside Salagnac, France, killing a German NCO and several soldiers to cover two agents escape. Overwhelmed, she was subjected to brutal torture by Klaus Barbie and executed at Ravensbruc…
On March 21, 1945, the Danish resistance provided detailed floor plans and timing intelligence for a RAF bombing raid on the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen — the Shellhus building. The low-level bombing raid by Mosquitoes was so precise that it d…