5 obscure facts from the depths of WWII history. Even Mike might not know these.
Belgian Andrée de Jongh, age 24, founded the Comet Line, helping 800 Allied airmen escape to Spain. She personally escorted 118 airmen across the Pyrenees on foot, crossing 24 times. She wore a red carnation as her signature. Arrested in 1943, she ne…
Czechoslovaks Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, trained in Britain by SOE, parachuted into their occupied homeland to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich — the third most powerful man in Nazi Germany and architect of the Holocaust. They ambushed Heydrich's open …
When German authorities imposed strict press censorship in Denmark, the Danish resistance didn't just print underground newspapers — they created hundreds of them. At the peak, over 50 illegal newspapers were published in Copenhagen alone. The most f…
At the heavy water plant in Vemork, Norway — perched on a cliff above a 1,400-foot gorge — the Norwegian Resistance carried out two separate sabotage missions. First, four commandos parachuted in, then skied for 18 days across frozen terrain to reach…
Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, siblings from a deeply moral German family (influenced by their father's repeated arrests for criticizing Hitler), distributed six anti-Nazi leaflets at the University of Munich. In the final leaflet, they wrote: 'We wi…