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The Battle for Castle Itter was fought in the Austrian North Tyrol village of Itter on 5 May 1945, in the last days of the European Theater of World War II. German and American soldiers fight together to save French VIP prisoners from Nazi troops.  Nazi die hard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe. Hitler's Last Stand episode 4 - Enemy Allies -Battle for Castle Itter The Battle for Castle Itter was fought in the Austrian North Tyrol village of Itter on 5 May 1945, in the last days of the European Theater of World War II. Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter against an attacki

As winter sets in, US Rangers must capture Hill 400, a strategic peak on the German border.  Nazi die hard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe.   Hitler's Last Stand episode 3 - Forest of Death - Hill 400 Hill 400 (German: Burgberg) is the name given by Allied forces during World War II to a 400.8 metres high hill located 1 kilometre east of the centre of Bergstein, a village in the Eifel region of Germany. The hill, which in medieval times was the site of Berenstein Castle, as well as a section of the Siegfried Line from the Second World War, now has an observation tower at the summit. After Berenstein Castle was destroyed around the year 1200, the material was used to build Nideggen Castle and the tower of the church in Bergstein. Today this hill is predominantly called by its civil name Burgberg (English: castle hill). This small mountain provides

Desperate to feed the Allied advance after D-Day, US forces target a deep water port in France during a month long siege against Nazi paratroopers.   Nazi die hard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe. Hitler's Last Stand episode 2 - Nazi Fortress - Battle for Brest The Battle for Brest was fought on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, in order to ensure the timely delivery of the enormous amount of war materiel required to supply the invading Allied forces. It was estimated that the 37 Allied divisions to be on the continent by September 1944 would need 26,000 tons of supplies each day. The main port the Allied forces hoped to seize and put into their service was Brest, in northwestern France. Battle for Brest Brest was surrounded and eventually

Nazi die hard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe. A Canadian regiment tasked with capturing the Ardenne Abbey in France are instead captured by a notorious Nazi unit. What came after was a massacre that violated every agreed convention of war. Ardenne Abbey massacre The Ardenne Abbey massacre occurred during the Battle of Normandy at the Ardenne Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France. In June 1944, 20 Canadian soldiers were massacred in a garden at the abbey by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend over the course of several days and weeks. During the course of the Normandy Campaign an estimated "156 Canadian prisoners of war are believed to have been executed by the 12th SS Panzer Division (the Hitler Youth) in the days and weeks following the D-Day landings. In scattered groups, in v

Churchill's Desert War: The Road to El Alamein -  On 13 September 1940, 80,000 Italian troops marched into Egypt to threaten the epicentre of the British Empire at a critical point in the Second World War. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Churchills-Desert-War-The-Road-to-El-Alamein.mp4" id="4853" src="" poster="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Churchills-Desert-War-The-Road-to-El-Alamein-2.jpg" loop="false" autoplay="false" preload="metadata" videopress_guid=""][/video]   By 1942, the desert skirmish in North Africa had become pivotal to what was by then a truly global conflict, with hundreds of thousands of men from over ten nations fighting on one of the most inhospitable battlefields on Earth, culminating in the Battle of El Alamein. It was a triumph that marked, in Churchill's famous words, 'the en

For 25 years, Harald Sandner, a history enthusiast, has traced the Fuhrer's itinerary from his childhood to the end of his life.  “Hitler – Das Itinerar” runs to a total of 2,500 pages and is published by Berlin Story, which presented it in a World War II-era Berlin bunker turned event space. Entries range from the mundane, such as nights in certain hotels, to historic dates such as when Hitler gave the order to attack Poland, starting World War II. Among other findings, the book shows that Hitler travelled to Hamburg 75 times, despite the fact the Nazis hated the northern port city because of its “openness to the world,” said Sandner. Asked about the risk of “fetishization” of the dictator, Sandner responded with a quote from German journalist and historian Sebastian Haffner. “The best way to fight against the infection of Hitlerism is knowledge about Hitler,” he said. “The best therapy is Hitler himself.” Adolf Hitler the Itinerary Part 1: Assent of a Criminal Harald Sandner, a h

As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 300,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Their annihilation seemed certain - a disaster that could have led to Britain's surrender. But then, in a last-minute rescue dramatized in Christopher Nolan's recent film, Royal Navy ships and a flotilla of tiny civilian boats evacuated hundreds of thousands of soldiers to safety across the Channel - the legendary "miracle of Dunkirk." Now, NOVA follows a team of archaeologists, historians, and divers as they recover the remains of ships, planes, and personal effects lost during the epic operation. With access to previously classified files recently released by the UK government, they also uncover the truth behind the myths of Dunkirk - notably, a claim that the Royal Air Force failed to protect the stranded men from the Luftwaffe's constant bombing of the beaches. Featuring an exclusive excavation of a newly-found Spitfire wreck, NOVA debunks the myth an