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Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 10

Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 10

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Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 10: The largest evacuation of the Second World War saw two million civilians and soldiers taken away in an extraordinary German operation that lasted for four months. As the war enters its final months, the nearly 2 million Germans living in East Prussia flee an advancing Red Army no longer distinguishing between German soldiers and German civilians. Hundreds of thousands make for the Baltic ports the start of the single biggest evacuation of WWII. In early 1945 nearly two million people were trapped in the German enclave of East Prussia by the advancing […]

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Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 6

Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 6

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Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 6: How Erich Von Manstein’s miraculous escape from the Red Army later became the basis for NATO’s defence plans. By the spring of 1943, the German army is on the run across southern Russia. Gen. Erich von Manstein has plans for a new, highly mobile form of defensive warfare that might reverse the course of the war in the East. But first he has to convince Hitler, who is adamantly opposed to any kind of retreat, strategic or otherwise. Spring 1943, the German army on the Eastern front was in deep trouble.  

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