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"During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the streets of Athens. The Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust. Heroic acts of resistance -- performed in concert with the SOE -- were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from ...

Duitse bezetting Nederland > Duitse inlichtingen > Tweetal lijsten: Lijst van ter dood gebrachte officieren door Aktion Kugel. Dit was een Duitse strafmaatregel gericht tegen ontvluchtte krijgsgevangenen. Lijst van agenten van SOE die in samenwerking met het Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten (BBO) in maart 1944 in Nederland werden gedropt

Lazare Rachline (1905-1968), cofondateur de la Ligue internationale contre l’antisémitisme (LICA), engagé volontaire en 1940, évadé du Stalag IV B et résistant de la première heure, joua un rôle déterminant dans les semaines qui précédèrent le débarquement allié et la libération de Paris. Ses archives sont le reflet fidèle de cette vie riche en engagements. Les années de guerre et la Résistance y occupent ...

Otto Pfister (1900-1985) was born in Munich to Catholic parents. Although he did well in school as a child and loved to read, his family did not have the money to allow him to continue his formal education. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed as a cabinet-maker. Health problems prevented him from being conscripted in the Germany army in World War I, and he produced hand-dovetailed ammunition boxes ...