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The Double-Cross System or XX System was a World War II counter-espionage and deception operation of the British Security Service (). Nazi agents in Britain – real and false – were captured, turned themselves in or simply announced themselves, and were then used by the British to broadcast mainly disinformation to their Nazi controllers.
Historian Leonie Treber recognizes that many cities and people regard the Trümmerfrauen as a great movement of heroism and strength. However, she disagrees with the size that people have made it out to be. Berlin mobilized 60,000 women to remove the rubble leftover from the war, yet this number was only 5% of the female population. In areas ...
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
Malta (11 June 1940 – 20 November 1942) Bahrain (19 October 1940) Greco-Italian War (28 October 1940 to April 1941) Invasion of Yugoslavia (Operation Punishment) (April 1941) Battle of Greece (Operation Marita) (April 1941) Crete (Operation Mercury) (May–June 1941) World War II in Yugoslavia (April 1941 to May 1945) Iraq (2–31 May 1941)
The 101st Airborne Division issued a press release on the unit, but war correspondents embellished the story. War correspondent Tom Hoge wrote the first article about these paratroopers and coined the name "The Filthy Thirteen" in an article for the Stars and Stripes, June 9, 1944, "Filthy Thirteen Squad Rivaled by None in Leaping Party."
Juan Pujol García MBE (Spanish: [ˈxwam puˈʝol ɣaɾˈθi.a]; 14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol i García (Catalan: [ʒuˈam puˈʒɔl i ɣəɾˈsi.ə]), was a Spanish spy who acted as a double agent loyal to Great Britain against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans.
Swedish people of World War II (4 C, 20 P) Swiss people of World War II (2 C, 7 P) T. Thai people of World War II (1 C, 3 P) Tongan people of World War II (1 C, 1 P)
The Churchill War Rooms is a museum in London and one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum.The museum comprises the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre throughout the Second World War, and the Churchill Museum, a biographical museum exploring the life of British statesman Winston Churchill.