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May 26, 2022
Fall of Tobruk 1942
In June of 1942, the German forces under the command of General Erwin Rommel were on the run from the…
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The master of 9 European capitals… ruler of Europe from the Arctic Coldness of the North Cape to the warm island beaches of Crete, his armies unbeaten even further south the frontier of Egypt, Hitler had now set his sights and his armies on Moscow.

At the end of April 1945, in the Dachau concentration camp near Munich, over 30,000 people were barely clinging to life and the brutal SS guards. Time was fast running out for the prisoners as the war situation continued to deteriorate for Germany. The action had to be taken and taken fast, but who would take that action?

Rommel riding his Greif

George S. Patton, William Slim, Georgy Zhukov, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erwin Rommel

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