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The Third Reich’s collapse led to occupation, justice and retribution
The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
THE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY
“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”
Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg