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WWII Untold
Hosted by Black Elk Media · EN
The obscure, forgotten, and overlooked stories of the Second World War — told as they deserve to be. A Black Elk Media production.
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Dead in the Water: The Day the RAF Killed the Prisoners They Came to Liberate
5d ago00:22:25Tap to summarizeOn May 3, 1945, just days before VE Day, RAF Typhoons of No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group attacked the prison fleet in Lübeck Bay, including the Cap Arcona, Thielbek, and Deutschland. Unknown to the pilots, the SS had packed the ships with thousands of concentration camp prisoners evacuated from Neuengamme. Approximately 5,000 died on Cap Arcona alone; total deaths across the fleet reached roughly 7,000 — one of the largest single-incident maritime losses of WWII.
Transcribe →The Last Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought the SS Together
2w ago00:19:00Tap to summarizeOn May 5, 1945, soldiers of the US 12th Armored Division, Wehrmacht Major Josef Gangl and his defecting troops, Austrian resistance fighters, and French VIP prisoners — including former prime ministers Paul Reynaud and Édouard Daladier — defended Castle Itter in the Austrian Alps against a 17th SS Panzergrenadier assault. Major Gangl was killed by a sniper while shielding PM Reynaud. It is one of only two known instances where Americans and Germans fought on the same side during WWII.
Transcribe →The Ship That Never Sank: America's Deadliest Secret at Sea
May 1400:20:48Tap to summarizeOn November 26, 1943, the troopship HMT Rohna was struck by a German Henschel Hs 293 radio-guided glide bomb off Bougie (now Béjaïa), Algeria, launched from a Heinkel He 177A bomber. Approximately 1,138 men died, including 1,015 US soldiers — the largest single-incident loss of US troops at sea from enemy action in WWII. Details of the disaster were classified and not fully disclosed until 1967 under the Freedom of Information Act.
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