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The Nazzipigs: When Nazis Tried to Draft Penguins
In 1944, German Wehrmacht officer Karl Kluge submitted a formal proposal to the High Command recommending the "militarization" of penguins in the Antarctic. His reasoning: penguins had no natural predators in their terri...
Virginia Hall: The Allied Spy the Gestapo Called 'the Limping Lady'
Virginia Hall was an American who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in occupied France. After escaping to Spain in 1942 following a Gestapo raid, she was declared "the most dangerous of all aliens" by the...
The Nazi Rocket Scientists Who Were Hiding in Argentina
After the war, more than 100 Nazi scientists — including several from the V-2 rocket program — escaped through ODESSA (a network of former SS officers) to Argentina, Spain, and Egypt. Perhaps the most remarkable escape w...
The German Submarine That Surrendered — Twice
U-977, commanded by Captain Heinz Schäffer, is famous for surrendering to Argentine authorities in 1945, claiming it had been at sea when Germany surrendered. But the more interesting story is U-530, commanded by Otto We...