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The Man Who Sabotaged the Nazi Nuclear Program with One Wrench
Werner Heisenberg's Copenhagen visit in September 1941 was one of the most consequential diplomatic failures of the war. But the real sabotage of the German atomic bomb project was more mundane and more heroic: in 1942, ...
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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...