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The unfortunate fate of the world's first tank, which failed to make it onto the battlefield, and the case of the Japanese soldier who continued fighting - until 1974.
The unfortunate fate of the world's first tank, which failed to make it onto the battlefield, and the case of the Japanese soldier who continued fighting - until 1974.
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S3, EP1 "Nazi Anti-Gravity"Bizarre events during wartime, featuring a Nazi antigravity device, phantom cities built during the Second World War, Stalin's cursed tomb and poultry of mass destruction.
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S3, EP2 "Charlie Chaplin and the League of Blood"A Japanese secret society's repeated attempts to kill Charlie Chaplin and Hitler's plan in 1942 to use educated dogs to do a soldier's job.
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S3, EP3 "The Tsar's Monster"The unfortunate fate of the world's first tank, which failed to make it onto the battlefield, and the case of the Japanese soldier who continued fighting - until 1974.
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S3, EP4 "Honour Among Pilots"The story of Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe pilot in the Second World War who risked his own life to save the crew of an American B-17 bomber.
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S3, EP8 "Concentration Camp Rebellion"A daring plan devised in 1943 by the inmates of the Death Camp at Sobibor, as they staged an organized rebellion to fight back against their Nazi oppressors.
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S3, EP7 "Hitler's Holy Spear"The story of Herman Goering's younger brother Albert, who was opposed to Nazism and helped Jews and others escape persecution in Germany, but found himself shunned due to his name.
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S3, EP6 "The Big Stink"A program set up by the Special Operations Executive, the forerunner to MI6, to undermine German and Japanese officers by spraying them with a foul-smelling substance.
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S3, EP5 "Nazi Dinosaurs"While Nazi scientists were conducting brutal experiments in an attempt to create an Aryan master race, a team of zoologists was overseeing their own bizarre science trials.
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