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Magicians joining the war effort, a double agent who deceived Hitler and strange UFO sightings over Canada? These bizarre stories prove that our world wars were even weirder than we were taught in school.
Magicians joining the war effort, a double agent who deceived Hitler and strange UFO sightings over Canada? These bizarre stories prove that our world wars were even weirder than we were taught in school.
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World War Weird
S1, EP5 "Ghost Armies & Vanished Icons"This eerie installment of weird wartime mysteries and military deception includes Stalin's obsession with flying saucers, a ghost army built to fool Hitler, and the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Glenn Miller.
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S1, EP6 "Magicians, Spies & UFOs"Magicians joining the war effort, a double agent who deceived Hitler and strange UFO sightings over Canada? These bizarre stories prove that our world wars were even weirder than we were taught in school.
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S2, EP1 "Churchill's Ice Ship"Looking at Churchill's plan to create a giant ice ship, ghost planes that fly themselves and a Nazi treasure hunt for the Amber Room.
World War Weird
S2, EP2 "Bird Wars"Looking at how to improve their bombs, the US Navy turned to the animal world for inspiration; when 270 men vanished into a cloud, witnesses claimed the soldiers had been abducted by aliens.
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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 were overseeing their own bizarre science trials.
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