Germany’s ‘Little Dunkirk’: Operation Hannibal, January-May 1945
The Kriegsmarine’s last major military undertaking was the evacuation of more than a million German troops and civilians trapped around the Baltic, as David Porter explains.
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DAVID PORTER ON MILITARY HISTORY’S DOOMED INVENTIONS.
Rare WWII Enigma machine uncovered in the Baltic
An incredibly rare Enigma machine from the Second World War has been recovered from the Baltic Sea. Divers made the discovery at Gelting Bay, east of Flensburg, while searching for discarded fishing nets. The cipher machine consisted of a keyboard,…