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History's Secret Heroes: Series 1: Claude, Marcel and the Soldier with No Name

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Claude Cajun and Marcel Moore: The Last Political Prisoners to Be Freed

Claude Cajun and Marcel Moore were among the last political prisoners to be freed from German occupation of Jersey in 1945. In jail they had gained the confidence of a German officer when he left he tore off his insignia and gave it to them once home. These two extraordinary artists survived occupation resistance and imprisonment as she crunched her Nazi imperial eagle between her teeth. Next time on history secret heroes in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack five year old George Tackay and his family are imprisoned without trial.

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