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Hitler: Y.A. Fiction Fan Girl

Behind the Bastards

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Hitler's Army Detachment Steiner

Detachment Steiner was a real military unit that Hitler threw together near the end of the war in April 1945 as the Russians were advancing into Berlin on Paper it was a mighty force in reality. It was made up of units that had been decimated in many cases had no weapons and often did not exist at allHitler was Convinced that this fake army was going to throw back the Russians when its commander refused to attack because it would have killed his many weapons and were mostly teenagers. So Albert spear Hitler's chief architect and and munitions master and whatnot after the war wrote that Hitler Basically treated Carl May like the literary equivalent of comfort food after a bad day of losing the second World

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