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Volume 5 - No. 106 - September 20, 1941

I Was There! - How We German Parachutists Captured Maleme

Sep1941

I Was There! - How We German Parachutists Captured Maleme

Here is a German eye-witness story, issued by the German propaganda, of the capture of Maleme aerodrome in Crete. Told by Lieut. Ernst Kleinlein of the First Division of Parachute Troops, it is publis

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Full index of this magazine

  • From 14 to 8: Our War Aims Take Shape
  • How the Nazi Snake Was Scotched in Iran
  • The Red Army Holds On and Hits Back
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • There's Another Russia Beyond the Urals
  • Our Diary of the War
  • This is What Tobruk is Like Today
  • I Was There! - How We German Parachutists Captured Maleme
  • I Was There! - The German Officer Shot Me in Cold Blood
  • I Was There! - I Posed as a Traitor to Get Out of France
  • I Was There! - My First Six Months as a Land Girl
  • Editor's Postscript