Ep.55 – Operation Pastorius: The (Failed) Nazi Plan to Sabotage America from Within

Hitler planned to sabotage American industry utilizing highly trained spies. But it failed almost immediately. Let me tell you why.

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Sources

• Francis MacDonnell, 1995, “Insidious foes: the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front”, Oxford University Press
• Joseph McCann, 2006, “Terrorism on American soil : a concise history of plots and perpetrators from the famous to the forgotten”, Sentient Publications
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/
• https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/23/six-nazi-spies-were-executed-in-d-c-white-supremacists-gave-them-a-memorial-on-federal-land/

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