314 - The Nazi Ghost Train

The WW2 Podcast by Angus Wallace

Jul 20, 202646:09Society & Culture

In early September 1944, as Allied forces raced across France and Belgium, the German occupation of Brussels was beginning to collapse. On 2 September, around 1,500 prisoners, including members of the Belgian Resistance,...

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