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Real-life Inglourious Basterds: Band of Jewish troops who wreaked havoc on Nazis in WW2
Hitler’s Europe possible.But one ultra-secret force is rarely mentioned, and their true amazing story is only now coming to light.A commando unit sometimes referred to as "Churchill’s Suicide Squad" gave up their names, and their whole identities, to become the tip of the spear for the British Army's fight to recapture Occupied France.The story of these real-life "Inglourious Basterds" is told in a new book, X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II by Leah Garrett.Nicknamed "X Troop" by wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the elite force was made up of refugees from Germany and Austria, most of whom had been sent by their parents as part of the Kindertransport in the final months before World War Two.Arriving alone
