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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
Operation Phoenix (South Africa), South African response to mass SWAPO infiltration of South-West Africa 2008 Colombian raid into Ecuador , codenamed Operación Fénix (Operation Phoenix) Operation Phoenix (1966) , Vietnam War military operation , February 1966 in Biên Hòa Province
The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.
5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 American spy film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang.The screenplay written by Michael Wilson was based on the 1950 book Operation Cicero (original German: Der Fall Cicero) by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch, Nazi commercial attaché at the German embassy in Ankara, Turkey (1943–44).
A small number of pictures appeared in later years, vetted by propaganda and censorship officials before publication. [5] Official visit of Himmler to Mauthausen in June 1941. Bodies waiting to be burned outdoors in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taken in secret by a team of Sonderkommando workers in August 1944 and later smuggled out to the Polish ...
“Operation Finale” was lensed by Árni Filippusson, whose icy cinematography betrays the fact that, unlike most DPs who have ventured to Iceland in recent years, he actually grew up there.
James Stewart in Winning Your Wings (1942). During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption.
The Netflix drama 'Operation Mincemeat,' starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen, is based on the unbelievable true story of a macabre espionage mission.