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It was standing room only for Chris Lovett’s presentation, “Infiltration: Nazis in America 1933 - 1945,” Sunday afternoon at Red Rocks State Historic Site Visitor Center.
It's a story that sounds straight out of Hollywood, but Nazis actually invaded Florida during World War II.
mp_sf_list_0_image: 15792 mp_sf_list_0_title: Fact or Fiction: A U-boat dropped German saboteurs on a Long Island beach where Martha vacationed. mp_sf_list_0_description: FACT: “Yes, it’s known as Operation Pastorius,” says series co-writer and historian, Linda May Kallestein. “The U-boat surfaced not far from where Martha was staying in Long Island that summer.” In June 1942, two squads of saboteurs—all U.S. residents who returned to Germany to serve the Reich—were dropped by U-boat on beaches in New York and Florida, respectively. They brought explosives and cash and had pla...
J. Edgar Hoover Back in an age when people actually read newspapers dirt got buried on Saturdays. It was said to be the most unread copy of the week. When compromising stories couldn’t be spiked by the brass in public relations—from Wall Street to the Pentagon—they’d scheme to adjust a revelation’s timing. Damage control everywhere found the seventh day holiest. That ploy is a little dated—dailies presently take themselves a lot more seriously than readers might. In any case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation came up in two different articles in the December 5 Washington Post. N...