WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict
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Mussolini's Overthrow of Hitler
In July 1943, Allied troops landed in Sicily and Mussolini was overthrown. The firebombing of Hamburg at the end of that month left over 30,000 people dead. Yet Hitler stayed in power until he was just a few hundred yards from his front door. Why did this meeting take so long? And how could it have gone on for nearly two more years?'
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