The SAS in WW2: everything you wanted to know
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The History of the SAS
There were some very, very effective foreign SAS units. In fact, there were even German soldiers. There was a group of Jewish German troops who had already spent time basically dressed in German uniforms behind German lines doing sabotage. One man went up to the office and said, look, I'm a German. The only way I could get my freedom was to join the British Army. And at first he wasn't believed, and then he really went on, and they did, and lots of men were killed. That particular raid was betrayed, and that man was given a medal by Rommel.
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