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Free labour spawns sabotage in Nazi factories

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Free labour spawns sabotage in Nazi factories

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

The crew of U-94, a Type-VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine, were a happy bunch as they motored to port in mid-October 1941.

They had all but completed their sixth war patrol, their first under Kapitänleutnant Otto Ites, and they believed they had sunk four or five ships, all stragglers, in the notorious North Atlantic waters southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland.

The record would attribute the sub with one kill but, no matter: no convoys had been sighted and U-94 was never attacked. To top it off, their boat was going in for an extended refit at Stettin on the Baltic, now the Polish city of Szczecin.

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Prince of Death: Canada’s Indigenous war hero

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Tommy Prince, the most decorated Indigenous soldier of the Second World War, entered this world humbly, born in a tent in Petersfield, Man., and raised, one of 11 children, on the Brokenhead Reserve (now the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation) northeast of Winnipeg.

Among Tommy Prince’s ancestors are revered Indigenous leaders. His great-great-grandfather, Salteaux Chief Peguis, led 200 Ojibwa from the Sault Ste. Marie region (now in Ontario), to Manitoba’s Red River area in 1790s, following the fur trade. He was one of five chiefs to sign the Selkirk Treaty, the first between the Crown and western Indigenous Peoples. And Peguis’ son, Henry Prince (Mis-Koo-Kinew) signed Treaty 1 in 1871.

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Unarmed, unequipped and untrained: Citizen spies outwit occupying armies

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Unarmed, unequipped and untrained: Citizen spies outwit occupying armies

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

On March 22, 2022, Russian forces captured Kherson in southern Ukraine, giving rise to a spontaneous and loosely organized citizen spy ring that would play a crucial role in ending the port city’s brutal occupation in just eight months.

Rooted out of a café at the centre of the city, partisans gathered grassroots intelligence from rooftops, roadsides, security cameras and farm fields, the latter where they pretended to tend livestock while recording the movements of Russian formations.

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Port Arthur earns its U-boat bounty

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Winston Churchill decided the Royal Navy’s Second World War corvettes should be named after flowers. The idea that a notorious U-boat would be drowned by a vessel with a plant moniker was appealing to him.

The Royal Canadian Navy took a different tack, choosing to name its corvettes after towns and cities, symbolically linking Canadians across the country to the war effort.

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Vikings’ genetic diversity greater than present-day Scandinavia: study

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Vikings’ genetic diversity greater than present-day Scandinavia: study

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Mention the word Vikings and one is likely to conjure images of blond-haired, blue-eyed brutes in beards sailing distinctive ships, wielding axes and shields.While the ships, axes and shields are a sure thing, and the beards are a pretty good bet—at least for the men—a new study has found that the adventurers and plunderers who settled in Newfoundland some 500 years before Columbus crossed the ocean were more genetically diverse than the myths would suggest.

In the largest genetic analysis of Viking remains ever conducted, palaeogeneticist Ricardo Rodrı́guez-Varelal and his colleagues at Stockholm University and the Stockholm-based Centre for Palaeogenetics analyzed Scandinavian burials going back 2,000 years.

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The Canadian who was the real life James Bond

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

William Samuel Clouston Stanger was born on Jan. 23, 1897, in Winnipeg.

He had a humble childhood, but was destined for greatness.

His birth parents gave him up for adoption because they couldn’t care for him. He took his adopted parents’ surname, Stephenson, and dropped out of school to become a telegrapher.

He eventually became a decorated First World War air ace, a business titan and a spymaster who set up the British espionage system in the Americas, schooled the United States in undercover operations and established a spy school in Canada.

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