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🗓️ 7 November 2024
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November 7, 1944. A spy who predicted the Nazi invasion of the USSR and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is executed.
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0:20.4 | Thank you. It's April 1917, near the Russian city of Minsk. |
0:30.5 | Twenty-year-old German corporal Ricard Zorgha huddles in a trench as Russian artillery fire shakes the earth around him. |
0:38.3 | Gripping a pencil tightly in his hands, he presses his back against the wall of the trench |
0:43.3 | and tries to focus his attention on the letter he's writing to his family back home. |
0:47.3 | It's two and a half years since the outbreak of World War I. |
0:51.3 | When fighting began, Ricard volunteered for the German army almost immediately. |
0:56.7 | He saw action on the Western Front before being transferred to the east. |
1:00.9 | And right now, Ricard's battalion is part of a vast offensive against the Russians |
1:05.0 | who are putting up fierce resistance to the German advance. |
1:09.1 | Ricard looks up from his letter as the telltale sound of a falling shell |
1:12.9 | whistles through the sky above. He has just enough time to throw his arms in front of his face. |
1:20.3 | The blast blows Ricard out of the trench. His mud and soil rained down on him. He tries to lift his head and instantly wishes he hadn't. |
1:29.4 | Pain floods through his body. |
1:31.3 | His uniform is ripped to shreds and his legs are covered in blood. |
1:35.3 | Ricard's vision begins to blur, and the last thing he sees before he blacks out is a stretcher-bearer, rushing to his aid. |
1:45.1 | Ricard's Sorga will lose three fingers in this explosion, |
1:48.8 | and the shrapnel damage to his legs will leave him with a permanent limp. |
1:52.6 | But his wounds will change his life in more ways than one. |
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