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The history is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Quentin Tarantino's movie, Glorious Bastards, looks at a Jewish Commando unit in World War II that basically uses the tactics of Vlad the Impaler, psychological terror, to scare Nazis into submission.

Of course, the movie isn't historically accurate because it ends with Adolf Hitler being killed in France, but believe it or not, there was a real life secret Commando unit of Jews fighting World War II, although they have almost no bearing whatsoever to the Quentin Tarantino movie.

Today's guest is Leah Garrett and she's the author of the new book X-Trupp, the secret Jewish Commando's World War II.

She interviewed some of the last surviving members of this unit and their story really is incredible. There are many Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany or Austria who came to Britain.

And once in Churchill and his chief of staff convinced these refugees, many of whom had been held in British internment camps through their nationality to fight for the Brits.

These soldiers played important roles in such major contests as D-Day in the Battle of the Bulge.

And here we see incredible heroics, like Peter Master's bicycle ride through occupied France, where he killed and interrogated German soldiers across Normandy.

Leah also talks about one of the most dramatic little known rescues of the war, in which X-Trupp or Freddy Gray drove a common-gear Jeep across hundreds of miles of German territory to free his parents from a concentration camp.

And finally we discuss the troubled legacy of the X-Trupp unit in England where the command of Jewish heritage has been largely ignored and in some cases suppressed.

This is an unexplored aspect of the Jewish experiencer in World War II, where it's mostly understood as the horrors of concentration camps and that's definitely an aspect of a huge aspect.

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