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Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

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A fascinating account of a little—known World War Two rebellion.

In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch coast rose up and slaughtered their German masters. Hitler ordered the island to be retaken and fighting continued for weeks, well after the war's end.

The uprising had it origins in the bloody history of Georgia in the twentieth century, a history that saw the country move from German occupation, to three short years o...