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The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII

American intelligence officer Frank Manuel started seeing the symbol near the end of World War II, etched across white walls in the Franconia region of Germany: a straight vertical line intersected by a horizontal line with a hook on the end. Most members of the Counter Intelligence Corps were of the opinion that it was merely a hastily drawn swastika, Manuel wrote in a memoir. But Manuel knew otherwise. To him, the mark referred to the Werewolves, German guerrilla fighters prepared to strike down the isolated soldier in his jeep, the MP on patrol, the fool who goes a-courting after dark, the Yankee braggart who takes a back road.

via getpocket.com

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