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* This Troper doesn't know this war hero by name, but his actions are: While in Northern Africa, the German panzers advanced on his position. After ordering the retreat of his whole defending forces, he remained with a single artillery gunner and ten artillery cannons. Two of which fired volley after volley, one gun at a time, destroying a tank with nearly every shot, until his position was overrun by the German tanks and two men were killed.
* Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, the Commanding General of the XIV Panzer Corps in Italy, led the Defence of the Gothic Line, and the Defence of Monte Cassino. Two of the most successful German Delays in the Southern Frnt. When reports of an Allied Bombers massing to blow up the Monastery, he saw to it that the Clergy were quickly evacuated as well as the treasures were shipped back to the Vatican rather than fall into the Allied and his own men's hands. Plus, von Senger und Etterlin was also an Anti-Nazi, which got him in trouble quite often, though never implicated in the conspiracies against Hitler.
* At the risk of turning this simply into a list of every action and operation of WW2, the Dambusters' raid of May 16/May 17 of 1943 has to be mention here. The pilots had to fly very low - In darkness - To reach their target, that they were in constant danger of hitting trees, chimneys, and power lines. A few of them even flew under power lines. Once they reached the dams, they had to fly straight and level at the target with every gun in a mile radius firing at them, lit up with spotlights to help the German gunners. Those attacking the Eder dam had to hop over to a tiny peninsula before dropping back down, hitting precisely the correct altitude in time to drop the bombs before pulling away again. Did I mention that they're doing this in huge 4-engined Lancasters, so overloaded with bombs that they've had to take out one of the gun turrets, so they can actually take off?
* Witold Pilecki, a Polish hero, snuck into Auschwitz just to document the whole Holocaust and bring proof to the Allied high command, since those guys were skeptical about it. "Snuck in" isn't the right way to put it. - He volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz by the Germans as part of his mission. He managed to escape with proof of what's going on, and later, commanded a partisan unit during the Warsaw Uprising. Unfortunately, he was quietly shot by the Soviets shortly after the war.
* The Germans have managed to have a small number of heroes who are famous for resisting Hitler and his regime:
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