Last weeks of 1942 were a turning point of WWII
Last weeks of 1942 were a turning point of WWII. At Stalingrad, German 6th Army was already doomed, while the second battle of El Alamein and "Operation Torch" neutralized the Axis threat to North Africa, the Suez Canal and the Middle East. ➡ In November, New York saw the premiere of "Casablanca," set in the Vichy France colony of Morocco. One of the main characters in the movie was Victor Laszlo, member of Czech resistance fleeing from the Germans. Some people say he was modelled on a real person. ➡ If so, the similarities are not striking: the real guy was Polish, his name was SÅ‚owikowski, and he was not running from the Germans but came looking for them: in mid-1941 he arrived in North Africa from Britain to set up one of the most efficient espionage networks of the war. ➡ "Agency Africa," based in Algiers behind a front of a cornflakes producer – the front being, by the way, profitable enough to finance a big part of the undercover operation – proved ...