British planes mistakenly fired on concentration camp inmates during the final hours of World War II, according to a new documentary film. “The Typhoon’s Last Storm” includes testimony from victims of the attacks on Nazi floating prisons in the Baltic on May 3, 1945. The British pilots thought their targets were Nazi SS troops.
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