What the records say
- When
- 15 Jun 1943 – 29 Jun 1943
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 36.00° N, 44.00° E
- Description
- Kurdish-Nazi Germany operation against Britain
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Operation Mammoth
Kurdish-Nazi Germany operation against Britain
Operation Mammoth, was a German special forces mission in 1943 by the Wehrmacht, during World War II, for a team of two German Army officers, led by Gottfried Müller and accompanied by a Kurdish activist Ramzi Nafi Agha, to start a rebellion of the Iraqi Kurds in an attempt to expel the British from the region, gain control of the oil fields, and in some way deliver them to the Wehrmacht because Operation Barbarossa…
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