Why This Ordinary-Looking Box Was Britain’s Deadliest Anti-Nazi Trap

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To understand why that small box mattered, we need to step back to the summer of 1940.

Germany moved like a storm across Europe. Poland fell. Norway and Denmark fell. Belgium, the Netherlands, France—occupied. The swastika flew from the North Cape to the Bay of Biscay. Britain stood alone, an island looking across a narrow sea at a continent under Nazi control.