The Maid Who Slipped A Bomb Under An SS General's Mattress And Killed Him In His Sleep
In September 1943, a 29-year-old former waitress named Yelena Mazanik walked into the heavily guarded Minsk residence of Wilhelm Kube, the top Nazi administrator in occupied Belarus. Hidden in her handbag beneath a handkerchief was a two-kilogram Soviet magnetic naval mine. Mazanik, who had taken a job as a maid in the household, managed to slip the timed explosive directly beneath Kube’s mattress before faking a toothache and walking out the front door. At 1:20 AM, the bomb detonated, instantly killing the man responsible for the murder of tens of thousands.
This video unravels the gripping, nerve-wracking true story of how a small network of female resistance fighters assassinated the architect of the Belarusian Holocaust. From smuggling the explosive past checkpoints in a basket of eggs and berries, to fixing a jammed detonator with a kitchen knife while a sister sang folk songs to mask the noise, the operation was a masterpiece of lethal improvisation. Explore the brutal reality of the partisan war in Belarus, the horrifying crimes of Wilhelm Kube, and the incredible survival story of the maid who removed a Nazi commander from the earth and lived the rest of her life quietly as a librarian.
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