Nazi to Green Beret - The Soldier Who Somehow Joined Both the German and US Army

Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: It’s an exclusive opportunity for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000 documentaries! Check out more videos from MagellanTV’s War and Military playlists: --- When Larry Thorne enlisted in the United States Army as a private in 1954, he was already a controversial war hero in two other countries. Larry’s real name was Lauri Törni, and he was actually born in Finland. For most of his adult life he had been fighting against the Soviets both as part of the Finnish Army and the Waffen-SS during World War II. To this date, Lauri Törni remains the only former member of the Nazi Army to be buried in Arlington Cemetery, the most hallowed of American burial grounds. - As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramati
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