Operation Rankin | The Allied Plan to Block Stalin That Never Happened | WW2 DECLASSIFIED
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Before Germany surrendered, Allied planners prepared for a scenario history rarely discusses: a sudden Nazi collapse that would turn victory into a race against the Soviet Union.
Operation Rankin was a top-secret Allied contingency plan designed to exploit a potential internal collapse of Nazi Germany and occupy key territory before the Red Army could arrive. It was not a battle plan. It was a political race — measured in rail lines, ministries, and hours.
This episode breaks down:
• Why Operation Rankin existed at all
• The three Rankin scenarios (A, B, and C)
• Why the Allies knew they couldn’t reach Berlin in time
• The decision that quietly buried the plan
• The internal split between British urgency and American restraint
• What Soviet intelligence already knew
• How Europe’s postwar division was decided before the war ended
This is not textbook history.
This is the classified version.
📁 Sources include declassified Allied planning documents, SHAEF memoranda, and postwar archival releases.
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