Season 7, Episode 10

Stalag 17 Portrait; Seadrome; Black Tom Shell

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Season 7, Episode 10 History Detectives

Premiered August 30, 2009

What happened to a WWII POW who sketched portraits at the German camp Stalag 17B? What's the story behind photographs of the Seadrome project? Was an old artillery shell involved in an attack on Black Tom Island?

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London professor Les Back tells Tukufu about WWII-era Germany's underground jazz scene.

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Deleted Scene: Swing Kids in Hamburg

London professor Les Back tells Tukufu about segregation of black soldiers during WW II.

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Deleted Scene: Wartime Contradictions

The detectives are back solving the biggest mysteries in American history!

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History Detectives

America's top gumshoes are on the case to prove once again that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. Exploring historical objects and the stories behind them, History Detectives crisscrosses the country delving into legends, folklore and personal histories to discover potentially extraordinary objects in everyday American homes.