Wartime Crime — Season 1, Episode 6: The Sicilian Connection
Documentary, Crime • 43 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Incensed by their treatment under Mussolini's regime and anxious to re-establish their European criminal network, Mafiosi including incarcerated kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano offered their full support to American intelligence officers.
About Wartime Crime
While the battlefields of WWII were a stage for acts of heroism, strategic cunning, and horrific atrocities, conditions on the home front seemed more stable. Yet from bombed-out London to occupied France, the war enabled one thing to flourish - crime.