Germany

The Lighter Side of War - CHAPTER 26a: Berlin August 1945 - February 1946

Butch and Johnny went straight over to Havel to view their charges - beautiful big sleek white cabin...

Memories of My Life Born in 1918 to being a Soldier in the Second World War PART 12

Captain Stoodley then drove back to 145 vehicle park... At the Chief officers desk, sat a civilian nd I...

A Long Friendship Part 1: Pen Pals in Cleethorpes and Bremen

An English grammar schoolgirl, who was myself, and a German grammar schoolgirl, who was Lotte Schellhass...

The Russians Were Different

I suspect that by 1945 the western Allies had already made the political decision to grab as much German...

Henry Lund's War Chapter 6 'The long march to freedom

We passed from Czechoslovakia through Ansig Oberstentansdorf and other towns which had been flattened by...

'Fire Orders' Chapter 16a

Walking quickly along one of the many rough stone roads that criss-crossed the wood, Bernard, one of our...

I was in the German Army and captured by the English!

A GERMAN'S POINT OF VIEW My name is Otto Damm, I was born in Steinweiler, near Karlsruhe on the Rhine....

War Memories: Royal Engineer in North Africa and Europe

We had a victory parade in Tripoli marching down the main street behind bands of bagpipes, but after that...

Experience of a POW chapter eleven

Our guards had become particularly nervous when aircraft were about for fear they would mistake us for a...

Captured at Calais: A Kings Royal Rifleman

Zabreh, then known by its German name of Hohenstadt, is in northern Moravia, the eastern province of what...

A Medic in the Blitz; Relieving Belsen Camp

And then we got off and we flew with a drunken Canadian crew, by that time been waiting for the …, to...

XII. Entering Germany

At first light, the two surviving tanks, ours and the Troop Leaders following started to move off down the...

My Name is Lisa

The Steppes were all around us and the battle was raging, the thunder of cannons could be heard every...

POW Life

This was our last POW camp, it was rough, there was no food because of the British bombing everything, the...

The Bridge at Halen (complete version) - an incident in Germany with 11th Armoured Division

The Bridge at Halen - an incident in Germany with 11th Armoured Division. After the 11th Armoured Division...

A Young German`s Life 1943-45

The following autobiographical report of what it was like to be a young German boy during WW2 was sent to...

The Big Raid

I am to go to the office with her at the Chamber of Tradeswhere she works, and when the sirens go off...

Sequel to : Liberated by Cossacks

They endured a regime of even less food than the rest received from the Germans and as I intimated earlier,...

Immediate Post-War in Lower Saxony and Local Relationships

Since the end of the war, the Royal Navy in co-operation with the British army had been transporting to the...

Letters Home - December 1945 - Part Two

At this stage of the journey we were in the Russian zone and heading in the direction of Berlin, it was...

Beating the Odds

After lining up on the markers in accordance with the Bomb Aimer's directions, instead of the usual...

It just wasn't his day to die!

Gordon didn't like water or boats and joined the Royal Ordnance Corps at Old Dalby, Leicestershire,...

Jack Place's War - Part 2

As a result a few days later when the slag train came rolling up to where we were working, the line on...

Memories of Royal Air Force B25s

Yes, its near VE Day, and I am suddenly Corporal Ray Mitchell - Radio Technician, working on those lean and...

Memories of RAF B25s

Yes, its near VE Day, and I am suddenly Corporal Ray Mitchell - Radio Technician, working on those lean and...

Extracts of a Diary written for David Grimley by his father

Anyway, the subject of the photograph is lying dead and mutilated outside a dug-out in flooded Holland...