Germany

Harry's War

I, in fact, took to the language so well that I went on to get my degree in German and now I...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 49

For a few hours we were in a 'No man's Land'situation, until eventually the forces of Russian...

Harry Tenny. F/Sgt. R.A.F.

We were given a bed and introduced to the senior man who was French, who informed us we were now the...

With the Suffolk Regiment in France

I was in a mortar platoon at the time, and we landed on Sword Beach at 9.30 on the 6th June 1944......

An Experience of the Hamburg Blitz

When my mother was a young woamn - she trained as an opera singer - she won a scholarship to the Hamburg...

Fighting for Boulogne

My father, Arthur Colin Guest, was serving in France at the time of the German Blitz Kreig in 1940....

Rape: An interpreter in Occupied Germany

There I found two Germans, one an elderly man and the other a middle-aged woman, trying in vain to convey...

F.S. Harry Tenny R.A.F

We slept in three tier wooden bunks with a straw mattress on about fifteen bed boards about two feet long...

Choosing the Right Side (at Bergen Camp): Hungarian Soldiers in Germany

"Unfortunately, very few people know that in the spring of 1945 the I/lI nd Tank Regiment of Jaszbereny...

Prisoner of War: Captured at Anzio

So apparently they wanted to pull away some of the German troops from Montecassino so they put in an...

To Osnabruck

Walter was called up in 1939, changing his job from chauffeur/handyman/gardener to Captain Barclay of...

Enlisted

Bear in mind that “D” Day was June 6th 1944 and that the Allied forces had reached Brussels and...

Journey into the Unknown - Part 45

The only bandages available were of a crepe paper type, the proper bandages were sent to the Russian...

Our Sergeant Major: Fife and Forfar Yeomanry

When we were in Germany, Titch Burbridge often used put to us on guard duty, which entailed patroling...

A Jew in Germany and a German in England

My mother, Rosa Blumert, was born in Zeven, a place in the north of Germany in 1.921 to a Jewish family; as...

Ray's European Experience

All the way through Belgium and Holland they were liberating the local villages and the inhabitants...

F.Sgt. Harry Tenny

We would also check out and choose a bloke who was termed a "Mucker" A good "Mucker" was...

Flight Sgt Harry Tenny

I had persuaded George that it was worth having a shot at escaping, if only to break the monotony of the...

Normandy to the Baltic

Our Sgt Holland from Burton on Trent had a very entertaining flight against an American Crew Officer crew...

Ethel Bardsley, a Queen Alexandra nurse at Belsen

Ethel volunteered to serve in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing service on the 27th July...

Expulsion of German Nationals from Neissbach

- Time has moved on and there is no way back, but the story of the biggest expulsion of world history -...

Revenge for Supper

It had windows back and front and there, silhouetted between the windows, I saw two German soldiers pumping...

Memoirs of a Sapper — Part 5 - Humour and Horror

Our Division had captured the paymaster of the 5th SS Panzer Division — a Baron Oberst von Slachen...

Don Jennings Experiences of the War

Several months prior to D-day I was engaged in training to waterproof vehicles. I used to take the vehicles...

Free Meat

The local population kept well away from the prisoners but I noticed a young girl asking for chocolate....

A Rochdale Lad loose in Germany WW2

Fifty Russians with two Guards, then a mere two British Tommys with eight Guards each armed with a rifle...