Stories categorised in 'Germany'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
As we approached some of the early birds were already there, the flak and searchlights had increased and...
Dora fled eventually to Schleswig Holstein where Christian had family - but they were separated and did not...
How did the gunners see anything in these conditions, to the starboard side of the aircraft was a black...
I was seventeen years old when the Germans came, for a while they treated us well, my mother spoke German...
Mr. T.C.R. Harrison has handled the contacts with Mrs. Heenan on our behalf and I have appended his letter...
On the move across Europe As Ron's regiment moved across Europe south of Paris and then into Belgium...
Leslie Hardman, a chaplain in the British Army spoke to us for about an hour in Yiddish and gave us...
After Paris was liberated my unit was transferred to S.H.A.E.F stationed in Versailles and several units of...
Somewhere along the line we were standing in a crowded carriage when a little Girl pointed at me and said...
I was told by our Chief of Staff to take a jeep and a driver and rendezvous with Lt-Col Taylor, the CO...
To Milan and back in a Mark I Halifax For our first operational sortie we were given a very elderly...
In England, the battalion returned to its base at Canterbury before moving to Rhyader, Wales, to guard the...
Civilians lined the road giving them bread and fruit, and the Germans allowed it as they had no means...
The 11th Armoured Division Please let me tell you the story of the conflict that we, the 11th Armoured...
In May Douglas was part of a bombing expedition to Maastricht to halt the German advance there and they...
First to Stalag Luft VI, near Heydekrug, in the Baltic states, then as the Russians advanced so they were...
Despite witnessing the horrors of war in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, I found Belsen an ordeal...
I'd already learnt German and French at school — at Dusseldorf I got a big compliment from a...
In August 1946 Stan Wrighton, myself and two others on a forty-eight-hour pass visited the Mohne Dam, and...
After initial training at the depot I went to the training battalion and then was sent to the demonstration...
Mr William "Billy" Bates of Dawley, Shropshire , attended No 5 Course of 83 O.T.U. from October...
He was living in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. There was another youth movement, not the Hitler Youth...
David died later during a compulsory march into the depth of Germany at the time when the Germans started...
A couple of days before the unconditional surrender of Germany, English and Scottish troops marched towards...
We went to a place called Noyers crossroads where a German Tiger Tank was stationed... The Falaise gap,...
From one tank which got knocked out Guardsman Charlton took the browning 300 from the tank and faced the...
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