Germany

The March

Other marching columns passed, German infantry moving up, refugees, foreign workers, and overhead a...

Lamsdorf Death March 1945 - RAF Warrant Officer Joseph Fusniak, BEM

I still had my thick RAF overcoat intact, but discarded an old worn-out pair of RAF shoes, as I had managed...

Mauthausen-Gusen

It draws upon personal recollections, a song written by Michael's youngest son, Andrew, a poem written...

An Important Story Of Bomber Harris

It appeared later, that Eisenhower was dealing directly with Stalin and was worried that Montgomery and...

A Prisoner of War’s Diary from Stalag VIIIB — 1943 April to June

German planes visited England and successfully bombed London, Newcastle, Chelmsford and Sunderland, our air...

The Long March (Part Two)

I saw Lt.Unger in Dubno as a prisoner of the Russians... A Polish communist —Henryk Nita, (50) from...

Kazimierz Pakula's Story Part 1 1939-1940

There was a town full of Polish Army, here we lived off a barrel of apples we found, then on towards the...

There Was Never A Month Like It (Part Two)

The platform was crowded with German sailors and our two guards immediately turned us around and took us...

Russia's Germans in WWII

Otto's son Adolf was recruited into the German war machine and it must have been strange for Otto to...

'Oklahoma ', Maastricht ,The Netherlands; Allied conference of 7 December 1944 : Montgomery wants to change strategy.

Therefore Bergen Belsen was earmarked in March 1944 as a reception camp for sick and exhausted prisoners of...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part two)

Thus the Christian and conservative look of the school was tolerated, even at the time when the...

Being in the Right/Wrong Country at the Wrong Time

My father, a German officer in WWI, nearly bled to death on the Western front, my Russian mother withdrew...

“How do you feel about taking a long walk?”

After they had been taken prisoner in Belgium on 18 May 1940, George and Norman were interrogated by a...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part three)

Continued from part two — “In the autumn of this year 1943 my sister was given some leave and...

Bill Pledger's War

The Germans hoped to use them as a form of propaganda and could not understand, given the relationship...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part four)

We all knew that nothing could stop the Russian advance, certainly not the earthworks, nor the exhausted...

They Shot Me Down

Instead I was marched, in borrowed German Jack-boots to Passwolk and eventually to a straw-covered dungeon...

Memories of an Ex P O W.

We decided that this was the safest place to be when the German troops retreated and the Russians took...

Your story 'Ich habe kranke' edited and categorised

I became involed again in religious affairs and took up what would have been called 'Civics'and...

'The Shooting Star'

The Jews, supposed to have contributed, by a disloyal and pacifist influence, to the collapse of Germany at...

My War Service Part5

After the Allied landing in N.Africa Vichy France was occupied by the Germans and soon a regular round-up...

My Dad was an Auschwitz Survivor

My dad was 15 years old when the Nazis marched into Hungary in 1944 and started deporting the Jews to...

After the War Marianne Debrunner

You must produce this certificate if required to do so by any Police Officer, Immigration Officer or member...

WW2 from the other side - "The One that Got Away"

It is said that for the first time, von Werra feared for his life, not from the Duty Officer but from the...

john clarkson my life and war memories pt 1

JC I went to a three schools, St. Mathews Infants, Norfolk Street, Mill Hill and Christ Church in Mosley...

The Teutoburger Visit 2005

After these interviews our party split into two groups,Pat,Brian and Allan were being transported by our...