Germany

World War centered 0m year 1944 Hitler's Occupatiopn

All we got was the circus of Nurnberg Gt Britain obtained False Passport and pais for the escape of Justice...

The Days of Relief

The route or at least the main towns we went thro' were Ostend, Ghent, Antwerp, Eindhaven, Goch,...

Early Memories of Life in a P.O.W. Camp.

Berlin - Clearing Up After The Fall 1945

My friend Peggy Quinney and I were the first two ATS girls to enter Berlin after the fall in 1945. Our...

Two Servicemen From One Family During World War Two

I saw Alan and although we were overjoyed that the war had ended, we did feel much like celebrating, as I...

The Long March

At Wtodzimiesz the squadron had 10 / TO's. On the 14th SEPTEMBER ’39 the aircraft were directed...

Sandbostel

At one stage I captured a German officer who turned out to be their chief engineer, who was like gold to...

The "TOMMIES" are here.

Near our hous in Rendsburg, Garrison Town for more than 100 years. in the northern Germany Schleswig -...

A little Light Relief at the Front

At daybreak, unexpectedly, out of the back door of the house which I and a half-dozen of my comrades were...

Pathfinder pilot's prison story

The Mayor told him to “Wait there“ and went out…and in a short while some Germans arrived...

Stalag 1V B ~ Jim DONNAN

Jim remained in Stalag 1V B until the camp was liberated by the Russian Army on 23rd April 1944. The...

AIRMAN CHARLES MARSHALL BECOMES POW

An Odysee - Defection from Germany

Oscar was frequently put in solitary confinement during the 1930's and suffered for his stand against...

Aftermath of Crash 18/11/1943

They were not all Nazis. Father Norbert sent us bottles of wine calling them "Peace Bombs". Word...

Teenage Deportee

The train took us across France, through the outskirts of Paris, then across the battlefields of both WW1...

Rotkopf

Because of his red hair, we called him “Rotkopf” or “Redhead”. As our tanks formed...

The Darker Side of the Sky

Two German officers, guns in hand, led me out to a car and took me to Brussels' St. Gilles Prison... I...

Memories of VE Day from the other side of the fence

The VE Day in England was the day of utter defeat for the evil Nazi regime in Germany where I was a...

Diary of 1939

Sept 14th Thursday French captured the German town of Sauerbrucke. Nazi bomb Warsaw many injured &...

GERMAN SOLDIERS IN WAR OCCUPIED HOLLAND

The boy made a great racket and German officers came along and asked what is going on here and then the...

'Do-you-have-a...Reum?'[my personal joke!]

I think that on this piece of paper someone wrote for him in Russian-language : 'Please mister the...

No escaping or messing with women

After a successful first day, the plant was lightly bombed by a small raid. However, From then on every...

Displaced Persons (Echoes of War P.18)

These hundreds of thousands-or was it millions- of ordinary men and women from all of the countries...

Grub at Last

I didn't fancy eating them raw but fortunately I was with a Canadian called “Happy” who was...

ALLT: The rubble of Cologne

William Logan is not currently a member of MENSA, but he has given us permission to post excerpts from his...

Belsen Liberation

I arrived at Belsen in 1945. Nearby the ovens there was a plush swimming pool for the Germans to swim in...