Germany

Ted's War, Belsen

Having mentioned Belsen, we were outside a town called Celle in Germany — north Germany somewhere,...

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp shortly after Liberation

Other memories include loaves of bread green with mould and the ovens with metal stretchers used for...

Re: Belsen - One Man's Journey

Belsen was a concentration camp located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen near Hanover in Northwest...

Expulsion from Neissbach

They always wanted to return to their homeland, but, until nowadays, this was impossible owing to the...

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS - GRACE WALTON

I was a British Red Cross nurse with the civilian nursing reserve in a hospital in the outskirts of London...

A Close Brush with Disaster

The course was held in a live-firing area some 30km south of Prague, at the time the capital of the...

AIRMAN CHARLES MARSHALL BECOMES POW

A boy from Croatia

As we drew into Germany, We herd planes over head... I was told that I must work in Austria because of the...

A FAMILY STORY OF LIFE OR DEATH IN HITLERS GERMANY — A TRUE STORY

1918 Uncle Herman, Aunty May and Stanley went back to Germany, it was impossible for Herman to find work in...

Post war in Hamburg

There was nothing to buy in the Hamburg shops and the local beer then was the original L.A. But the NAFFI...

My visit to post-war Germany

The Russian War memorial was in the English sector and on Red Army day, a long procession of vehicles with...

I survived

48 hours later I was captured by the gestapo and taken to a transit camp near Frankfurt and then to LUFT 3...

"Here Is The News- From The BBC"

"Journey Into Captivity"

Following the capture of my comrades and myself at a place in Germany called WELDFEUGHT, we were placed in...

A German Faux Pas!

There were tremendous cheers and laughter from all the prisoners and completely anaware of the faux pas...

IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

Leslie was born in Norton, Stockton on Tees, and joined the Army in 1933 after being made redundant. Leslie...

"THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT"

Destry Rides Again

Our destination was Celle, Germany, and one of my orders was to follow the given map reference and escort a...

The Long March Home

Initially the Americans flew their own personnel back to the States from Cherbourg, but because their POWS...

My dads war story

He told of how the Russian prosioners were very badly treated and how they had very little food and would...

Coming to England as a POW

When the German occupation came to Belgium I was about 15 and living in Ghent... We stopped for a night at...

Destry Rides Again

Our destination was Celle in Germany, and one of my orders was to follow the given map reference and escort...

Ercall Platoon Sports & Social Club

The Membership Card reads:Ercall Platoon Sports & Social ClubPresident: Capt. The Home Guard,...

Liberation Day, Sunday 15th April 1945

Mr. Swart, a friend of the family, told us that the Canadians were on their way from the south... Everybody...

A prisoner of War in Europe

We had a running batttle with ground defences of a German airfield in Ebsjerg, Denmark... Hamburg followed...

Your story edited and categorised

My grandfather was the commander of a battery of eight-inch guns. She reassured my grandfather time and...