Germany

Our mini Cold War with the Russians

The White Russians were from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The River Druw formed a natural boundary...

Peenehumde betrayal

Through Trygve, my quiet red-headed technician, we got the information to Oslo and London. On 18 August,...

A prisoner of War in Europe

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

Dining with the enemy!

Life in a POW camp

In May 1940 we went to France, I was taken prisoner in June at St Varnier with thirty others, we walked...

Liberating Stalag 10b war camp near Hamburg

The day the war ended Number 4 company and others were sent to liberate the Stalag 10b war camp which was...

Trudi, the German Shepherd

As they were leaving the German Commander asked him if he would take care of his dog, a very large German...

The Long March to Freedom - The Map

Those columns of men starting out from Upper Silesia crossed Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia into south east...

Germany Surrenders

The document declairing the surrender of the German forces in Northwestern Europe had been sighned at...

The Life as a British Battalion

Mr Higgs remembers that the u boats were sinking the ships which held supplies- like food and army...

Too Terrible to Tell

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Auschwitz and the prince.

I have been interned myself, and for the last few days I have been reading Martin Gilbert's...

Your story edited and categorised

When my grandmother Matrjona and her two little sons Eduard and Valerij were captured, she was pregnant for...

Teenage Deportee, Part 2

Dorsten Transit Internment Camp, formerly known as Stalag VIF was situated on a flat sandy area with a...

He will Not escape! - George Snell

On reporting to the Comdt Werl Jail you will give the password “Maj McEwen-Williams”, Buck will...

Berlin

The russian soldiers who captured them where from a very rural area of Russia , they found out Georg's...

Radio Soup

Les Coutillets Ray Caradeuc... We figured a crystal set, because her husband was deaf and dumb, and it gave...

Paul Genzler

At the end of the war as the allies advanced this soldier ,named Paul Genzler, asked Harry Kirk if he would...

Bill goes to Antwerp

An incident I remember , after being billeted in a hotel that had been occupied by German officers, the...

Re: How did Hitler keep control of Nazi Germany

All court judges were Nazis so they voted in favour of Hitler so if you were a Jew in court you had...

old men's burden

So he quickly told me about the story when he left his buddies in Russia in 43, because he knew where west...

First woman into liberated Belsen?

Sister Russell was a friend to my mother since before the 1st World war. During WW2 she became the Sister...

Bombing of Wesel

We were on the banks of the River Rhine overlooking Wesel on the other side. That evening there was a 1000...

My Great Grandfather

My GGF was a sea captain, plying the timber trade routes to Russia, the Baltic and Northern Germany....

Fleeing from the Soviet Army 1945

Whilst fleeing from her ancestral home with her family in 1945 she found herself in a convoy of civilian...

The Long March (Part Three)

I know this is impossible - but I look at the faces of the youths listening And see their numbed empathy As...