Germany

Arrested by the Russians or How the Bargee Took Me On His Travels

Since Austria was occupied at that time by the four postwar powers in Europe – Russia, America,...

My life during the war.

When war was declared i was in my uncles pub and until 1942 I was a schoolboy,and, living in the country...

The missing of my grandpa?

My grandpa was born in Ladjevci,place near the town Kraljevo,May the 3rd 1900.year.He was an a member of...

V. E. Day Memories

V.E. Day H. Jennings Germany. We had come quickly from Holland, moving up across Germany to Hanover....

Finding a Concentration Camp

Behavior unbecoming

As I have mentioned ealier, we were a military unit--so as soon as we captured a town we set up an office...

The Day the Russians Came

I was born in Berlin in 1934 and was already 11 years old when the Russians came into our house... On the...

The German Surrender Announcement

I was a German Monitor at BBC Monitoring in Caversham. In the final days of the war the only German station...

Normandy to the Baltic - a background

Last year we celebrated in Holland after 60 years they gave us a terrific welcome, on our visit to Holland...

CAPTURED IN POLAND

At the age of 18, living in Tolwin, Poland I was captured by the Russians and sent to a Siberian Labour...

Escape from Berlin

In 1944 my wife who was born in Germany was posted to Berlin on tram service as a conductress whilst...

berlin 1945

My uniy moved to RAF Gatow Berlin in the Autumn of 1945. wwe moved to Berlin from Hanover. I remembere...

Harry/Vic

Sgt Harry Kirk and Vic Hunter were two men both from the north east of England, both in Stalag 8B... During...

A young refugee in Shefford

and Rudolf replied, “The goat's come to tea and eaten all the sugar and my cake... Poor old...

Schleswig Holstein Fired Shots on Danzig - 1939

It's rather ironic that once they had sailed away, some of the first shots fired in the Second World...

Hear, hear!!!

The British people suffered untold hardships lost many of their men, and only one who has known the loss of...

THE LONG MARCH - A PAINTING

In January, February and March 1945 upto 20,000 British POWs were marching across Europe in advance of the...

the flight from Koenigsberg

My name is ursula FRfr vond er goltz and I was living in Koenigsberg when the war began... But than again...

Arriving at Belsen

POW in Germany

From 1940 until the end of the war I was a Prisoner of War in Germany... All nationalities were there...

Germany 1939, Berchtesgarden

My bedroom window in the hotel overlooked Hitler's house, the Berghof... These were billeted in the...

Escape from East Germany

Just after WW11 I was living in East Germany in the Russian Occupation... I went to the Railway Station and...

Hangings at Luneberg

Eventualy I arrived in Germany and was given the job of guarding the captured members of the SS... Also one...

2 Years in Germany

I was in Europe - Normandy, Holland and Germany... The Germans seemed to be very keen in giving themselves...

The Lincolnshire 2nd Battallion RGT in Holland 7

Moving on to the night we made the breakthrough at Winnenkendonk into Germany... One squadron was led by Dr...

Snow in Berlin

Smiling A.T.S. Private ‘Biddy’ Bidwell, of Sheffield, gathers plenty of...