Stories categorised in 'Germany'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
At the end of 1944 Beryl Andrews was 19 and was pursuing her career as an actress at the 'Theatre...
In about May 1940 the War Office decided that the Gunners would take over the duties of the Sappers. R.E.,...
My father was Welsh, my mother was Jersey, and the Germans interned you if there was someone in your family...
We get rid of our bombs but still we lose height and Willie is fighting like hell to control her. Here the...
Mr Denheijer then became a prisoner of war until the General Staff signed an agreement that Dutch forces...
We were preparing for the final big push, and our objective was to destroy all German troops east of the...
The men in this camp were sorted into working parties and my father found himself being sent to camp E586,...
Awarded Medals: Prisoner Political Star with 4 stars Chevalier De L'Ordre de Leopold II Medaille de...
The translation of the caption in the German Newspaper that Willy sent, reads approximately: 'The...
The passage describes the transfer of the German Surrender Team from Montgomery's HQ at Lunerberg...
I was the bomb–aimer in a Halifax shot down by a German night fighter over Berlin. The Germans had...
We have just finished five weeks at Belsen Camp and are at the moment enjoying a rest by the Baltic coast,...
The passage describes the transfer of the German Surrender Team from Montgomery's HQ at Lunerberg...
The train then rolled along until we got to the Russian British sector. As the Russians demanded for the...
Their second jump was in conjunction with the British 6th Airborne in the area of Wesel, Germany called...
He managed to get hold of the Danish Embassy in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. He volunteered his...
At Cloushall in the Hertzberg Mountains we lived in barracks where Hitler Youth were trained. Just outside...
Berlin was divided, like Germany, and in 1948 the Russians imposed the Berlin Blockade, sealing off all...
Tommy Wadsworth served with the RAF and was captured by the Japanese. In one camp I was pounced on by one...
There were a few wealthy men in the Camps - these were the cigarette "Barons". Men who accumulated...
David and his Regiment were eventually sent to High Wycombe in preparation to go to France but after...
Every village, every farm was in ruins.So we left the main road and took to the side roads, got a bit of...
Then there was the lounge carriage and another carriage with SS Guards, followed by another flat wagon with...
After the allied armies had left France and the country was under German Occupation she proved to be the...
The task in France was to get across the Rhine into Belgium. For her service Mary got 4 medals —...
Apparently the BBC outside broadcast truck was in Germany at the end of the war, and my father was there in...
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