Poland

Prisoner of the Germans - 4 - Christmas

November 12th: The German sergeant-major gave me some bird picture cigarette cards, which I still have. The...

From Chodel in Poland to Monte Cassino. PART 1

His long journey began on the 17th of September 1939 when the Russian Army crossed the Polish eastern...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 6

The German Officers brought to Frau Walterherr, wild boar and venison meat... We could not understand why...

Five Years a POW

We made our way down the road encountering more German tanks and soon we got to a medical facility run by...

“From Bielorussia to Bristol”

Almost the same two weeks after Germans invaded us, Russians came in from the East and they captured me, my...

My Second World War Experiences

One night he went with fellow-officers to the Cassino de Paris and heard Maurice Chevalier singing that he...

My Life - Born in 1918, then a Soldier in WW2 - Part 8

They told us that these bastards, the Germans, had turned their guns on British troops and they were now...

Dunkirk to Auschwitz and Home

We were here for about 14 months until late December 1944 when the Russians had started breaking through...

James Eric Wicketts Memories - Part 2

On arriving at the Stalag the Germans put us into the cells until the next day. From time to time the...

Start of War in Poland

The German army advanced through Poland finding only pockets of resistance, which were soon crushed. Money...

My DAD's Story

His service record shows that during WW2 he was stationed at many different Air Force Bases throughout the...

Experience of a POW chapter eleven

Our guards had become particularly nervous when aircraft were about for fear they would mistake us for a...

Captured at Calais: A Kings Royal Rifleman

Zabreh, then known by its German name of Hohenstadt, is in northern Moravia, the eastern province of what...

Sid Hayden,France,Belgium

Sid Hayden in France and Belgium. Just before 10th April 1945 the German soldiers, who with Sid and the...

Jan Derych. Survivor's Story

I could hear the German national anthem.Deutchland Uber Alles being sung by the U-boat sailors standing to...

Straws in the Wind

Determined not to allow my parents' sacrifices to fade away into the mists of time, I resolved to do...

They Chose Me to do this Job

He said the Directorate of Public Relations, P/R.8, Air Ministry, London with the Air Attaché, chose...

From Chodel in Poland to Monte Cassino PART 2

After heavy fighting on the 17th of May 1944 Polish soldiers conquered German forces and raised the Polish...

Wartime Memories of Thomas W Gould

We were shipped to France in May 1940 and our first encounter with enemy forces was at Dieppe - the Germans...

My War in the `Duke of Wellingtons'

Around 1945 the British and Russian troops surrounded the Germans in Poland and Germany. The Russian...

Gena's Story

In 1941 Polish partisans in the woods near Kornelowka killed a German. A few weeks later the Germans...

Seaforth Highlander - P.O.W. Diary

June- Leave Meppen for Eastern Germany Berlin, Breslone , Lamsdorf. May 10th —Left Leznity get lift...

Peter Allwood, Lancaster Pilot

The members of his crew were Leslie Bown, Ray Lord, Richard Parkinson, Stephen Sheldon, Ernest Farley and...

1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment C company

He was always disparaging of the prisoner of war films made after the war as they always portrayed the life...

From Herne Bay to Poland, Prisoner of War (Stammlager XXID)

A conflict of information has arisen as a book entitled 'Prisoners of War British Army 1939-1945, has...

From Siberia to Arnhem via Scotland

In January ’42 Franek is accepted into the army and travels to Kraznodzk and then by oil tanker...