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The War Ends in Italy, 2nd May 1945icon for Story with photo

At any one time there were only four men on actual guard around the perimeter, one patrolling the railway...

Dunkirk to Austria. Bill Brands story.

Bill Brand was my nans brother, one of two brothers who sreved in the army before and during WW2. they came...

My War: From Essex to Austria

Later my father put me in a military school, and I had to join the army.I took part as a young soldier...

A Common Soldiers Storyicon for Story with photo

However, by 1939 Britain had declared war on Germany and Grandpa was one of the first to be ‘called...

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Ezra's war

Years after the war we returned to Austria, we crossed mountain ravines, me driving and dad getting very...

Viennese Friendshipsicon for Story with photo

Rudi Pollak a decorated inventor and electrical consultant with the Austrian Government, took us to explore...

The Grossman Wittgenstein Story

The wellknown Austrian jewish author, dramatist publisher Stefan Grossmann married my grandmother´s...

An Interrogator's Life (Part 3)

In winter 1945, CSDIC moved from the comfortable Villa Porsche to the Graz area, where an empty sanatorium...

Tweedy and Napoli

Guardsman Tweedy, if my memory serves me right, had just recently joined my platoon on the outskirts of the...

The Gauleiter

On one of my visits to the Wolfsberg Camp in Austria, I noticed a large solitary man wearing an ill-fitting...

The Story of a Young Grimsby Conscipt After the Waricon for Story with photo

We had moved to Millstat in Austria as army of occupation... We stayed in the Hotel Cortina, one of the...

Operation Woodchopper

The first day in the woods was quite a revelation as we were not to actually chop down the trees as the...

I Had a Fear of Death in New Square, Germany

As told by Allan Turner: It all started in New Square, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1945 when a woman began...

Memories of V E Day

I was a P.O.W. after the Battle of Crete, 1941, and was 4 years in various working camps, not being an...

Tin of Peas

In the parcel I was surprised to find a big tin of peas that was tinned in 1942, that I had given...

Escape from Austria: My Brother Edgar’s Story

The original typescript of Lilly's story has been deposited in Shropshire Archives....

The First Potato Peeler in the British Army

Mr Griffin served with the 2nd Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment in B Company Transport from...

Danke Herr Mix!icon for Story with photo

I went with the entertainments officer to the pub to act as interpreter and explained that the publican was...

From Stirling to Stoke via....

In 1943 I went to Sicily then on to Italy and then Austria. In the army we had our food rations but...

Local Man Found Hanged.

The knife entered Basil's shoulderblade and as he stood up holding the man down with his foot, the...

From Pondersbridge to Stalag 18A

I was transferred to Stalag 18A in the Wolfburg main camp in Austria. During my time in captivity I worked...

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