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Anne Frank and Oscar Schindler

kingsown — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:12:03 GMT

anyone going on this trip 18 August or September?

If you want any info let me know

Second World War

Pegasus — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:02:27 GMT

I think the Forum is Superb, buttttttttt!!!!!!!!

Where are all the WW11 people?????

I feel as though I'm the only one posting on the subject. Once again I must ask the same question, "Where are the guides"? I am booked, with my party on another WW11 trip in Sept. Dunkirk and Fortress Europe. We are looking forward to it, but I personally would welcome some discussion on the Forum re: the subject, but it's nigh impossible.

Any thoughts?

Ed.

Auschwitz scrapbook -- "the banality of evil"

Zorba — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:36:22 GMT

Next week, the [url=http://www.ushmm.org/]United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[/url] will feature an online display of a photo scrapbook that depicts the day-to-day lives of Auschwitz's SS officers. It was donated to the museum by a former United States Army intelligence officer who found the photographs over 60 years ago in Germany.

The comparisons between the albums are both poignant and obvious, as they juxtapose the comfortable daily lives of the guards with the horrific reality within the camp, where thousands were starving and 1.1 million died.

The New York Times has a [url=http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/09/18/arts/20070919_ALBUMSS_AUDIOSS.html]slideshow with audio commentary[/url] by Rebecca Erbelding, an archivist at the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

CWGC

harmat — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:40:06 GMT

On the literature the Commonwealth War Graves Commission provides it shows their badge.It looks like an 'Aladdin's lamp' emblem.

I was wondering how this came about and if it was meant to signify anything in particular ?

Longues Sur Mer

Pegasus — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:14:19 GMT

History tells us about Point du Hoc and the Merville Battery, but I haven't seen anything written about the German gun battery at Longues Sur Mer, this is a really large gun battery. How was it taken and by whom?

A Normandy Veteran friend of mine tells me he marched the German P.O.W.'s down from Longues into Arromanches.

Did they surrender or were they defeated in an attack?

Please advise if possible.

Thanks, Ed.