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Yvonne Cormeau, who survived for more than a year as an #SOE wireless operator in Occupied France. Incredibly important and dangerous work.
She also paid this tribute to the ordinary French folk who helped her - risking their lives to allow her to transmit from their home.
#WW2

The agony on the face of Liane Berkowitz, a determined opponent of the Nazi regime, photographed by the Gestapo upon her arrest.
Liane was nineteen-years-old at the time and was pregnant.
This picture is part of a heartbreaking exhibition in the execution shed at #Plotzensee.
#antifascist

The world was a better place when you could buy film memorabilia and even pick up a free film magazine at the cinema.

Greta Lorke, a distinguished academic, who recruited writers, film-makers and poets to work against the Nazis. Was one of the few of her group to survive the war. Go to the German #Resistance Museum in #Berlin to learn about her. #antiNazi #antifascist

One of the finest #WW2 agents against the Nazis: Baltimore-born #VirginiaHall was trapped in Paris in 1939. Fleeing to London she joined #SOE (and later #OSS).
Despite having lost her left leg from the knee down, she became one of the Gestapo’s most-wanted enemy agents.
#antifa

Col Henning von Tresckow: principled & inspirational man who led WW2 efforts to kill Hitler.
“We must prove to the world & to future generations that the men of the German Resistance movement dared to take the decisive step & to hazard their lives upon it.Compared with this, nothing else matters.”

Uncovering the Ceredigion connection to the ‘Great Escape’ A Ceredigion family has discovered an archive of documents and photographs which sheds new light on one of the most famous adventure stories of the war – the Great Escape.

Two-part #StalagLuft3 documentary coming up on Nov 2 & 9 on S4C/BBC iPlayer with English lang subtitles.
Features an incredible POW archive of photos from the camp.
Also incls #FleetAirArm, #FaireySwordfish, #ArcticConvoy, #WoodenHorse, #GreatEscape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/uncover...

YouTube video by Stream City Behold a Pale Horse | FREE MOVIE (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif)

Behold A Pale Horse is on YouTube. Fred Zinnemann film from 1964 based on an Emeric Pressburger book & starring Peck, Quinn & Shariff.
A story about how the Spanish Civil War lingered over Spain decades later. V downbeat - possibly why it's largely forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8m...

The incredible event that earned Jimmy Ward his VC happened on July 7, 1941.

He then went on a propaganda trip which saw him at events like the Women at War Work exhibition (pic).

But he was soon back on ops.

He was killed on his second mission back, over Hamburg on Sept 15.

Carried on his friends' shoulders: the incredible Jimmy Ward, who won the VC when he climbed out ONTO THE WING of his Wellington bomber over the North Sea to put out a fire which was going to bring down the aircraft. I'm currently writing about one of the other men in this photo. #WW2 #antifascist

Cover reveal! ‘Nazi Ghost Train’

Here is the UK cover of 'The Nazi Ghost Train' which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It's an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.

Film books on the shelf: Burt Lancaster by Kate Bufod.

Always loved Burt since I first saw his cheesy smile in The Crimson Pirate one rainy afternoon.

During the liberation of Chartres, a Life magazine photographer spotted Simone Segouin and snapped a photograph, turning Simone into an icon of the Resistance and the Liberation.
#History #Resistance #antifascist

Luftwaffe intelligence officer Harro Schulze-Boysen, who told the Soviet Union that Hitler was about to attack, and his wife, Libertas, who worked for a Nazi film unit & secretly collected evidence of Nazi atrocities. Libertas whispered to her executioner: “Let me keep my young life.” #antifa

The B-17 saved by a “miracle”

In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…

The B-17 saved by a “miracle”

In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…

The memorial in Copenhagen to Anders Lassen, the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the VC in WW2. A veteran of the Commandos, SOE, the SAS & the SBS. A man of tremendous courage. #antifa #antifascist

Arvid & Mildred Harnack, who developed an anti-Nazi organisation in Berlin. Both were executed. Mildred, an American, escaped the death sentence in her first trial – but Hitler insisted on it. #antifascist #antifa #WW2

Diane Keaton in Reds.

Such a great film. One to revisit now.

#cinema

I loved Philip Larkin when I was a miserable, depressed youngster.

I’m less miserable now but I still love Larkin for this:

“…we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.”

#poetry #humanity

Love Godfather 2 and a load of De Niro #films but if I had to choose two of his films to take to a desert island it would be these:

"Theirs was a moral & ideological #resistance, & not the resistance to a foreign occupier. (They) were pursued most fervently by the regime."
Many thanks to Tyler Wolanin for this article on Defying Hitler.
Books seems as relevant as ever.
tylerwolanin.com/blog/2019/9/...

Cricket fans can enjoy dozens of interviews & features on the Museum of Welsh #Cricket podcast which has been produced for several years by Steve Hedges.
I've just joined Steve to help out. My first is live: a fan celebration of #Glamorgan men's promotion season.
www.cricketmuseum.wales/podcast/

Excellent work, Nancy!

Life Lines - Series 8: Part One - BBC Sounds Award-winning drama set in an ambulance control centre.

Driving this afternoon, I listened to the new series of #LifeLines by Al Smith, which really put me through the mill. Brilliant radio drama.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The families and friends of two #POWs have shared their archives with me over the past week for my current book.
Amazing photos and stories, taking me down new research routes. Always a pleasure to be shining a light on great untold life stories.
#WW2 #writing

That's some pretty smart old folks accommodation in Thursday Murder Club, isn't it?

Hammertime.

#films

I still haven't edited and put out this interview. Slow coach.

To be honest, I think you see this in public debate in both the US and the UK.