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US Marine Survives Incoming Shell Caught on Film at Iwo Jima
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DBG Militaria will be at the Stoneleigh military fair on Sunday 2nd February. Hall 2 stand 125 it would be nice to see anyone who follows me there, it always a pleasure to me up with friends and customers.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
(We must *never* forget.) #OTD in 1945, Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet Army. Place where at least 1.1 million people were murdered. #WW2 #HISTORY
One of my first articles for @euronews.com was an interview with colourist @marinamaral.bsky.social about her crucial work bringing life to b+w Auschwitz prisoner photos. Today, on Holocaust Memorial Day, it’s more important than ever to remember #neveragain👇
www.euronews.com/2020/01/28/t...
On this day we need to remember all the victims of this heinous crime. Every victim deserves to be remembered.
#NeverForget #Auschwitz
#OTD 80 years ago, over 7,000 starved and emaciated prisoners were liberated in Auschwitz, among them were 700 children.
1.3 million people were sent to this unimaginable place of horror. Most of the deportees were Jews, 1.1 million. Among them were also:
#History #Thread #Auschwitz
#OTD in 1899, a star of Polish cinema was born, Eugeniusz Bodo. He was elegant, intelligent, talented and a one of a kind human being. His life would be tragically cut short during WW2 because of the Soviet occupation.
#History #Thread #WW2
Last night, for the 110th Anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce, we held a special final Christmas Eve #TrenchesByTwilight tour in our trenches at Brook Farm Camp.
Taff Gillingham led everyone through the trenches and told the story of the Truce, supported by the GWH team…
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Merry Christmas to all my followers and I wish you all a happy new year for 2025.
It's Christmas Eve and, in our final HutVent of 2024, Taff talks Truce (of course!) and our part in a remarkable piece of Christmas Truce popular culture...
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As we near the end of HutVent 2024, Taff has a tale of two remarkable women for Day 23...
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Light Railway locomotive taking on water in freezing conditions at Trônes Wood December 1916
There are Christmas Gifts today on Day 22 of HutVent 2024, but Lyndsay tells us about one that rarely gets a mention...
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Hildenborough military fair Sunday 22nd December. Postcode TN11 9HY
On Day 21 of HutVent Taff is talking about Emergency Rations and recycled Haversacks...
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Lyndsay has a tale of two posters for Day 20 of HutVent, and the recruiting propaganda which proved too much even for the committee responsible for it...
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It's Day 19 of HutVent and Taff talks about the Battle of Le Cateau and tells how two artefacts in the GWH collection have a connection from 110 years ago...
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It's Day 18 of HutVent and it's time for some Royal Navy content. Today Kev tells the story of HMS Druid...
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On Day 17 of HutVent, Taff tells us about a proclamation and an army transported by taxis...
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#OTD in 1939, off Montevideo, the battle of the River Plate ended, with the scuttling of the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, leaving 38 German and 72 British sailors dead. Kapitän zur See Langsdorff committed suicide on 20 December. #WW2 #HISTORY
Behind the scenes, The Longest Day. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Christmas 1914 board games are the Day 16 subject for Lyndsay today...
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Our guest presenter, Richard van Emden shares one of his 1914 photograph albums with us on Day 15 of HutVent 2024. There may be a Christmas Truce link too... !
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Taff tells how the 2nd Worcesters saved the day at Gheluvelt in 1914 on Day 14 of HutVent 2024...
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New items added to www.dbgmilitaria.co.uk
It's Friday the 13th. Guest presenter Jason didn't turn up, so that means Lyndsay is telling us about the German Cavalry carbine, on Day 13 of HutVent 2024.…
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Wet and foggy woods, bunker remnants and dragon teeth. Some of the things we explored yesterday on the Hurtgen Forest tour with four US guests. The weather greatly adding to understanding of what it was like.