Blog Remnants of War – Museum Berlin Karlshorst 2 September 2024 No Comments How do you commemorate the 85th anniversary of the start of the Second… Read More Remnants of War – The Führerbunker 24 August 2024 No Comments “What’s so special about this boring car park in the middle of Berlin?”… Read More Remnants of War – Hidden in Plain Sight 21 August 2024 No Comments “That’s a covered-up Swastika isn’t it?” I thought to myself. After a quick… Read More Remnants of War – Kindertransport Memorial Berlin 20 August 2024 No Comments Berlin is dotted with memorials and plaques, but this memorial at Bahnhof Friedchstraße… Read More Remnants of War – Fort Eben-Emael 5 August 2024 No Comments Quick pit stop visit to Fort Eben-Emael whilst driving back to Berlin… On… Read More Remnants of War – Dartmoor Memorial 1 August 2024 No Comments A touching memorial in a quiet corner of Dartmoor. On the 22nd of… Read More Remnants of War – Slapton Sands & Exercise Tiger 28 July 2024 No Comments Slapton Sands, Devon. Site of the infamous Exercise Tiger. In April 1944, large-scale… Read More Remnants of War – Parachute & Airborne Memorial Paignton 26 July 2024 No Comments More proof that in the UK you can find echoes of the Second… Read More Traces of War – Battle Damage in Brixham, Devon 25 July 2024 No Comments This is my great-grandmother’s house in Brixham, which nearly suffered a direct hit… Read More Remnants of War – Brixham’s Battery 25 July 2024 No Comments In my hometown of Brixham in South Devon, you can find perhaps the… Read More Remnants of War – My hometown & Operation ‘Overlord’ 22 July 2024 No Comments You can always find traces of the Second World War if you know… Read More Remnants of War – German Resistance Memorial Centre 20 July 2024 No Comments Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler. Fittingly,… Read More Remnants of War – My Grandad and the 9th Gurka Rifles 17 July 2024 No Comments This one’s for you, Grandad. My Grandad served in the 9th Gurkha Rifles… Read More Remnants of War – Battle of Britain Memorial 16 July 2024 No Comments Warming up to this year’s We Have Ways festival with a quick trip… Read More Remnants of War – Hochbunker Pallasstraße 12 June 2024 No Comments The Hochbunker on Pallasstraße in Berlin is a 4-storey high bunker, which was… Read More Remnants of War – Upottery Airfield 8 June 2024 No Comments To coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day, here are some photos I… Read More Traces of War – Berlin Battle Damage Tour 1 June 2024 No Comments Berlin battle damage! This afternoon, the Berlin IC walked around Schöneberg in Berlin,… Read More Remnants of War – Dunkirk 27 May 2024 No Comments The 27th of May 1940 was the first full day of Operation Dynamo,… Read More Remnants of War – German WW2 Board Game & Hagen’s Air Raid Bunker 22 May 2024 No Comments Fancy a Second World War German board game night? On a recent tour… Read More Remnants of War – Potsdam’s Soviet Cemetery 9 May 2024 No Comments The 8th of May is celebrated as “VE Day” in Western Europe, but… Read More Stolperstein Sunday – Martin Cohn 14 April 2024 No Comments A regime’s revenge metered out upon the innocent. On the 18th of May… Read More Traces of War – Moltkebrücke Berlin 11 April 2024 No Comments Moltkebrücke, an unassuming bridge located just a stone’s throw from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof, played… Read More Stolperstein Sunday – Richard & Alfred Tworoger 7 April 2024 No Comments Father & Son Stolpersteine stories.Usually Stolpersteine give only the basic facts about a… Read More Stolperstein Sunday – Alexander Nisselowitsch 31 March 2024 No Comments A happier Stolperstein Sunday entry this week! Alexander Nisselowitsch was born in Minsk… Read More Stolperstein Sunday – Martin and Sonja Fleischmann 24 March 2024 No Comments An emotional double-whammy for our second Stolperstein Sunday… The story of Martin &… Read More Before and after – Reichstag Berlin 21 March 2024 No Comments I took part in a Battle of Berlin walking tour last Sunday and… Read More Stolperstein Sunday – Fritz Tobias 17 March 2024 No Comments Berlin is covered in “Stolpersteine” (‘stumbling stones’) – small stones in front of… Read More « Previous 1 2
Remnants of War – Museum Berlin Karlshorst 2 September 2024 No Comments How do you commemorate the 85th anniversary of the start of the Second… Read More
Remnants of War – The Führerbunker 24 August 2024 No Comments “What’s so special about this boring car park in the middle of Berlin?”… Read More
Remnants of War – Hidden in Plain Sight 21 August 2024 No Comments “That’s a covered-up Swastika isn’t it?” I thought to myself. After a quick… Read More
Remnants of War – Kindertransport Memorial Berlin 20 August 2024 No Comments Berlin is dotted with memorials and plaques, but this memorial at Bahnhof Friedchstraße… Read More
Remnants of War – Fort Eben-Emael 5 August 2024 No Comments Quick pit stop visit to Fort Eben-Emael whilst driving back to Berlin… On… Read More
Remnants of War – Dartmoor Memorial 1 August 2024 No Comments A touching memorial in a quiet corner of Dartmoor. On the 22nd of… Read More
Remnants of War – Slapton Sands & Exercise Tiger 28 July 2024 No Comments Slapton Sands, Devon. Site of the infamous Exercise Tiger. In April 1944, large-scale… Read More
Remnants of War – Parachute & Airborne Memorial Paignton 26 July 2024 No Comments More proof that in the UK you can find echoes of the Second… Read More
Traces of War – Battle Damage in Brixham, Devon 25 July 2024 No Comments This is my great-grandmother’s house in Brixham, which nearly suffered a direct hit… Read More
Remnants of War – Brixham’s Battery 25 July 2024 No Comments In my hometown of Brixham in South Devon, you can find perhaps the… Read More
Remnants of War – My hometown & Operation ‘Overlord’ 22 July 2024 No Comments You can always find traces of the Second World War if you know… Read More
Remnants of War – German Resistance Memorial Centre 20 July 2024 No Comments Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler. Fittingly,… Read More
Remnants of War – My Grandad and the 9th Gurka Rifles 17 July 2024 No Comments This one’s for you, Grandad. My Grandad served in the 9th Gurkha Rifles… Read More
Remnants of War – Battle of Britain Memorial 16 July 2024 No Comments Warming up to this year’s We Have Ways festival with a quick trip… Read More
Remnants of War – Hochbunker Pallasstraße 12 June 2024 No Comments The Hochbunker on Pallasstraße in Berlin is a 4-storey high bunker, which was… Read More
Remnants of War – Upottery Airfield 8 June 2024 No Comments To coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day, here are some photos I… Read More
Traces of War – Berlin Battle Damage Tour 1 June 2024 No Comments Berlin battle damage! This afternoon, the Berlin IC walked around Schöneberg in Berlin,… Read More
Remnants of War – Dunkirk 27 May 2024 No Comments The 27th of May 1940 was the first full day of Operation Dynamo,… Read More
Remnants of War – German WW2 Board Game & Hagen’s Air Raid Bunker 22 May 2024 No Comments Fancy a Second World War German board game night? On a recent tour… Read More
Remnants of War – Potsdam’s Soviet Cemetery 9 May 2024 No Comments The 8th of May is celebrated as “VE Day” in Western Europe, but… Read More
Stolperstein Sunday – Martin Cohn 14 April 2024 No Comments A regime’s revenge metered out upon the innocent. On the 18th of May… Read More
Traces of War – Moltkebrücke Berlin 11 April 2024 No Comments Moltkebrücke, an unassuming bridge located just a stone’s throw from Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof, played… Read More
Stolperstein Sunday – Richard & Alfred Tworoger 7 April 2024 No Comments Father & Son Stolpersteine stories.Usually Stolpersteine give only the basic facts about a… Read More
Stolperstein Sunday – Alexander Nisselowitsch 31 March 2024 No Comments A happier Stolperstein Sunday entry this week! Alexander Nisselowitsch was born in Minsk… Read More
Stolperstein Sunday – Martin and Sonja Fleischmann 24 March 2024 No Comments An emotional double-whammy for our second Stolperstein Sunday… The story of Martin &… Read More
Before and after – Reichstag Berlin 21 March 2024 No Comments I took part in a Battle of Berlin walking tour last Sunday and… Read More
Stolperstein Sunday – Fritz Tobias 17 March 2024 No Comments Berlin is covered in “Stolpersteine” (‘stumbling stones’) – small stones in front of… Read More