Walking the Ground – Bautzen’s Ortenburg Castle
The last stand of the Bautzen garrison In April 1945, the Ortenburg Castle, which sits atop a rocky outcrop in […]
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Europe At War meets Beyond Barbarossa
Hear me talk about the Halbe Pocket & the end of the war in Germany A few weeks ago I
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Walking the Ground – Bautzen
Blowing Bautzen’s bridges… At 19:15 on the 20th of April, 1945, Oberst Dietrich Hoepke (commander of the Bautzen garrison) ordered
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Traces of War – Bautzen
The latest episode of the Europe At War Podcast, episode 2.4, looks at the intense street battles which raged throughout
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Walking the Ground – near Halbe
Another fantastic day out ‘walking the ground’ near Halbe…and look what you can find when you go walking through the
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New podcast series: Welcome to the Battle of Bautzen
Welcome to the Battle of Bautzen! The new series of the Europe At War podcast is live! For this series,
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Walking the Ground – Seelow Heights
Battle of the Seelow Heights! The memorial at the Seelow Heights is another fine example of bombastic Soviet let’s-gloss-over-the-mistakes-we-made-in-the-battle propaganda,
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Walking the Ground – Bautzen
Busy day “Walking The Ground” (copyright Al & James) in Bautzen in Saxony! Cobbled streets, ye olde German pubs, and
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Walking the Ground – Waldfriedhof Halbe/Halbe forest cemetery
Today sees the release of the final episode in my series “Encircled: The Halbe Pocket Podcast”, so fittingly, it’s also
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Remnants of War – Escape at Tangermünde
The escape of the German 9th & 12th armies at Tangermünde. In today’s new episode of the Halbe Pocket Podcast,
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