Traces of War – Spang in Berlin
There’s nothing better than going on a hunt for Spang in Berlin! Had a cracking afternoon yesterday, checking out the […]
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Berlin
Walking the Ground – VE Day Poster Berlin
Cheeky little VE Day 80th anniversary poster on the side of the Babylon Cinema here in the middle of Berlin.
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Stolperstein Sunday – Dr. Carl Blumenthal, Margarete Blumenthal & Werner Blumenthal
Curt Blumenthal was admitted to the bar in Berlin on 10 July 1911. During the First World War, he worked
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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 – 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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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 – 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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Walking the Ground – Schönefeld near Beelitz
The location of the link-up between the German 9th and 12th armies. The small village of Schönefeld, 3km outside of
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Walking the Ground – Kummersdorf Gut
In the name of history I did a little bit of “Walking the Ground” around ‘Kummersdorf Gut’ – a former
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