Saw that the Fieseler Storch at the Shuttleworth Aircraft Collection was outiside its hanger, so took this quick photo today on my phone while on a bike ride. This is a fully restored and flying Storch that is at the collection near where I grew up. Worth a visit if your in Bedfordshire, UK.
“New York, May 15 (ANI): As the D-Day anniversary approaches, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, Frank J. Dinan, has revealed what could have happened if Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had used the deadly nerve gas Tabun.
According to Professor Dinan, had Hitler used Tabun, the Allies could have been forced back into the sea with enormous casualties.”
LINK – Read the full article
Source – OneIndia
Edumnd Meschke as a 12-year-old in postwar Berlin in “Germany Year Zero.” Rossellini had moral courage to find sorrow whre others had understandably found horror. By DAVE KEHR Published: January 22, 2010
Had to give this a quick mention Roberto Rossellini‘s War Trilogy (Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero) recently released by Criterion Collection as a box set – classic war films, and certainly some of the best war films in my opinion; all the more fascinating as they were made very shortly after the war finished. Worth seeing if you have never seen them before, and this release is remastered by the Criterion Collection is going to be of the highest quality.
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Rome Open City/Paisan/Germany Year Zero) (Criterion Collection)
Other films of note that where made in the immediate period after the war are:
– a docu film featuring many of the men who actually fought in the battle.
– German made film.LINK from NY Times : In Rossellini’s War Movies, the Naturalism Survives
Petro Kasinchuk, who was a member of the Ukrainian underground, receives a flower from a supporter during a rally in 2006 in Kiev calling for official recognition of the fighters as World War II veterans. (Efrem Lukatsky/associated Press)
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA fought for independence for the Ukraine throughout World War II and beyond. During the German occupation it was aligned with Nazi Germany in its struggle for independence. Today the movement to pay tribute to those who fought for independence is marred with controversy over its involvement in ethnic cleaning and it alignment with Nazi Germany.
LINK - In Ukraine, movement to honor members of WWII underground sets off debate – The Washington Post January 6, 2010
WW2 German radio collection. All radios are operative. Kw.E.a, T9K39-main, E52b, Lo6K39a, Torn.Fu.b1, Torn.E.b, Fu.NP.E a/c, Fu.H.E.c, Fu.H.E.u1. d
One of may favorite sites, run by a group of Norwegian electronics enthusiasts. A fantastic collection of German World War Two radio & communication equipment can be found on LA6NCA’s WW2 Radio Page at http://www.laud.no/ww2/. This impressive collection includes all types of communication equipment from the German armed forces in WW2, including army, navy and air-force equipment. Some of the more interesting items include the Li Spr 8; which could tansfer an audio signal using a light beam across terrian too difficult to lay cables over. The website has some great period photos of communication equipment in use. Much of the restored equipment is fully working and there are some impressive videos demonstrating some of the devices in use.
Link - http://www.laud.no/ww2/
also see: Foundation for German communication and related technologies
(History of Technology)
An undated reproduction of a pre 1939 post card showing the town of Malbork. Remains of over 2,100 people including women and children believed to be German civilians buried at the end of World War II, were found in Malbork. (AP Photo) (AP)
MALBORK, Poland — Germans and Poles held a ceremony on Friday 7th August 2009 to rebury remains found in a mass grave in the town of Malbrok.
“uncertainties about who the dead were and who killed them may never be resolved. All that authorities can say with some assuredness is that they were probably German civilians who died in the ferocious final months of the war,”
Three women sitting in the Luxembourg Gardens. The images have been slammed as superficial. Zucca was only able to get his hands on color film because of his position at the magazine.
An exhibition of some 270 photographs showing Paris under German occupation by the Signal Magazine photographer Andre Zucca, went on show to much controversy in Paris, France. Showing life in all its normality under occupation, it provides at times a jarring counterpoint to the image of France as a nation resisting the occupiers.
“The images, taken between 1940 and 1944, show Parisians going about their daily lives, strolling down boulevards or sitting in parks. There is nothing that would indicate that at the same time thousands of Jews living in the city were being rounded up and sent to concentration camps in Eastern Europe. In fact there are only two photos that include people wearing the yellow star.”
Horst Rippert, a Nazi World War II pilot, in 1944.
From – AP – Author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of ‘The Little Prince,’ with his wife, Consuelo.
A 64-year-old French and German mystery now has a sprinkling of Greek tragedy: An ace Nazi World War II pilot learned that one of his 28 kills was also his favourite writer.
Horst Rippert, now 88, says he only just found out that the P-38 he says he shot down on July 31, 1944, over the Mediterranean was piloted by Antoine de Saint Exupery, best known as the author of the classic “The Little Prince.”
“If I had known it was Saint Exupery, I would never have shot him down,” Rippert told the Daily Mail. “I loved his books. He was probably my favourite author at the time.
“I am shocked and sorry. Who knows what other great books he would have gone on to write?”
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The Associated Press: Germany Plans Centre on WWII Expulsions:
“Germany Plans Center on WWII Expulsions BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet adopted a plan Wednesday for a $45.5 million museum to commemorate the plight of Germans uprooted from their homes in eastern Europe after World War II.
The program comes after years of heated debate with Germany’s neighbours on how best to memorialise the hardship suffered by millions of Germans left homeless after borders shifted westward in 1945, without diminishing the crimes of the Nazis during the war.”
A World War II German submarine is being cut up and moved to a new exhibition site on Merseyside by Cheshire-based main contractor Whitfield and Brown.
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