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For many of us this is our first day back at work after the Christmas and/or New Year break. Not necessarily an exciting prospect, fo some, no doubt. But I’ve…
I enjoyed watching the repeat of The Old Plane and the Sea on BBC-TV over the Christmas period, having missed it when first shown. This was a documentary about the…
In December 1944, an eighteen-year-old German soldier, captured in Normandy earlier that year, spent Christmas in a British prisoner of war camp. Along with his fellow POWs he was desperately…
A very common difficulty is caused by the fact that lists of POWs at various camps in Britain were not generally retained in the country after the war. However, one…
An acquaintance of mine who lived on a farm during the Second World War once told me how German prisoners of war had been sent to carry out agricultural tasks,…