Stories categorised in 'Resistance and Occupation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Him and his freind then rejoined his group and were told to move East for the defence of Warsaw. The Poznan...
The Germans had been the occupying force in the Netherlands for four years, but since June 1944 we knew...
The following day, dad had a milk delivery in Town and I went with him and he had given me strict orders...
A few days later, when the German advance was in full, "blitzkrieg" flow I left Warsaw and...
Back at Comiso we did some more testing and set out, fully loaded to fly to Bari where I heard I was...
Knobby Hawkins;Peter Daines;'Sqiz' Squse;'Jock' MacDonald Seaforth Highlanders, Location of...
However, he and his men always retained their loyalty to King Peter and to General Draza Mihailovic, the...
The Japanese army, now not only controlled their own little sector, but the whole of Shanghai except for...
There were in the early occupation days, horrific tales of Japanese cruelty, of rape, which threw all...
By the end of March 1945, a few weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces by...
Eventually he ended up fighting for the German Army on the front lines in France on the anti-aircraft guns....
Donald was given Northern Denmark and he made his HQ in the German camp at Aalborg... One of Donald's...
The Greek army stopped the Germans for a week on the Western side of the country and then the Germans came...
On another occasion when we were with the Maquis, Andy, Tom and I were leaning on a railway level crossing...
Mr Denheijer then became a prisoner of war until the General Staff signed an agreement that Dutch forces...
Awarded Medals: Prisoner Political Star with 4 stars Chevalier De L'Ordre de Leopold II Medaille de...
We have later learnt that at the same time Schulz, whose Polish girlfriend was executed by the resistance...
We have later learnt that at the same time Schulz, whose Polish girlfriend was executed by the resistance...
The Ministry was going to be transferred to Northern Italy, like many other firms as they feared the...
We were all in the confined space of the cellar during yet another air raid; my father, mother, 2 brothers,...
The town was divided into Jewish and Polish section and we were forbidden by Nazis to have any contact with...
So we went down this lane and hid under some trees because we didn't know if the Germans were going to...
My late grandmother Anna Karadima, a taverna owner in Athens, Greece provided shelter to a British soldier...
In 1941 the living condition in ghetto deteriorated as Nazis brought thousands of Jews from Hungary,...
As the Nazi armies approached Paris in June of 1940, and many residents were attempting to flee the city, a...
When Chamberlain allowed the Germans into Czechoslovakia, they began to clear the Sudetenland. My...
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