In Part 1, I described how in late 1943 and early 1944, Hildegard Uhl had written to her friend Eva Möller, the recipient of Feldpost from the Afrika Korps soldier Hans Coutandin of “Desert Mystery: [more…]
My series of articles Desert Mystery: Letters from a Feldgrau, was based upon the translation of FeldPost letters in my collection that Hans Coutandin, a soldier in the Deutsches Afrika Korps, had sent to Eva [more…]
1867 & After the War The United States has made several historic attempts to buy Greenland, reflecting its long-standing strategic interest in the world’s largest island. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of [more…]
A sunny Sunday in July, and it turned into a pretty special day. In glorious summery weather, we got to ride on a couple of beautifully restored vintage seafront bus services running from just outside [more…]
It has long been a given that World War 2 was a “good war”. The allies were fighting against the beastly Germans and “right” was on their side. A chap called Chad Crowley has put [more…]
In WW2, a Wehrpass contained the personal and service information of a Wehrmacht volunteer or conscript and was used for identification and recording purposes. Issued when registered for military service, it was kept by the [more…]
King Sausage Fingers opening the Canadian Parliament inspires me to write a few words about the Canucks. Charlie boy opening the Canadian Parliament as their head of state was a a powerful image and a [more…]
Recently, I acquired a set of wartime photographs sourced from a militaria dealer in Munich. The photographs are of cartoons hand-drawn across the whitewashed walls of a room. The style is typical of that seen [more…]
I don’t doubt that my long suffering reader will have had a similar conversation to the one I had some days ago with Mrs. C. It went something like this; “Er, Colin, are there any [more…]
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