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20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Ten

19th March 2021 Going Postal 0

Saturday morning was much like any morning, the girls were up fairly early, had breakfast, but instead of lectures they had arranged to go together to the University Gym Club for a session in the [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Nine

12th March 2021 Going Postal 0

Jinnie woke to the sound of Simone singing in French in the shower. First, she lay quiet and tried to recognise the song but it was nothing she could place. Then she realised it was [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Eight

5th March 2021 Going Postal 0

Jinnie woke up alone on Wednesday morning, the bolt that Fritz the porter had fitted on her bedroom door was obviously doing its job. Today was “meet the lecturers” day and for some reason, she [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Seven

26th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Before the war, Hitler had commissioned Albert Speer to redesign Berlin into the “Capital of the World”, a city greater than London, Paris or Rome that he wanted to call Germania. When the war started [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Six

19th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Mike and Jinnie had decided that the easiest way to explain to her parents who he was and why she was spending so much time with him was to tell them that he was a [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Five

12th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Ever since last week’s “Whist Night” Jinnie had been thinking over what she had heard. How could it be true that the Germans had exterminated all those people and nobody in England talked about it? [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Four

5th February 2021 Going Postal 0

Thursday came around quite slowly for Jinnie as she was anxious to hear more. She had seen Ethel on a couple of her visits to the residential home since the last “whist” night, but she [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Three

29th January 2021 Going Postal 0

At school, Jinnie had been taught how Germany under Adolf Hitler had the taken over the rest of Western Europe (excluding Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Ireland), Eastern Europe and with its partner Italy, much of [more…]

20th Century

Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Two

22nd January 2021 Going Postal 0

Jinnie loved her weekly whist classes, but she knew better than to discuss what she learnt with anyone, especially her boyfriend Hans. He was in the Hitler Youth (HJ) and took it very seriously. He [more…]

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