#Germans

Jonathan

3468marsh

A thread with @Dunkirk_1940 on the massacre at Le Paradis. On 27 May 1940 Units of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were desperately fighting to hold open a 'corridor' so

Afro Beat Diary™ ✊🏿✊🏿

AfroBeatDiary

Meet King Koko, the Man Who Sold Nigeria To The British For £865k In 1899. THREAD. #AfroBeatDiary This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

Today, Russia celebrates Victory Day. Germany capitulated on 5/8, but it was past midnight in Moscow, and Russians, who wound up calling the war Great Patriotic, are a bit Russo-centric.I've

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

1 of 11: Operation Market Garden lesson 20 of 20: Character matters, particularly at the senior level. Let’s take a look the two main actors in Market Garden -- Eisenhower

U.S. Army

USArmy

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tech Sgt. Charles H. Coolidge. As the last living Medal of Honor recipient from the European Theater of #WWII, the

Elizabeth Yeld

lizyeld

Fabulous/also moving BFMS (British False Memory) zoom conference today. Dr Lawrence Patihis and Professor Henry Otgaar spoke of ‘The Revival of the Memory Wars and scientific nature of false and

Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD is practicing resurrection

dynamicsymmetry

Honestly, this is how it always is when people are looking back at the rise of an authoritarian regime. It got so bad and it was so clear long before

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

Starmer now leads Johnson in public approval ratings. And this has led to a rash of comments to the effect of "well, that's cos he's just a Tory".But I ask

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Idk if anyone else has ever had this experience but in my various travels one thing I noticed is that basically everyone in Europe, the Middle East & North Africa

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

WITOLD PILECKI died #OnThisDay in 1948.Pilecki was a reserve officer in the Polish Army, born in Olonets, Russia. During WWII, while attached to a Polish resistance group, he volunteered for

Lawrence

WW2Explorer

#Dunkirk80 - ‘Hold to the last round, to the last man.’ Like the Norfolk’s at Le Paradis only 24 hours earlier the 2/Royal Warwicks & gunners of the Royal Cheshire’s

Nathaniel Fitch

TFB_Nathaniel_F

Thread on tanks. Why is the Panther not the best tank of WWII, and why is the Sherman so much better. To follow. First: Disclosure. I am not a "tank

Richard Ovenden

richove

Of all the accounts of destruction & preservation in #Burningthebooks the most moving to me is the account of the organisation known as @yivoinstitute. Formed in Vilnius (Vilna) in the

Greg Jenner

greg_jenner

These audio interviews were conducted by the BBC in the 60s and 70s. The images are from the Imperial War Museum film archive.The focus is narrow, a very British story;

Holger Hestermeyer

hhesterm

I am a bit tired of the form of the debate about the EU. Let me propose a number of problems I see with this type of “brutal“ reporting -

JPR007

jpr007

Tens of thousands of Germans driving a Volkswagen diesel car have the right to return their carVolkswagen then has to give them money backThis is the result of a ruling