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So, a brief thread from my trip to #Aldbourne today, following in the tracks of Lieutenant Richard Winters and the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of

So, history hat back on. Here's a long-ish thread of American women workers in the aircraft industry in #WW2. Fantastic original colour images of women representing many others. Thank you,

German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring (centre) who motored into Berchtesgarden and surrendered to Major General Maxwell D. Taylor smiling / Photo by PhotoQuest.Am I alone in finding this image bizarre?

Kleßheim Palace near Salzburg in 1943 / Source Walter Frentz Collection. Kleßheim Castle is located four kilometres west of the city centre of the provincial capital Salzburg in the area

Thead: The Berghof, photographed by Walter Frentz & Hugo Jaeger. This was Hitler's residence in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany. Bombed by the RAF in April

A thread of some remarkable original colour images of Berlin, taken on Hitler's 50th birthday on April 20, 1939. Many disturbingly happy people.#History #Germany 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/ 7

Right, today's #History time machine takes us back to what was then Danzig in 1941, where #WW2 had begun two years earlier. What passed for a normal and peaceful life

His appalling end sickens me beyond belief.https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1260482955266461703 I was lucky to have a tour of Mokotów Prison in April 2018, facilitated by @WW2girl1944. This is the corridor leading to the

The German delegation under General Hans Krebs (right) in front of Schulenburgring 2, the Russian military headquarters, shortly before the journey back to the bunker of the Reich Chancellery. May