BBP - 16-2-2023 at 21:02
I bought a series of 1970s articles on WW2 in Friesland (the north of Netherlands) which isn't just where my BF lives, but also where my grandmother
was born and where she lived during the war.
Am almost finished, and learned of the Aktion Silbertanne (called Sonderkommando Silbertanne in German (we use Aktion which is German in itself) - the
codename for a series of reprisal killings of prominent civilians executed by Dutch SS members for attacks by the Dutch resistance on collaborating
targets.
Mussert was strongly opoposed - and when SS Brigadeführer Schöngarth heard of it, he stopped it immediately.
When it's even too low for the Nazis...
BBP - 22-7-2023 at 14:50
On the long list of things I never knew before:
There was a concentration camp on British soil, on the island Alderny. The Channel islands were occupied by the Nazis after Churchill decided they
couldn't be defended.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/nazi-atrocities-jews-p...
Plook - 25-7-2023 at 01:16
I did not know that good find Bonny!
BBP - 4-11-2023 at 17:37
More on Alderney:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/04/himmler-execution-pris...
BBP - 7-1-2024 at 21:54
I'm currently reading the Goebbels diary of the March - early April period. Interesting and terrifying stuff.
Caputh - 13-1-2024 at 15:25
March-April '45? A very interesting read! Was interested to discover that Goebbels invented the term "Iron Curtain". Fortunately, his hopeless
optimism, even at this point, proved unfounded.
BBP - 13-1-2024 at 19:52
Yep, '45.
I find it ironic how he describes the American bombardments of German cities as barbaric acts of terror (and Soviet actions as well) - on one hand
he's got a point, and on the other hand he's completey missing a lot of other points.