February 2016
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I have to confess two things, firstly I am not 100% certain it was the actual last battle in Europe, although I believe it is. Secondly I actually hate the place, I was there once for a weekend and I believe the reputation of the Dutch being a bit tight must come from this place
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Sometimes we forget that not every German citizen subscribed to Hitler’s point of view or was associated with the Nazi party; in fact, a lot of Germans were war victims like anyone else around the globe at that time. It has been said that more than 70,000 Germans were executed because of their involvement in
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Who is John Steele I hear you say. Well to be honest until recently I had never heard of him either. It’s just that I am a great WW2 movies fan I came across his name. In the movie ” the Longest Day” about D-Day there are a few scenes which made me wonder if
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It is a well known fact that 1000’s of Nazi’s escaped after the war and fled to South America, what is a less know fact that some of them returned to Europe and the US and lived a good life. Here are just a few examples. Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny (12 June 1908 – 5 July
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With all this talk about the 1916 centenary celebrations I decided to go back to a bit of history which seem to have been forgotten outside of Limerick(and indeed in Limerick). The era was called the Limerick soviet. It was a self declared soviet that existed from 15 to 27 April 1919. At the beginning of
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