(1239) Afternoon all. (1252)
21. The brainpower of Beema drivers
20. Short break from communism
19. Another tale of Communist Britain
18. Communist states censor all
17. As in East Germany
… so in Communist Britain:
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unherdable cats
this is blog hq for nourishing obscurity and unherdable cats
Not many daffodils this year? Was listening to Gilbert King, a gunner with 249 (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Battery RA, whose unit was the first to enter Bergen-Belsen on this day in 1945. Can’t imagine what he saw – I went there in 1984 when it was a different place altogether. My Dad was there in 1947 when he was posted to a former SS Panzer Barracks in Munsterlager. He just shook his head when I mentioned I’d been there during my time at the Bergen-Hohne Training Area.
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JH: Ta, Steve.
Small clarification, the first allied soldiers at Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945 were SAS looking for one of their own. A local had told them a British soldier was being held at the camp and it turned out it was the man they were looking for, SAS Trooper Jenkinson. What they found went up the chain of command and the nearest unit was sent to investigate. That unit was Gilbert King’s the anti-tank battery.