@hoyer_kat Most of what was once East Prussia is now Poland or Ukraine. When Germany was reunited it was a sensible decision not to change the Oder -Neisse line
@RachaelBurford It was Clean and Pristine when it first opened but like the South Bank Architecture has been swamped by fast food chain outlets and advertising.
@JamesMelville She was given the privilege of becoming a Labour MP in an area dominated by Tories. She was constantly troublesome and has now gone in a fit of pique.
@hoyer_kat On the Island of Alderney, Todt forced labour from Russia and Eastern Europe were worked to death.
i believe there is a small monument to them.
@tykestakeonit A sensible person who has to take in the overall needs of the many distressed and impoverished of all ages in present circumstances after 14 years of Tory misrule.
@thehistoryguy Once met a Bulgarian exile in London who said that although Communist government made much of Bulgarian resistance to Nazis it was little more than a few men with hunting rifles taking a few potshots at Germans as they retreated near the end of the war.
@aussiecossack Of course he wants his endorsement to sink Harris because she will just follow Biden in being pro War in Ukraine. Trump is unpredictable but might feel that the War has become too expensive for the US taxpayer.
@SimpGanassi You would have to be 98+to have served in WW2 and 93 + to have been in the Korean War (like Michael Caine, not a lot of people know that). As for the post war generation they grew up in houses with only a coal fire in one room. Not everyone liked Vera Lynn. Voice was a bit harsh