Daniel Lee

WW2 historian @qmhistory Author of 'The SS Officer's Armchair', out now with @HachetteUS & @JonathanCape

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

My new book is out on Tuesday @HachetteUS It's the story of a low-ranking Nazi (with an American father) whose swastika-covered papers were discovered inside the cushion of an armchair. The brilliant staff @Loyaltybooks in DC can arrange non-US shipping https://t.co/JUevqQdAON

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

Rommel, who was charged with defending France against Allied invasion, missed #DDay because he was surprising his wife on her 50th birthday in Germany with a pair of handmade grey suede shoes. He got her the wrong size. 

https://t.co/YblhY68POy

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@misteringouf @Alderneytruths1 Mille mercis! Joseph was also born 5 March 1922 in Marseille. It’s clearly the same person.

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@misteringouf @Alderneytruths1 I can see that Elisabeth ADJADJ contributed to this documentary on Alderney. Is she on your radar? It looks like she spoke of her father’s experience of internement and forced labour.

https://t.co/7D2pBzCeOm

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@misteringouf @Alderneytruths1 You’re too kind. Great suggestion!

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@misteringouf J’en ai trouvé sept (juifs arrêtés à Marseille et envoyés plus tard à Alderney). Vous avez trouvé plus que cela?

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

Of interest to @austriainuk @wienerlibrary @yadvashem @Dannythefink @WolvesArchives @TheAJR_ @EHRIproject @KarenPollock100 @janeprinsley @oferaderet @HackBlackburn

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

We would love to know more about the people in Wolverhampton who made it possible for some German & Austrian Jews to move to the city in 1938-39. The discovery of this diary by an 18 year old Austrian Jew in May 1939, sheds new light on GB & the refugee crisis.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Diary sparks mystery of man helping Jews flee war https://t.co/F63fJCM2hi

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

What an ending sentence to a most powerful review. Excellent work @annesebba
https://t.co/M5uaocoyff

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

And as a counterbalance to yesterday's Butler nonsense, cleanse your LRB palette with this book review by the brilliant @daniellee550

https://t.co/zPf88RwOTp

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

I so enjoyed writing this piece about D-Day for the London Review of Books https://t.co/YblhY68POy

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

Of possible interest to @Dannythefink @wienerlibrary @HMD_UK @TheAJR_ @UKHMF @holocaustnorth @GermanAmbUK

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, my @BBCRadio3 programme examined the creation of Sweden’s first Holocaust Museum. Interviews with Livia Fränkel, survivor of Auschwitz & Bergen-Belsen & former Swedish PM Stefan Löfven https://t.co/MQODL23hUS

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@uu_hvc Extraordinary feedback! A thousand thanks for the invitation and the stimulating discussion @SCAS_Uppsala @QMHistory

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@Welshgaz75 I hope you enjoy reading it

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

Your account of the rafle is otherwise excellent. Using this photo is an easy mistake as many others have done the same https://t.co/itRphSF6D2

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

This is not a photo of Jews interned in the Vel d’Hiv in July 1942. Not a single photograph exists from inside the arena. Rather, this image shows a group of collaborators interned inside the Vel d’Hiv after the Liberation of Paris.

[Cowboy Tcherno Bill @RudiGeerts]

3/n The Vel d’Hiv round up was part of a series of raids in 1942 to arrest Jews across the country, under the codename ‘Operation Spring Wind’ (Operation Vent printanier). This operation focused on ‘foreign or stateless Jews’, meaning the French Jewish population were initially

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@JewishChron Hugely important to draw attention to this @janeprinsley. Thank you. However, it was the French police, not the Nazis, who rounded up Jews during the rafle du billet vert. Also, "French Jews" were not arrested on 14 May, only "foreign Jews". Please could you amend.

[Daniel Lee @daniellee550]

@jjalmad @RaouxNathalie Merci 🙏