🇬🇷 A May Day massacre
1 May 1944 - Napoleon Soukatzidis is one of 200 Greek communist prisoners executed at a firing range at the Athens suburb of Kaisariani. The executions were in reprisal for the Greek People's Liberation Army's ambush and killing of commander of the 41.…

🇫🇷 Killed by their own countrymen
At 6.40 a.m. 80 years ago today, 19-year old FTP Resistance member Robert Massé was shot by a French Milice firing squad at the Santé prison in Paris, along with his comrades in arms, Guy Hénault, Alfred Godefroy, Bernard Bosmayer, Albert…

Un malgré nous
Alfred Haenel was born in Bischwiller, Alsace in September 1925. He was fifteen years old when the Nazis occupied and annexed the Alsace. Forcibly enrolled into the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD labour service) in 43, he was then put into the Wehrmacht and sent to the…

Violette Morris - from groundbreaking woman athlete to Nazi spy.
Known as the 'Hyena of the Gestapo', Violette Morris was gunned down by French Resistance on a road in Normandy just over 80 years ago. Born in Paris in 1893 she went on to become an accomplished athlete in various…

🇺🇸 Remembering the 749 lost souls of Exercise Tiger off Slapton Sands, Devon, UK. The American 28 April 1944 D-Day preparation exercise saw LCTs attacked at night by German E-Boats operating out of Cherbourg.

🇨🇦 27 April 1945.
Canadian Pte. Clarence Alvin Trimm, Lincoln and Welland Regiment, R.C.I.C. is hit in the abdomen by MG fire near Bad Zwischenahn, Germany, in the push towards the Weser river. He will die of his wounds later that evening, aged 21. Clarence was just one of…

After the war
🇺🇸 Omaha Beach, September 1949 - French kids play on the remains of LCT-25 that has started to be cut up for scrap metal. She was destroyed by German artillery on D-Day.

25 April 1942
16-year-old Princess Elizabeth registers for war service under the Ministry of Labour's Youth Registration Scheme. She is wearing her Girl Guide uniform.

'An accident of life placed the fate of one million human beings on my shoulders. I eat and sleep and think only of them.'
80 years ago today, Hungarian Jew, Joel Brand, a member of the underground Jewish escape network Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, met with Adolf Eichmann…

🇬🇧 Our deepest respect and gratitude to D-Day veteran Mr William 'Bill' Gladden who passed away today at the age of 100. He piloted a Hamilcar glider of the 6th Airborne Army Recce Regiment RAC bringing in a tank and six motorbikes and landed near Ranville. He was badly wounded…

Norman Rose, who passed away last month aged 98, was still a teenager but already an experienced Royal Marines Commando when, on June 6th 1944, he landed on Gold beach, west of Le Hamel. After the war, he became a leading nuclear physicist.
#DDay80 #RM360 telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

The (other) Great Escape
In the early hours of 24 April 1944, twenty-seven Resistance fighters held at the prison in Aix-en-Provence escape thanks to a plan hatched by André Claverie (photo) commander of the 9e compagnie FTPF of the Bouches-du-Rhône (Aix). Guns had been smuggled…