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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Stephen Fry's Ancestors. Just watched Stephen Fry on Who Do You Think You Are? on UKTV History. BBC - Suffolk - Community - A quintessential Englishman? Very intruiging, very sad. If you haven't seen it try and catch it. |
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![]() | I've seen this edition a couple of times, and it is very moving. Especially when he finds the plaque with all the names of the Jewish deportees in one building, including his relatives, put up by current occupant. Another one in a similar vein is about David Baddiel, who travelled to Poland to search for details of an uncle who died in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) | |
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