大象传媒

This is my story, growing up after the First World War of 1914/1918.
Veterans were saying that the 1914/1918 war had never ended. How the Government and the League of nations had turned a blind eye to what the Germans were doing and the reaction when Germany marched in on the Rhineland in 1936.

The writing was on the wall, those idiots, that we had as Members of Parliament, also Mr Churchill and Mr Eden, who were called War Mongers.

My call up in August 1939 and the War was declared on 3 September 1939. I was drafted in April 1940 to join the British Expeditionary Forces. The British Expeditionary Forces was fighting a rear guard action after the Evacuation of Dunkirk. The reaction of the French soldiers, was that France was finished.

About 250,000 Officers and other ranks were fighting along side of the French Army and they were being killed, wounded or taken Prisoners-of-War.

On 12 June 1940, the French ordered the French and the British to surrender to the Germans. Field Marshall Rommel took the surrender of the British Forces from General Fortune.

The long march into captivity. The Germans broke all of the rules of the Geneva Convention, by not feeding us. Men died because of not receiving any medical treatment and others died of pure despair of life as a Prisoner-of-War.

The murder of a Prisoner-of-War at a working party in 1944. Life as a Prisoner-of-War until the end of the Second World War.

The escape of myself on the line of march, from Poland to Germany.

The Ships cruise on the Baltic to Le Beck.

Arriving home in 1945, after being a Prisoner-of-War for 5 years. Meeting my parents. Then after, returning to the Army and then my return to Germany in 1947.

The duties at 145 Vehicle park, somewhere in Germany. Then being posted to Oldenberg in 1949 then to England in 1950.

The Bicester Ordanance Depot in Oxfordshire. My duties there and what I witnessed until April 1952.

Now the Ministry of Defence and those that write our History say that this had never happened, perhaps a figment of imagination!!!!. They even put their fingers in their ears and say "No, it did not happen" They say that it is not good properganda, BULL....

It did happen, but the Government and the MInistry of Defence wrote it off and buried it!. The 100 year Chronicle does not mention it and the VIctory Book states that France stands alone and the British Expeditionary Forces had left. It is the same at the end of the Film- that it was the last of the British Expeditionary Forces in France BULL....

There are graves in France that tell the story of these Officers and the other ranks that both the Government and the Ministry of Defence wrote off.

The children, that are growing up are asking their Mummies "Where is my daddy?" Mummy replies "He is asleep in France and that he was killed in France after Dunkirk" But when the children sees Dunkirk and hears the remarks "That is the last of the British Expeditionary Forces in France". How does the child react to this. Turns around and says "You have told me a fib, he was not in France after Dunkirk, that man has said so" Mum then replies "You believe him rather that me". What can you say!

Why cover up the truth, properganda did help in the War, but there is no need for properganda in writing History. One day, the truth will come out and be told, then the Historians will have egg on their face and also the Ministry of Defence.

This is now a debateable question regarding the Holocaust.

It is well known, that Hitler and the Nazi Party hated the Jews. The World, also knew about this hatred. Are not the Leaders of the World, partly responsible for what had happened to the Jews in the War?

Had the League of Nations stopped Germany in 1936, this War would never have taken place in September 1939. Then something could have been done to have helped the Jews. It is known that some Jews fought in the 1914/1918 War, against the British and the Americans. But they were also put to death by the Nazis.

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