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WAR END - VE Day celebrations, burned Hitler effigy.

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Ken Olds
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St. Just, Cornwall
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A6139460
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14 October 2005

This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clark on behalf of the author Ken Olds. His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The Trebah Garden Trust understand the site's terms and conditions.

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The victory in Europe at the end of the war was celebrated with a bonfire on the recreation ground in St. Just. It was and still is a very nice field and it is now the location of the comprehensive school. I remember an effigy of Hitler being burnt and it going up in smoke.

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