60 acast.com <![CDATA[D-DAY TO BERLIN: VETERANS' VOICES]]> https://shows.acast.com/d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices en Daniel Powell ww2,Second World War,D-Day,Normandy,ww2 veterans,ww2 veterans interviews,History,Politics,Society Daniel Powell D-Day to Berlin: Veterans' Voices

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]]> false Daniel Powell info+665bf974413fbf0012accbce@mg-eu.acast.com 665bf974413fbf0012accbce d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1717303430169-279bb4a8054689ab61d4c39c1adf915d.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices <![CDATA[D-DAY TO BERLIN: VETERANS' VOICES]]> GEORGE DURACK GEORGE DURACK Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:09:08 GMT 58:54 6661366560035200126a4ee9 false https://shows.acast.com/d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices/episodes/george-durack 6661366560035200126a4ee9 665bf974413fbf0012accbce george-durack full 1 2 George Durack describes growing up in London slums; volunteering for army; thoughts on conscientious objection; going AWOL and military prison; arrival in Normandy; traumatic experience of battle; role as a liberator and interaction with civilians; witnessing punishment of Nazi collaborators; qualitative difference in German Army between Panzer troops and ex-Soviet conscripts; visit from Montgomery; interaction with US Airborne during Operation Market-Garden; Belsen concentration camp; work as trade unionist and peace campaigner after war; views on Blair and Corbyn; thoughts on Afghanistan, Iraq, nuclear weapons, and political life.

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]]> George Durack describes growing up in London slums; volunteering for army; thoughts on conscientious objection; going AWOL and military prison; arrival in Normandy; traumatic experience of battle; role as a liberator and interaction with civilians; witnessing punishment of Nazi collaborators; qualitative difference in German Army between Panzer troops and ex-Soviet conscripts; visit from Montgomery; interaction with US Airborne during Operation Market-Garden; Belsen concentration camp; work as trade unionist and peace campaigner after war; views on Blair and Corbyn; thoughts on Afghanistan, Iraq, nuclear weapons, and political life.

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]]> VICTOR MACKENZIE VICTOR MACKENZIE Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:50:53 GMT 40:53 665bff2b413fbf0012ae56ee false https://shows.acast.com/d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices/episodes/d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices-victor-mackenzie 665bff2b413fbf0012ae56ee 665bf974413fbf0012accbce d-day-to-berlin-veterans-voices-victor-mackenzie full 1 1 Victor MacKenzie speaks about his early years; the outbreak of war; on conscientious objectors; training and arrival in Normandy; engagement with Waffen-SS at Villers-Bocage; wounded whilst crossing the river Orne; battlefield chaos and taking prisoners; reception as liberator by French and Belgian civilians; attitudes to German veterans in later life; Belsen concentration camp; his perspectives on more recent UK foreign policy, intervention in Afghanistan; his later life and career in industry and education.

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]]> Victor MacKenzie speaks about his early years; the outbreak of war; on conscientious objectors; training and arrival in Normandy; engagement with Waffen-SS at Villers-Bocage; wounded whilst crossing the river Orne; battlefield chaos and taking prisoners; reception as liberator by French and Belgian civilians; attitudes to German veterans in later life; Belsen concentration camp; his perspectives on more recent UK foreign policy, intervention in Afghanistan; his later life and career in industry and education.

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