D-DAY TO BERLIN: VETERANS' VOICES

By: Daniel Powell
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  • D-Day to Berlin: Veterans' Voices

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    Daniel Powell
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  • GEORGE DURACK

    GEORGE DURACK
    Jun 6 2024
    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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    59 mins
  • VICTOR MACKENZIE

    VICTOR MACKENZIE
    Jun 6 2024
    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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    41 mins

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