• GEORGE DURACK

  • Jun 6 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
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GEORGE DURACK

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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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