The Mazabotto Massacre, Italy 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/06/t...
The Mazabotto Massacre, Italy 1944
5th October marks the anniversary of the Mazabotto Massacre (29 September to 5 October 1944) also called the massacre of Monte Sole, Italy. Italian Partisans (Resistance fighters) After German troo…
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The Mazabotto Massacre, Italy 1944 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/06/t...
SS Panzer Division Das Reich and Der Fûhrer: War Crimes in France after the Normandy Landings – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/02/06/s...
SS Panzer Division Das Reich and Der Fûhrer: War Crimes in France after the Normandy Landings
As with most countries under German occupation during the Second World War there were many war crimes against civilians and in the case of France, two of the best documented are the massacre of civ…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
SS Panzer Division Das Reich and Der Fûhrer: War Crimes in France after the Normandy Landings – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/02/06/s...
Nazi ‘so called’ Euthanasia Programme – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/02/08/n...
Nazi ‘so called’ Euthanasia Programme
Much continues to be written about war crimes by the SS and Gestapo during the Second world War and this short piece is intended to bring attention to the mass murder of German civilians including …
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nazi ‘so called’ Euthanasia Programme – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/02/08/n...
Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, whose war service sounds like fiction but is all true! – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/01/a...
Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, whose war service sounds like fiction but is all true!
Adrian Carton de Wiart fought in the Boer War, World War One, World War Two and during his military service from 1899 to 1947 he survived being shot in the stomach, groin, head, ankle, hip and leg.…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, whose war service sounds like fiction but is all true! – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/01/a...
Disappearance of Lieutenant Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crab – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/04/19/d...
Disappearance of Lieutenant Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crab
On 19 April 1956 Lieutenant Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb, OBE GM RNVR disappeared in Portsmouth Harbour and Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden told MP’s it was not in the public interest to discuss…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Disappearance of Lieutenant Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crab – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/04/19/d...
Sophie and Hans Scholl: The White Rose Group resisting Hitler – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/11/29/s...
Sophie and Hans Scholl: The White Rose Group resisting Hitler
Sophie Scholl White Rose was a non-violent intellectual resistance group based at the University of Munich. One of its founding members was Hans Scholl and the group was quickly joined by his siste…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Sophie and Hans Scholl: The White Rose Group resisting Hitler – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2020/11/29/s...
Flight Lieutenant Eugene Seghers (Belgium) RAF (VR) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/11/06/f...
Flight Lieutenant Eugene Seghers (Belgium) RAF (VR)
British Homefront during WW2. Belgium fighter pilot Eugene Seghers RAF (VR). His memorial plaque in Walden Uckfield, East Sussex states: “Flight Lieutenant Seghers took off in his Spitfire from RAF…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Flight Lieutenant Eugene Seghers (Belgium) RAF (VR) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/11/06/f...
The mysterious death of SOE agent Christopher Lord. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/22/t...
The mysterious death of SOE agent Christopher Lord.
Christopher Lord. Christopher James Lord was born in Birmingham, England on 27 October 1900. He was recruited by SOE in 1942 whilst working for the Guaranty Trust Company of New York after previous…
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October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The mysterious death of SOE agent Christopher Lord. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/22/t...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2.
Tour de France cyclist Eugéne Gréau was married with four children and shortly following the occupation of France joined the resistance. After being arrested for sabotage at the Niort railway yard …
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October 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2.
Tour de France cyclist Eugéne Gréau was married with four children and shortly following the occupation of France joined the resistance. After being arrested for sabotage at the Niort railway yard …
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October 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2.
Tour de France cyclist Eugéne Gréau was married with four children and shortly following the occupation of France joined the resistance. After being arrested for sabotage at the Niort railway yard …
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October 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2.
Tour de France cyclist Eugéne Gréau was married with four children and shortly following the occupation of France joined the resistance. After being arrested for sabotage at the Niort railway yard …
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Eugéne Gréau: French Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/20/e...
White Eagle Resistance Group in Poland during World War Two. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/12/18/w...
White Eagle Resistance Group in Poland during World War Two.
After Germany occupied Poland on 1 September 1939 underground movements began their protracted war of resistance against the occupying forces and their administration. Resistance was often sy…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
White Eagle Resistance Group in Poland during World War Two. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/12/18/w...
Polish Resistance During the Warsaw Uprising. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/04/p...
Polish Resistance During the Warsaw Uprising.
Róża Maria Goździewska (Eugeneniusz Lokajski) Polish Resistance. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, 8-year-old Róża Maria Goździewska became the youngest nursing assistant with the Polish Resistan…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Polish Resistance During the Warsaw Uprising. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/10/04/p...
Irena Sendler: Rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/17/i...
Irena Sendler: Rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto
Irena Sendler Irena Stanislawa Sendler was a Catholic nurse and a prominent member of a Polish resistance network dedicated to rescuing Jews after German forces occupied Poland in 1939. Although th…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Irena Sendler: Rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/17/i...
Helena Marusarowna: Polish Resistance during WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/11/03/h...
Helena Marusarowna: Polish Resistance during WW2
Helena Marusarowna was born in 1918 and between 1936 and 1939 she was famous in Poland as a skier after winning nine Polish championships. After Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, she join…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Helena Marusarowna: Polish Resistance during WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/11/03/h...
The Polish Air Force During WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/06/28/t...
The Polish Air Force During WW2.
Polish War memorial London (Alan Malcher) After visiting the Polish War Memorial in London, I saw the following on a plaque near the memorial and after taking a photograph found the text was too sm…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The Polish Air Force During WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/06/28/t...
The Polish Air Force During WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/06/28/t...
The Polish Air Force During WW2.
Polish War memorial London (Alan Malcher) After visiting the Polish War Memorial in London, I saw the following on a plaque near the memorial and after taking a photograph found the text was too sm…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The Polish Air Force During WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/06/28/t...
Polish Army During WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/06/30/p...
Polish Army During WW2
Copied from a plaque at the Polish Garden of Remembrance, Northolt London. (source unknown) “Poland fell after being invaded on 11 September 1939 by Germany and by Soviet Russia on 17 September, de…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Polish Army During WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/06/30/p...
Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu VC. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/07/25/c...
Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu VC.
On 23 June 1944 in the Solomon Islands, Corporal Sukanaivalu crawled forward under fire to rescue wounded men. After dragging two men to safety, under heavy Japanese machine gun and mortar fire he …
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October 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Corporal Sefanaia Sukanaivalu VC. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/07/25/c...
Private Henry Tandey VC, DCM, MM awarded during the Great War. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/p...
Private Henry Tandey VC, DCM, MM awarded during the Great War.
Private Henry Tandey was among the most decorated soldiers who survived the First World War and the question remains whether he could have changed history if he had not shown compassion towards a w…
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October 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Private Henry Tandey VC, DCM, MM awarded during the Great War. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/p...
Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, whose war service sounds like fiction but is all true! – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/01/a...
Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, whose war service sounds like fiction but is all true!
Adrian Carton de Wiart fought in the Boer War, World War One, World War Two and during his military service from 1899 to 1947 he survived being shot in the stomach, groin, head, ankle, hip and leg.…
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October 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, whose war service sounds like fiction but is all true! – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/12/01/a...
Boy First Class Jack Cornwell VC, Royal Navy. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/05/02/b...
Boy First Class Jack Cornwell VC, Royal Navy.
Jack Cornwell which is now thought to be his brother. After war was declared in 1914 his father and older brother enlisted into the army and in October 1915, Jack Cornwell was 16-years-old when he …
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October 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Boy First Class Jack Cornwell VC, Royal Navy. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/05/02/b...
The Dumon Sisters and the Belgium Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/11/07/t...
The Dumon Sisters and the Belgium Resistance during WW2.
‘Michou’ Dumon with her husband, Pierre Ugeux who served with SOE (Comete line) Micheline Dumon (code names Lily and Michou) served with the Belgium Resistance and worked on the Comet E…
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October 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The Dumon Sisters and the Belgium Resistance during WW2. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/11/07/t...
Jacques Desoubrie: Belgium double agent working for the Gestapo during WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/11/08/j...
Jacques Desoubrie: Belgium double agent working for the Gestapo during WW2
Desoubrie was born in Luingne, Belgium on 22 October 1922 and grew up in Tourcoing on the French border where he trained as an electrician. He is said to have spoken perfect English and unlike othe…
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October 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Jacques Desoubrie: Belgium double agent working for the Gestapo during WW2 – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/11/08/j...