Greg Lewis
@gregjlewis.bsky.social
Author ‘Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule’ #Aberfan #ShadowWarriors. TV producer #truecrime #ColdCaseForensics #SteeltownMurders #PembrokeshireMurders. Loves cinema. Rep: Andrew Lownie
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Greg Lewis
@gregjlewis.bsky.social
· Feb 18
So many great people - who couldn't stand by when #Fascism marched.
People we should never ever forget.
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
#history #resistance #DuttonCaliber
@penguinrandomhouse
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558433...
#WW2 #books #writers
People we should never ever forget.
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
#history #resistance #DuttonCaliber
@penguinrandomhouse
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558433...
#WW2 #books #writers
Yvonne Cormeau, who survived for more than a year as an #SOE wireless operator in Occupied France. Incredibly important and dangerous work.
She also paid this tribute to the ordinary French folk who helped her - risking their lives to allow her to transmit from their home.
#WW2
She also paid this tribute to the ordinary French folk who helped her - risking their lives to allow her to transmit from their home.
#WW2
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The agony on the face of Liane Berkowitz, a determined opponent of the Nazi regime, photographed by the Gestapo upon her arrest.
Liane was nineteen-years-old at the time and was pregnant.
This picture is part of a heartbreaking exhibition in the execution shed at #Plotzensee.
#antifascist
Liane was nineteen-years-old at the time and was pregnant.
This picture is part of a heartbreaking exhibition in the execution shed at #Plotzensee.
#antifascist
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The agony on the face of Liane Berkowitz, a determined opponent of the Nazi regime, photographed by the Gestapo upon her arrest.
Liane was nineteen-years-old at the time and was pregnant.
This picture is part of a heartbreaking exhibition in the execution shed at #Plotzensee.
#antifascist
Liane was nineteen-years-old at the time and was pregnant.
This picture is part of a heartbreaking exhibition in the execution shed at #Plotzensee.
#antifascist
The world was a better place when you could buy film memorabilia and even pick up a free film magazine at the cinema.
The most popular film magazine in the UK of the 1980s and early 1990s? It was this: anyone else remember it?!
buff.ly/qY4KuXE
buff.ly/qY4KuXE
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The world was a better place when you could buy film memorabilia and even pick up a free film magazine at the cinema.
Greta Lorke, a distinguished academic, who recruited writers, film-makers and poets to work against the Nazis. Was one of the few of her group to survive the war. Go to the German #Resistance Museum in #Berlin to learn about her. #antiNazi #antifascist
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Greta Lorke, a distinguished academic, who recruited writers, film-makers and poets to work against the Nazis. Was one of the few of her group to survive the war. Go to the German #Resistance Museum in #Berlin to learn about her. #antiNazi #antifascist
One of the finest #WW2 agents against the Nazis: Baltimore-born #VirginiaHall was trapped in Paris in 1939. Fleeing to London she joined #SOE (and later #OSS).
Despite having lost her left leg from the knee down, she became one of the Gestapo’s most-wanted enemy agents.
#antifa
Despite having lost her left leg from the knee down, she became one of the Gestapo’s most-wanted enemy agents.
#antifa
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
One of the finest #WW2 agents against the Nazis: Baltimore-born #VirginiaHall was trapped in Paris in 1939. Fleeing to London she joined #SOE (and later #OSS).
Despite having lost her left leg from the knee down, she became one of the Gestapo’s most-wanted enemy agents.
#antifa
Despite having lost her left leg from the knee down, she became one of the Gestapo’s most-wanted enemy agents.
#antifa
Col Henning von Tresckow: principled & inspirational man who led WW2 efforts to kill Hitler.
“We must prove to the world & to future generations that the men of the German Resistance movement dared to take the decisive step & to hazard their lives upon it.Compared with this, nothing else matters.”
“We must prove to the world & to future generations that the men of the German Resistance movement dared to take the decisive step & to hazard their lives upon it.Compared with this, nothing else matters.”
October 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Col Henning von Tresckow: principled & inspirational man who led WW2 efforts to kill Hitler.
“We must prove to the world & to future generations that the men of the German Resistance movement dared to take the decisive step & to hazard their lives upon it.Compared with this, nothing else matters.”
“We must prove to the world & to future generations that the men of the German Resistance movement dared to take the decisive step & to hazard their lives upon it.Compared with this, nothing else matters.”
Two-part #StalagLuft3 documentary coming up on Nov 2 & 9 on S4C/BBC iPlayer with English lang subtitles.
Features an incredible POW archive of photos from the camp.
Also incls #FleetAirArm, #FaireySwordfish, #ArcticConvoy, #WoodenHorse, #GreatEscape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/uncover...
Features an incredible POW archive of photos from the camp.
Also incls #FleetAirArm, #FaireySwordfish, #ArcticConvoy, #WoodenHorse, #GreatEscape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/uncover...
Uncovering the Ceredigion connection to the ‘Great Escape’
A Ceredigion family has discovered an archive of documents and photographs which sheds new light on one of the most famous adventure stories of the war – the Great Escape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Two-part #StalagLuft3 documentary coming up on Nov 2 & 9 on S4C/BBC iPlayer with English lang subtitles.
Features an incredible POW archive of photos from the camp.
Also incls #FleetAirArm, #FaireySwordfish, #ArcticConvoy, #WoodenHorse, #GreatEscape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/uncover...
Features an incredible POW archive of photos from the camp.
Also incls #FleetAirArm, #FaireySwordfish, #ArcticConvoy, #WoodenHorse, #GreatEscape.
www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/uncover...
Behold A Pale Horse is on YouTube. Fred Zinnemann film from 1964 based on an Emeric Pressburger book & starring Peck, Quinn & Shariff.
A story about how the Spanish Civil War lingered over Spain decades later. V downbeat - possibly why it's largely forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8m...
A story about how the Spanish Civil War lingered over Spain decades later. V downbeat - possibly why it's largely forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8m...
Behold a Pale Horse | FREE MOVIE (Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif)
YouTube video by Stream City
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Behold A Pale Horse is on YouTube. Fred Zinnemann film from 1964 based on an Emeric Pressburger book & starring Peck, Quinn & Shariff.
A story about how the Spanish Civil War lingered over Spain decades later. V downbeat - possibly why it's largely forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8m...
A story about how the Spanish Civil War lingered over Spain decades later. V downbeat - possibly why it's largely forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b8m...
Carried on his friends' shoulders: the incredible Jimmy Ward, who won the VC when he climbed out ONTO THE WING of his Wellington bomber over the North Sea to put out a fire which was going to bring down the aircraft. I'm currently writing about one of the other men in this photo. #WW2 #antifascist
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Carried on his friends' shoulders: the incredible Jimmy Ward, who won the VC when he climbed out ONTO THE WING of his Wellington bomber over the North Sea to put out a fire which was going to bring down the aircraft. I'm currently writing about one of the other men in this photo. #WW2 #antifascist
Cover reveal! ‘Nazi Ghost Train’
Here is the UK cover of 'The Nazi Ghost Train' which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It's an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.
Here is the UK cover of 'The Nazi Ghost Train' which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It's an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.
Cover reveal! ‘Nazi Ghost Train’
Here is the UK cover of 'The Nazi Ghost Train' which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It's an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.
greglewisinfo.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Cover reveal! ‘Nazi Ghost Train’
Here is the UK cover of 'The Nazi Ghost Train' which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It's an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.
Here is the UK cover of 'The Nazi Ghost Train' which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It's an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.
Film books on the shelf: Burt Lancaster by Kate Bufod.
Always loved Burt since I first saw his cheesy smile in The Crimson Pirate one rainy afternoon.
Always loved Burt since I first saw his cheesy smile in The Crimson Pirate one rainy afternoon.
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Film books on the shelf: Burt Lancaster by Kate Bufod.
Always loved Burt since I first saw his cheesy smile in The Crimson Pirate one rainy afternoon.
Always loved Burt since I first saw his cheesy smile in The Crimson Pirate one rainy afternoon.
During the liberation of Chartres, a Life magazine photographer spotted Simone Segouin and snapped a photograph, turning Simone into an icon of the Resistance and the Liberation.
#History #Resistance #antifascist
#History #Resistance #antifascist
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
During the liberation of Chartres, a Life magazine photographer spotted Simone Segouin and snapped a photograph, turning Simone into an icon of the Resistance and the Liberation.
#History #Resistance #antifascist
#History #Resistance #antifascist
Luftwaffe intelligence officer Harro Schulze-Boysen, who told the Soviet Union that Hitler was about to attack, and his wife, Libertas, who worked for a Nazi film unit & secretly collected evidence of Nazi atrocities. Libertas whispered to her executioner: “Let me keep my young life.” #antifa
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Luftwaffe intelligence officer Harro Schulze-Boysen, who told the Soviet Union that Hitler was about to attack, and his wife, Libertas, who worked for a Nazi film unit & secretly collected evidence of Nazi atrocities. Libertas whispered to her executioner: “Let me keep my young life.” #antifa
The B-17 saved by a “miracle”
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
The B-17 saved by a “miracle”
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You remember that we were hit with 20-mm shells?” Benny said that of course he did but that was not unusual.
greglewisinfo.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The B-17 saved by a “miracle”
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
The B-17 saved by a “miracle”
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
The B-17 saved by a “miracle”
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You remember that we were hit with 20-mm shells?” Benny said that of course he did but that was not unusual.
greglewisinfo.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The B-17 saved by a “miracle”
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You…
The memorial in Copenhagen to Anders Lassen, the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the VC in WW2. A veteran of the Commandos, SOE, the SAS & the SBS. A man of tremendous courage. #antifa #antifascist
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The memorial in Copenhagen to Anders Lassen, the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the VC in WW2. A veteran of the Commandos, SOE, the SAS & the SBS. A man of tremendous courage. #antifa #antifascist
Arvid & Mildred Harnack, who developed an anti-Nazi organisation in Berlin. Both were executed. Mildred, an American, escaped the death sentence in her first trial – but Hitler insisted on it. #antifascist #antifa #WW2
October 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Arvid & Mildred Harnack, who developed an anti-Nazi organisation in Berlin. Both were executed. Mildred, an American, escaped the death sentence in her first trial – but Hitler insisted on it. #antifascist #antifa #WW2
October 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Theirs was a moral & ideological #resistance, & not the resistance to a foreign occupier. (They) were pursued most fervently by the regime."
Many thanks to Tyler Wolanin for this article on Defying Hitler.
Books seems as relevant as ever.
tylerwolanin.com/blog/2019/9/...
Many thanks to Tyler Wolanin for this article on Defying Hitler.
Books seems as relevant as ever.
tylerwolanin.com/blog/2019/9/...
September 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Theirs was a moral & ideological #resistance, & not the resistance to a foreign occupier. (They) were pursued most fervently by the regime."
Many thanks to Tyler Wolanin for this article on Defying Hitler.
Books seems as relevant as ever.
tylerwolanin.com/blog/2019/9/...
Many thanks to Tyler Wolanin for this article on Defying Hitler.
Books seems as relevant as ever.
tylerwolanin.com/blog/2019/9/...
Cricket fans can enjoy dozens of interviews & features on the Museum of Welsh #Cricket podcast which has been produced for several years by Steve Hedges.
I've just joined Steve to help out. My first is live: a fan celebration of #Glamorgan men's promotion season.
www.cricketmuseum.wales/podcast/
I've just joined Steve to help out. My first is live: a fan celebration of #Glamorgan men's promotion season.
www.cricketmuseum.wales/podcast/
www.cricketmuseum.wales
September 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Cricket fans can enjoy dozens of interviews & features on the Museum of Welsh #Cricket podcast which has been produced for several years by Steve Hedges.
I've just joined Steve to help out. My first is live: a fan celebration of #Glamorgan men's promotion season.
www.cricketmuseum.wales/podcast/
I've just joined Steve to help out. My first is live: a fan celebration of #Glamorgan men's promotion season.
www.cricketmuseum.wales/podcast/
Driving this afternoon, I listened to the new series of #LifeLines by Al Smith, which really put me through the mill. Brilliant radio drama.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Life Lines - Series 8: Part One - BBC Sounds
Award-winning drama set in an ambulance control centre.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Driving this afternoon, I listened to the new series of #LifeLines by Al Smith, which really put me through the mill. Brilliant radio drama.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
That's some pretty smart old folks accommodation in Thursday Murder Club, isn't it?
September 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
That's some pretty smart old folks accommodation in Thursday Murder Club, isn't it?