Dutch Resistance 1941-43: SOE’s Greatest Disaster in occupied Europe – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/22/d...
Dutch Resistance 1941-43: SOE’s Greatest Disaster in occupied Europe
Englandspiel Monument (the fall of Icarus) in the Hague Netherlands
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Dutch Resistance 1941-43: SOE’s Greatest Disaster in occupied Europe – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/22/d...
Adolphe Deniset: Weapons instructor SOE F (French Section) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/a...
Adolphe Deniset: Weapons instructor SOE F (French Section)
Adolphe François was a French Canadian whose parent unit was the Royal Canadian Artillery who began his SOE selection and training in October 1943. His training assessment describes him as very int…
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Adolphe Deniset: Weapons instructor SOE F (French Section) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/12/13/a...
SOE: The French Grand Prix Drivers – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/07/11/s...
SOE: The French Grand Prix Drivers
William Grover-Williams was born in Montrough Hauts-de-Seine, France on 16 January 1903 to an English father and French mother and spoke fluent French and English. By the age of 29 he was a well-kn…
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SOE: The French Grand Prix Drivers – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/07/11/s...
The German wireless deception leading to the deaths of three SOE agents sent to France. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/06/13/t...
The German wireless deception leading to the deaths of three SOE agents sent to France.
AUTHORS NOTE- there are several conflicting accounts, inconsistencies will be found in official documents which are explained in my forthcoming book. On the night of 28/29 February 1944, SOE agents…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The German wireless deception leading to the deaths of three SOE agents sent to France. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/06/13/t...
Roger Sabourin: Wireless Operator SOE French Section. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/05/r...
Roger Sabourin: Wireless Operator SOE French Section.
24-year old Roger Sabourin Roger Sabourin was born in Montréal, Canada on 1 January 1923 and was serving with the Canadian Intelligence Corps before joining SOE on 2 January 1944 and trained as a w…
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Roger Sabourin: Wireless Operator SOE French Section. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/05/r...
Jack Agazarian: SOE wireless operator – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/04/09/j...
Jack Agazarian: SOE wireless operator
Jack Agazarian The capture and execution of Jack Agazarian is complex, surrounded by conspiracy theories; is beyond the scope of this brief essay and is covered in great detail in my forthcoming bo…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Jack Agazarian: SOE wireless operator – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2023/04/09/j...
Alexandre Schwatschko, field name Alexander Shaw: Air Landing Officer SOE French Section. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/23/a...
Alexandre Schwatschko, field name Alexander Shaw: Air Landing Officer SOE French Section.
24 year old Alexandre Schwatschko aka Alexander Shaw Alexandre Schwatschko was born in Russia on 19 July 1919 to a wealthy family with property in the Ukraine and during the Bolshevik Revolution (8…
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Alexandre Schwatschko, field name Alexander Shaw: Air Landing Officer SOE French Section. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/23/a...
Alexandre Schwatschko, field name Alexander Shaw: Air Landing Officer SOE French Section. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/23/a...
Alexandre Schwatschko, field name Alexander Shaw: Air Landing Officer SOE French Section.
24 year old Alexandre Schwatschko aka Alexander Shaw Alexandre Schwatschko was born in Russia on 19 July 1919 to a wealthy family with property in the Ukraine and during the Bolshevik Revolution (8…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Alexandre Schwatschko, field name Alexander Shaw: Air Landing Officer SOE French Section. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2024/02/23/a...
Major John Sehmer: SOE Serbia and Hungary. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/01/22/m...
Major John Sehmer: SOE Serbia and Hungary.
Major John Sehmer whose home unit was the Royal Tank Regiment had already completed an SOE mission in Serbia when he volunteered for a second mission to Hungary accompanied by Private Willis and Wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Major John Sehmer: SOE Serbia and Hungary. – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2025/01/22/m...
SOE X Section (Germany) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/08/16/s...
SOE X Section (Germany)
Otto Pichl and Ernst Hoffman were Sudeten Germans, but their nationalities are also listed as Czechoslovakian? After passing selection and training they were assigned to X Section, the country sect…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
SOE X Section (Germany) – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2022/08/16/s...
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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November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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Irena Sendler: Rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto – Alan Malcher alanmalcher.com/2021/01/17/i...