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Cheers. Never tire of good media WW2 content. Despite having numerous TV channels to watch nowadays, there's barely anything of interest on them that takes my fancy. I spend a fair time on YouTube where some of the content is terrific. I know it's boring for many & not everyone's cup of tea, but two of my favourite superb channels are below... if it's a rainy day & there really isn't anything on the telly to watch.
I hear what you're saying FT. It isn't for everyone of course. I guess my interest in all things WW2 makes places like Belsen somewhere I'd much rather visit than say the usual tourist attractions like those you've mentioned. Each to their own of course.
Sounds much like Belsen. It's not designed to cause shock or have heaps of awful, macabre photos. It's strangely a place to reflect, as it were, on how human beings could carry out such atrocities on other human beings.
A good mate of mine went to Auschwitz three years ago and said go, you'd really enjoy it.
When my ship was paying a 5-day visit to Hamburg in 1979, I had the good fortune (me and a coachload of shipmates) to spend the day visiting Belsen concentration camp. Although I had only turned 18 a few months earlier, to this day, I will never forget the eeriness & the strange feeling of what happened there all those years earlier. Whenever I hear the word "Belsen" even today, my mind takes me back instantly to that day in 1979.
The main visitor centre contains many artefacts, numerous photos & testimonies - but when you walk through what's left of the camp and the main burial mounds where thousands are buried, the birds really don't sing like they say, even though the camp is in a forest.
For the past thirty or so years, I have been a dealer in all-things WW2 related - and that day at Belsen was the inspiration to learn everything I could about WW2 which still applies today. I guess some good came out of that day at the camp despite the history & human shame of events there. Auschwitz is on my 'to do' list of course. I have been to several famous WW2 locations in Europe but never quite made it to Poland... yet. It's on my 2026 list though. I can't walk very far these days so I'd better get a move on. Same goes for Arnhem & The Rhine Crossings. What I'd really love is a small camper home for me & the missus to tour Europe in... but that's out of our budget sadly what with everything else being so expensive thee days. I keep doing the lottery though, so, finger's crossed!
Agreed. I was never a fan of The Beatles. Since then, I can never forgive the bloke for the hideous 'Mull of Kintyre'... and he should have been imprisoned for 'We All Stand Together'.
I'm gonna watch Lampard's Coventry tonight against the rabble from along the M27 and see how they play. A win and I'm all for him. Lose and he can jog on.
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