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Thanks for the comments and the book does indeed include a section by girls who carried out compulsory Labour Front services. Many young girls were required to do so usually at the age of 18. Some...

This book is particularly harrowing in places. Some of the women suffered rape ordeals as children. It is not pleasant reading but full credit that they talked about their ordeals in such graphic...

Hi Glenn, It was a lot of hard work and a lot of stress too in some ways. Its amazing how much work goes into a book. I would love to hear of the experiences of your Oma and will send you a pm!...

Lol!! Yes Glenn feel like im going to be thrown to the lions here as you are a tough lot :) On the serious side a good five years went into the research side and i let the women tell me their stories...

Thanks so much as the info is greatly appreciated. Cheers Tim.

The girl on the front cover at the front is one known to me and contributed to the book!!! She most certainly did join the BDM during her youth under the Hitler regime. As for the eagle-well the...

I really think this book is different in a few ways. This book is a journey through the girls lives back in those days. A wartns n all account that unlike many books has not been sweetened to appease...

Not sure if this is the right place to post so apologies if not. My first of two books Hitler's Girls-Doves Amongst Eagles is now available to pre order from Pen & Sword Books Ltd. The release date...

Recently bought this medal group of North West Frontier medal with clasp, 1939-45 star, Burma star, India medal and War medal to 2nd Lieutenant G.L Bown, 2-4, Bombay Gunners. I have entered his...

Sometimes a fairly unremarkable pair of awards can have remarkable stories attached to them. This is certainly the case with the Third Reich pair here. The story of these two awards will appear in my...

We recently moved from Broadway. Was beautiful village but too few ameneties. As we dont have car we needed to get back into town. We love the area as so much natural beauty. You have any family here...

Hi Stewy, yes lovely part of the country i agree though the old town has changed so much over the last ten years or so. Heres a pic of the cross mentioned.1051698

Will post a pic later as at work at moment and internet keeps going hence why i was unable to google search it :) Cheers Tim.

Hi guys, I have a WW2 German War Merit Cross 2nd Class without swords. The marking is "65" does anyone know who the maker is? Thanks. Tim.

Thats a relief Nick as this has quite some story attached to it which will appear in my second book "In Hitler's Shadow". This EK2 was given to me by a former German BDM girl named Wiener Katte. She...

Hi Guys,
Whats your opinions on this 122 ring stamped EK2. Cheers Tim.10494581049459104946010494611049462

Heres some better quality images but yes i think the answer is Zulu. This was in local charity shop. Was just thinking other day how id like to find a genuine Zulu spear. Where do i find one?-right...

I will see what i can do to get some better images up. There are two notches at the base of the blade. :)

Hi Guys, Can anyone identify this spear by its design etc. It has obvious age and came from an elderly gentlemans house who was known for being a bit of a hoarder. The Blade of the spear is around...

Hi Guys,
Don't want to appear cheeky but are there any members of the forum out there who might have any photographs of the German Bund Deutscher Madel girls that they would not...

Hi Guys,

Found a quite fantastic old photo album at our local House Clearance shop a few days ago. The album containing 93 photographs belonged to a Sidney George Dawson who...

Thats okay and quite understand. There have been many spurious messages over the years some of which i discovered to be totally fake and deleted them. The original memorial website was put up by Glyn...

Hello there mate, Yes the photos belonged to Sidney George Dawson of 661 AOP Squadron RAF. I know he was in the RAF from 1944 but the curious things is he was also working with the BBC but i wonder...

Hi there please accept apologies but its amazing at how many spammers ive had to deal with over the years since setting up this memorial page. Had lots of people private message me and email me...

This mornings house clearance shop find. Photo album containing 93 photographs featuring German dams including the Mohne, WRAF's, crash landing, portraits, billets, vehicles, camps, aircraft plus...