Arthur E. Adams Diary

Charlie Waite and Allan Jones have just been to France to visit his old battleground. A three part film has been put on You Tube and can be viewed by clicking on the embedded video links below.

Andy Johnson (BBC Inside Out North West) goes in search of the prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III – the location of the Great Escape – after the discovery of the wartime diaries of Flt Lt Ted Nestor. Video Credits: Presenter: Simon O’Brien Presenter: Andy Johnson Reporter: Jacey Normand http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/

In early 1945, as the Russian and Allied armies stormed their way across Europe and began to threaten Germany the Nazi’s began a process of moving POW’s deeper into Germany. Many of these POW’s were force marched for hundred’s of kilometers in the middle of winter with freezing cold temperatures, no food, no medical care, […]

Victims The day after the mass escape from Stalag Luft III, Hitler gave personal orders that every recaptured officer was to be shot. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, chief of state security, and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel head of the German High Command, who had ultimate control over prisoners of […]