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Germans allowed us to listen to ‘Lord Haw Haw’ on the wireless. According to his propaganda we are still retreating, there must be some motive for it. We’re practically finished the way he talks but we’ll have to wait and see. Propaganda doesn’t kill the old English spirit. | Germans allowed us to listen to ‘Lord Haw Haw’ on the wireless. According to his propaganda we are still retreating, there must be some motive for it. We’re practically finished the way he talks but we’ll have to wait and see. Propaganda doesn’t kill the old English spirit. | ||
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—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary) | |||
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=== George Beck: May 2, 1943 === | |||
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Walked round the works till we were fed up. Stood by the fence and watched the Russian men and women pass. It is a shame that women should be prisoners of war. Slipped bread and cigarettes to them, we’ve done this for a few weeks now and they look forward to it. Some of the women are terribly dressed, how the German people can see them walk about like this I don’t know, Germany will pay later on for the way they’re being treated, poor devils. No news regarding the war. Roll on. | |||
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Revision as of 11:35, 24 May 2020
Diaries
George M. Battey, Jr.: May 2, 1918
Convoy separated, 12 vessels proceeding with us to Brest. Wireless intercepted requesting extra deep anchorage, and we concluded Leviathan (Vaterland) was putting in. Arrived Brest 4 P. M.; passed near Leviathan, full of troops, some shoving off on liberty. Prometheus restored liberty. Movies on the Panther.
—George M. Battey, Jr. (war diary)
George Beck: May 2, 1941
Germans allowed us to listen to ‘Lord Haw Haw’ on the wireless. According to his propaganda we are still retreating, there must be some motive for it. We’re practically finished the way he talks but we’ll have to wait and see. Propaganda doesn’t kill the old English spirit.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
George Beck: May 2, 1943
Walked round the works till we were fed up. Stood by the fence and watched the Russian men and women pass. It is a shame that women should be prisoners of war. Slipped bread and cigarettes to them, we’ve done this for a few weeks now and they look forward to it. Some of the women are terribly dressed, how the German people can see them walk about like this I don’t know, Germany will pay later on for the way they’re being treated, poor devils. No news regarding the war. Roll on.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
Tatsusei Yogi: May 2, 1945
At Maehira we found an empty hut which people told us was an army officer's hut. We slept peacefully in it. We decided not to go to Mabuni because we were so tired. We wept at the kindness of the village people of Maehira.
—Tatsusei Yogi (diary)
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- George M. Battey, Jr. (nonfiction)
- George Beck (nonfiction)
- War (nonfiction)
- War Diaries (nonfiction)
- Tatsusei Yogi (nonfiction)
External links
- A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi