Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The curved streets in the foreground were next to the sunken gardens that at one point used to be the Luisenstadt Canal and (starting in 1961) part of the No-man’s land between East and West Berlin.

I found these Victorian/Edwardian wool fall-front trousers in a local charity shop today. They were made through the Amalgamated Society of Tailors, which existed under that name between 1866 and 1906!

Failing to hold Farage accountable is exactly the path that led to Trump in the US. There has to be accountability *early* or there's no stopping the runaway train.

(2) Sophienkirche (Große Hamburger Str., Berlin-Mitte): Later that day, King crossed the border into East Berlin, using his credit card as an id, and gave sermons in English at two churches, one of the Sophienkirche.

On 13 Sep. 1964, Martin Luther King visited Berlin. Here are two memorial plaques: (1) Stallschreiber Str. 42 (Berlin-Kreuzberg): When a man had successfully fled East Berlin that day, supported by a US-American soldier and the West-Berlin police, King visited the site and condemned the Berlin Wall.

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16.1.1950 Entnazifizierungs-Skandal in Stuttgart. In großem Umfang hat ein Vermittlungsbüro in Nürtingen Persilscheine verkauft und Hauptkläger und Vorsitzende von Spruchkammern bestochen, um milde Urteile für ihre Klienten zu erwirken. #OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblatt #Geschichte

I want to scan and organize my family‘s slides which will take me some time. How (i.e. in what kind of container) can I temporarily (i.e. weeks or months) store the slides (the real boxes are hard to come by) before I probably put them in A4-sleeves? I just want to keep them together in a neat way.

A lovely sky this evening.

The charity stand in Morrison’s this evening 👀👀 I didn’t have any small change, sadly…

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The Army units under COL Chivington's command murdered at least 150-170 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children (but likely many more) at Sand Creek, Colorado in 1864.

The latest part in the German Way of War Series: open.substack.com/pub/philipwb...

Your 2nd favourite aircraft? Beast.

Not to split hairs, but ICE are *not* Trump's Gestapo. That endows them with a level of intellect and sophistication that these thuggish apes have proven they do not possess.

Vice-President Henry A. Wallace in 'American Fascism', written on 9 April 1944 for the New York Times. See: Henry A. Wallace, Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.

The Wehrpaß of bank clerk Werner Tietz who served in Landesschützen/Security Regiment 45, 221st Security Division. Between 1941 and 1943, he rose through the ranks from Gefreiter to Leutnant. In September 1943, he was killed by a direct hit from an artillery shell.

Today I received these photographs from Germany. The captions state ‘General’s visit to Barowitsche’ & ‘Pflugbeil’. This is Generalleutnant Johann Pflugbeil, commander of the Wehrmacht 221st Security Division, the focus of my thesis.

The border crossing point at Oberbaumbrücke on the evening of 10 Nov. 1989 - the 2nd day of when the Berlin Wall was suddenly open. It is a collage I made shortly after and as I did not want to rip off the photos, I scanned the page, adjusted each image a bit and rebuilt the collage digitally.

From the collection: A large amount of paperwork to A.J.Beckwith, who commissioned into the British Army in 1958. He served with: the Gurkha Division REME in the Malayan Emergency 1959-60; 42 Commando on HMS Bulwark 1961; and Forward Air Control.

A twig of Christmas Tree sent by Obergefreiter Munker to his daughter on 3rd December 1944. Munker was serving in a Wehrmacht communications unit at the time and would be captured by the Red Army in early 1945. Munker served 1940-45 and returned from Soviet captivity in 1948.

An excellent photo of Cpl Cooper of the Durham Light Infantry ready for patrol in Korea, September 1952. Mk.V Sten, extra magazines stuffed in his Battledress trouser pocket, Mills Bomb, jersey, cap comforter, and, most importantly for a soldier, a cig. (D.R.O.)

A tragic memorial in Drax Church to Gunner Edmund Hutchinson, who served with 50th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Despite the information on the stone, he his now buried 42km west in La Baraque British Cemetery, Bellenglise.

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Visited Stormont today and had to take a look at this. A preserved crater from a Luftwaffe air raid during the Belfast Blitz of 1941.

For #TankTuesday, here's a great photo of an M4A3 Sherman of the 5th Tank Battalion (US Marines) stuck in sand in Iwo Jima, 1945. What is striking about this shot is the amount of extra protection given to the tank against Japanese tank hunter teams. A thread. 1/

Heinz Reinefarth, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, and Colonel Willi Schmidt in Warsaw during the uprising, 1944. Schmidt was the commander of the Wehrmacht Security Regiment 608, which deployed alongside the Dirlewanger Brigade during the Wola Massacre.

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From my personal collection: Queen's Korea Medal and United Nations Korea Medal pair named to a Royal Marine. #KoreanWar #RoyalMarines

Thread: Around 9:30am on 8th April 1989, this East German border guard officer was photographed firing at two East German men who had just jumped over the barrier at the East-West border crossing at Chausseestraße, Berlin. He missed.

Military historians!!! I need a really good reference or just source about all the different kinds of ordinances used in air raids over Germany & their effects, mechanisms, all the details. Can anyone recommend a good source? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

A postcard to commemorate 25 years of the National People’s Army of East Germany, 1981.

Thanks to @blackredcoats.bsky.social for a brilliant talk on the story of the Corps of Colonial Marines for the Napoleonic and Revolutionary War Graves Charity this evening. It's the War of 1812 as you've never heard it before - highly recommend listening to Matthew if you get the chance!

"Otto Sussman of Hamburg died of pneumonia in Sachsenhausen in December 1938 at the age of 43. So as not to stand out he had gone to work despite a high fever and returned half dead to the barracks in the evening. He left a wife and two children." buff.ly/3Cu67bW

An absolutley stunning ballroom in an abandoned hotel in East Germany. Sadly, the place is beyond saving and already collapsing.

Via @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social... Soldiers of the Red Army leaving the British Sector of West Berlin, after a ceremony at the Soviet War Memorial, Berlin 1958. A snowman in West Berlin police and customs uniform items salutes them. (Getty).