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Surely the Lale Anderson version is definitive.

All the cover versions by Vera Lynn, Marlene Dietrich, Anne Shelton, etc., only exist because the original Lale Anderson version had such an impact. As far as Lili Marlene is concerned, they are all just Lale Andersen tribute acts!

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.........and another thing - it wasn't the British Army that trained at Slapton for D-Day, but the US Army. South Devon was a US assembly area.

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Irrelevant and off topic are the same thing in this context. The Tasmanian issue would be both relevant and on topic on its own thread, but is neither here, where it is simply being used as a red herring to distract attention from the thread's actual subject. I also think it does "matter what n...

John,

I agree.

Perhaps it would be better to delete all references here to this irrelevant issue?

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Hello Hans,

Good point.

Fortunately, all the information I have given you seems to come from Australian archival sources. See the earlier Feldgrau threads.

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Hello P. A. Dutchman, Are you seriously telling us that you stand around velodromes canvassing opinions on the British Empire? Or that transient cyclists from the Old Commonwealth are authorities on historical matters? Or that, even if you do loiter round velodromes, this represents an authoritative...

Only those Germans already adults during the war bear any responsibility for what happened then, and very few of those still alive had any significant influence at the time. The only things younger Germans are obliged to do are to face honestly what happened then in their national name and not repea...

Not quite new, but not quite accurate either. Hitler met Franco at Hendaye, just on the French side of the Franco-Spanish border.

He remarked something to the effect that negotiating with Franco was like having a tooth extracted without anaesthetic!

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Has anyone seen photos of Hitler wearing any decoration except his Iron Cross from WWI? (By contrast, was there a medal Goering wasn't seen wearing?) Hitler cultivated an image of the simple ex-soldier. There are fascinating trial photos of him trying on a top hat and tails and a hunting costume in ...

Were Weidinger and the many others you mention held for any particular reason? For example, were they suspects for war crimes, or known unresconstructed Nazis?

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According to the Imperial War Museum, the British Honduras contribution to the British war effort was a forestry corps that was sent to Scotland. They were not made a formal part of the armed services because they would have to be paid more as soldiers. The British Honduras Forestry Unit. In June 19...

A quick look at the internet shows that the Southern Irish remained overwhelmingly loyal to the UK in the First World War. There was apparently no conscription in Ireland in WWI but hundreds of thousands of Irish from Protestant north and Catholic south volunteered for the British Army. Even during ...

The French had an assortment of their older types still flying operations at the end of the war, but they were only used against the Atlantic Pockets, where there were no US ground fgorces after the fall of Brest. These certainly included inline-engined Dewotine D520s, but I am not sure what they we...

Are you sure about the "seven" years in French captivity?

I may be wrong, but I thought that all German POWs in the West, including the Waffen-SS, were released by 1948, unless convicted of a specific crime.

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It was 5th Flak Division.

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