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#worldwar2

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Soh Kam Yung

"Two 101-year-old former codebreakers at Bletchley Park have reunited to accept an award ahead of the 80th anniversary of VE day.

Kath Morris, from Neath, and Gwenfron Picken, from Port Talbot, have been celebrated for their contributions to breaking Germany's secret codes during World War Two.

Despite growing up in the same area, they did not know each other until they met at a joint 100th birthday party last year."

bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqyqmy

The two codebreaking ladies sitting in the church where they have been presented with an award. Kath is wearing a green top while Gwenfron is wearing a purple jacket, both have short white hair. There is cake laid on the table along with a framed a certificate and a book.
www.bbc.comVE Day: 101-year-old WW2 codebreakers reunite for anniversaryThe two women from south Wales relocated to London during the war to work at Bletchley Park.
#BletchleyPark#Women#WorldWar2
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Note found in violin constructed in Nazi concentration camp

Seeking to learn the origins of a violin built by a mastercraftsman with cheap materials, a repairman opens up the instrument to discover a note left by its creator imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/sec

ABC News · Note found in violin constructed in Nazi concentration campBy ABC News
#WorldWar2#HumanInterest#History
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MediaFaro Magazine

'We planted trees among the rubble': The dark WW2 history written into Germany's parks.

Eighty years after the end of World War Two, blasted trees and rubble forests tell a hidden story of wartime bombardment and Nazi terror.

In the early 1950s, Rudolf Schröder, a young gardener, led a group of apprentices through abandoned plots of bombed houses in post-war Dresden.

Their quest: to find tree saplings for planting along the streets.

mediafaro.org/article/20250430

People stood next to a tram amongst rubble and collapsed buildings in Dresden, 1945 | Credit: Getty Images
BBC · 'We planted trees among the rubble': The dark WW2 history written into Germany's parks.By Sophie Hardach
#WorldWar2#Germany#Parks
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This woman made films for Hitler, but denied knowing about the Holocaust
By Stephen A Russell

Leni Riefenstahl made some of the Nazis' most notorious propaganda films, but denied any knowledge of the Holocaust until the day she died. This documentary tries to find the truth, and help us understand the rise of fascism today.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/rie

ABC News · Riefenstahl goes behind the scenes with the propaganda filmmaker for the NazisBy Stephen A Russell
#Documentaries#Movies#WorldWar2
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Karl Ove Hufthammer

A ‘Hitchcock film’ you’ve (probably) never seen, ‘German Concentration Camps Factual Survey’: archive.org/details/german-con

(Actually directed by Sidney Bernstein, with Hitchcock as an advisor.)
Warning: Contains extremely graphic (but important) historical footage.

For some context, I recommend first listening to this #BBC audio drama about the creation of the film: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0l4gs1y

A frame from the movie. An idyllic scene, with a young woman sitting on the grass, holding a baby. Next to her on the grass is a young girl holding a large ball. Both are smiling, relaxing in the sun. In the background we see some trees and a large building. (The image is *not* representative of the rest of the film!)
#concentrationcamps#ww2#worldwar2
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The neo-Nazi heckling at Melbourne’s Anzac Day echoes our past pain
By Bridget Brennan

The heckling at Melbourne’s Anzac Day service mirrors the long, quiet and painful exclusion of Black diggers from the national conversation.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/anz

ABC News · The hostility at Melbourne's Anzac Day echoes the exclusion of Australia’s black military historyBy Bridget Brennan
#IndigenousAustralians#CommunityandSociety#WorldWar2
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