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1/n Eliane Kahen (aka Caen Kan) was born on November 28, 1942, in Grenoble, where she lived with her parents Pierre and Renée when the #SecondWorldWar broke out. She was deported to Auschwitz by convoy 70 on March 27, 1944.
She would be gassed as soon as she arrived.
She would be gassed as soon as she arrived.
2/n Eliane had been accompanied by her mother Renée, her two brothers François (*1932), and Henri Pierre (* 1933), and her father Pierre.
None survived.
A whole family wiped out just like that.
None survived.
A whole family wiped out just like that.
3/n Five men, Nicolas Ressly, Stanislas Brocky, Serge Gribe, Henri Sendrowicz, and Jean Moch-Lemmel managed to jump off the train during the journey.
Serge Gribe later wrote:
I am the only one alive, because I managed to jump off the train in Lorraine, to be picked up by a
Serge Gribe later wrote:
I am the only one alive, because I managed to jump off the train in Lorraine, to be picked up by a
The importance of Canadian military intelligence during the Second World War. ⬇️⬇️
1/9 The years between the world wars were lean ones for military intelligence. The Corps of Guides units were converted into cyclist companies, but lost their appeal and were disbanded in 1929.
1/9 The years between the world wars were lean ones for military intelligence. The Corps of Guides units were converted into cyclist companies, but lost their appeal and were disbanded in 1929.
2/9 In 1932, intelligence staffs from the @CanadianArmy and @RCAF_ARC were amalgamated.
A small @RoyalCanNavy intelligence staff was retained but was still encumbered with other staff responsibilities.
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#History #Military #SecondWorldWar #WWII #Canada
A small @RoyalCanNavy intelligence staff was retained but was still encumbered with other staff responsibilities.
cmia-acrm.ca/page/historica…
#History #Military #SecondWorldWar #WWII #Canada
3/9 When 🇨🇦 mobilized in Sept 1939, the small intelligence structures across all three services were rapidly developed. The Army had a tremendous demand for trained intelligence specialists, which culminated in the creation of the Canadian Intelligence Corps(C Int C) in Oct 1942.
Indirect fire with the #VickersMG (principles apply elsewhere though): First need to understand that in #VickersMG parlance: DIRECT fire is targets that can be seen from the gun position; INDIRECT fire is for targets that are obscured. Direct fire photos using tangent sight: 1/
A target could be obscured by the terrain (such as a hill, ridge or woodland); smoke or fog (possibly intentional) or the darkness of the night. The #VickersMG is laid on an 'aiming mark' and then that becomes its zero line. (Aussie aiming lamp vid: ) 2/
The instruments vary over time but the principles are the same: direction dial and elevating wheel; clinometer and bar foresight; dial sight. Only other change is the ammunition used (maybe another thread one day - Mk 7 v Mk 8z). 3/
Today, Canadians proudly mark Indigenous Veterans’ Day. We recognize the contributions and remember the sacrifices made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis in uniform. canada.ca/en/veterans-af…
This year, as we mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we remember Veterans like Willard Bolduc of the Ojibwa Nation. He earned the Flying Cross for his brave actions as an air gunner during bombing raids over occupied Europe. veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembranc…
And Mary Greyeyes, a Veteran who served in the Women’s Army Corp during the #SecondWorldWar. She is the 1st Indigenous woman to join the @CanadianForces. She was from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. #IndigenousVeteransDay #LestWeForget
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After a peaceful pro-#independence demonstration in #Paris on #17October1961,up to 300 #Algerians were murdered by police. Historians described this #massacre as “the bloodiest act of state repression of street protest in western Europe in modern history”.
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The most memorable – and vicious – #atrocities saw #policemen herding panicking crowds on to #Paris's bridges, where many were tossed into the #Seine. The river became a watery morgue for scores of victims, whose lifeless bodies were washing up for weeks. #17Octobre1961 #Algeria
Others died in #police stations, or in nearby woods, where their #mutilated bodies testified to truncheon and rifle-butt injuries. The officers had been incensed by an illegal protest by 30,000 men, women and children organised by the National #Liberation Front (FLN) of #Algeria.
#NVHOW20 Introducing Grace Stephenson @GStephensonHist @durham_uni @CDPConnect 'Newsreels and the Narrative of World War II - how the narratives evident in World War II cinema newsreels have become embedded within British culture #SWW #WWII #Homefront #SecondWorldWar #Newsreels
1 #NVHOW20 Five companies produced British newsreels in #WWII holding a monopoly over the British newsreel industry. In 1937 they set up the Newsreel Association of Great Britain & Ireland (NRA). Most communication between the companies & the government was through the NRA.
2 #NVHOW20 The NRA’s purpose was:'...to promote & protect the interests...of associates engaged in the production & distribution of...Newsreels...& to bring about & maintain co-operation'. One of the primary concerns for wartime newsreels was censorship. [Image: @MediaMuseum]
#NVHOW20 Introducing Dr Stephen Moore @smooreBofB1940 ‘The Bethnal Green Shelter Disaster’; how the causes of the greatest loss of life in a shelter in the UK during the Second World War have been distorted by post-war press claims #SWW #WWII #SecondWorldWar
1 #NVHOW20 At 2025 on 3 March 1943 173 people died on this staircase during the Bethnal Green shelter disaster. Reoccurring conspiracy theories claim of 'cover up & rumour' as information was withheld 'for two days', and details were 'kept secret for years', which persist today.
2 #NVHOW20 There was 'panic' & 'pandemonium' at the shelter, with a book portraying the Council as a hapless victim, having 'repeatedly tried, to make safe the access to the shelter’, claiming they had 'wanted to insert a crush barrier at the mouth of the shelter'.
#NVHOW20 Introducing Dr Joel Morley @JoelMMorley ‘Young men’s encounters with the Great War in interwar Britain’ - what they encountered, what left an impression, and how those impressions impact our understanding of the cultural legacy of the #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #FWW
#NVHOW20 conference presenter @JoelMMorley is the author of the forthcoming @ManchesterUP Joining Up in the Second World War: Enlistment, Masculinity and the Memory of the Great War, 2022. #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #FWW #Memory ##SWW #WWII #SecondWorldWar
1 #NVHOW20 I'm using #oralhistory & @massobservation to explore how print representations of WW1 were experienced by men growing up in interwar Britain. Looking at what they read & what left an impression, rather than at texts, complicates understandings of WW1s cultural legacy.
