#Yoshiko is watching a #Japanese drama, part of which involves some young men going off to fight in #WorldWar2. She is crying.

I wonder if in 100 years, the #USA will have dramas about regular people whose lives were totally destroyed by their irresponsible government?

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, The National (US) WWII Museum presents 1945, a new 6-part podcast series.
Hear from experts like Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Frank, John McManus, Rebecca Erbelding, and Stephanie Hinnershitz.
Series homepage includes links to Reading List and various podcast platforms.

#Podcast #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #Nuremberg #Tokyo #AtomicBomb

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/podcasts/1945

https://www.europesays.com/2157325/ Commonwealth war graves in Ayrshire tidied up by volunteer #AyrNews #AyrshireNews #Conflicts #EastAyrshire #war #WorldWar2

@0x00string Remind me, what typically happened to the #Gestapo during movies that were made in #LosAngeles about #WorldWar2 ?

#OnThisDay, 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive.

She is captured two days later, after a gun battle. She's tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She is killed in Jan 1945.

Her daughter Tania received the George Cross on her behalf in 1947.

Violette Szabo's story was filmed as Carve Her Name With Pride (1958).

#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1944, Ginette Jullian parachutes into occupied France with the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

She works as a wireless operator behind enemy lines for three months until the Allied forces overtake her unit.

#Stalin in 1941, 1942, & 1943.

"Can you open a second front or are we supposed to do this all by ourselves?"

#DDay