Harry Howard
Correspondent at Mail Online
History Editor at @MailOnline. Email: [email protected] Former trustee for @ylvscancer https://t.co/47n4koQloG
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3 days ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Hayley Minn |Harry Howard
With the world's 1.3 billion Catholics now mourning the death of Pope Francis, here is what will happen in the coming days - and how it will affect you if you're planning to travel to Rome, especially the Vatican City.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Ed Wight |Harry Howard
At first glance, it looks much like any mid-20th century factory scene. Women seated at tables, hard at work making clothes. But it is their shell-shocked expressions that are the giveaway - signs that they are unwilling participants in one of the lesser-known horrors of the Second World War.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Harry Howard
They were Britons as ordinary as they come, but who died hundreds of miles from home in the depths of despair. Now, 80 years on, the details of 16 residents of the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands who died in German concentration camps can be revealed for the first time. Among them was 22-year-old printer's apprentice Henry Le Goupillot, who passed away on June 1, 1945, less than a month after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Harry Howard
They were scenes that brought home to the British people the full horror of Nazi depravity. Eighty years ago today the British Army's 11th Armoured Division liberated Bergen-Belsen, the concentration camp in northern Germany. Inside, they found 60,000 barely alive inmates, many of them suffering from typhus, dysentery and tuberculosis. Scattered everywhere were the skeletal bodies of those who had already perished, as the stench of death lingered in the air.
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1 week ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Harry Howard
Ninety per cent bored stiff, nine per cent frozen stiff and one per cent scared stiff. That was - historian Andy Robertshaw insists - the experience of most soldiers in the First World War. It was not one of constant fighting, never-ending trench foot and heartless aggression from commanding officers, despite the impression to the contrary given by most film depictions.
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