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Any excuse to keep the ideology alive and well,alas.
But that isn t enough, is it? Not when it comes to this one belief in how history unfolded. For everything else you can think of,they don t incarcerate you if your belief in anything at all differs from the standard. Death sentence for apostasy in muslim countries is an exception.
A homeowner was stunned to discover a secret WWII hideout tucked away in his back garden.
Chris Scott made the incredible find when he decided to investigate the potential 'drain cover' at his home on Merton Avenue, Middlesborough.
The 40-year-old spent two days draining the cavity with local builder Tony Sizer - and both were amazed to find an solid concrete Second World War bunker consisting of two rooms and two escape hatches.
Tony had recently been renovating the property and had convinced homeowner Chris to have a further look at the flooded drain.
“It just looked like a drain cover,” said Chris.
“The neighbours had mentioned a bunker but I hadn’t thought anymore about it.
“I was talking to the builder about it while we were having a cup of tea in the garden and he said, ‘Come on let’s have a look!”
The first cavity had a 10ft ladder and was so large it took two days of pumping to remove all of the water.
That room had an open wooden door that led to two further rooms set in solid concrete.
The first of those rooms measured four metres by three metres and the second measured roughly five metres by three metres.
At the end of that room, the pair found another door. Tony dug out the rubble behind the door and discovered another ladder.
“It’s an emergency escape ladder in case the first one was destroyed or blocked by rubble from a bomb,” said Chris.
“It’s not worth fully digging it out as it’s a small area.”
Chris had been notified by neighbours about the possibility of the bunker's existence - but they had not seen it with their own eyes.
“I’ll be asking them more about it,” he said.
“We were really shocked by the size of it.
“There are a lot of electrics and switches down there and lights on the wall. A big table and lots of silt that could contain anything from back then.”
Chris, who works as a managing director, currently lives nearby with his wife and three-week-old daughter while the house undergoes extensive reonvations.
It is thought the bunker had been built for up to 100 local residents to take shelter from Nazi air raids.
Middlesbrough had the unfortunate distinction of being the first major British town to be attacked by Luftwaffe bombers during the Blitz on the evening of May 25 1940.
He said he is now hoping to carry out some work on the bunker' in the future to bring it back into use.
“It’s a pretty big room and I will probably do something with it,” he said.
“If I run a trench down and put some concrete steps and get some decent things, it might be worth doing something.”
That is incredible!!!!
Another of The Few is lost: Veteran spitfire pilot, 101, becomes the third of the last surviving Battle of Britain heroes to die in a month.
One of the last surviving Battle of Britain veterans, whose courage and bravery under fire helped save Britain from Nazi tyranny, has died aged 101.
Tributes have poured in for Flight Lieutenant Ronald Mackay, who flew Spitfires with No 234 Squadron and helped protect Britain's skies from German bombers during the Second World War.
Flt Lt Mackay, who was once seriously injured baling out of his aircraft following a sortie, was one of the final nine remaining members of 'The Few', after the deaths of two fellow survivors in July.
There are now only eight remaining Battle of Britain veterans following the death of Flt Lt Mackay, Wing Commander Tom Neil and Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellum - both of whom died in July.
The group of men were dubbed The Few following Winston Churchill's wartime address to Parliament, where he poignantly said of the brave RAF pilots: 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
David Brocklehurst MBE, chairman of the Kent Battle of Britain Museum, said: 'Our thoughts and condolences are with his family and friends at this difficult time.
'Our flag will be flown at half mast for the next seven days as a mark of respect.
Wing Commander Tom Neil :
Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellen :
'Sadly nature is taking its course and we have lost three of The Few in the past month.
'Now there are only eight surviving Battle of Britain veterans, the oldest is 105 and the youngest 98.
'He should be remembered for his bravery. Many of them said they were not heroes, just doing their duty, but we see them all as heroes.
'It makes it all the more important that we carry on their legacy as there will be a time when they will no longer be able to do so.'
Group Captain Patrick Tootal OBE, Honorary Secretary of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association, said: 'The loss of one of the Few is very sad. In the past weeks we have lost three.'
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, Chief of the Air Staff, Tweeted: 'Very sad to hear that another of The Few is lost to us - Flt Lt Ronald MacKay, Spitfire pilot with 234 Sqn during the Battle of Britain.'
Flt Lt Ronald Mackay was born in 1917 and served in the Auxiliary Air Force before the war.
He was called to full time service in late August 1939, joining 603 Squadron as a civilian pupil pilot the following month.
After elementary training in Perth, central Scotland, he was commissioned on March 23, 1940, before completing his intermediate and advanced flying training at RAF Lossiemouth, north Scotland.
Flt Lt Mackay joined No 234 Squadron at RAF Middle Wallop, Hampshire, on September 18, 1940.
Returning from St Eval after a routine sortie on September 25, 1940, he baled out and was seriously injured.
His Spitfire, X4182, crashed near St Mawgan in north Cornwall.
After being released from the RAF in January 1946, he ran the family travel business in Scotland for many years.
He died surrounded by his family in Edinburgh on Saturday, August 4.
The remaining surviving members of The Few are Flight Lieutenant William Clark, 219 Squadron; Wing Commander John Elkington, 1 Squadron; Wing Commander Paul Farnes, 501 Squadron; Squadron Leader John Hart, 602
Squadron; Flying Officer John Hemmingway, 86 Squadron; Flight Lieutenant William Hughes, 23 Squadron; Pilot Officer Archie McInnes, 601 Squadron; Flight Lieutenant Maurice Moundson, 56 Squadron.
Squadron Leader Geoffrey Wellen :
Wing Commander Tom Neil :
RIP and thank you from the people here who will NEVER forget what you did for us.
Genuine question, what is the view of modern day Americans and the modern US state to what was, arguably, genocide or holocaust in the treatment of Native Americans?
This article, for example, suggests US is in denial. Is the article unfair?
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/native-american-genocide-or-holocaust-f9BbVANPQEOn_BzVGhOJ5g/
It's a fair enough question. I disagree with the use of the word 'holocaust' as it indeed is reserved for the one-historical event. It stands out in the way it was executed. However 'genocide' seems appropriate, allthough I know not enough of the subject.
leparisien.fr/societe/deminage-a-paris-la-bombe-a-explose-la-vie-va-reprendre-porte-de-la-chapelle-17-02-2019-8013816.php
It has happened frequently in my hometown of Brest.
I was suprised to learn of Rudolph Hess's secret solo flight to Britain in 1941 in an attempt to broker a peace deal with the British. He parachuted into Scotland and was kept prisoner until after the war when he was sent to Nuremberg to stand trial.
Apparently the 'chimney' that stands at Auchwitz was built by the Russians after it was liberated....
source:
https://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/History/Articles/Birkenau01.html
Doesn't surprise me, 80% of 'historical' buildings in Europe ar rebuilt because of earlier destruction.
Rudolph Hess's flight is still a controversy. He apparently acted on his own, without Hitlser's knowledge.
Without getting into the issue of who was responsible AT ALL, unexploded ordnance (UXO) is still pretty much daily business here in Germany. The allies dropped about 1,35 million metric tons (TNT content) of bombs on Germany, and somewhere between 10 and 20 per cent were duds. Estimates say that about 100,000 of those duds (not kilos) haven't even been detected. So it is still basically every other week or so that (with construction activities going rampant) yet another 1,000-lb bomb is discovered and has to be defused, with trains being stopped and roads being blocked. Annoying, but normal. Fortunately hardly any of them ever explode while being defused.
Well not as much as in Germany, but in Holland the same problem persists. And in Belgium still every year 2 or three farmers die whilst working because they drag up unexploded ordnances from the first world war. You can see grenades and more lay next to the fields waiting for the explosives services to pick them up.
This guy was a serious Nazi arse kisser,who even Hitler didn't like.
Betrayed his country terribly,but got his comeuppance at the end of the War in front of a Norwegian firing squad.
Hence the word 'quisling' in many dialects today,meaning traitor or betrayer.
Reading this in 2019 made me chuckle! ;))
The game's not over yet, my friend. ;)
@j_w_pepper so your point is?
@JWPepper point is,in a purely historical discussion of a war ,the Nazi party were there since 1933 until the end ,so it is entirely justified , however,these comments are supposed to be about about Quisling for discussion atm .
Thank you!:-)
The leader of Nazi Norway.