I have been wanting to watch the film, Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King, for several years and finally found the chance to sit down and have a look. The former King Edward VIII has always intrigued me. One wonders how differently history might have played out if he hadn’t abdicated. This film makes me wonder […]
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A friend of mine had told me about Mark Felton’s YouTube video channel back in the summer of 2024. My friend raved about the channel but, given my busy schedule, I hadn’t had a chance to view any of the videos. Imagine then, my surprise when I received an email from Mark out of the
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Lily Knips, as many of you know, was a German Jewess who lived in Berlin prior to the Second World War. Her second husband, a non-Jew, had passed away earlier in the 1930s and she was alone in the city. Her only child, Lothar Sauer, had gone to England in the mid-1930s to study and
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Original Air Date – 19 October 2022Episode – The Trail Went Cold – Episode 299 – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?Duration – 58:11 minutesHost – Robin Warder Whenever I hear a podcast host with a North American accent, about to tell the British story of Bella in the Wych Elm, I cross my
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For several years now, I have been trying to have a look at an episode from Foyle’s War. The episode, entitled “The Cage”, apparently aired in Season 7 of the extremely popular UK TV series. One would think that the episode would have been relatively easy to track down, but living in North America makes
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Last October, I received an email from Rory Kaufhold of WAG Entertainment. The company wanted to use an image of Josef Jakobs in an upcoming episode of Combat Dealers for Discovery. I agreed on the condition that they send me a copy of the program when it aired. I never heard back from Rory and
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The Magazine Article From the Editor, After the Battle, volume 150, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 2010, page 53. Summary A full page spread (mostly photos) summarizing my visit to Ramsey, Huntingdonshire with Winston Ramsey. Includes photograph of me standing in the potato filed where Josef Jakobs landed, and in front of the Ramsey
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My journey to uncover the story of Josef Jakobs, my grandfather, really took off when I found the eleventh edition of After the Battle magazine in late 1980s. The two page spread on Josef in the magazine gave me way more information than any I had found to date. After contacting the editor, Winston Ramsey,
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I discovered a veritable treasure trove of podcasts the other week and quickly found a whole bunch related to Bella in the Wych Elm. I thought I would start with a trilogy from Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories, produced by Parcast. The three part series starts with an overview of the murder and the various
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A few weeks ago, Talk Radio Europe had me on their 10:30 am morning show. Given that they are in Spain and I’m on Canada’s West Coast… I pried myself out of bed at 1:00 am to be moderately awake and coherent for the 1:30 am interview! You can listen to the interview here… Thanks
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