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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Welcome to Day 3 of #Hastings960. I only started at 9.15, with just 22 miles to do today - and what a glorious day. This is looking whence I came, last evening. Updates to follow.

A countryside scene under a blue canopy.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A 4th century AD stamp-impressed colour coated New Forest Ware bowl found in a 6th century grave at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in 2014 The heavily worn nature of bowl suggests it was a prized possession A family heirloom? #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology

A Roman pottery bowl with stamp impressed decoration held in the blue gloved hand of an archaeologist

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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There's always a silver lining

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Emily Wood @emilyfwood.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Microsoft's planning to build 3 massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

An ever-curious street name in York 👀

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

3 June 1944: Minsk was liberated by the Red Army. In the days before, the Wehrmacht occupation organs utilised the railways and began the evacuation of the city. They also began the destruction of all strategic assets deemed beneficial to the Soviets. A future article…

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

85 years ago today my grandfather crossed the border into the Lithuanian SSR from occupied Poland as part of Army Group North. He spent most of the next few years in the swamps of the Volkhov and on the gates of Leningrad, before being severely wounded in late winter 1944. @alanallport.bsky.social

A German 2x4 of an artillery observation battalion on the move in northern Russia, date unknown. Four men of the crew are visible, the second from the right is my late grandfather. A scissors artillery targeting binocular is in the centre of the vehicle, and a captured french light machine gun is clearly visible, indicating that this march took place in an area covered by partisan activity and/or during an advance into enemy territory.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New Mozart music!!! 🪉🪈🎼🎶

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Validation stamps on the rear, including the local Leipzig administration and the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Sachsen.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Of all the things to find in a nautical shop on the Isle of Wight, I didn’t imagine it would be a Holiday Certificate for a Belgian concrete worker to go from Leipzig to France in October 1942…

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A section of my German document and letter collection. I have several projects planned for them and hope to make them accessible one day.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Party vibes in Berlin-Friedrichshain

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

OTD 85 years ago German paratroopers massacred 180 inhabitants of the village of Kandanos in Crete. This followed the massacre of Kondomari the day before. Kondomari is one of the most extraordinarily well documented war crimes of the Wehrmacht. @garius.bsky.social @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

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Kondomari - Then and Now.

Last month I had the chance to walk the ground at the site of the massacre of unarmed civilians at the Village of Kondomari on 2 June 1941 by men of...

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

28. Mai 1947 Erich Wasicky als #Kriegsverbrecher hingerichtet. Ehemaliger SS-Sturmbannführer und Lager-Apotheker KZ #Mauthausen, führte u.a. Selektionen und Vergasungen durch, bzw. leitete diese. 13.5.1946 im Mauthausen-Prozess zum Tode verurteilt. [THREAD] #OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblat

6. Mai 1945 Häftlinge bei der Befreiung des KZ Mauthausen durch US Army
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It’s a little known fact that Bomber Command did send some RAF heavy bombers to North Africa (albeit in very small numbers) to help shore up the catastrophic situation in June 1942. These were RAF Liberators and Halifaxes. Working alongside USAAF HALPRO detachment heavies.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A letter sent by a soldier of Infantry Regiment 6, Army Group North, to his parents in September 1941, including a plant clipping.

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

8 May 1943 Headquarter of Jewish Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters captured by German troops. Most of the 120 fighters present rather took their own life than surrender. #OTD #History

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Men of the 14th ‘Buckinghamshire’ Regiment of Foot in the trenches outside Sevastopol in 1855, during the Crimean War. They became known as the ‘Bomb-Proofs’, owing to their low casualties despite heavy Russian bombardments.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Since 2008 the eastern half of the dimensions of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, a church from 1739 on Glinkastr. (Berlin-Mitte), destroyed in air raids and the Battle of Berlin in WW2, are shown by a mosaic in the ground. The western part of the location, including a part of Mauerstr., has been (…)

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Included is an autobiographical timeline from 1925 to 1945, mostly outlining his time in the German Red Cross and the Hitler Youth.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This unassuming box of paperwork has just arrived from Denmark. Weighing 4kg, it was collected by a man who served in the Wehrmacht 6th Infantry Regiment and was involved in veteran associations postwar. He served predominantly on the Eastern Front, but ended the war in the west. A future project...

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

21.4.1958 NS-Kriegsverbrecher Otto Bradfisch verhaftet. Führer des Einsatzkommandos 8, Einsatzgruppe B verantwortete Deportation und Exekution Tausender. #OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblatt #Geschichte #Kriegsverbrechen #WWII

Otto Bradfisch, Jurist, Regierungsrat, Führer des Einsatzkommandos 8, Einsatzgruppe B. verantwortete Exekutionen von Tausenden Menschen in den besetzten Ostgebieten, sowie Deportationen in die NS-Vernichtungslager. Bradfisch flüchtete Mitte Januar 1945 vor der Roten Armee nach Potsdam, ließ sich Tage vor der Kapitulation ein Soldbuch auf den Namen "Karl Evers" ausstellen. Die auf den Decknamen ausgestellten Dokumente verhalfen Bradfisch zu einer frühen Entlassung aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft bereits Ende August 1945. Ab 1953 führte er wieder offen den Namen Bradfisch und war als Versicherungsvertreter tätig. 19.4.1960 erhob das LG München Anklage. 21.7.1961 wurde Bradfisch wegen eines in Mittäterschaft begangenen Verbrechens der Beihilfe zum gemeinschaftlichen Mord in 15.000 Fällen zu zehn Jahren Zuchthaus verurteilt. Durch ein nachfolgendes Urteil in Hannover kamen drei weitere Jahre Haft hinzu. Bradfisch wurde 1969 vorzeitig aus der Haft entlassen.

Links foto bradfisch sitzend vor gericht, profil, bildquelle wikipedia lizenz gemeinfrei

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A historically significant auction is soon to take place to sell the possessions of OKH Chief of Staff General Franz Halder in 145 lots. As well as personal items, there are also significant document collections listed, including war diaries and reports. alexautographs.com/auction-catalo…

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Royal Mail was privatised 13 years ago. Since then prices have tripled, and the service is garbage. Another lesson of how privatisation never works. Nationalise the lot, don't pay a penny, they have already stolen enough.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A Wehrmacht Heer NCO looking on, smiling.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Another nice study of the advance of eighth Army in Tunisia. Crusaders of 9 Queens Royal Lancers passing through el Hamma. The German sign says ‘Waterpoint El Hamma in town’.

Crusader tanks of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers moving through the town of El Hamma, near Gabes in southern Tunisia - 29 March 1943

The first tank is a Crusader Mk II (probably a command tank) armed with the 2pdr gun. The two behind are Mk IIIs armed with the 6pdr.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Today I have had the honour of becoming the custodian to the effects of my friend’s Father, Lieutenant Douglas Walker Cattanach who served in the Highland Light Infantry during the SWW. The photograph, taken in Selby Park in 1943, shows him wearing said pieces!

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The first draft done, research done - the MS exists. Next phase: marking, pruning, compressing, and then handing over to editors/readers. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @michaeldwyer.bsky.social

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This female statue at the St. Matthias cemetery on Röblingstr. (Berlin-Tempelhof) was shot in its back, probably during the last days of WW2, possibly because it was mistaken for a real person. In 2006 it was relocated to about 70 metres east of the church, now overlooking the war graves.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Some of the building ensembles from the late 1930s on Grazer Damm, five-storey apartment blocks lining the streets with huge courts in the middle from where most buildings are accessible, have retained their totalitarian “charm” (most carry a plaque from the reconstruction program, here 1952/53).

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The fountain near the corner of Vorarlberger Damm and Riemenschneiderweg (Berlin- Schöneberg), sculpted by Arthur Wellmann in 1940, can be read as showing a scene from a German fairy tale (hence “Snow White” fountain), but also as being about the ideal of motherhood under National Socialism.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

One of several former AA platforms north of Priesterweg S-Bahn station (Berlin-Schöneberg), now used as picnic areas (I did not want to disturb).

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Mikkel Dack @mikkeldack.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If you haven't already heard, the U.S. National Archives is making most of its microfilmed Nazi membership records (16 million digital objects) available online free of charge. It's not the cleanest of collections, but still an incredible resource for historians, students, and genealogists.

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

17.3.1969: SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche vor dem Bezirksgericht Erfurt wegen NS-Verbrechen angeklagt. #OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblatt #Kriegsverbrechen

Nach zweijähriger Untersuchungshaft in der zentralen Untersuchungshaftanstalt des MfS in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen wird vor dem Bezirksgericht Anklage erhoben wegen Erschießung von Juden im Rahmen der Räumung des Warschauer Ghettos, sowie Misshandlung von Polen und Beteiligung an Exekutionen in Weißrussland im Sommer 1941. Bei Räumung des Ghettos hat sich Blösche als Fachmann im Aufspüren von Verstecken einen Namen gemacht. Er trug den Spitznamen "Frankenstein”, weil er seinen Sadismus im Ghetto frei auslebte. Blösche wird wegen Beteiligung an der Deportation von mindestens 300.000 Menschen zum Tode verurteilt und in der Zentralen Hinrichtungsstätte der DDR im Leipziger Gefängnis in der Alfred-Kästner-Straße per Genickschuss hingerichtet.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The archer at Steglitz Cemetery on Bergstr. (Berlin-Steglitz) is a statue that was erected in 1957 and dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the “Flakartillerie” (anti-aircraft artillery) in WW1 and WW2. Behind it, a big rock commemorates the fellow citizens of Berlin-Steglitz in both wars.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A small collection of letters sent by Rottwachtmeister Emil Hogg of Police Bataillon 51 to his wife. One letter was sent from Elsass and the others from Byelorussia. Two letters date around the time of Operation Potsdam, a security action which resulted in 300 ‘Partisans’ killed.

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Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

THREAD - Long thread on civil defence and resilience. Hopefully interesting. This was originally posted on Twitter in 2021 and formed the basis of an article in Policing Insight. Updates added. We're in different times! #civildefence #UKresilience

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A lovely Valentine’s weekend in Windsor for my girlfriend’s choir’s residency at St George’s Chapel 🙌🏻✨

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Topographie des Terrors @topographie.de · 16/02/2026

You might be interested to know that Christian Stein will be presenting his book tomorrow (Tue. Feb. 17) at Topography of Terror Documentation Center. The event will be streamed live on YouTube (and the video will be published a few days later). bsky.app/profile/topo...

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The curved streets in the foreground were next to the sunken gardens that at one point used to be the Luisenstadt Canal and (starting in 1961) part of the No-man’s land between East and West Berlin.

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Jake Holliday @jakeoliverholliday.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I found these Victorian/Edwardian wool fall-front trousers in a local charity shop today. They were made through the Amalgamated Society of Tailors, which existed under that name between 1866 and 1906!

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Failing to hold Farage accountable is exactly the path that led to Trump in the US. There has to be accountability *early* or there's no stopping the runaway train.

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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

(2) Sophienkirche (Große Hamburger Str., Berlin-Mitte): Later that day, King crossed the border into East Berlin, using his credit card as an id, and gave sermons in English at two churches, one of the Sophienkirche.

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