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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2310300/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2310300/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Walking tour highlights America’s WWII troop buildup in Brisbane, Australia <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Brisbane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brisbane</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WalkingTour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WalkingTour</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a></p>
Frank<p>The forgotten adventurer who kayaked 50,000km around the world</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/oskar-speck-world-wars-kayak-gemany-australia-loveday-/105558846" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/osk</span><span class="invisible">ar-speck-world-wars-kayak-gemany-australia-loveday-/105558846</span></a></p><p>What an amazing journey!</p><p><a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/kayak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kayak</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> <a href="https://mymasto.com/tags/OskarSpeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OskarSpeck</span></a></p>
RealJournalism<p>"The message from those who’ve survived nuclear weapons is clear: Time to end these inhumane weapons of mass destruction. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is the only international treaty that outlaws them and all nuclear armed states must join." -- ICAN, an organization working to abolish nuclear weapons. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hiroshima</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nagasaki</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a></p>
Peter Schweighofer<p>My western <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> education never taught me about the <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/WarsawUprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarsawUprising</span></a> until I followed this podcast last year. Worth a listen for some horrifying if overlooked history. I also urge folks to follow Alina Nowobilska on Bluesky (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/ww2girl1944.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/ww2girl1944.b</span><span class="invisible">sky.social</span></a>) or still on X-Twitter (<a href="https://x.com/ww2girl1944" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">x.com/ww2girl1944</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) as she profiles those who served and died in the uprising <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/A0xTEnShcfY?si=OpeVFQJHhhcCla6l" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/A0xTEnShcfY?si=OpeVFQ</span><span class="invisible">JHhhcCla6l</span></a></p>
World War II Database<p>Today in WW2 History, 2 Aug 1945: [Photo] Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> <a href="https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=3505" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=3</span><span class="invisible">505</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>Aug 2, 1944: On this date, Office of Strategic Services’ Operation Halyard begins with a 3 person mission team parachuting into Pranjani, Serbia. The members of the Halyard mission were: George Musulin, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MN</span></a> native Michael Rajacich (from Chisholm), &amp; radio operator Arthur Jibilian (the last surviving member of the mission, but died of leukemia in 2010). It was the largest rescue of American flyers in history: 432 US &amp; 80 Allied personnel airlifted. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Serbia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Halyard" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio</span><span class="invisible">n_Halyard</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>On this date, Aug 2, 1917, French resistance fighter Catherine Dior was born. Arrested by the Gestapo in July, 1944, she survived Ravensbrück. After the war she received multiple awards for her antifascist resistance. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Dior" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherin</span><span class="invisible">e_Dior</span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>Aug 1, 1944: On this date the Warsaw Uprising begins. The uprising continued through Oct 4, 1944</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Partisans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Partisans</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm20ENn9MAE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Qm20ENn9MAE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Minnesota Spy Club<p>Aug 1: On this date in 1944, Maj. Peter Ortiz, 6 marines, &amp; a captain in the Army Air Corps parachuted into the French Alps approximately 30 kilometers from the town of Albertville, landing above German forces on a plateau named Col des Saisies as part of Operation Union II. </p><p>Team members included: Sergeants Charles Perry, Jack Risler, John Bodnar, Fred Brunner; GySgt Robert La Salle; &amp; Captain John Coolidge (Army Air Corps). </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-spy-who-surrendered-to-the-nazis-to-save-civilians-180982003/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/history/the</span><span class="invisible">-american-spy-who-surrendered-to-the-nazis-to-save-civilians-180982003/</span></a></p>

Visiting Westerplatte in Gdańsk.

For my uneducated followers (I didn’t know it myself, lol 😅), here’s some historical context. World War II began here on September 1, 1939, at 4:45 a.m., when Germany launched an attack against Poland on this place.
#ww2 #poland #germany #gdansk

"The German POWs in Australia asked the Australian government to ask the German government to supply them with new uniforms," he said.

"The German government said, 'Nope, but we will certainly send bolts of cloth, badges, buttons, decorations, and other embellishments'.

abc.net.au/news/2023-02-05/wor

ABC News · World War II Marrinup prisoner of war camp stories unearthed by amateur historian over decadesBy Emma Wynne
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Josephine Tey’s Golden Age: how WW2 made this Scottish writer want to write mysteries again

Currently available on BBC Sounds – the Shedunnit Show discusses “Queens of Crime at War” with Josephine Tey’s biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson

4/7

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c4kk5s

BBCBBC Sounds - Shedunnit, Josephine Tey's Golden AgeWW2 made this Scottish writer want to write mysteries again.

Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?

Amazon - myBook.to/intotheunknown
Other Retailers - books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWII #WW2 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Every single #ice agent needs to be arrested and held accountable.

"Following orders" didn't work during trials for Nazis after #ww2 so it shouldn't be justified for them either.

They should all get at least a decade.

Make an example out of what happens when you have no spine, and commit crimes as a result.

They were arresting people within half a mile of where I live.

It went viral.

Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

Stop talking, go to jail!