Working alongside the Gestapo, they hunted Resistance members, persecuted Jews, and profited from violence until justice caught up with them after the war.
Romer Kitching has established himself as one of the most talented contemporary painters in Roussillon.
I have chosen at random three of the new exhibits….
10th June 1944. One of the last two eye witnesses to this terrible massacre gives a meticulous account of that tragic day, filmed in the ruins of the village
O’Leary radioed London with the message “Pas plus de bateau que de beurre au cul!”
Normandy’s coastline remains one of the most powerful reminders of World War II
Many of us have taken to the hot springs of Dorres without knowing anything of its interesting history during the Second World War. The fashionable contempt in which the French hold the clergy seems to have been completely unjustified in that era…..but judge for yourselves.
British soldiers, arriving at the camp in April 1945 were met with around 10,000 unburied corpses lying where they had died.
One of the most successful escape routes for allied airmen wishing to cross the border into Spain was right here in the P-O, known as the Pat Line, after the man who set it up.
We all learn differently, and as we grow older, one of the greatest blocks to learning is memory. And yet many of us can still sing along to new songs – and remember the words!