Have you ever wondered what the D in D-Day stands for?
French writer and poet describes the massacre as unspeakable, its wounds so deep that we dare not mention them, in this desolate poem, ‘Oradour’.
The Avions war memorial at Port Vendres quotes the now legendary tribute from Winston Churchill to the heroic pilots and aircrews who, from June to October 1940 fought the Battle of Britain.
Walter Benjamin, (1892 – 1940) German-Jewish literary critic, fierce critic of Nazism and posthumously one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, has a plaque dedicated to him in Banyuls-sur-Mer.
Thanks to this exhibition, the nomads’ story is finally being told.
We will be judged as a society on how well we treat them.
The war is nearing it’s end. The Germans occupying France are on edge and expecting the Allied Invasion at any time.
Robert Hébras Lanois, the last survivor of the horrendous massacre of the village of Oradour, has died at the age of 97. (February 2023).
Several infamous lady poisoners were chained up in the ’prison des dames’ of the chateau Fort Liberia.
Walking the GR10 Trail in the French Pyrenees with Patrick O’Connell
Franco believed Sardane dancers were passing on coded messages with their feet!