Category: WWII

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In stark contrast to the Hitler Youth, the Edelweiss Pirates resisted Nazism in any way they could at a time when doing so was a criminal offense.
Despite leaving behind little information on their exploits, a group of German teenagers known as the Edelweiss Pirates played an important role in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
Much like the tenacious edelweiss flower clinging to the crags of Austria’s Alps that the group was named after, these young Germans resisted Nazi indoctrination.

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Many moons ago when I started my VI Corps Combat Engineers of WWII website, I also began a forum, which currently has 2,336 members registered. Our members have made a total of 31,138 posts in 5,423 threads. I’m always pleased to see the amount of traffic it receives on a daily basis, even after all this time. For instance, in the last fifteen minutes (those are how stats are presented), I see 102 visitors. The most users online at one time was 673 on 04-25-2024 at 03:22 PM. That astounds me and makes me feel very proud…

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Today I was contacted by Amy Munneke. She sent me the following email regarding their newscast, scheduled for Tues, June 4, 2024.

Hi Marion,

My name is Amy Munneke and I’m a producer with Special Report on Fox news. We are airing a package tomorrow that profiles three men who died on D-Day. One of those men is Julius Wolfe who I know have some photos of in your collection. I’m wondering if we could get permission to use those with courtesy?

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Years ago, I started a site that I dedicated to my father, a 540th Combat Engineer. But never in my wildest imaginings, could I see what the future beheld. Those two tiny pages of derived information, turned into hundreds of pages, and encounters with veterans, their families and friends, and spontaneous friendships around the world with WWII historians, and others with the same avid interests.

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