Tagged: tim wickenden

A Tale of Two Boys – Part 2

Following on from the story of 16-year-old Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Hübner, here is the story of 12-year-old Alfred Czech… Alfred’s Story Twelve-year-old Hitlerjugend platoon leader Alfred Czech after the award of his Iron Cross by the...

A Tale of Two Boys – Part 1

“Everyone made a brief report: ‘Oberkamaradschaftsführer Hübner, Bann 803, Lower Silesia area, messenger in the fight for Lauban.’ And he shook hands with everyone. When he stroked my cheek, he said: ‘Well, my boy’...

Picture Post: Tim Wickenden

We all need a bit of uplifting in this most peculiar of times. As most of us are at home and those of us who are going out are perhaps missing our favourite places,...

The Ultimate Atrocity

An account of Bergen-Belsen in Nazi Germany by Pembrokeshire author Tim Wickenden As the aircraft landed on the hastily repaired strip – a Jock [Scottish] doctor raced up to us in his Jeep. “Got...