War diary: 20 July 1944

This is the story of a massive ground and air attack by the Germans on the Resistance camps of the Montagne Noire, including the subsequent report by the pro-Vichy gendarmes of Mazamet. war-diary-20-july-1944.html

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From the Caucasus to Castres via the Red Army and the Wehrmacht

This post tells the extraordinary story of Vakhtang Sekhniachvili. It follows on from: Identifying the German soldiers buried at the Château de Garrevaques. from-the-caucasus-to-castres-via-the-red-army-and-the-wehrmacht.html

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Identifying the German soldiers buried at the Château de Garrevaques

The Château de Garrevaques lies in the Lauragais, south-west France, and one day the owner shared a memory from her childhood, something that had happened a few years after the end of the second world war. ​‘When I was old enough to run around in the grounds of the château my grandmother used to tell me never to play in one particular corner of the garden. A pair of iron crosses marked the graves of two German soldiers. When I was twelve or thirteen, the German army came and took them away.’ who-were-the-two-dead-soldiers.html

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