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Dorothea Trudel was called an apostle of healing


Dorothea was born on October 27, 1813. She was brought up in a very poor family in Männedorf, Switzerland. She was one of 11 children.Her father was an angry man who drank, and could not support his family financially. At one point he sold one of their two cows, a source of income, and thenContinue reading “Dorothea Trudel was called an apostle of healing”

The Mysterious Meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg | The National WWII Museum Blog


The Mysterious Meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg | The National WWII Museum Blog — Läs på http://www.nww2m.com/2011/09/the-mysterious-meeting-between-niels-bohr-and-werner-heisenberg/

Operation Infatuate


the codename for the invasion of the Dutch Island of Walcheren, was a major Combined Operation’s amphibious landing against entrenched German defensive positions. The fortified island stood at the mouth of the River Scheldt blocking Allied access to the captured port of Antwerp some 60 kilometres inland. It was urgently needed to supply the advancingContinue reading “Operation Infatuate”

SOE in Scotland training site during ww2


Glenmore Lodge lies some six miles east of Aviemore, and was formerly a Victorian hunting lodge, and became a hostel when the Central Council for Physical Education acquired it in 1947. It later became the Loch Morlich Youth Hostel, and then the Cairngorm Lodge Youth Hostel, after Scotland’s National Outdoor Training Centre was opened inContinue reading “SOE in Scotland training site during ww2”