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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”

For Ingar the war started with flowers


He had been tortured of german soldiers. Scars at the cheek could tell. He took refugees from Norway over the border to Sweden in nazi-occupied Norway during World War 2. Route Flisa – Sysslebäck. Northern part of Värmland. It started at a plant factory where flowers grew. He was asked to take people across theContinue reading “For Ingar the war started with flowers”