Hitler & The Shooting House – David Lewis
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In my previous Blog, I described how Hitler was blinded by a British gas attack, on October 1918, while fighting with the List Regiment outside the Belgium town of Wervicq.…
The Gassing of Adolf Hitler – David Lewis
On October 15th, 1918, Adolf Hitler, a Meldeganger or Company runner with the 16th List Regiment, was stationed in the war devastated Belgium town of Wervicq-Sud on the River Lys. The…
Deadly Clouds – The Poison Gases of World War I David Lewis
The idea of using gas to kill, disable or harass, the enemy was first proposed during the Crimean War. At the siege of Sebastopol, in 1855, a young naval officer,…
Pirates in the Sky – The Life and Death of a Zeppelin Crew David Lewis
The night of October 1st, 1916, was moonless with visibility further restricted by patches of dense fog. Just before 10 o’clock, Second Lieutenant Wulstan Joseph Tempest took off from his…
This film from 1957 shows the casual way in which radiation hazards were treated with soldiers being exposed to atomic explosions
In the 50s soldiers were routinely exposed to atomic bomb tests with little concern being expressed about its long-term health implications. The video, from 1957, provides a hideous reminder…
The Story of a Store – How Nazis Robbed the Jews of Paris David Lewis
In the early 1930’s Jewish entrepreneur Wolf Lévitan opened the Lévitan, an elegantly designed department store, as Paris’s first ever IKEA. Over four floors, and in a capacious basement, it…