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Archive for January 15th, 2009

Story Ninety-Nine: Sex, Love and War

Posted in Uncategorized on +00002009-01-15T20:55:12+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 20:55:12 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Over two million allies  soldiers were stationed in wartime Britain, over 500,000 Canadians  were stationed in Britain between 1939 and 1945,    combined with the 1 1/2 million American men,  these men had a variety of affairs with local British women.
The BBC  series  Sex, Love and War details the stories of British women and  their [...]

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Story Ninety-Eight: Treason

Posted in Uncategorized on +00002009-01-15T17:03:24+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 17:03:24 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In 1944 the Nazi created the Britisches Freikorps or British Free Corps which was the brainchild of John Amery a son of a British cabinet minister. This Nazi recruitment effort focused on recruiting POW’s which included three Canadians.
Edwin Barnard Martin of the Essex Scottish Regiment(Captured at Dieppe [...]

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Story Ninety Seven: Satire and Nazi Germany

Posted in Comedy, World War Two on +00002009-01-15T16:19:17+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 16:19:17 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This BBC documentary posted at GoogleVideos looks at the clampdown on satire and other undesirable comedians as the Third Reich grew in power. The plight of specific groups (or “art”) tends to get lost in the scale of the much bigger human cost of WWII.
However here the film looks at how satire and [...]

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Story Ninety Six: Military Documentaries

Posted in Uncategorized on +00002009-01-15T15:32:04+00:00312009bUTCThu, 15 Jan 2009 15:32:04 +0000 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Canadian Military Documentaries
A  collection  of short  documentaries detailing the contributionof Canadians from WW One to the Afghanistan conflict.

The Power and the Grace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpFmKx9yt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW1jpOVdFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arp6FEZqs
Canadian Nurses at the Front
Nursing sisters played a major role during the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918, 2,504 served in Europe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPJ4JXp5wd8
World War One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3QJRM7tCI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdJVfLA38tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdnx42ejug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNerOTB-OxQ
World War Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Znr-eaov20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlYmDWFI1I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZCDfhoNxA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYo-FI8K4Vo
Canada at War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjquyqIH-4s
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=Canadian+military+documentaries&hl=en&emb=0#
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=Canadian+military+documentaries&hl=en&emb=0#
Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNpJ4cNPBxE&feature=related
More Documentaries
FactualTV  has  a collection of [...]

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