wine society buyer, busy dad, with views on wine and food, with occasional forrays into music, history etc. opinions evidently my own
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Marcel Orford-Williams 🔶 retweeted
The Jewish survivor who sat daily with Hitler’s top Nazis in their Nuremberg prison cells, translated their darkest secrets for the psychiatrists.
Those men murdered his parents, but he had no bitterness, just extraordinary humanity.
This is Howard Triest’s untold story:
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Marcel Orford-Williams 🔶 retweeted
Reform: “Britain is broken. And what we need in our party are people who have frontline experience of breaking it”.
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Remember Aida Rostami was a brave doctor in Iran. She cared for people who were fighting for freedom by protesting against the regime. For this, the Islamic regime punished her in the most horrific way. They tortured her, breaking her bones, her nose, and her shoulders. They gouged out her left eye. Then, they murdered her.
Her broken body tells a story of unimaginable cruelty. Aida didn’t deserve this—she was a healer, not a criminal. The regime’s evil took her life because she dared to help others. Her sacrifice must not be forgotten.
We can’t stay silent. Aida’s story is a call to action. We must honor her courage by standing up against this brutality.
Marcel Orford-Williams 🔶 retweeted
Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday
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Hell in Paradis - 27 May 1940
After suffering heavy losses crossing the Aire canal in the Béthune sector. SS Totenkopf troops face a rearguard action by men of the 2nd Royal Norfolk Regiment, 1st Royal Scots and the 8th Lancashire Fusiliers, along a defensive line in the hamlets of Riez du Vinage, Le Cornet Malo and Le Paradis.
Men of the Royal Norfolks hold out in a farmhouse and fight until out of ammunition before surrendering to SS troops of the Totenkopf division.... they are gathered and led down the road.....
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Freddie Morgan was a Jewish refugee who became a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, risked his life on the Rock of Gibraltar, and built an NHS practice from scratch.
He is one of WWII’s forgotten heroes.
This is his wartime story:
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“Holy Spirits”
The menu from Pope Leo XIV’s first dinner with the cardinals has surfaced
A Thread 🧵 on the excellent Italian wines chosen for the occasion 🥂
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Congratulations to our dedicated gardener Muhammad Odeh for twenty years of efforts serving the fallen in Jerusalem war cemetery #Ourworkcontinues
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Had so much pleasure from this, both the bottle and the glass are empty.
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#OTD 7th May 1945:
General Alfred Jodl, representing Nazi Germany, signed the unconditional surrender to the Allies.
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A breathtaking display of 30,000 ceramic poppies has just opened at the Tower of London, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World World Two.
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Major General Louis James Lipsett the last British General to be killed in the Great War. An Irishman born in Ballyshannon. Buried Quéant Communal Cemetery British Extension.
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In August 1944, Elaine Madden (aged 21) boarded a B-24 Liberator at Harrington, ready to parachute into Nazi-occupied Belgium for 'Operation Amelia'.
With a cyanide pill hidden in her lipstick & nerves of steel, she leapt into the night.
This is her daring WW2 story:
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For decades, the world focused on her husband’s Nazi ties.
But what if she was working secretly against the Axis?
She was a royal mother, a secret agent, and a woman the Gestapo feared.
This is the story of Countess Marianne Szápáry:
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Sir Ken Adam, a German-Jewish refugee, fled Hitler, became an RAF pilot, and fought in the skies of some of WW2’s deadliest missions.
He later designed iconic James Bond sets, receiving a knighthood.
This is his personal account of his wartime work:
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Marcel Orford-Williams 🔶 retweeted
Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵
