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D-DAY TO BERLIN: VETERANS' VOICES
GEORGE DURACK
Season 1, Ep. 2
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George Durack describes growing up in London slums; volunteering for army; thoughts on conscientious objection; going AWOL and military prison; arrival in Normandy; traumatic experience of battle; role as a liberator and interaction with civilians; witnessing punishment of Nazi collaborators; qualitative difference in German Army between Panzer troops and ex-Soviet conscripts; visit from Montgomery; interaction with US Airborne during Operation Market-Garden; Belsen concentration camp; work as trade unionist and peace campaigner after war; views on Blair and Corbyn; thoughts on Afghanistan, Iraq, nuclear weapons, and political life.
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1. VICTOR MACKENZIE
40:53||Season 1, Ep. 1Victor MacKenzie speaks about his early years; the outbreak of war; on conscientious objectors; training and arrival in Normandy; engagement with Waffen-SS at Villers-Bocage; wounded whilst crossing the river Orne; battlefield chaos and taking prisoners; reception as liberator by French and Belgian civilians; attitudes to German veterans in later life; Belsen concentration camp; his perspectives on more recent UK foreign policy, intervention in Afghanistan; his later life and career in industry and education.