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Conflict In Europe

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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The Life Expectancy of a Wireless Operator

This is a tunic of Ronald Al-Gryerson, who fled Germany before the Second World War and came to England. He was interned when the war started because he was a German but eventually persuaded them to let him join the SAS. And we wanted to really have this out because we wanted to again recognise that contribution of those German Jews who fled Germany then took the fight to Hitler as part of the British Army. Yeah, it's absolutely remarkable, isn't it? Then this last one over here, this rather wonderful sketch of a sea poi, which Sophie found in the collection, obviously, and wanted to bring out.

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