German court fined University of Warwick academic Dr Anna Hájková £3,700
Dr Hájková had claimed in a research paper that a concentration camp prisoner had a lesbian relationship with one of her SS guards
The prisoner s daughter was granted an injunction in April after judges ruled the research violated the dignity of her dead relative
Dr Hájková was then sued in October for allowing the material to remain online
SOME of the Christmas celebrations by people working in district mills of yesteryear have been recalled by a Bradford photographer. Ian Beesley has shared his collection of festive images of people from mills, across the Bradford district from the 1970s and 80s. He would visit these workplaces around Christmas time that he would regularly capture the rest of the year, to see them in all of their festive glory.
Festive high jinx captured by Ian Beesley The images include Yuletide scenes at tinsel-clad Salts Mill in Saltaire and Drummond Mill in Lumb Lane in Manningham. He has also included a couple of festive shots of workers at the Tetley s factory in Leeds.
Christmas 2020? channel the Blitz spirit! By Felicity Day 00:02 20 Dec 2020, updated 00:02 20 Dec 2020
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In 1940 Londoners were encouraged to move parties and Decorations to Tube shelters to create a ‘Christmas fairyland’
This isn’t the first time Britain has had to adapt for the big day – but at least we don’t have to dish up the turkey in a bunker
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Throughout the Covid crisis we’ve been urged to rely on the famous ‘Blitz spirit’ – but what did that look like when it came to Christmas? Like 2020, 1940 ended very differently to the way it began.
In January 1940, four months into what had been dubbed the ‘Phoney War’ with Germany, there had been no major military engagements. More British civilians had died in road accidents as a result of the blackout than servicemen in action. Nor was there any apparent danger on the home front. The anticipated air raids had failed to material
More than 100 years later, Britainâs Imperial War Museum gives a straightforward account of how many soldiers died, how many shells were fired and even the weight of packs carried on the bloodiest day in Britainâs military history.
âAs an attritional offensive, the Battle of the Somme involved heavy casualties on both sides. By the end of the first day., British forces had suffered 57,470 casualties, of whom 19,240 were killed.â
The war poet Wilfred Owen, who died one week before the 1918 armistice, had this to say about trench warfare: âWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle? â Only the monstrous anger of the guns.â
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