James Holland
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He didn't recognize the place.
And do you know what he did?
He joined up again.
went back out of Europe and was one of the first people in Belsen.
So, you know. What was his justification for that for joining right back? He just felt completely disconnected to home. He felt that the gulf of time, his experiences had separated him from all the normalities of life. And he felt that the normalities of the life that he had known
So, you know. What was his justification for that for joining right back? He just felt completely disconnected to home. He felt that the gulf of time, his experiences had separated him from all the normalities of life. And he felt that the normalities of the life that he had known
So, you know. What was his justification for that for joining right back? He just felt completely disconnected to home. He felt that the gulf of time, his experiences had separated him from all the normalities of life. And he felt that the normalities of the life that he had known
So, you know.
What was his justification for that for joining right back?
He just felt completely disconnected to home.
He felt that the gulf of time, his experiences had separated him from all the normalities of life.
And he felt that the normalities of the life that he had known
before he'd gone away to war, had just been severed in a really kind of cruel way that he didn't really feel he was able to confront at that particular point.
before he'd gone away to war, had just been severed in a really kind of cruel way that he didn't really feel he was able to confront at that particular point. But he decided to rejoin, couldn't go back to the Third World Tank Regiment, so went back to a different unit. Went from kind of the Italian campaign to European theater.
before he'd gone away to war, had just been severed in a really kind of cruel way that he didn't really feel he was able to confront at that particular point. But he decided to rejoin, couldn't go back to the Third World Tank Regiment, so went back to a different unit. Went from kind of the Italian campaign to European theater.
before he'd gone away to war, had just been severed in a really kind of cruel way that he didn't really feel he was able to confront at that particular point. But he decided to rejoin, couldn't go back to the Third World Tank Regiment, so went back to a different unit. Went from kind of the Italian campaign to European theater.
But he decided to rejoin, couldn't go back to the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, so went back to a different unit.
Went from kind of the Italian campaign to European theater.
um, didn't see so much action at the end, but you know, uh, like a lot of British troops, if, if you were in a certain division at a certain time, you know, you ended up passing very close to Belson and, you know, you suddenly realized, okay, this was the right thing to do.
Didn't see so much action at the end, but like a lot of British troops, if you were in a certain division at a certain time, you ended up passing very close to Belsen and you suddenly realized, okay, this was the right thing to do. We did have to get rid of Nazis and we did have to do this because this is the consequence. It's not just the oppression. It's just not just the secret police. It's not