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Licensed to thrill, it's wartime television in the news; famous films; and an update from the Scottish Seaweed Research Council. Andy and Merryn dig into this week's issues of The Lowlander - the newsletter that was sent out daily to men of the 52nd (Lowland) Division...
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Introduction to 'The Lowlander' Newsletter
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From 1944 to 1945, the 52nd Lowlander Division is fighting its way across Northwest Europe. The writing is on the wall, but it's also on the page. The Army Education Branch sends a newsletter out to thousands of men, all pulling together, pushing the enemy back. This newsletter is called The Lowlander.
WWII Updates from 'The Lowlander'
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Hello, Andy. Hello, Mary. Hello, hello. Here we are again, back with the Lowlander, picking out our favourite articles and the news updates that accord our eye in the regular newsletter sent out to the men of the 52nd Lowlander Division, this time between the 4th and 11th of March in 1945. Yeah, there were only five days worth of Lowlanders in the war diaries when I went. Clearly some went straight, but the ones we have got show focus on Europe. Lots of reports about bombings in Germany, for example. Still, what else is going on in the war this week?
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in the war this
Wehrmacht Drafts Youths and Operation Spring Awakening
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week. Well, in Europe, in Germany, you've got the Wehrmacht is starting to call up 15 and 16 year old boys. So that shows how desperate things are getting. And the German forces on the Eastern front have launched Operation Spring Awakening, which is the last major German offensive of the war. But further afield, we've got the US has just started a 48 hour fire bombing of Tokyo. That's the one that destroyed, what was it, about 16, 17 square miles
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landscape in and around the city and killed somewhere around 125,000 people. Not good, not good. Shall we find out where the jocks are please? Tell us where the men of the 52nd Lowland Division are and what's
Operation Veritable and the Weasel Pocket
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going on.
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Well, finally the front has now started to move and we're coming into the last days of what started out as Operation Veritable back in February. The Germans moved out from the area in front of the jocks who were in Afford and Wood. So they start moving back to something called the weasel pocket and this is basically the last toehold the Germans have on the west bank of the Rhine. The town of weasel is on the east bank and they're basically fairing their equipment and men
00:02:17
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and anything they can out of the Rhineland across that bridge into Vasel and once it's done they're going to blow that up. So it's the last working bridge across the Rhine in this particular sector and the Canadians, the British and the Americans are all squeezing the Vasel pocket. Now the 52nd loan division once they move out of African woods they head sort of southeast and on the morning of the 9th of March
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1945 they launched what was going to be their last attacks on this particular part of Germany and the 4th 5th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers they capture the town of Alpen and immediately after them passing through them is the 6th Battalion the Cameroonians and they have to capture a large industrial factory complex just outside of Alpen
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And once they do that, then the fourth battalion of the King's own Scottish Borders, so the battalion that Peter White is in, they're going to pass through some open ground to the north of Alpen, cross over a railway embankment and capture a sort of old, sort of medieval fortified farmhouse called House Lou, and they're supported on the left by the Guards Armoured Division.
Challenges at Alpen for the 52nd Lowland Division
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The six Cameroonians, when they get into that factory, they don't capture it. In fact, they get pretty severely beaten up by the Germans. In fact, a whole company, sea company, go missing and they can't find them. They think they've all been killed, actually been captured. So pretty much the whole company was captured and they were spirited away to Northern Germany to a prison camp.
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and this causes problems for the 4th Battalion because as they're moving across the open ground the factory, the Germans that are in the factory start firing on them and there's lots of casualties but eventually they capture House Lou and really that's it for the 52nd Lowland Division on this side of the Rhine. That's them, once they've captured House Lou there's a little bit of movement the next day but pretty much on the 10th of March the vasal pocket is closed and the Rhineland is finally secured. Blimey, so it's all going on? All going on.
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All right, well, let's get started. Let's look at the Lowlander and see what they would have been reading about during that week, if indeed they had time. Yep.
Battle for Mandalay in Burma
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7th of March, 1945, the Battle for Mandalay. The fighting in central Burma is growing in intensity. More details have been released of the brilliant 14th Army drive that has virtually cut off the entire Japanese forces in northern Burma.
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The Japanese had concentrated around Mandalay and to the south around the oil fields. We first drew their reserves by crossing the Irrawaddy well to the west of Mandalay and then crossed the river at Pagan. Two divisions were quickly pushed over to prevent the Japs advancing north from Yananang, Yuang, whilst the armored spearhead pushed on 85 miles to capture Maketilla.
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Here, eight airfields were overrun and airborne troops and suppliers have since been pouring in to reinforce the ground troops. Mactilla is a meeting point for six important roads and latest reports say that we are now fighting for Tarsi, 14 miles to the east, and the junction of all the railways serving North Burma.
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Other Allied forces are less than 12 miles north of Mandalay and, in the meantime, some 30,000 Japanese soldiers have had their lines of communication southwards towards Rangoon severed by this daring feat of arms carried out in very difficult country. Yes, it's all going now, Burma. That is the most really, really big, big, big battle in Burma. But we should talk about the map that's directly below this. I think it's quite a good one.
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It's not a bad one, is it? It certainly shows who's going where. This is the land of places that are really, really difficult.
00:05:59
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For goodness sakes! But it's good because it shows you all the axis of advances that you just mentioned they've shown and actually it shows the Chinese as well up top at Lishio. So that's the Chinese up there and it's got the crossing at Shwebo, the attack on Mandalay. So that was the 19th Indian Division and the 2nd British Infantry Division attacking Mandalay.
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In fact, it's not captured really until the end of March, but they get into the city this week and they start to clear the Japanese who are notoriously tough at defending them. And at the same time, there's a sort of null of force attacking Micteela, which is a sort of enveloping the Japanese
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And it's kind of the last big, big battle. Yes, it's the last hurrah, isn't it? This is the second British division, which is General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson. Yes. And he became the governor of the Royal Hospital at the Chelsea.
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Of course the first battalion of the Royal Scots is in the second division. They are the senior British in between battalion regiment and the British army and of course there's people in the 7th and 9th Royal Scots within the 52nd so there's a link there and no doubt they would have known people in that division and in that battalion fighting. It's still impossible place name though. Yes.
Lord Dawson's Legacy
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3rd March 1945 Lord Dawson of Penn, the famous physician, has died at the age of 80 Now you had to remind me who Lord Dawson of Penn was but oh my goodness me I may have called him the Kingslayer
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Do you know why I would call him that? Yes, I do indeed, because he was the gentleman, I use the word loosely, who wrote the celebrated bulletin announcing that the king's life is moving peacefully to its clothes in January 1936.
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Yes, and he's where we get the quote for the King's Last Words. So as King George V was dying in 1936, he mumbled, God damn you! And it was addressed to his nurse Catherine Black as she gave him a sedative that night. Dawson supported the gentle growth of euthanasia, admitted in the diary that he'd ended the King's life with a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine. I mean, there's worse ways to go.
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Yeah, I mean I didn't really, I had no, I'd sort of vaguely knew this bit, but this is a guy who's put it this way, unless you're a pro-euthanasia you do not want a doctor that is investigating the gentle growth of euthanasia in Britain.
00:08:44
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But hang on a second, if we're going to try and find some redeeming qualities for him, you can always look for the good in people. He was also one of the few to set out some early proposals for a National Health Service. I mean, he nominated the entire idea as early as 1915, 16, I think it was. And one of his first acts when he joined the ministry was to draw up a report that contained the seeds of what then became the National Health Service.
00:09:12
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I mean, I say euthanasia, he was doing it from the right point of view. It's nothing sinister, but obviously he was encouraging it. In fact, there's a little poem written about him and it was put in the Daily Telegraph, and I'm going to, for the first time, ever read a bit of poetry. Go on then. Lord Dawson of Penn killed many men. That's why we sing God Save the King.
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9th March 1945.
American First Army at Remagen
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The Rhine is crossed.
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Men of the American First Army are across the Rhine. From the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland to the polders of Holland, it was all along the river that the enemy probably hoped to make a stand. Behind its broad, swift stream, he could regroup his shattered armies, could rest and re-equip them, and in a last desperate effort to postpone the inevitable, he could deal us a bloody nose when we should eventually strike out for a bridgehead on the eastern bank.
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It is early yet, but all those hopes may well be shattered by the coup which the First Army has brought off. On Wednesday afternoon, infantry and tanks that had reached the suburbs of Bonn skirted round the town and began a thrust up the excellent road which runs parallel to the river.
00:10:32
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Soon they passed beyond the little town of Godesburg, with a Mr Chamberlain once flew, complete with umbrella, to meet the Fuhrer. And shortly afterwards, American infantry turned up at Remagen, seven or eight miles further upstream.
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It is evident the enemy was badly caught out. At Remagen, a railway bridge spans the Rhine. It was this bridge that fell intact into our allies' hands. Opposition was alight and our bridgehead is described as firm.
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Our position was slight and our bridgehead is described as firm. One thing is certain, the enemy will strain every nerve to shake us out of our foothold, but providing we can hold on, we shall sooner or later be able to turn the whole line of his river defences. Well, that's kind of two weeks ahead of the planned crossing of the Rhine. Do you know anything about the bridge at Remagen? I know it's a film.
00:11:32
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apart from the film, they sort of basically turned up on the 7th of March, the Americans. Under Lieutenant Colonel Engerman, he led a task force towards Remagnum because they had a suspicion it was intact. And as they got there, they realised the bridge was intact and he radioed back basically to the Brigadier General, the Hodge, and said, well, we can see the bridge is intact. Do you think we should actually get across?
00:11:57
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He said, yes. And that went back up to very different commands. He said, yeah, go for it. And they crossed it after a little bit of fighting and the Germans had prepped the bridge for demolition. But there was a problem with the circuit and they basically failed to blow it before the Americans got on the bridge. And I mean, we could spend hours and hours and hours talking about Bijer and Meghan. But basically,
00:12:18
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the German engineers messed up and they actually didn't manage to blow it or not successfully blow it. And then of course that was the Americans across. The Americans have actually eventually put five divisions across the bridge over the next few days and weeks. And then eventually the bridge under its own steam collapsed. So there had been some damage to it from some of the explosions and the bridge collapsed into the river on the 17th of March.
00:12:44
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But by that point, the Americans had forced over a treadway bridge and then a bailey bridge as well. So they'd actually use that to form a bridgehead and then reinforce it. But yeah, it's in the grand scheme of Royal, sorry, of engineering disasters in the war, leaving the Romagnan Bridge intact is one of the worst for the Germans anyway. So that means German engineering, that makes them de-crapper sappers, doesn't it? I think we should move on now.
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9th March 1945.
Post-War British Television Plans
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See the world at home. A committee appointed by the government in 1943 has just reported what it thinks should be done about television after the war. The committee wants a new start to be made on the Alexandra Palace lines as soon as possible and other stations to be set up in six provincial centres.
00:13:41
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It also suggests a yearly licence of ยฃ1 to make television self-supporting. But fee or no fee, there is certain to be a great future for the industry for, by relaying films, it will bring Ginger Rogers and Betty Grable into your own homes. That's your incentive. You can imagine the jock sitting there going, ahh, I'm a bit of Ginger Rogers.
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I mean, there was no television broadcast during the Second World War. In 1939, they shut it off because they were worried that the signal might be able to help the German bombers sort of triangulate where their position was and all the rest of it. But it's like everything in the war, even though the war is going on, they're always thinking about stuff after the war. Once we get through this, what are we going to do? What's the war going to be like?
00:14:30
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and of course setting up television. Now television restarted again basically in 1946 and then obviously the rest is history because the license fee takes on. We still pay the license fee nowadays although some people think it's controversial and the six regions are still there as well really. You know you've got the various different regions around the UK.
00:14:52
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And I used to actually work for the company in the UK that actually manages all of the TV broadcasting towers. And the Alexandra Palace mast is still in use that was set up then. It's still in place and it's still got television broadcasting on it. Is it the same bit of infrastructure? It's the same 80 year old bit?
00:15:13
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the actual structure itself but the the obviously the the transmitter on it is very different as a digital transmitter and stuff like that yes yeah because it's also worth I'm think remembering that I mean television hadn't been out that long had it no I mean I think it only really started properly um 1930
00:15:33
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1930 properly. I mean John Peter demonstrated it obviously first in 1926 but 1930 and then then it's kind of there was actually BBC one about BBC television which later becomes BBC one in 1932 so it's it's it's it's actually been going quite long.
00:15:50
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And actually, ironically, we're now sort of probably getting towards the end of terrestrial television as we record this, aren't we? We've probably only got another few years of it. You think so? Yeah, I mean, there'll probably still be something in place, but it's not like it was when we were younger, certainly.
00:16:05
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I know that we sometimes take for granted the fact that we look things up on YouTube and find pathing news reels and odd bits of video and such and such. But when we think back to how people were or weren't getting their information and what the swing of communication was, radio was so important.
00:16:25
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I mean, all the way through the Lowlander, we're now starting to see, and it wasn't there to start off with, in fact, underneath this article, directly underneath this. This is on the back page of today's Lowlander. We've got Good Listening, 9th of March, 1445. Home service and the Forza services, radio, merry-go-round, Ambrose and the arts and stuff.
00:16:48
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And it's interesting to think how quickly the men coming back to Britain would have then settled into, well, you know, I want to have a television in my home and watch things or not. They'd have been used to getting their information by radio. 9th of March 1945.
Lance Corporal Hardin's Victoria Cross
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A VC for RAMC.
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The posthumous award of the Victoria Cross has been made to Lance Corporal Hardin of the Royal Army Medical Corps for heroism in bringing in wounded on 20th January this year. He was in the British Liberation Army.
00:17:29
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This is Henry Eric Hardin, V-C-R-A-M-C, Lance Corporal Hardin. He was a medical orderly attached to Able Troop of 45RM commando in January 1944. And as first commando brigade as it then became, they were tasked to clear the enemy from the Roman Triangle. That's right. They were the very north west of the Royal Triangle.
00:17:55
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So quite a few miles away from the 52nd lowland division, but a final part of rolling up that northwest part of the triangle. Yeah, 7th Armoured Brigade. No, 7th Armoured Division. Oh, I thought it was 7th Armoured Brigade. No, 7th Armoured Division. And they were just to the north of them or just ahead of them. OK, so Hardin was
00:18:20
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He basically went against orders. There was an attack, if I remember rightly, there was an attack. He went out to collect the wounded, went out back out again.
00:18:30
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And he wasn't actually acting as a medical orderly at the time. He got hit. He sort of went down on the second trip out and then got told to stay where he was. But he refused orders, went out again. And I think he's citation. And there's a plaque at the bridge at, oh, what's the name of the place? Malt Fort Beak is the name of the place where it happened. And there's a plaque on the bridge there that actually almost disagrees with the citation.
00:18:57
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about how many times heat this man went out to try and retrieve the wounded and bring them back from under the cover of fire. Brilliant. Yeah. 10th March 1945.
Potential of Seaweed Industry Post-War
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The Scottish Seaweed Research Council issued a report yesterday which forecasts a flourishing industry after the war. Apparently seaweed can be used for textiles, food, production, toothpaste and as a fertiliser.
00:19:26
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down with herring, up with seaweed, that's why. Yeah, with enough of herring when I want seaweed. Specifically, the tapes of kelp, I think they're talking about. Yeah, so the word kelp refers to the burnt ash of seaweed, although that's what it used to mean, but it's been extended to include living plants now. Go on, what do you know about seaweed then?
00:19:47
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Well, specifically in relation to the Scottish Seaweed Research Council or Association. Well, it was the council and then it got turned into the association. They basically set this up to investigate what they can use seaweed for in Scotland. Two things, A, to provide jobs for the outer Hebrides, the Western Isles, well, you know, this industry isn't particularly massive.
00:20:08
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and then also to find out what possible use they could use it for. Now, it has multiple uses, but in this particular scenario for the war effort, they were interested in replacing the jute textile industry, so the one in Dundee, because they could extract certain fibres from seaweed, which were potentially better and cheaper and all the rest of it, and obviously requires less import responsibility than you think about shipping during the Second World War.
00:20:35
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So it's similar to the Herring Council, they set up a council to look specifically seaweed and then the idea is also carrying that on after the war. So what can they use seaweed for and can they sustain an industry?
00:20:50
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Yeah, it's a peculiar thing because seaweed was, it was used in the glass and soap industries in the late 1800s, for ages and ages, because you get soda from brown seaweed. And by 1830, I think it was that they were sort of bringing in 20, 25,000 tons of it and burning about a million tons of it on the shoreline for waste materials afterwards.
00:21:17
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But what they realised was that seaweed is a source of alginic acid. And that's what you need to develop camouflage textiles. So yeah, that's what it was. And when you think about it, I mean, with the colour of seaweed, it's not a surprise. They were harvesting something like 10 million tonnes of brown seaweed each year by mid 1940s. I mean, things were getting weird because I even entered some Cambridge University research paper on the uses of alginic
00:21:47
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It was getting very weird. So I think we had to bring it up to balance the overwhelming trend. I think we had to balance it with seaweed news. 10th of March 1945.
Intensified Bombing Raids on Germany
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Castles in the air. The German industrial city of Castle was hit twice in the past 24 hours.
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On Thursday night, it was heavily hit by the RAF, who also raided Hamburg and Berlin. Yesterday, it was the turn of the US 8th Air Force, which sent 1,400 planes to various German targets, of which Castle was the most important. RAF Lancasters were also out yesterday attacking two oil plants on the edge of the Ruhr. German radio reported raiders over again early last night.
00:22:41
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Shall we just take it as read now that every single day there's going to be huge bombing forces of over a thousand planes? Because every single time we pick up the laundry now, they just, it's the numbers. And it's not just once a week or once every couple, it's not every single day, but it's not far off. There's over 1,400 aircraft. It's astonishing.
00:23:06
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It's been quite strange as well, because as we've gone through recording these, picking up on the trend of what's coming back in terms of information, I mean, we often say to each other, you know, we haven't picked out an article about submarines this week, or about Far East or Russia, etc, etc. But the move towards all the content being about the impact of bombing, I wonder if that is because the men who would have been really, I mean, that's what they would have been focused on, wouldn't it? What's going on over their heads?
00:23:36
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So it would have been a very natural thing to do to put that content in there. Whether or not it is the focus of the war effort, but what they want and need to read about is what's going on around us.
00:23:49
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Yeah, I think there's a morale question as well. It's good to, it's good to let the men know that this is going on. I mean, they would have, I mean, you know, when you read accounts in Northwest Europe, they can hear and they can see the bombers going over. But just to maybe to read it, it's good morale, like you're not on your own. You're actually, you know, don't mention morale and bombing in the same sentence. That's just a tragedy waiting to happen. Really?
00:24:16
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Yeah, because the minute we start talking about bombing campaigns and, you know, it was all designed to impact the morale of the German people. Let me re, let me re-word that. It's the morale of the soldiers reading the newspaper reports. Yeah. Yeah. You can structure that sentence because I don't think I've got the ability to. Well, the reason that I picked this article out was Castle.
00:24:42
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C-A-S-S-E-L is how they're spelling it here, but we know it better as Castle with a K. And Castle, one of the reasons they were targeted, I mean, they mentioned that it's a centre of industry, but you know what it was? It was the headquarters for Germany's Wehrkeis 9, and it was a sub-camp of Dachau that provided forced labour for the Henschel facilities, which included the tank production plants.
00:25:11
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Well I think what you can do is when you say industrial area of Germany there's no doubt some form of what I call labour camp nearby where they're using slave labour from Europe and obviously you know Jewish prisoners as well so
00:25:27
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It's a fascinating place Castle, it's secret societies in the 1600s. It was, they had a centre of, they were selling mercenaries to the British Crown to help suppress the American Revolution. Is that the Hessians? Yeah, yeah. Okay, well I know that from Sleepy Hollow, the film.
Livy's Teachings on Trust
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And finally, we go to this week's thought for the day from the 8th of March, 1945. Confidence placed in another often compels confidence in return. Livy. Do you know who Livy is? Yep. Do you know what he's on about? I've got a feeling it's about Scipio Africanus, isn't it?
00:26:13
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oh well played well played so this is so Titus Livius history of Rome yeah yeah you've got the Carthaginians are fairly preoccupied with the celtabarian war Scipio's gone across the ebro and marched straight into seguntum and he's been told well that
00:26:32
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Rumor has it that there are a whole host of hostages there that were surrendered to Hannibal. There's a guy called Abelox who was a noble from Hispania, originally a friend of Carthage, and he figures that getting the hostages back might play really well strategically because it'll get him in well with the Spanish chieftains. But he also knows that the guardians of the hostages are going to do absolutely nothing without the orders of Bostar, their commanding officer.
00:26:59
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So what he figures is he's going to go across and have a quick chat and he organises what in in Livy's words is a secret interview with him. So you've got Avilox and Bostar together and he goes up to Bostar and he says up until now the Spaniards have remained loyal because they've figured that the Romans are a long way away.
00:27:21
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Now, the Roman camp is on our side of the Ebro. It's pretty secure and things are about to change. So, have confidence that if you show restraint and if you show willing, then things aren't going to go pear-shaped. Bostar's pretty surprised by this. And he says, well, okay, if you want me to show willing, what could I do?
00:27:43
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Abilox turns around, he says, send the hostages home. That will evoke gratitude, he says, from their parents who are very influential people in their own country and also from their fellow countrymen. Everyone likes to feel he is entrusted. The confidence you place in others generally strengthens their confidence in you. There you go.
00:28:04
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Yes. But I was surprised because when we were circling bits and pieces to talk about this week I thought you were going to pick a thought for the day that's from a Scotsman. Today's thought for Scotsman by a Scott which is on the 6th of March and it reads
00:28:24
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Today's thought for a Scotsman by a Scot. The address at Trinity Church Glasgow on Sunday was probably without precedent, for it was given by none other than the comedian Jack Anthony. And here's the thought he left with the congregation. Too many Scots think laughter comes from the devil. So what about that? Well, my immediate thought is I've got more interest in Skeppy Africanus.
00:28:50
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Well, I had to Google Jack Anthony because I'd never heard of him, but he is a musical comedian. He was born in 1900, died in 1962. He'd actually been in a couple of films in the 20s, the Texas tornado, the Fighting Marine, Hellship Bronson.
00:29:08
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So fairly well known films in America, but he actually came back and was a comedian in Scotland. And he's like any of those comedians, if you were to Google videos of more audio, it probably wouldn't be that funny. Oh, it's true. Anyway, he does that. He does this. Somehow he's been roped into giving a sermon at this church and and suggesting that laughter comes to the devil. But what he means by that, I don't know.
00:29:34
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The jocks would have known him though. Oh yeah, definitely. He's a well-known character. He's got some films under his thing and he played all around the sort of musicals of Scotland and Britain as well, so yeah. Oh well, but between him and Skippio, I think I'd probably take Skippio as well too. Yeah. Alright, let's call it a wrap there and I'll see you next week. Yep, see you then. OK, bye.
Episode Credits
00:30:00
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Thank you for listening to this episode of The Lowlander.
00:30:04
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The Lowlander was written, produced and presented by Andy Aitchison and Mirren Walters. This was a hellish good production.
00:30:35
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, there are no classified football results for the week commencing the 6th of March 1945.
00:30:57
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I need to negative and latch on To the affirmative, don't mess with mister in between You got to spread joy Up to the maximum ring of gloom Down to the minimum half-faith A pandemonium liable to walk upon the sea To illustrate
00:31:23
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My last remark, Jonah in the well, Noah in the yard. What did they do just when everything looked so dark? Then they said we'd better accept to hate the positive evil. Might hate the negative and latch on to be affirmative. No mess with mister in between. No.
00:32:00
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They went in there and they just saw the bloody Germans off. They were hellish goods.