Eric was four years old when UK Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, returned from visiting Hitler and declared they had reached an agreement achieving, "Peace in our time". Despite being so young, Eric still remembers how his mother reacted when this was reported on the wireless (as radio was called in those days).
In Episode 02 Eric runs through Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Eric was born in 1933, the year Hitler achieved his goal of becoming Chancellor of Germany and began building the war machine that would later bomb Eric's school.
Series 01: Adolf Hitler, his bombers - and me. Episode 01: Overview Buy Eric's book to read alongside the series - see links to Amazon and Lulu above. Podcasts will be posted every Saturday. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. (Note, you may have to click on the Youtube option in the above video if you want to expand it to full screen mode.) Images of the Sandhurst Road School bombing: Lewisham Local History and Archive Centre (C – PH 77/6541) News Shopper Running Past The memorial to Eric's sister Kitty and others k…
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