Any one interested in History??

[Vigilias]

Any one interested in History.

I'm asking because I cant get enough of it. I'm meanly interested in the WW1,between war years and WW2, British Civil War and the Cold War, well its the only part of history that I now quite a lot of. I love finding out stuff about history I didn't know before.

I think I'm bloody lucky I wasn't born in Germany in the 1930/40's because I would be f00k lol!

I'm Bisexual, classed as Disabled, and I'm an Artisan, oh oh I'm brown haired and eyed lol!

I'm just about to read about how the SS started and their little stories!!

I love history too, from Ancient History to Natural History.

I am particularly fascinated in family history and genealogy and with the help of a local historian, have been able to trace my paternal family back to the 12th Century. It seems that one of my ancestors, according to a legend that has been in my dads family for generations, was a knight who fought and killed a griffin (A mythical beast with the head, wings and talons of an Eagle and the hind quarters of a lion!). The griffin had been plaguing that part of the county of Cheshire for so long, swooping down and taking live-stock and the odd child that something had to be done by someone.

Thereafter the family used a Griffin Rampant on their coat of arms.

I live in a part of the country not far from where a British Civil War battle was fought, the Battle of Redbank. I heard a theory very recently that Charles Stewart (Charles I) was actually executed somewhere near Warrington, and not outside the palace of Whitehall as has come to be passed in to history.

Researching my family history further some years ago, I discovered that I had a great uncle who was executed for war crimes (Crimes against the civilian population) perpetrated in France during the 2nd World War occupation.

It transpires that he joined the SS in the early 1930's and by the time of the French occupation had become the commandant of a town strategic because of it's railway station. At one point, local partisans or resistance killed a German dispatch rider and obtained the information he was carrying. In reprisal, my great uncle ordered the execution of 50 men from that town by firing squad and not content, ordered their bodies to be hanged from the balconies of the local hotel.

Little wonder then that the family name (in this particular case) was anglicised and why I was told they were Greek. That part of the family moved to the USA and lived in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The history of the SS is not pretty. Wait until you learn what happened to the towns of Lidice and Lezaky after Heidrich was assassinated in 1942.

My family history is very important to me and I've gathered together Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, old photos and documents of all kinds. I'll get round to scanning them one day!