Flag raiser over Iwo Jimo and flag raiser over Berlin

American and Soviet veterans

The German Military Cemetery near Maleme (13.1.2011). In the distance one can see the famous Maleme airfield around which so many of this man died. 4465 german casualties are buried here, most died on the 20.5.1941, some as late as 9.7.1945, this last ones probably killed by locals after the surrender, since the german prisioners were allowed to wander about freely the locals took the opportunity to take revenge and many german soldiers were murderer this way. A curiosity: Chania (or Xania),which the germans called fortress Crete, held to the end and only surrendered  on the 9th May 1945.

German cemetery (Crete)

Sir Oswald Mosley's Nazi fellow traveller "Blackshirt" movement in pre-war Britain may actually have appreciated being opposed with violence in London's East End; they must have been less happy about intellectual opoosition.  The comic stories of P.G. Wodehouse regularly feature the character of Sir Roderick Spode, Baronet (later Lord Sidcup) an aristocratic bully bearing a certain resemblance to Mosley, and leader of a fashionable Fascist movement called the "Black Shorts" (played here for television by actor John Turner).  Spode is indeed a bully - but ultimately a figure of fun.  What message there might be here for current Nazi wannabees, I cannot imagine.  Best regards, JR.