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44 ms and ts letters (160 Pages, with some envelopes, and some ms and ts transcriptions), written to his wife while serving as a BBC sound engineer, based with War Correspondents, including Frank Gillard, in Germany as part of Detachment 5 PRS (March 1945 to October 1945) and based with 12th US Army, Eagle TAC Press Camp, and SHAEF Public Relations Party, Berlin District Command, and giving details about his love for his wife, accommodation, Allied advances, colleagues, crossing the Rhine at Mainz (April 1945), sights he encountered, the damage caused by bombing and shelling and his feelings about the destruction, his thoughts on Germany and the war, delight at the V weapons threat ending, the Allied and Russian link-up, the end of the war, German Spa towns, differences of the towns untouched by war, troop shows, a prank that backfired involving a Colonel, descriptions of his visit to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, by then a Displaced Persons centre (June 1945), moving to Berlin to prepare for an Outside Broadcast of the Victory Parade in Berlin (July 1945), crossing into Russian territory, thoughts about the Russians he met and the inhabitants of Berlin, and seeing returning Germans from Poland. One of the letters is written on paper 'knocked off' from the Reichs Chancellery. Lindop had worked as a sound engineer at Denham, Elstree, Walton and Shepperton film studios before the war.
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44 ms and ts letters (160 Pages, with some envelopes, and some ms and ts transcriptions), written to his wife while serving as a BBC sound engineer, based with War Correspondents, including Frank Gillard, in Germany as part of Detachment 5 PRS (March 1945 to October 1945) and based with 12th US Army, Eagle TAC Press Camp, and SHAEF Public Relations Party, Berlin District Command, and giving details about his love for his wife, accommodation, Allied advances, colleagues, crossing the Rhine at Mainz (April 1945), sights he encountered, the damage caused by bombing and shelling and his feelings about the destruction, his thoughts on Germany and the war, delight at the V weapons threat ending, the Allied and Russian link-up, the end of the war, German Spa towns, differences of the towns untouched by war, troop shows, a prank that backfired involving a Colonel, descriptions of his visit to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, by then a Displaced Persons centre (June 1945), moving to Berlin to prepare for an Outside Broadcast of the Victory Parade in Berlin (July 1945), crossing into Russian territory, thoughts about the Russians he met and the inhabitants of Berlin, and seeing returning Germans from Poland. One of the letters is written on paper 'knocked off' from the Reichs Chancellery. Lindop had worked as a sound engineer at Denham, Elstree, Walton and Shepperton film studios before the war.
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