BILL´S BUNKER Bill "Willi" Medland is the one to blame for this website. Bills-Bunker.de has been running since November 2003. Contact address and impressum can be found by scrolling down. Feel free to write in the guestbook or e-mail us direct. However, before you contact us, be aware that we do not search for missing relatives or have any contact with war veterans associations within Germany.
THE GERMAN HOME FRONT Beate´s German Home Front website has now merged with Bills-Bunker to become one research source providing information on various aspects of WW2. Just scroll down to find the "German Home Front" section.
13th November 2009 saw the most visitors in a single day 414
Most visitors in a single month: March 2010 with 5655 visitors!
The most visited and most popular pages are: 1933-1944 Postcard Gallery, British Free Corps 1943-45 and the British Union of Fascists 1932-1940 articles
Use the index on the left of the page, or simply click on one of the images below to take you where you wish to go...
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Write in the Guestbook
Read the Guestbook
Contact & Impressum
Oder Front Films 1945
Der Adler
The British Free Corps
BFC Insignia
Alfred Minchin
Blackshirts
BUF Gallery
American SS
Iraq 1941
Football 1939
Werner Kinnett
Otto Remer
IMT Document
Op Veritable
Veritable ORBAT
War Walks
Arnhem 2004
Arnhem Gallery
Postcard Gallery now moved to the Philatelic section below
Dieter Müller
Bills-Bunker Tour
Natter Project
Tech. Manuals
Volkssturm
Märklin and Goering
German steam railway photos
Over 240 OKW Op. Code Names
Richard Wright 1945
Hermann Wrubel 1917
Guernsey STAR newspaper 1942
Reichswald Walk 2009
A German Radio 1933
Charlie and his Orchestra 40-45
Introduction
Women in Third Reich
Kinder,Küche Kirche
Women in uniform
From unemployment
Youth serve the Führer
W-H-W Eintopfsonntag
Food rationing
POW Camp in Weeze
It pays to visit this website often, as we update weekly
Heimat Front PDF Files
Anneliese van Heck
Heinz van Lipzig
Tears, no song of joy
A mysterious tragedy 1942
Maria 1943-1944
Living the past (Reenactment)
Introduction to German Philately
Eastern Front 1941-1945
Channel Islands issues 1940-44
Western Front 1940-1945
Legion Post 1941-1944
Azad Hind Issue 1943
Occupations 1914 - 1918
Serbia 1941-1944
Montenegro, Albania 1943-44
Postcard Gallery 1933 - 1944
A German view of the war day by day through original newspapers and other media. A huge project covering 60 months of World War Two.
Introduction
April 1940
May 1940
June 1940
July 1940
August 1940
September 1940
October 1940
November 1940
December 1940
January 1941
February 1941
March 1941
April 1941
May 1941
June 1941
July 1941
August 1941
FAQ regarding the Bunker
Why collect Militaria and read about Warfare?
I became interested in WW2 militaria when I was a school boy in Coventry. We collected shell splinters and bits of bombs from the Luftwaffe attacks on Britain some 15 years before. Of course in those days there was still many veterans living, and a young boy obtained a gasmask from a London air raid shelter or perhaps a steel helmet from a grandfather that had served in the Desert Rats. Armed with a few bits and pieces, I was a militaria collector at the age of 13. I would return home with a new item for my collection and it would get members of the family going, I would then hear stories about the Somme 1916 or Dunkirk 1940.
I remember my Grandmother telling me about her Blackshirt boyfriend, and saying "the Germans were nice fellows really".As a teenager I remember watching a BBC documentary about the Luftwaffe in that hot summer of 1940, pilots wearing their black leather jackets, laughing as they climb into the JU87 stukas. Not any different to the fine young men of the Royal Air Force, such is the tragedy of a war.
Where does the information come from?
Almost forty years on, this collecting bug has not found an end. I am constantly surrounded by piles of old documents, newspapers and books from WW2, almost all of it is original from 1939-1945. I spend about 30 hours reading a week, due mostly to my work, I spend a lot of time on trains travelling around the country. I use original source material from the War, I tend to draw my own conclusions from history, perhaps even picking up on a point that other historians may have missed and that is what research is all about.
Why is the website in English?
Some of my German friends have complained that Bills Bunker is written in English, and they would like to read it in German (I live in Germany). If I wrote everything in German then my wife would be spending all her free time correcting it! I think that most of the people interested in the themes that I cover come from the UK or USA. So I will continue to write in my mother language. However, entries in the Bunker Guestbook or the Message Board may be in the English or German languages.
Why do I feel "Bills Bunker" is important?
My intention is to bring over historical information with a "as it was seen then" type of view. I try hard to avoid hindsight or judgement, leaving that up to the readers themselves. I sometimes cover articles that are considered "hot potatoes" which some would rather push under the carpet. I stongly believe that such subjects should be remembered and not forgotten.
My hobbies and interests?
Most of my hobbies lead back to WW2 in some way, be it Model Making, Model Railways, Stamp Collecting or Wargaming. However, my interest in WW2 is not limited to a desk or tabletop, I am also active in Battle Reenactment since 1977. This takes place mostly in the UK and the Benelux, where WW2 Living History is allowed. In recent years my wife and son have also joined the Living History hobby, making it a team effort.
Photo Copyrights:
Most of the photos come from my private collection. It should also be noted that this Homepage contains no pop-ups or advertisements and is sponsored out of my own pocket. A Homepage maintained by a "Hobby Historian" for other Hobby Historians.
Other copyright material:
Permission to use the "British Union of Fascist" material was kindly granted by the "Friends of Sir Oswald Mosley".
Disclaimer: The contents of this Homepage contains some Third Reich militaria. We wish to stress that we are collectors and hobby historians, and not neo-nazis. This is not a site for neo-nazis or their views. Nor are we responsible for the content of any websites linked to this Homepage.
Die hier gezeigten Abbildungen aus der Zeit des "Dritten Reiches", u.a. mit dem damals obligatorischen "Hakenkreuz", dienen der Berichterstattung über Vorgänge des Zeitgeschehens, der staatsbürgerlichen Aufklärung sowie Forschung und Lehre (§ 86a, 86 StGB).
Bill Medland, drawn by Elizabeth Sharp
ISBN 978-1-84791-256-5 Images of the Waffen-SS
The Bunker is being updated almost weekly, so it pays to return on a regular basis. It is an on going work in progress that will never be finished, but such is research, always new documents and photos coming to light.
Contact and Impressum can be found by scrolling on the left hand side, however we do recieve a lot of e-mails, time and resources do not allow us to answer all of them (although we do read all e-mails sent).
BILL´S BUNKER Bill "Willi" Medland is the one to blame for this website. Bills-Bunker.de has been running since November 2003. Contact address and impressum can be found by scrolling down. Feel free to write in the guestbook or e-mail us direct. However, before you contact us, be aware that we do not search for missing relatives or have any contact with war veterans associations within Germany.
THE GERMAN HOME FRONT Beate´s German Home Front website has now merged with Bills-Bunker to become one research source providing information on various aspects of WW2. Just scroll down to find the "German Home Front" section.
