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people of Plauen, GDR, in demonstration which preceded the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Small town that changed history

Times Colonist reporter Matthew Pearson on a town that changed history in Germany in 1989.


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Second World War veteran Doug Grant, also formerly of the Victoria Police Department, at his home in Oak Bay. Among other experiences, Grant was a Prisoner of War in a Japanese POW camp for several years, and was on the outskirts of Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945.

Prisoner of war and a lucky man

On Aug. 9, 1945, Doug Grant scribbled in a journal he kept hidden from his captors that 'a terrific ...


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