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Goslarsche Zeitung

3. Juni 2025

Die unbekannten Harzer Sommeraufenthalte der Hamburger Bankiersfamilie Warburg

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Rosalie Horner
Waltzing Mathilde

1890. At 12, orphan Mathilde Plate's music-filled childhood in Germany ends when her beloved Grossmutter falls ill and sends her to an uncle and his family in Australia. Mathilde loses everything she loves – her home, music, friends and dreams of becoming an opera singer. ... (blurb)

Project for Anne Buckley/University of Leeds

German Prisoners of the Great War

Research was conducted to track down the descendants of Fritz Sachsse, including his grandson, Wolf Kahler, who played Colonel Dietrich in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. He and Anne Buckley were interviewed on the BBC programme Look North about Skipton's 'forgotten' First World War prisoner-of-war camp.

Further reading:

Fritz Sachsse & Paul Cossmann: Kriegsgefangen in Skipton; Leben und Geschichte deutscher Kriegsgefangener in einem englischen Lager. München 1920.


BBC Interview Link