Texel or Tessel and the Georgian uprising.

It brings it home how little one knows about such fascinating places. A major part of the Atlantic wall Texel (pronounced Tessel) saw one of if not the last action of WW2. A Battalion of troops formed from those captured on the German’s Eastern front and offered imprisonment or service garrisoned the island. In late April early May they massacred the German’s. The Georgians of whom many died suffered the fate of all such Soviet POW’s, returned to to Russia (under terms agreed at, I think, Yalta) to face the Gulag and worse. Much more detail is available online with stories enlarging on this thumbnail and even the links to a former USSR feature film. I’ll do a bicycle tour and visit some of the memorials and bunkers.