Eddie Barber served in submarines in the Home fleet at the beginning of the War and ended up in the Far East on VE day. He visited Hiroshima and was aboard HMS indefatigable when it returned to the UK bearing ex-prisoners of War. He will be missed by all his shipmates at the Cardiff RNA. The Cardiff Branch of the Royal Naval Association is sad to report the demise of one of its oldest members, who has been holding…

“Through the valley of the shadow of death.”             “Between August 1939 and September 1941, over 70,000 mentally and physically disabled inmates of sanatoria and asylums in Germany and Austria were murdered after doctors certified them as ‘life unworthy of life’. The victims were transported to one of six clinics equipped with gas chambers where they were poisoned with carbon monoxide gas piped through false shower heads in mock bathrooms.1” The programme was suspended once relatives and others protested and…