Niels Henkemans

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Glad you're back, Sasha. Hipe everything will work out for you now 🤞

@philipwblood.bsky.social

Let's start 2026 with an update about my next book:
- It will be Vol. 2, not Vol. 1c
- No, I've not made as much progress in 2025 as I wanted
- Yes, I've already made significant significant progress in 2026
- Yes, I have a Table of Contents for you
- Yes, it will cover all Osttruppen in Normandy

D-Day: Was wußte man im Führerhauptquartier? YouTube video by Militärgeschichte - Bernhard Kast

D-Day was wußte man im Führerhauptquartier und im AOK 7?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Sc...

Decoding Sütterlin: Reading Handwritten Holocaust Documents Workshop Handwritten documents from the Holocaust, whether in the form of diaries, personal letters or official forms, sometimes seem to have been written in an unreadable scrawl. Often, the reason they…

In this online workshop, Sütterlin specialist Carolin Sommer shines a light on the mysterious Sutterlin writing script. We uncover why it was introduced, why it was abandoned, and why it appears so hieroglyphic even when written in a neat hand.

Catch up now:

Thanks for the suggestion Andrew. 👍 I'll keep that in mind if my other options are unsuccessful.

Any 47 Commando specialists here? Or people with records from their period in Normandy?
Currently looking into their actions at Port-en-Bessin, and could use some original records. www.47commando.org.uk is great, but I'd like to go back to the original records and build my understanding from there

The Luftwaffe’s Secret: Part Five From the Airfields to the Execution Sites

New Substack post: “how the Luftwaffe was entangled in genocide, and how it tried to erase that history in 1945.”
open.substack.com/pub/killingg...

Random request:

Does anyone have a flak map or unit dispositions for Walcheren in late 1944? Trying to figure out how Marineflak Unit 810 were situated.

Coming on WW2TV next month
www.youtube.com/c/WW2TV

Always interesting when work presents you with a WW2 story you've never heard before. Now busy finding out more, but first visited these gentlemen today 🇨🇦 RIP

Fallout Talks 15 of 2025 with Dr Matthew Ford #smartphonewar #ukrainewar #modernwarfare YouTube video by Fallout

I’m on the Fallout pod talking about my book with @philipwblood.bsky.social.

It is a great podcast also more than ably cohosted by @dustinducane.bsky.social and @benskipper.bsky.social

Check it out.

youtu.be/jT0fVDwpQX0

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#Foredrag om #AndersLassen
#soehistory #sbs #WW2 #krigshistorie #AndenVerdenskrig

Read n' reviewed: Niels Henkemans’ Defending Normandy Vol.1B by Panzerwrecks Publishing Scale models, model reviews, tamiya, 1/32, 1/48th , aircraft modelling, model building, tank model, car model, figure model, 1/72nd scale, star wars,

Always nice when people take the time to review your books.
Here's a new one from The Modelling News: www.themodellingnews.com/2025/07/read...

Anders Lassen VC MC: Special Forces Hero YouTube video by WW2TV

Anders Lassen - Special Forces Hero - WW2 TV -Video podcast with Paul Woodadge, Monday 21 July, 20:00 CET. www.youtube.com/live/8hPt6Wo... #AndersLassen #WW2 #SBS #SpecialForces #SOEHistory #Comacchio #VictoriaCross

Hi Norma, I know it can be awkward to get support from people when it feels like you cannot give something back but you are giving something back even if it isn't to the same person. Doing your research and sharing it is a great way to help people forward and something you can and should be proud of

Thanks Paul. Certainly sounds like a good place to start 👍

Looking for intel from the 50th Infantry Division (and attached formatios) for its first week in Normandy. Trying to figure out which German forces they encountered/identified. And yes, this is related to Defending Normany Vol.2 😉

Any help very much appreciated!

Defending Normandy - 1940-1944 YouTube video by WW2TV

Curious about the German forces holding the Normandy coast from 1940 to #dday? This should answer a lot of questions: m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9xD...
#ww2 #normandy #history #books

@niels1944.bsky.social
Your has book just arrived, thank you.

Always 😂

Glad it arrived. If I had known your copy hadn't arrived months ago I would have changed that much sooner. 😉
Enjoy!

Niels Henkemans Welcome to my channel. It is intended to accompany my work on my Defending Normandy book series. I will use it to post updates about my research, activities and other stuff you may find interesting.

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Links to more talks can be found in the playlists on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@nielshenkem...

And again, my books are available at www.panzerwrecks.com?s=henkemans&...

Buying directly from the publisher is the best way to support my research. Thank you all!
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Niels Henkemans Video Talk Talking "Defending Normandy", his upcoming book.

6/7
Another book talk I did was with @philipwblood.bsky.social for Fallout Substack. We talked a bit more about aspects of my book not covered in other book talks.
fallout.substack.com/p/niels-henk...

Knocked out Stug - June 7th Normandy (Sainte-Mère-Église) YouTube video by WW2TV

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A short but interesting show is about the German attack on Sainte-Mère-Église on 7 June 1944. It illustrates how much information you can get from a single photo if you know what you are looking at. And in the process we busted some myths: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezjR...

Dead Man's Corner - Carentan with the 101st Airborne and 70th Tank Battalion YouTube video by WW2TV

4/7
When it comes to stories with an impact, my research into Dead Man's Corner means a lot to me. We got to put the names back into a well known story. It led to a son knowing more about his father's fate and an a forgotten man's grave being cleaned and visited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbwn...

Defending Normandy - 1940-1944 YouTube video by WW2TV

3/7
When my second book came out last December I took the opportunity to talk about Normandy in the years before D-Day. It includes info from the books, but also stuff I had to leave out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9xD...

Both books can be bought at: www.panzerwrecks.com?s=henkemans&...

DDay 80 - 6 June Livestream - Defending Normandy (with Niels Henkemans) YouTube video by WW2TV

2/7
As a researcher/author last year's D-Day talk about my first book is the most important to me. It shows how I work and comes with info about the 91st Luftlande Division. Unfortunately it got swamped by the 80th anniversary content and still has only very few views www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBZm...

Panzers - German Armoured Units in Normandy on D-Day YouTube video by WW2TV

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With the 81st anniversary of D-Day coming up, here's a reminder that talks about my research can be found at @ww2tv.bsky.social brilliant Youtube channel.
My most popular show is my talk about German armour in Normandy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mofF... It's long but well worth it 😉