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Tag Archives: Plan Yellow
This week in the War, 1–7 April 1940: Hitler has missed the bus
This week in the war, on Thursday 4 April, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave an optimistic speech to Conservative Party members, declaring that Hitler had ‘missed the bus.’ Following the collapse of Poland the previous year, Europe had settled … Continue reading
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Tagged Chamberlain, Churchill, Hitler, Phoney War, Plan Yellow, Soviet-Finnish war
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This week in the War, 15–21 January 1940: Hitler’s intentions
Poland had fallen and battle was well underway on the Finnish-Soviet front, but, as far as the British and French were concerned, this was the period of ‘phoney war’ or ‘drole de Guerre.’ A huge French army had manned the forts of the … Continue reading