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This week in the War, 15 April–21 April 1940: Hitler’s birthday

Posted on April 20, 2012 by secondbysecond

Saturday 20 April 1940 was Adolf Hitler’s fifty-first birthday. In a typically ebullient radio broadcast, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels said, “The German people have found in the Fuehrer the incarnation of their strength and the most brilliant exponent of their … Continue reading →

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This week in the War, 1–7 April 1940: Hitler has missed the bus

Posted on April 2, 2012 by secondbysecond

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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This week in the War, 18–24 March 1940: Brenner Pass meeting

Posted on March 18, 2012 by secondbysecond

A much publicized meeting between right-wing dictators, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, took place this week in the war, on Monday 18 March. Only Franco was missing from the mix. Snow was falling in the Brenner pass as the Fuehrer’s train rolled to … Continue reading →

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This week in the War, 12–18 February 1940: The Navy’s Here

Posted on February 14, 2012 by secondbysecond

The Navy’s Here was a popular song written early in the war by British songwriters, Ross Parker and Hugh Charles. They wrote it to commemorate the so-called Altmark Incident which took place in Jossingfjord, Norway, on the night of 16 … Continue reading →

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This week in the War, 15–21 January 1940: Hitler’s intentions

Posted on January 17, 2012 by secondbysecond

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 →

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