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Tag Archives: Soviet-Finnish war
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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This week in the War, 29 Jan–4 Feb 1940: Soviet-Finnish war
On 30 January 1940, Hitler made a bellicose speech at the Berlin Sportpalast declaring that the first phase of the war was over with the conquest of Poland. At this time, much of the fighting was outside of the ‘official’ … Continue reading
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