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A FORTRESS AND A LEGACY…A View of the Cost and Value of Freedom

Many WW2 books only chronicle battles, missions and war statistics. The recently published book, A FORTRESS AND A LEGACY, is truly different and early reviews indicate it is not just different, but distinguished and deliciously spellbinding. The author gives an overview of the book in an interview on Knoxville station, WBIR-TV, in the clip that…

This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of March

By Shawn Janes |

1933
Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
1941
Battle of Tobruk begins.
1942
Stalag Luft III opens.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of March

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1933
Assassination attempt on Hitler. Karl Lutter tries to blow up Hitler, but betrayal thwarts the attempt. The first Nazi Concentration Camp opens in Oranienburg, outside of Berin.
1938
Nazi Germany takes Austria. Munich Conference. Nevile Chamberlain appeasement.
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This Week in WWII – 4th Week of December

By Shawn Janes |

1939
First flight of the B-24 bomber takes place.

1940
President Roosevelt quoted saying, “the Axis not merely admits, but proclaims that there can be no ultimate peace between their philosophy of government and our philosophy of government.”
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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of November

By Shawn Janes |

1939
The first barricades are erected around the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.

1940
Greece repels the Italian invasion and invades Albania, an Italian colony. Nazi attacks on Coventry. Romania enters the war with the Axis powers.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of November

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1918 – WWI ends.

1938 – Kristallnacht – “The Night of Broken Glass.” German citizens loot and burn 7000+ Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. 30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to Concentration Camps.

This Week in WWII – 4th Week of October

By Shawn Janes |

1929
Wall Street stock market crashes.
1933
Dachau opens.
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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of October

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1933
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
1938
German troops occupy the Sudetanland.
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This Week in WWII: 1st Week of October

By Shawn Janes |

1939
Assassination attempt is made on Hitler by the Polish Army in Charles de Gaulles Square. The bomb failed to explode.
1940
Heavy bomber raids continue against cities at night. During the day fighter-bombers fly nuisance raids against coastal towns, airfields and other military targets.
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This Week in WWII: 4th Week of September

By Shawn Janes |

1940
Poland surrenders to Germany.
1941
The first Moscow Conference of World War II, involving, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, is held. Averell Herriman, representing the U.S. and Lord Beaverbrook, representing the U.K., met with Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, to give assurances that both the U.S. and the U.K. would aid and support the Soviet Union in the common fight against Nazi Germany.
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