This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of March

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.

1939

Another assassination attempt on Hitler. Calvary Captain Eberhard von Breitenbuch attempts to shoot Hitler at the Berghof. Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia.

1941

FDR signs Lend-Lease Act. Hitler predicts that Britain will fall by 1942; no matter how much help it receives from the U.S.A.

1943

Germany defeated by Russia at Stalingrad.

1944

Lt. Chuck Yeager shoots down his first German fighter while serving in the U.S. 8th Air Force.

 

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