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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of October

1933
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
1938
German troops occupy the Sudetanland.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of October

1938
German troops occupy the Sudetanland.
1940
Night-time raids throughout London and Manchester and fifteen airfields attacked. Germans postpone Operation Sea Lion until Spring of 1941. Jews are formally banned from public service, industry, the media and positions of authority in Vichy, France.
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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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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of September

By Shawn Janes |

1939
Assassination attempt on Hitler by General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.
1940
Victory for Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of September

By Shawn Janes |

1939
Assassination attempt on Hitler-General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord in1939. Canada declares War on Germany.
1940
Long the isolationist with the view that Germany should negotiate with Hitler, Kennedy is quoted in the Boston Globe as, “Democracy is finished in England. It may be here.” Italy invades Egypt.
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This Week in WWII – 4th Week of August

By Shawn Janes |

1940
Luftwaffe hammers airfields in Britain. Major night-time attack on Liverpool…Heavy raids on London, Midlands and North East Coast. Heavy raids on targets in the Midlands.
1941
Another U-boat is forced to surface off Ireland and its Enigma machine is captured.
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This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of August

By Shawn Janes |

1939
Nazis (Hitler) and Soviets (Stalin) sign a pact.
1940
Britain’s heavies losses to date = 83 fighters and bombers lost. First German air raids on Central London. Luftwaffe accidentally bombs London. Brits retaliate. Churchill retaliates bombing of London by instituting the first British air raid on Berlin.
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This Week in WWII: 2nd Week in August

By Shawn Janes |

1940
Bismark is commissioned. Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for the German Kriegsmarine.
1945
Bockscar B-29 piloted by Charles W. Sweeney drops Atomic Bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki, Japan.
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This Week in WWII – 4th Week of July

By Shawn Janes |

1935
First flight of the B-17.
1940
Hitler tours Paris. Nazi attacks on Dover lead to the near destruction of the entire Defiant Squadron. Assassination attempt on Hitler: Count Fritz-Dietlof von def Schulenberg planned to shoot Hitler from a reviewing stand at a parade honoring Hitler.
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This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of July

By Shawn Janes |

1940
Churchill tells Beaverbrook that, “we have no continental army that can defeat the German military machine.” The Battle of Britain begins as Luftwaffe begins attacking shipping in the English Channel.
1942
Barbarossa: Nazis move toward Stalingrad USSR. Germans move toward Stalingrad.
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