Another urgent measure is to send the children away to the countryside for safety. ibid.
The British are the first to use radar. ibid.
This is the Blitz: daily bombings. ibid.
In London they sleep in Underground stations. ibid.
Great Britain’s cities have been devastated by German bombs but the country [sic] stands firm around Churchill. World War II: The Apocalypse: Origins of the Holocaust aka Apocalypse - The Second World War: Shock
Hitler codenames the invasion plan Operation Barbarossa. ibid.
Il Duce has just been routed by the British in Africa. ibid.
Across the Baltic states people start organising pogroms against Jews. ibid.
This is Stalin’s scorched earth policy. ibid.
The 9th Panzer Division was ready to attack but the order didn’t come. So they went round in circles waiting. At the last minute Hitler deferred his plans for an offensive in the East. He had to help out his ally Mussolini who had tried to fight his own separate war and got into trouble. ibid.
Operation Barbarossa had been delayed by several weeks. ibid.
The Soviet Air Force was nearly wiped out on the first day. ibid.
The executioners took pictures of their victims ... Holocaust by bullets. ibid.
The Germans capture 600,000 Russian soldiers in one foul swoop. Himmler comes through on a visit – no provisions have been made to feed the prisoners. ibid.
The long siege of Leningrad begins. ibid.
The Germans are no longer able to wash or change their clothes. Like their enemies they are driven crazy by lice and parasites that bring Scabies and Typhus. ibid.
Hitler writes to his troops: Soldiers on the Eastern front, comrades, today begins the last great decisive battle. ibid.
December 7 1941: Japan is about to attack the United States of America. World War II: The Apocalypse: American Allies aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: World Ablaze
The attack would turn a European war into a World war. ibid.
Yet Japanese forces had not landed in Hawaii nor did they take Pearl Harbor. They had sunk part of the American Pacific fleet but only by now the outdated battleships. ibid.
In China the Imperial Army had carried out unbelievable massacres. ibid.
Hitler declares war on the United States. ibid.
Hong Kong falls to Japan in just seventeen days. ibid.
MacArthur’s soldiers are taken prisoner. ibid.
In just five months Japan has destroyed the Allied forces in the Far East and conquered half of the Pacific. ibid.
Germany first – Churchill and Roosevelt both agree on this strategy. ibid.
120,000 Japanese-Americans fall under suspicion. ibid.
Darwin, the northernmost city in Australia, already bombed by the Japanese is now preparing for an invasion. The country’s first war. ibid.
The battle for Guadalcanal is only just beginning; the fighting will last six months. ibid.
Stalingrad at the end of October 1942: the city on the Volga had still not fallen. German soldiers listened to the Fuhrer on the radio: ‘We have taken Stalingrad. A few pockets of resistance remain. We will take them one by one. It’s just a question of time.’ World War II: The Apocalypse: Allies Strike Back aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: The Great Landings/The Noose
After seven hundred days of siege the Soviets continued to resist. ibid.
Stalingrad became a raging inferno. ibid.
Von Paulus went on to collaborate with the Russians. And testified at the Nuremberg trials against his former commanders. ibid.
The Russians receive huge shipments of jeeps, tanks, planes and trucks, and cans of corned beef. ibid.
Montgomery launches his offensive. ibid.
Hitler is scornful. He says: ‘It is just a setback; the war will go on.’ ibid.
There will be no more negotiating. The Allies will keep fighting the Axis powers to the very end. ibid.
The Afrika Korps has been captured and is now marching in long lines towards the American fleet’s ships. ibid.
He [Hitler] is already showing signs of Parkinson’s disease. ibid.
All Hitler can do is try to hold back the advancing Allies. ibid.
The Allies have landed in Italy which is occupied by the Germans. World War II: The Apocalypse: Retreat and Surrender aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: Inferno
They brought their harbours with them. ibid.
The war industry has turned the United States into a superpower. ibid.
Fifteen aircraft carriers and nine hundred planes will crush the Japanese air force in an air battle which will come to be known as the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. ibid.
By the time the V1s reach the capital city, their fuel is used up and their engines die out. Londoners never know where they will fall. Nearly 20,000 of these missiles were launched against England and continental Europe killing 11,000 people. bid.
General MacArthur is returning to the Philippines. ibid.
The Nazis continue to give priority to these death trains even over the munitions convoys. ibid.
The Japanese are victims of their fanatical military leaders. ibid.
Magda Goebbels had poisoned her six children. ibid.
To defeat Nazi Germany, Russia paid a very high price: 20,000,000 civilians and soldiers were killed, nearly 15% of the population of the Soviet Union. ibid.
The last of these [Japanese soldiers] will come out of hiding and turn himself in in 1975. ibid.
William Forbes-Sempill: The Sempill [trade] mission left for Japan. Churchill’s Traitors, Yesterday 2013
Rutland and Sempill had formed a bond with their hosts they did not want to break. ibid.
Sempill was passing on a whole range of secret information. ibid.
Japanese spies were now everywhere. ibid.
Rutland had turned his technical expertise to espionage. ibid.
Sempill also maintained his secret links with the Japanese. ibid.
Sempill was never prosecuted. ibid.
Five years later the writer of that letter was somewhere in this intimidating landscape, prisoner of bandits whose language he couldn’t speak ... Gareth Jones had trespassed into a snakepit of international intrigue ... What came back from China was his ashes. Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones, BBC 2012
The story of an extraordinary life has emerged. ibid.
The Russian Connection: Stalin’s famous five-year plan was all about industrialising a land of peasants. ibid.
He took a short-term contract with Lloyd George instead, and after his first trip to Russia was invited down. ibid.
At a stroke, Gareth had been reborn as an expert in Russian affairs, a journalist, and a novice member of the British establishment. ibid.
The line between journalism and gathering political intelligence then was not very clear. ibid.
Germany was Gareth’s great love. He spoke the language even better than Russian. But it was changing fast. Hitler had just become chancellor. ibid.
The new [Soviet] farms were failing to meet their targets. ibid.
The horrors both Stalin and Hitler inflicted on Ukraine. ibid.
Gareth’s plan was to gather evidence ... to break the conspiracy of silence. ibid.
Back in Moscow a big story had broken: six British engineers had been arrested and accused of sabotage. It threatened to become a major international row. Gareth reverted to his official role. ibid.
He gathered some journalists together and gave them his story. ibid.
The Soviet secret police had been alerted. ibid.
Gareth was a marked man in Soviet eyes. ibid.