Peace in Our Time
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Send us a Text Message.1938 was the year when the tide of Hitler’s ambition should have broken against widespread international and internal opposition.Instead, it was the year when his tsunami was unleashed.By deft manoeuvres, he isolated Austria, and in March incorporated it into the German Reich.He then turned his attention to Czechoslovakia. The Nazis fomented unrest in the Sudetenland, and Hitler demanded its return to the German Reich. He ordered his generals to prepare for invasion.But...
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Send us a textOnce the coup collapsed, the Nazis outdid themselves in their fury. It remained to be seen who would be caught in their net.Some conspirators committed suicide. Some managed to escape.Thousands were rounded up. The Gestapo tortured their victims, placed them on show trials, and...
Published 08/23/24
Send us a Text Message.Once the coup collapsed, Fromm hesitated, then returned to his office, where Stauffenberg, Beck, Olbricht, Mertz and Hoepner were held under guard.Beck tried to shoot himself. He only succeeded in badly wounding himself, and was later finished off.Hoepner asked to be sent...
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