There are palm trees in Cornwall because of the Gulf Stream.
Posted on 10/03/2010 2:46:05 PM PDT by Riflema
Adolf Hitler’s foreign minister had plans to retire to one of the most picturesque locations in England following the planned German invasion, an author has claimed
Joachim von Ribbentrop fell in love with Cornwall and was a regular visitor there, particularly to St Ives, where he intended to set up home...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What’s up with these diplomats that makes them love some foreign country more than their own? Similar to some of our own State Department folks.
There are palm trees in Cornwall because of the Gulf Stream.
True. Hitler and Himmler felt that the English were race kindred due to the large anglo saxon heritage. Hitler said many times that he didn’t want to go to war against the British and couldn’t believe that they would oppose him.
It was reported that the Nazis had elaborate plans for “administering” the governments of the countries they defeated - including the United States. . . in print and divided up in black and white. If the Allies had lost that war, how horrible it would have been - and there were times they thought they might just lose it. Daddy was in the army infantry in Italy, marched into Berlin just half an hour after Hitler had committed suicide; he said there were times when the American soldiers thought they might not win that war - but, said they knew the HAD to win it anyway. When he came out of basic training, his observation was that they were ready to charge hell with a bucket of water.
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There was a very interesting movie made in 1966, called “It Happened Here” which was a fictional account of what life might have been like in Nazi-Occupied Britain.
That bastard retired in hell, where they all belong.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Minehead is umcomfortably close to the Cornish border :-)
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