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To: Homer_J_Simpson
On
August 19 - another fateful day – orders to sail were issued to the German Navy. Twenty-one submarines were directed to put out for positions north and northwest of the British Isles, the pocket battleship
Graf Spee to depart for waters off the Brazilian coast and her sister ship, the
Deutschland, to take a position athwart the British sea lanes in the North Atlantic.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
2 posted on
08/19/2009 5:27:38 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
During this entire time, FDR pretty much had his finger up his a==.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
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6 posted on
08/19/2009 5:37:24 AM PDT by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
This move certainly removed any doubt that Hitler not only wanted Danzig and The Corridor and the former German territories, but to occupy all of Poland, and to wipe her off the map. The Poles knew that concessions were meaningless.
7 posted on
08/19/2009 6:09:27 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Contrary to what we think today, the whole world knew in 1939 that war was coming soon.
14 posted on
08/19/2009 8:13:23 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
so you know, I look forward to this ping everyday.
17 posted on
08/19/2009 12:25:11 PM PDT by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
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