[Homer_J_Simpson]

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

[Homer_J_Simpson]

From image #2:

Judging from reports here the Royal Air Force so far has been unable to do much to hinder these raids, which are directed as much against open sea shipping as they are against fixed land objectives . . .

Background:

Michael Korda, With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain

Also from image #2:

The Germans charged that British airmen shot down an unarmed emergency seaplane, marked with the Red Cross, when it attempted to rescue the crew of a plane which had crashed into the sea. According to the official German news agency D.N.B., the Red Cross plane was the fourth that the British have destroyed recently. The news agency asserted that “England does not recognize the Red Cross in sea warfare.”

Background:

Michael Korda, With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain

[BroJoeK]

"...on July 29 Jodl announced at a meeting of Operations Staff officers that 'Hitler intended to attack the U.S.S.R. in the spring of 1941.'""

Worth remembering that Stalin had been warned in a general way of Hitler's intentions toward Russia back in 1939.
And within weeks of Hitler's decisions in 1940, Stalin was again being warned of the coming attack.

Stalin refused to believe all such warnings.