Hitler: A Brush With Death… (Part 18)
Real Dictators
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The Fony War - War in the Air and Sea
We often think about the period between the end of the campaign against Poland and the spring of 1940 as something where nothing is happening much. But I think this is really kind of an illusion because, in fact, there is war in the air,. The pocket battleship Graf Shbei is sunk off the coast of Uruguay. And as for Poland, war there was never Fony. The Poles are about to find themselves in a living hell. We should really see this less as a moment of the Fony War, but rather of very frantic and busy preparations for war on both sides. It is the calm before the storm.
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