The day freedom was taken away. Thank god and the allies we got it back!

Originally Posted by Mikefrombelgium

The day freedom was taken away. Thank god and the allies we got it back!

Sad thing is Mike, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Poland didnt get their freedom back, the very reason why Britain and France declared war in the first place.

What also disgusts me, Polish troops who fought in the British Army were not invited to take part in the parade in London after the war was over. That stinks

Politicians... they never change.

3rd September 1939.

70 years ago today Britain and France declared war on Germany.

So much for the "Peace in our time"

Originally Posted by Zastava-Arms

So much for the "Peace in our time"

Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, the disgrace of handing over Czechoslovakia to Germany damaged Britain in the eyes of the world big time.


Many people in Britain at the time remembered all too well the horrors of WW1 which had only ended 21 years earlier. In some villages and towns every married woman was a widow, their men folk slaughtered on the Fields of France and Belgium. The British were quite rightly terrified of another major war, the death and destruction that goes with it.


As we all know, Hitler was a bully and one cannot appease bullies, which Winston Churchill fully understood. Despite a number of peace overtures, Winston Churchill refused to even discuss peace with Hitler.

Okay we did not fight for Czechoslovakia, but we were not the only member of the League of Nations, why didn't a few of the the other countries that set it up do some thing about this. Still when Hitler got around to taking Poland we went to war which is more that a lot of countries who had signed up to the League of Nations including the country that had set up this organization

Originally Posted by BritinAfrica

3rd September 1939.

70 years ago today Britain and France declared war on Germany.

Might be interesting to read (and all contributions are *very* much welcome), we try and have a day-by-day WWII thing going here for the next 5 1/2 years... (cited msg is the SEP 4 issue):

http://www.warandtactics.com/smf/wor...g6454/#msg6454

Rattler

1939 US declares Neutrality

What date exactly, maybe a link?

Rattler