It was in the Dynamo room where British Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsey planned out Operation Dynamo and updated Sir Winston Churchill along the way. [3] Due to wartime censorship and the want to keep the British morale up, the full degree of the disaster around Dunkirk was not published. The initial plan was the recovery of 45, 000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force within two days. [4] They expected the German forces would be able to block further evacuation. Britain expected the Luftwaffe would be the main force to block the evacuation.
The German high command halted as the army was about to go for the kill (on orders from Hitler who at times would lose his nerve temporarily). Goering promised to destroy them with the Luftwaffe but despite the intense attack by the German air force, thousands of British soldiers escaped to fight another day. It was a psychological victory for England because it showed they were down but not out. Germany had won the day for sure, but despite the bloody beating England received, she was still standing.
However in my opinion this is not what one should take away from the poem. In fact the literal meaning is much deeper and darker than one may think. The literal meaning of the poem to me is the justification for mass murder of the Jews during World War II by the Nazis. The first stanza seems to show the farmer wants to rid of the woodchucks quickly and effectively without spending too much time on them. In fact the poem states “The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, quick at the bone”.
Moreover, other countries claimed the right of nuclear weapons to defend their citizens. Consequently, the tragic bombings became the example of an arm’s race instead of peace. Furthermore, since Japan was already on the brink of collapse the bombing was unnecessary, and peace talks would have taken place within a decent time frame (even after the cancelled Hawaii summit). The millions of deaths calculated by Operation Downfall [the codename for the Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of the Second World War, which was abandoned when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki] actually show that only desperation and honour stood between Japan and unconditional
Chester Chan 29 November 2011 Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, is story of the bombing of Dresden, from living through it, and his attempt at an anti-war book. Once when he discussed his plan for writing with a movie-maker, he was asked, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” (Vonnegut 3) Vonnegut knew how daunting a task it was to write this novel, and even when he was done, he told the publisher, “It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” (Vonnegut 18) The name Slaughterhouse Five is for the slaughterhouse in which he was locked up in during the massacre, and alternately titled, The Children’s Crusade to prevent from giving war a glamorous image
When the Berlin Wall divided the city of Berlin into two in Germany, President Kennedy visited the city in the summer of 1963 addressing his most memorable speech “Ich bin ein Berliner.” In his speech, he emphasized the issue between the free world and the Communist world, and repeatedly stated, “Lass’ sie nach Berlin kommen,” translated as “Let Them Come to Berlin,” in his speech that gave the people more hope and enthusiasm. When he set foot in Berlin, he challenged the Soviet oppression and stood in the Rudolph Wilde Platz to offer his hope to the people in the divided city. Kennedy wanted Americans to get involved more actively in the cause of global democracy, development, peace, and freedom by establishing the Peace Corps. The first countries to participate were Tanganyika and Ghana in Africa and Kennedy gave his personal farewell to the Peace Corps volunteers at the White House on August 21, 1961. Congress approved the Peace Corps and Kennedy signed the legislation on September 22, 1961 as a permanent federal agency.
Those of the British Expeditionary Forces, that had been fighting this rear guard action was not the only story that had not be told by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill on 17 June 1940. There was also the bombing and sinking of the Troop ship, the Lancastria, off the Port of St Nazaire in France. This had been sunk by a German Junker 88, from the German Air Force. As I have said, all of this had happened 65 years ago, but one can now understand why this was all suppressed in 1940,with all that was going on at that time. It did look as if Germany were winning the War, it is now History but not good propaganda.
Adolf Hitler was born in Australia in 1889 and rose to power in German Politics as leader of the national Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi Party. His term of power began in 1933 and lasted up until his suicide in 1945. One of Hitler’s greatest talents was his ability to move and influence his audience whilst addressing them during his political speeches. He very often on the use of techniques such as violent hand gestures, a wide range of facial expressions and persuasive and convincing words which provided a positive reaction from his audience which inspired and moved them. On the 30th of January 1939, During Hitler’s sixth year as Chancellor of Germany ‘Today 6 years later I am able to speak before the first Reichstag of Great Germany’ (Reichstag 1939), he appeared before an audience of thousands of his followers in Reichstag (German Parliament) to reveal a speech regarding the annihilation of all European Jews, and he would ‘settle the Jewish problem’(Reichstag 1939), he regarded them as communists and those they were the cause of Germany losing World War 1.
It was also one of the first papers to report on the Battle of Fort Sumter. The New York Times which to this day is the most popular Newspaper in the United States was the opposite, strictly Republican and pro-catholic. The paper was in high demand making copies every day of the week but Sunday, but due to the need of daily news from the front, it began releasing strictly on Sunday’s. The Times was extremely popular, and was
Why were the Germans defeated in World War Two between 1941 and 1945? By Katie Goodwin The Germans (along with Japan) were defeated in World War two by the allied forces; the USA, the UK and the USSR. These were not natural allies, they have different political beliefs, the USA and the UK were Capitalists with USSR as communists, and they only became allies because they had a common enemy, the axis. The war stretched between 1st September 1939 when Hitler and the Nazis invaded Poland causing the UK and France to declare war, until the Russians reached Berlin causing Hitler to commit suicide and Germany to surrender on 7th May 1945 then Atomic Bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 14th August causing the final surrender of Japan. The mistakes that occurred by the Germans assisted the axis empire to be defeated, some examples of these errors are attempting to fight the war on multiple fronts, deciding to attack Russia as well as being at war with the USA as both of these countries could easily outnumber and surround the Nazis although Germany may have had little choice in fighting the USA as Britain was their closest ally and they would have got involved to defend their friend and Russia was planning to enter the war a few months after she was attacked anyway.