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Groups such as the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organised mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War and British support for American military action. [4] Demonstrations were held outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square on March 17th and October 27th 1968, drawing thousands of protestors and culminating in violent clashes with the police.
During the war, German radio broadcasts questioned why the British had sent only a few thousand troops, and pamphlets depicted the British soldier as far behind the lines while the French soldier were fighting. [46] Postcards and pamphlets claimed that British soldiers were enjoying the charms of the French soldiers' wives. [47]
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
It was a recurring topic in Hitler's book Mein Kampf (1925–26), which was a key component of Nazi ideology. Early in his membership in the Nazi Party, Hitler presented the Jews as behind all of Germany's moral and economic problems, as featuring in both communism and international capitalism. [1]
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World is a book by Patrick J. Buchanan, published in May 2008.Buchanan argues that both World War I and World War II were unnecessary and that the British Empire’s decision to join the wars had a cataclysmic effect globally.
His immediate mission would have been to hunt down and arrest the 2,820 people on the Sonderfahndungsliste G.B. ("Special Search List Great Britain"). This document, which post-war became known as "The Black Book", was a secret list compiled by Walter Schellenberg containing the names of prominent British residents to be arrested immediately ...
During World War I, Hitler was temporarily blinded in a mustard gas attack on 15 October 1918 for which he was hospitalised in Pasewalk. [21] While there, Hitler learned of Germany's defeat, with the armistice to take effect on 11 November. By his own account—upon receiving this news, he suffered a second bout of blindness. [22]
Operation Foxley was a code name of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. [1] At the height of World War II, one option to swiftly end the war was killing Hitler. The SOE developed two potential assassination modules, one was to poison, and the other, shooting with a special gun.