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1599: St Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare as part of his history play Henry V has been famously portrayed by Laurence Olivier to raise British spirits during the Second World War, and by Kenneth Branagh in the 1989 film Henry V, and it made famous the phrase "band of brothers".
Hitler's prophecy speech of 30 January 1939. From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the campaign of presidential and two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241. Not all have ...
Hitler then made vague threats of Germany (with the Soviets) projecting its power into southeastern Europe. [2] Shifting tone, Hitler then offered the olive branch of peace to France and Britain. He condemned war as an enterprise where all participants were losers after enduring millions of deaths and billions of lost wealth.
The Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt discussed the speech in several issues beginning on 31 January, but did not emphasize the prophecy. On 31 January, it printed the main points of the speech without mentioning the prophecy; in an analysis of the speech published the next day, Moshe Yustman discussed appeasement and other foreign policy issues. [25]
A British, American and Canadian Allied Expeditionary Force landed in northern France on June 6, 1944 to begin the liberation of Western Europe from occupation by Nazi Germany. [3] Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech, named after its opening words, was addressed directly to the people of occupied countries.
It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the Battle of France, after the "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech of 13 May and the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of 4 June. [1] [2] "This was their finest hour" was made after France had sought an armistice on the evening of 16 June. [a]
In “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” J.D. Vance wrote, “I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in transformative moments, as transformation is harder ...
The speech of 18 June occupies a prominent place in the popular history of France, as in this street named after it in the town of Jonquières. After the war, de Gaulle's 18 June broadcast was often identified as the beginning of the French Resistance , and the beginning of the process of liberating France from the yoke of German occupation. [ 10 ]