The Knight’s Cross (Ritterkreuz) was Germany’s top military decoration with nearly seven thousand recipients from 1939 to 1945, including some 1,600 noncoms and other enlisted men. It is the most known of its WW2 medals. Worn on a ribbon about the neck, it was called a ‘‘tin colla...
More than one Winston Churchill speech was delivered behind closed doors and in government meetings, warning about Germany re-arming itself and criticizing Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Adolf Hitler.On May 10, 1940, following Germany’s invasion of Norway and just before the surprise ...
Hitler, Neville Chamberlain (UK), Édouard Daladier (France), and Benito Mussolini (Italy) convened in Munich on September 29, 1938, for a conference. The Munich Agreement transferred the Sudetenland districts to Germany without military action. Chamberlain famously declared “peace for our time,...