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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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I livetweet the Second World War as it happened on this day in 1940 & for 5 years to come (2nd time around). Created by Alwyn Collinson, [email protected]
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Canadian government announcing it will host at least 10,000 British refugee children, ages 5-15, evacuated from UK due to invasion fears, for the duration of the war. pic.twitter.com/esnLFIxAUP
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Winston Churchill, touring coastal defences, enthrals a crowd with his "We shall fight them on the beaches" speech- then whispers to an aide: "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!" pic.twitter.com/6adfFljpMP
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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With UK short of guns, barbed wire, & mines, some British beaches are being fortified with sawn logs, tar barrels, & in 1 seaside town, old iron bedsteads. pic.twitter.com/VtRwpuLCRk
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Frantic defence preparations in ill-equipped Britain; Germany claims to be massing boats along Channel coast for invasion & has issued English phrase-books to Wehrmacht soldiers. pic.twitter.com/233eKnlgae
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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UK War Cabinet have ordered the Royal Navy to seize French warships currently in African & British ports; they fear the French Navy will be surrendered to Germany.
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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King Carol II, self-declared head of Romania's new totalitarian, fascist-allied "Party of the Nation", is appealing to Hitler for help in resisting Soviet demands. pic.twitter.com/WLbFB7vCy4
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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The Soviet Union has demanded that Romania surrender Bessarabia & northern Bukovnia, two eastern provinces representing 17,000mi² of the country's territory- secretly given them in Nazi-Soviet pact.
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Overheard in an Amsterdam diamond merchant's shop: a German captain, haggling for gems, walked out saying: "I'll get them cheaper in London soon enough."
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Japanese government threatens: We'll seize Hong Kong if UK government disobeys us. American Ambassador in Tokyo, Joe Grew: "German victories have gone to Japan's head like strong wine."
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Japan has ordered British colonial government in south-east Asia to close the "Burma road"- which supplies Chinese Nationalists with precious weapons to fight Japanese invaders. pic.twitter.com/UtiO5nICKY
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Puyi, the last Qing Emperor of China, is in Tokyo to meet & pay homage to Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Puyi is now "Emperor" of Japan's puppet state of Manchuko, in occupied China. pic.twitter.com/jyckagz6DY
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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Soviet government also ordering 25% pay cut punishment for 20 minutes lateness to work, imprisonment for quitting a job- to increase industrial production & "protect against capitalist aggression".
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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26 de juny |
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New law announced in USSR: Soviet citizens must now work 7 days a week, at least 8 hours a day. State newspaper Pravda announces: "In capitalist countries, workers labour 12+ hours a day!"
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26 de juny |
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With German U-boats sinking more UK-bound shipping, the British meat ration is to be cut; vegetarian author George Bernard Shaw exults: "A whole nation of Bernard-Shaws!"
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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26 de juny |
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Today is the first of 10 days ordered for national jubilation in Germany, to celebrate Nazi victory over Europe. Free beer & roast meat available on street corners in Berlin- hung with celebratory swastika flags. pic.twitter.com/ObX4N4rwPq
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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25 de juny |
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Hitler has cancelled plans for a triumphal procession through Paris: "We're not at the end yet." Official reason is risk of British bombing.
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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25 de juny |
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Gazing out over blacked-out London, British Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding says: "Well, the French are out of it. Thank God we're now alone."
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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25 de juny |
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British government trying to talk Irish Premier Éamon de Valera into joining war against Germany: "A Nazi invasion of Ireland would embarrass us, but it'd be disastrous for you."
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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25 de juny |
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Pruller: "A parcel arrived today for the dead Corporal Vraz, from his wife; perhaps a cake. I sent it back, marked: 'Fallen for Greater Germany.'"
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WW2 Tweets from 1940
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25 de juny |
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German soldier Wilhelm Pruller: "First day of peace in the West. No further advance today. I've still only one wish: to get to England."
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