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The Battle of Britain ran from 10 July to 31 October 1940. The Royal Air Force lost approximately 1,500 aircraft and 544 pilots. The German Luftwaffe lost about 1,900 aircraft. The German invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion) was postponed indefinitely in September and never reactivated.
Read the story →The International Military Tribunal opened on 20 November 1945 at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. The 22 defendants included Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Albert Speer. The verdicts of 1 October 1946 convicted 19 of various combinations of war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. Ten were hanged on 16 October 1946.
Read the story →The German parliament building in Berlin burned on the night of 27-28 February 1933. A Dutch communist named Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested at the scene and beheaded the following January. The Nazi government used the fire as pretext for the Reichstag Fire Decree of 28 February, which suspended civil liberties. The Enabling Act of 23 March made Hitler legal dictator.
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