#1940

Alan Allport

Alan_Allport

Everyone reads the peroration to the 18 June 1940 “Finest Hour” speech. But what about the first sentence?“I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when

sarmad sultan

SarmadSultanS

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Criterion Collection

Criterion

Beloved cinematographer Robby Müller—born on this day in 1940—forever altered the landscape of cinematography & created some of cinema’s most enduring images, transforming the everyday into the extraordinary from the

Jonathan

3468marsh

A thread in collaboration with @Dunkirk_1940 looking at the fighting on this morning 80 years ago, 1 June 1940 on the Dunkirk Perimeter involving 2/Coldstream Guards. Our focus is on

Simon Finch

AFinchTweets

22nd Oct 1940. Eighty years ago today the first major deportation of Jews from the German Reich began. Six and a half thousand men, women and children were rounded up

Library School Dropout

chi_geek

"Well, there's a logic to it. If you can't build one as good as the one you're tearing down...There's plenty of chances to do modern architecture or post mortem architecture.

Brasidas

br4s1d4s

One plus-side to not having tanks post-Force Design is that the Marine Corps may be more open to novel ways to incorporate UGVs. I'm thinking the reverse of Seeds of

Baker Street Herald #W3CU

bakerstherald

Fred Koch built a High Octane Fuel Refinery for Hitler in Hamburg (after building many for Stalin) - without which the Luftwaffe & Hitler would not have had high performance

HistoryFaces

historyfaceapp

HistoryFaces [http://bit.ly/HistoryFacesApp ] honors Series 2’s Woody Guthrie, American folk singer/songwriter, composer of This Land Is Your Land, lifelong advocate for social justice & progressive ideas & an anti-fascist. H

Glennie Sims

glennie_sims

Interesting WWII propaganda from 1943... from Donald Duck.This wouldn’t fly today... but was still showing on tv in the late 1960’s, when I was a child.Could be a reason many

Björn Lundberg

bjrrn1

Norge och Danmark blev som bekant invaderade av Tyskland 9 april 1940. Men Sverige slapp undan. Varför? Enligt den nya historierevisionismen var det på grund av svenskt samarbete med tyskarna.

(((Harry Enten)))

ForecasterEnten

So what do we know? We knew coming out of the conventions that Biden had a 7 or 8 point national lead... We knew that the difference between the polls

Ed Llewellyn

EdLlewellynFCO

80 yrs ago tonight, my predecessor, Sir Ronald Campbell, was in Bordeaux with a skeleton staff and the French Govt, when surrendered just after 6pm. He and his colleagues

Arthur J. Panoyan

StuckInActTwo

I’ve got 22 #Disney classics on my watchlist, from 1937 to 1998.I’m gonna watch one a day, in chronological order, and hopefully this whole #pandemic thing will be under control

isaᴸᴾthree days

8OSPAYNE

if you're dating liam payne in the 1940/50’s a thread;

Dr Phil Weir

navalhistorian

On this day 1940 was in some respects one of the most critical of #WW2. With most troops evacuated & the defences of Cherbourg crumbling despite assistance from the firepower