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RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in Normandy. The liberation of France is underway
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On this day in 1783, the last British troops evacuate New York City. Later that day, Washington marches into the city at the head of the triumphant Continental Army.
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Some followers have complained about our last tweet and say we should stick to history. How's this?
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On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox effectively ending the American Civil War.
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On this day in 1941, Germany invades the Soviet Union with nearly four million troops. It's a decision that will ultimately cost Hitler the war.
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, the first of 20,000 Allied paratroopers are dropping into Normandy. The long-awaited liberation of France has begun.
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Today in 1945, this happened...
(U.S. Army troops detonate a giant marble swastika overlooking the infamous Nazi rally grounds at Nuremberg)
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RIGHT NOW in 1815, the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo are being fired. The fighting continues for nine hours and leaves 65,000 casualties. When it's over, Napoleon Bonaparte's "Hundred Days" comeback is over.
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Today in 1865, Robert E Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox effectively ending the US Civil War. Grant orders his jubilant men not to cheer. "[The Rebels] were now our countrymen," he recalls. "We did not want to exult over their downfall."
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, the first of 20,000 Allied paratroopers are landing in Normandy. The long-awaited liberation of France has begun.
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On this day in 1945, Japan unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. The ceremony takes place aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The Second World War, which began exactly six years and one day earlier, is officially over.
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On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine publishes "American Crisis." The essay urges all patriots to continue to resist tyranny in the rebellion's darkest hour. "These are the times that try men's souls," he writes.
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Today in 1863, a 34-year-old college professor from Maine named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain helps fend off repeated Confederate attacks against the left flank of the Union line at Gettysburg. The fight for Little Round Top will become one of the battle's most celebrated moments.
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On this day in 1941, 353 Japanese warplanes strike the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at
#PearlHarbor
, Hawaii. The raid sinks four battleships, damages 15 other vessels and kills nearly 2,500 Americans. President Roosevelt will famously call Dec 7 "a date which will live in infamy."
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On this day in 1879, 20,000 Zulu warriors wipe out an 1,800-man British column at Isandlwana, South Africa. Less than 10 miles away, 150 troops defending an outpost at Rorke's Drift hold off 4,000 attackers. Victoria Crosses will be awarded to 11 of the survivors.
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On this day in 1944, the first of 41,000 Allied airborne troops land in the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden. You're looking at footage from one of the American drop zones via the US National Archives.
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Raise your hand if you think it sucks that there have been FIVE Pirates of the Caribbean movies but only ONE Master and Commander film.
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On this day in 1945, a 33-year-old Associated Press photojournalist named Joe Rosenthal climbs Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi and snaps one of the most famous images of all time.
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, the BBC broadcasts an excerpt of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem "Chanson d'automne" into Nazi-occupied Europe. The passage "...wounds my heart with a monotonous languor” is a coded signal to the French Resistance. It means: “The Allies are coming!”
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The Higgins Boat – 9 Things You Might Not Know About the D-Day Landing Craft That Changed History
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On this day in 1944, General Anthony McAuliffe of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division gives a famously succinct reply to a German ultimatum demanding the surrender of Bastogne: "Nuts!"
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On this day in 1492, the Muslim stronghold of Granada surrenders to the armies of Castile and Aragon ending more than 700 years of Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
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On this day in 1945, Germany surrenders to the Allies marking the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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Today in 1945, the U.S. drops the first of two atomic bombs on Japan.
"What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history."
— President Truman
"The time will come when mankind will curse the names Los Alamos and Hiroshima."
— Robert Oppenheimer
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, the first of 20,000 Allied paratroopers are touching down in Normandy. The liberation of France has begun.
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -- Voltaire
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On this day in 1945, the world wakes to news of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The war in Europe is over.
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On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler briefly emerges from his bunker beneath the ruins of Berlin to survey what's left of his "Thousand-Year Reich." A photographer captures the moment. It's believed to be the last known image ever taken of the German Führer.
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in the English Channel as the Allied invasion armada steams for Normandy.
#DDay
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On this night in 1776, George Washington famously leads 2,400 soldiers across the Delaware River to mount a surprise attack on the Hessians wintering in Trenton, New Jersey.
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On this day in 1879, 20,000 Zulu warriors wipe out an 1,800-man British column at Isandlwana, South Africa. Less than 10 miles away, 150 troops defending an outpost at Rorke's Drift hold off 4,000 attackers. Victoria Crosses will be awarded to 11 of the survivors.
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RIGHT NOW in 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. The German Führer escapes justice, but not the judgement of history.
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On this day in 1944, the 101st Airborne is encircled at Bastogne by the German army. The division will hold out for seven days before being relieved by Patton's Third Army.
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On this night in 1776, George Washington famously leads 2,400 soldiers across the Delaware River to mount a surprise attack on the Hessians wintering in Trenton, New Jersey.
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On this day in 1941, 353 Japanese warplanes strike the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in Normandy. The liberation of France is underway
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Anyone else have movies they just gotta watch at least once a year?
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On this day in 1913, the first of more than 53,000 aging Civil War veterans begin arriving at Gettysburg for a week of commemorations marking the battle's 50th anniversary. "We have found one another again as brothers, enemies no longer."
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On this day in 1945, the world wakes to news of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The war in Europe is over.
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RIGHT NOW in 1945, the American B-29 'Enola Gay' drops an atom bomb codenamed Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. It falls for 44 seconds before exploding directly over a hospital. The blast, which is equal to 15 kilotons of TNT, kills an estimated 70,000. Most victims are civilians
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On this day in 1944, Paris is liberated by the Allies after 1,526 days of Nazi occupation.
#WW2
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, 1,600 German heavy guns open fire on American positions in Belgium's Ardennes. The massive artillery barrage marks the start of what will become known as the
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Today in 1945, this happened...
(U.S. Army troops detonate a giant marble swastika overlooking the infamous Nazi rally grounds at Nuremberg)
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RIGHT NOW in 1815, Blücher’s Prussians charge onto the field at Waterloo saving Wellington's wavering Anglo-allied army. A British soldier remembers it as “one of the grandest sights I ever beheld.”
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RIGHT NOW in 1918, German and Allied delegates sign the WW1 Armistice in a railway carriage at Compiègne, France. It goes into effect at 11 a.m.
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On this day in 1431, Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for the crimes of heresy and cross-dressing. She is just 19 years old.
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RIGHT NOW in 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. The German Führer escapes justice, but not the judgement of history.
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On this day in 1945, a 33-year-old Associated Press photojournalist named Joe Rosenthal climbs Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi and snaps one of the most famous images of all time.
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On this day in 1944, General Anthony McAuliffe of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division gives a famously succinct reply to a German ultimatum demanding the surrender of Bastogne: "Nuts!"
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Today in 44 BC, Julius Caesar is assassinated. The ensuing political upheaval ends the Roman Republic.
#idesofmarch
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RIGHT NOW in 1991, the skies over Baghdad light up with anti-aircraft fire as U.S. and coalition warplanes strike the Iraqi capital. Operation Desert Storm is underway.
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Ike’s D-Day Disaster Letter — Read the Speech Eisenhower Was Set to Deliver If the Invasion Failed
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Today in 1864, the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta falls to William Tecumseh Sherman's army.
To celebrate the Union victory, Sherman's friend Ulysses S. Grant orders a 100-gun salute to be fired...
... directly into Rebel defences at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia.
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On this day in 1989, the Berlin Wall comes down. The infamous barrier between East and West stood for exactly 10,315 days.
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On this day in 1944, 84 American prisoners-of-war are shot by the SS at Malmedy, Belgium. Other groups of captured U.S. soldiers are also massacred at Büllinge, Baugnez and Wereth.
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in Normandy. The liberation of France is underway
#DDay
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On this day in 1993, two U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters are shot down over Mogadishu, Somalia. 18 Americans are killed and 73 are wounded during the fight to recover the crews. As many as 500 Somalis perish in the battle.
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On this day in 1942, the Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as a reprisal for the fatal attack on SS official Reinhard Heydrich. More than 180 residents are murdered; 250 more are sent to concentration camps.
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RIGHT NOW in 1945, Alfred Jodl signs the German Instrument of Surrender at Eisenhower's HQ in Reims, France. The war in Europe is over.
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On this day in 1972, warplanes drop napalm on the South Vietnamese village of Trang Bang. Associated Press photographer Nick Ut is on hand to capture the aftermath of the attack. His Pulitzer Prize-winning image horrifies the world. Here's the story:
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On this day in 1982, Argentine forces seize the Falkland Islands. It takes Britain just 73 days to assemble a naval task force, sail it to the South Atlantic and retake the territory.
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On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address. The president's critics initially dismiss the 90-second speech as "ludicrous" and "silly." It will later be held up as the most brilliant piece of oratory in U.S. history.
#OTD
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On this day in 1944, Patton's Third Army reaches the besieged 101st Airborne and 10th Armored divisions at Bastogne. The defenders had been holding out for six days.
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"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
— William Tecumseh Sherman, born on this day in 1820.
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On this day in 1918, a 30-yr-old pacifist from Pall Mall, Tennessee named Alvin York becomes a national hero after killing 20 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 more during an attack on Hill 223 in the Argonne Forrest. York is awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted to sergeant.
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RIGHT NOW in 1975, the American radio station in Saigon begins broadcasting Bing Crosby's "White Christmas." The song is the pre-arranged signal for all U.S. personnel to assemble for the final evacuation of South Vietnam.
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On this day in 1918, U.S. Marines fighting at Belleau Wood refuse to withdraw in the face of a sizeable German counter-attack. When a French officer advises the Americans to pull back, a captain named Lloyd Williams offers a now-famous reply: "Retreat, Hell! we just got here!"
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On this day in 1943, American B-17s strike the U-boat pens at Wilhelmshaven. The raid marks the first bombing attack on Germany by the United States.
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On this day in 1948, President Harry S. Truman issues Executive Order 9981 abolishing all racial segregation in the U.S. military.
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On this day in 1917, Britain’s royal family changes its name from the Germanic "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to the more English sounding “Windsor.”
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in the English Channel as the Allied invasion armada steams for Normandy.
#DDay
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On this day in 1917, Britain’s royal family changes its name from the Germanic "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to the more English sounding “Windsor.”
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On this day in 1982, Argentine forces seize the Falkland Islands. It takes Britain just 73 days to assemble a naval task force, sail it to the South Atlantic and retake the territory.
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On this day in 1968, US troops massacre 500 residents of the South Vietnamese villages of My Lai and My Khe. Although 26 soldiers are charged; only one, Lt William Calley Jr, is convicted. He serves just 3 years house arrest. "I won’t forgive as long as I live" vows one survivor.
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On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address. The president's critics initially dismiss the 90-second speech as "ludicrous" and "silly." It will later be held up as the most brilliant piece of oratory in U.S. history.
#OTD
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On this day in 1917, Allied forces detonate 19 enormous mines beneath the German lines at Messines, Belgium killing thousands. The sound of the blasts can reportedly be heard in London, while seismologists as far away as Dublin detect the tremors.
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On this day in 1944, 150,000 Allied troops are boarding ships all across southern England for the invasion of France.
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On this day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address. The president's critics initially dismiss the 90-second speech as "ludicrous" and "silly." It will later be held up as the most brilliant piece of oratory in U.S. history.
#OTD
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On this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by 30 Roman senators. The conspirators hope that the assassination will help restore the imperilled Republic. It doesn't.
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On this day in 1965, Winston Churchill, 90, dies of complications from a stroke. "The great figure who embodied man's will to resist tyranny passed into history this morning," reports the New York Times.
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Today in 1973, Associated Press photographer Sal Veder snaps a shot of former American POW Lt Col Robert Stirm's reunion with his family at Travis Air Force Base. Entitled "Burst of Joy," the image wins the Pulitzer Prize. Stirm spent five years in captivity in North Vietnam.
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On this day in 1917, Britain’s royal family changes its name from the Germanic "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to the more English sounding “Windsor.”
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On this day in 1944, the French town of Carentan is liberated by the 101st Airborne.
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On this day in 1781, a British naval squadron sailing to relieve the King's forces at Yorktown is intercepted and defeated in Chesapeake Bay by French warships. The battle sets the stage for Cornwallis' surrender to Washington and the de facto end of the Revolutionary War.
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On this day in 1938, Germany and France sign a treaty of non-aggression. 556 days later, Paris falls to the Nazis.
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RIGHT NOW in 1918, German and Allied delegates sign the WW1 Armistice in a railway carriage at Compiègne, France. It goes into effect at 11 a.m.
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On this night in 1776, George Washington famously leads 2,400 soldiers across the Delaware River to mount a surprise attack on the Hessians wintering in Trenton, New Jersey.
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Today in 1944, the Gestapo discovers a Jewish family hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Among those arrested is Anne Frank, age 15. She'll eventually die at Bergen-Belsen, but the diary she leaves behind becomes one of the most important accounts of the Holocaust ever written.
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On this day in 1945, a Japanese sub torpedoes the cruiser USS Indianapolis. Of the 900 crewmen who abandon ship, 600 will die of thirst, hunger and shark attacks over the next three days.
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On this day in 1815, British and American troops fight one of the largest battles of the War of 1812 at New Orleans. Neither army realizes that the two governments have already signed a peace treaty and the conflict has officially been over since Christmas Eve.
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“Nuts!” – The Story Behind the Famous American Reply to the German Surrender Ultimatum at Bastogne
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Today in 1865, Robert E Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox effectively ending the US Civil War. Grant orders his jubilant men not to cheer. "[The Rebels] were now our countrymen," he recalls. "We did not want to exult over their downfall."
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On this day in 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower is placed in command of all Allied armies in Western Europe.
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On this day in 1890, 300 Lakota Sioux are massacred by Federal troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. More than 20 Medals of Honor are awarded to soldiers who took part in the slaughter.
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On this day in 1940, France capitulates to Hitler at Compiègne, the spot of Germany's surrender in 1918. To add insult to injury, the Führer holds the ceremony in the very same railway car used for the First World War Armistice.
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