RT. HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
ANNE FRANK
ROUND TABLE OF NEBRASKA
The Bookworm 2501 S. 90th St
Omaha Nebraska, 68124
Omaha Chapter of the International Churchill Society
https://churchillsocietyomaha.org/
March 22nd
Sunday 1:30 pm at the Bookworm
http://wrldhstry.com/WinstonChurchill_AnneFrank_Online_Resources.htm
Martin Gilbert’s
Winston S. Churchill Volume 6 Finest Hour 1939-1940
Chapter 20 ‘The Weygand Plan’ (1983, pages 382-386)
The Churchill Documents Volume 15 Never Surrender May 1940-December 1940
Chapter ‘11-31 May 1940’ (2011, pages 116-129)
Andrew Roberts’
Churchill Walking With Destiny
Chapter 21 ‘The Fall of France: May-June 1940 (2018, pages 538-540)
Hannah Pick-Goslar’s
My Friend Anne Frank Chapter 11 ‘Bergen-Belsen’ (2023, pages 164-188)
Other Churchill Local Events
March 27-29 ‘Churchill’ perform by Daniel Payne
Lincoln Nebraska
50% off ticket use PROMO Code HISTORY
https://www.liedcenter.org/event/churchill
April 25 11:00 a.m–1:30 p.m. Iron Will Fellowship Award
Champions Run 13800 Eagle Run Drive, Omaha NE 68164
http://wrldhstry.com/Iron Will Luncheon Invitation.pdf
May 23 1940
France
“We cannot leave our Army to be slaughtered or to surrender. No, never that! We must get them out.”
Excerpt from Andrew Roberts’ Walking With Destiny (2018,
pages 539-540)
Weygand claimed that the French had recaptured Amiens and Péronne, which it later transpired they had not. At the War Cabinet meeting at 7 p.m., Churchill said he had been giving consideration to an observation Attlee had made a few days earlier about the danger of falling between two stools, and why it might be best for the BEF to retreat towards Dunkirk. Captain Pim later recalled a meeting of the Defence Committee in the Upper War Room of the Admiralty, in which ‘The P.M. got to his feet and, with his hand stuffed in the back of his trousers, paced to and fro: “We cannot leave our Army to be slaughtered or to surrender. No, never that! We must get them out.”’ If the whole Regular Army and half of its equipment were lost, he said, ‘We would replace the latter, but if we lose the men then we lose the war. Our men must battle through to Dunkirk. When they get there, the Navy will get them out.’
‘The Prime Minister came at 10.30 p.m.,’ noted the King that night. ‘He told me that . . . he would have to order the B.E.F. back to England. This operation would mean the loss of all guns, tanks, ammunition, and all stores in France. The question was whether we could get the troops back from Calais and Dunkirk. The very thought of having to order this movement is appalling, as the loss of life will probably be immense.’
April 1944
Bergen-Belsen, Germany
But I was still grateful for the warming temperatures, as well as the rumbling of American planes flying overhead, often quite low
Excerpt from Hannah Pick-Goslar’s
My Friend Anne Frank (2023, Pages 182-183)
The rain continued to fall and any walk outside felt like wading through a sea of mud. But I was still grateful for the warming temperatures, as well as the rumbling of American planes flying overhead, often quite low. They must have known they were flying over a concentration camp, since they got so close. At first, it was jarring hearing the thunderous noise the bombers made – it reminded me of the day the Germans invaded the Netherlands. But of course, they represented our hope. On Easter Sunday 1944, a sunny day, we heard planes come closer than they ever had before and they strafed the camp with gunfire. I lay down on the ground as I saw others do. I heard that in some parts of the camp, SS guards and Jews found cover laying side by side in the same gutter. Then, towards the end of April, our hopes were raised when air-raid sirens started going off regularly. People talked about what this might mean and the ‘Israelite Press Association’ was alive with rumour and hearsay. The conventional wisdom was that it signalled the British were making progress in their attacks on Germany.