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This day in 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns to the UK following a meeting with Hitler. "I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."
Hitler announced that the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim in Europe. #WW2
This day in 1939, British Prime Minister Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Daladier issued a joint ultimatum to Germany, demanding the withdraw of troops from Poland within 12 hours. #WW2
#onthisday 100 years ago the Treaty of #Versailles was signed in Paris. The war between Germany and the Entente was over, large parts of Europe were still engulfed in conflict though. All about the Treaty here: https://t.co/syOXa4RMS8
Here's something very, VERY, rare!: Austro-Hungarian troops manning a so-called 'World Standard Maxim' on the Italian Front, 1915. The army bought just 131 of these guns in 1888-1889. Very few photos of these exist.
#WW1#WWI#FWW#GreatWar#History#MilitaryHistory#Firearms
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American soldiers rest among the ruins of a destroyed German bunker at Pointe du Hoc. The U.S. Rangers suffered here a 70% casualty rate between 6-8 June since the D-Day landings. #WW2
British infantry in the streets of Arnhem, April 1945, where months earlier heavy fighting took place during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. #WW2