Xx-xx-xx04Sitzkrieg The Phoney War

actual sound record of World War II in 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Panzer divisions moved across the Polish borders to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. World War II, the most terrible period of death and destruction in the long history of man.

World War II, a drama preserve for all time through the medium of radio, an era never to be forgotten. Tonight, Sitzkrieg, the phony war. I've never thought you stopped. Dancy Schwoz and I is a German city.

How is it easy to be a pabala? You are listening to Adolf Hitler. He is speaking in Berlin. It is less than 30 days since German-conser divisions moved across the Polish borders on September 1. Hitler's legions had introduced a new word in the language of warfare.

Blitzkrieg, lightning warfare. It is now September 29th. Twelve days before Russian armies, adhering to the terms of the Moscow Pact, signed eight days before the German attack on Poland, moved across Polish borders from the east.

The squeeze was on. On the day of the site, Russia forced Estonia to permit the Soviet military machine to establish bases on Estonian soil.

where treaties were signed within two weeks with Latvia and Lithuania. But what about Finland? Independent Freedom Loving Finland. Finland. A land of 65,000 lakes of white-covered lands. Finland. A picturesque Christmas card inhabited by strong men of goodwill.

Of courage. Russia Finland was strategically situated. The great city of Leningrad was only 20 miles from the Finnish border. Russians made demands. They wanted the Finns to relinquish territory on the Russian border near Leningrad so that the Russian bastion would be beyond effective military range of an enemy. The Finns to preserve their peace agreed.