Xx-xx-xx06The Fall Of France-Part1

The actual sound record of World War II, 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Ponzar 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 preserved for all time through the medium of radio, an era never to be forgotten. Tonight, the fall of France. I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country, of our empire, of our allies, at the

bubble of the course of freedom. It is May 19, 1940. The battle is raging over. Winston Churchill is speaking to the British Empire and the world. He has been Prime Minister for about nine days. The on-rushing Nazi war machine has forced the Dutch army to capitulate in but five days. Luxon Borg had already surrendered on the day of the Nazi attack. The Belgian army is in

complete retreat and the French army has broken its sedan. German armies are poised for the dash to Paris and beyond. The Fony war is over. The powerful German a bear mark that smashed Poland in less than one month, that has moved almost unopposed into Denmark and Norway, has now cracked the low countries in France

in a little more than one week. German newspapers were proclaiming the end of the war. Now Britain was all but alone. And they called to lead the nation a man of courage. His name, Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill, born of another time, of another era. Winston Churchill, 66 years old, beloved, majestic, unbending. Winston Churchill, who won his opening speech to the house just nine days before said, you ask what is our policy?