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Victory in Europe hit Halifax like a blitz. For two hysterical days, servicemen and civilians looted, burned, wrecked and smashed heads. They gutted Halifax's shopping section, destroying or stealing property valued up to $5,000,000. When order was restored, as the result of exhaustion rather than authority, two men were dead; hospitals and jails were crammed...
...fall of France to the invasion of Russia, they bore the burden of the struggle alone. After Dunkirk, with only one division of troops equipped to put up organized resistance to invasion of the British Isles, they fought on. They continued to fight on, bloody but unbowed, throughout the blitz. Hitler called them "military idiots...
...Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, 60, Bavarian brewer's son, longtime Luftwaffe commander, who helped stage the aerial massacre of Rotterdam and blitz on Britain...
...Again on May 10, 1940, when the Germans burst into the Low Countries (people strewed flowers before the British troops advancing into Belgium; three weeks later came Dunkirk; six weeks later, the fall of France; four months later, the blitz of London...
...Luftwaffe persistently blitz London, rather than the west coast ports, where far more damage might have been done to Britain, desperate for supplies...