military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/13/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 12 June, 1941 An RAF Beaufort torpedoes the pocket battleship Luetzow off Norway; the ship is seriously damaged, and retires to Germany for lengthy repairs. Representatives of the Allied governments, including the governments- in-exile of occupied Europe, meet in London. They resolve to assist each other "until victory is won." In all, fifteen nations sign the pact. Prince Bernhard, a son of one of the oldest families in Germany, husband of Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and serving as an honorary RAF officer, visits the United States. He states that the German people, in following Hitler, have destroyed any hope of preserving the German culture after the war. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "I don't think there is any chance of the old Germany coming back. It would take years to get the German people straight." - Prince Bernhard