Adolf Hitler

Politician

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party . He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most well known for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World ...

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Monday 8th January 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Secret Annexe: Cabinet discusses Scandinavian neutrality and the personal motives of US Ambassador Kennedy
person Adolf Hitler
place Greece
place Narvik
place Stockholm
place Tokyo
place Denmark
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet informed of finance deal with Turks, new government in China by Japan. Rumour Hitler's HQ moved to Dutch frontier
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Adolf Hitler
place Finland
place Turkey
organisation New Zealand Treasury
 

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extract Secret Annexe: War Office warns of new intelligence on German plan for attack on Belgium and Holland
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
person Adolf Hitler
person Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
place Brussels
organisation German Army
 

Meeting minutes

extract Secret Annexe: Vatican passes on peace plan from German officers. PM opposes suggestion by Churchill of invasion of Sweden
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Finland
place Russian Empire
place Vatican City
place Oslo
place Stockholm
place Rome
place Czechoslovakia
organisation German Army
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

Meeting minutes

extract U-Boat U-55 sunk by HMS Fowey. Soviet Ambassador urges British government to remain neutral over Finland
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Samuel Hoare
person Adolf Hitler
person Kingsley Wood
place Newcastle upon Tyne
place Finland
place East Germany
 

Wednesday 7th February 1940

Meeting minutes

extract President Roosevelt sends Sumner Welles peace mission to European capitals
person Sumner Welles
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Finland
place Russian Empire
place Vatican City
place Europe
place Berlin
place Washington
 

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extract Halifax to ministers: “hope of peace without a blood bath”, Stafford Cripps reports Soviets “uneasy” with Nazi alliance
person Stafford Cripps
person Adolf Hitler
person Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
place Finland
place Russian Empire
place East Germany
place Halifax Peninsula
place Moscow
place Europe
place Bulgaria
place West Germany
place Iran
organisation Morning Star (UK newspaper)
organisation Labour Party (UK)
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
 

Monday 4th March 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Halifax believes Finns have “no immediate intention of making terms” with USSR. Chamberlain predicts outcome in 24 hours
extract UK Ambassador Helsinki reports Finnish Foreign Minister “querulous not to say defeatist”. Repeats request for 100 bombers
extract Swedish government formally refuses to allow passage of Allied troops to assist Finland
person Alexander Cadogan
person Adolf Hitler
person Neville Chamberlain
person Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
place Finland
place Russian Empire
place Narvik
place Berlin
place West Germany
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

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extract Notes on recent meetings. Hitler “bully and boaster, but at bottom a coward”. Attack on Western Front "desperate gamble"
person Adolf Hitler
place Finland
place Turkey
place Denmark
 

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extract PM on Sumner Welles mission: “aiming for the impossible”. No peace without “real change of outlook in Germany”
person Sumner Welles
person Adolf Hitler
person Harold Wilson
person Joachim von Ribbentrop
place Great Britain
place Finland
place Halifax Peninsula
place Singapore
place Europe
place Berlin
place Rome
organisation New Zealand Treasury
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Canadian Forces Maritime Command
 

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extract PM meets junior ministers. “Nothing with which to reproach ourselves” on Finland. Germany “true villain of the piece”
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
place Finland
place Berlin
place West Germany
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

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extract Zetland congratulated on surviving assassination attempt. PM to await Viceroy's new report before deciding India policy
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Adolf Hitler
person Harold Wilson
place Finland
place Burma
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Indian National Congress
organisation United States Congress
 

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extract “Berlin better blacked out than London” says US envoy. Ambassador to Vatican reports Hitler and Mussolini to meet shortly
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Sumner Welles
person Samuel Hoare
person Adolf Hitler
person Joachim von Ribbentrop
place Finland
place Vatican City
place Hong Kong
place Singapore
place Turkey
place Berlin
place Rome
organisation Luftwaffe
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

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extract Churchill reports on defences after Scarpa attack. Warns of general feeling “Germans used bombs…we only dropped leaflets”
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Walter Hines Page
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
person Neville Chamberlain
place Finland
place Gisborne, New Zealand
place Hong Kong
place Turkey
place Gibraltar
place South America
organisation Home Office
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
organisation Scapa
organisation Home Fleet
 

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extract Informal notes on recent meetings: “extent to which we could lend assistance to Holland not fully worked out”
person Adolf Hitler
person Sydney Brenner
organisation Scapa
 

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extract Paul Reynaud likely to be new Prime Minister of France. No change in policy apparent after Hitler-Mussolini meeting
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Adolf Hitler
place South Africa
place Great Britain
place Paris
place Rome
organisation Home Office
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Hopatcong High School
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Home Fleet
 

Analysis of German Propaganda, March 1 to 16, 1940.

extract Lord Halifax presents analysis of recent Nazi propaganda themes. British weakness up, brutality and lies down
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
person Joachim von Ribbentrop
person John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
person Oliver Stanley
place Great Britain
place Finland
place Ankara
place Slovakia
place Russian Empire
place Caribbean
place Berlin
place Rome
organisation Ministry of Supply
 

Publicity in Enemy Countries.

extract Halifax reports progress of leaflet dropping by RAF. “Produced considerable effect…even Germans cannot resist a picture”
person Richard Kiel
person Adolf Hitler
place Finland
place Paris
place Berlin
place Vienna
place Denmark
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Minister of Economic Warfare
 

Wednesday 3rd April 1940

Leaflet dropping over Germany.

extract Air Minister forwards report on success of leaflet dropping campaign: “German Air Ministry and…Nazi regime losing face”
person Adolf Hitler
person Kingsley Wood
place Berlin
place Vienna
place Czechoslovakia
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation Luftwaffe
 

Friday 10th May 1940

Seaborne and airborne attack on the United Kingdom.

extract Cabinet gives general approval to plan from Chiefs of Staff on UK's response to sea and air attack
extract Italian aircraft carrier at Suez Canal. Concern a “convenient” ship for blockade. UK to block Canal as “play for time”
extract War Cabinet approves establishment of Netherland government in London
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Gisborne, New Zealand
place Brussels
place Northern Ireland
place Denmark
organisation Luftwaffe
organisation French Air Force
 

Meeting minutes

extract Churchill: Ruhr attacks "a hard blow at Germany...we must expect this country to be hit in return"
extract Cabinet approves night bombing of the Ruhr. 100 heavy bombers to be deployed from tonight
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
organisation Royal Air Force
 

Meeting minutes

extract King Leopold informs British government he is “determined to stay with his army” in Belgium
extract PM: Operation may be a great failure. Or our troops may "fight magnificently" and save considerable portion of the Force
extract PM anxious “orders for march to the coast should be issued as soon as possible”. Order from Reynaud to Weygand drafted
extract Halifax urges talks with Mussolini. Italy may be able to “persuade Herr Hitler to take a more reasonable attitude”
extract Reynaud: No peace terms yet but France “could get an offer if they wanted one”. Taking Paris “the dream of all Germans”
extract PM Reynaud tells War Cabinet France has 50 divisions to Germany’s 150. “Clear that the war could not be won on land”
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
person Maxime Weygand
person James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
person Adolf Hitler
person Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
place Great Britain
place Somaliland
place Russian Empire
place Paris
place Malta
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Washington
place Northern Ireland
place Rome
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Meeting minutes

extract General Dill: UK forces “still holding out” in Calais, situation now quieter than the previous night
extract Churchill: We “must be prepared” for PM Reynaud “to say that the French could not carry on the fight”.
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
person Maxime Weygand
person William Lyon Mackenzie King
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
person Edward Spears
place Europe
place Calais
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation United States Navy
organisation 335th Fighter Squadron
organisation Belgian Land Component
 

Suggested approach to Signor Mussolini.

extract Halifax meeting with Italian ambassador. Says UK would consider "any proposal" that promised "secure and peaceful Europe"
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Paris
place Europe
place Rome
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
organisation ING Group
 

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extract Chamberlain: “In order to keep the French in a good temper...our reply should not be a complete refusal.” Cabinet agrees.
extract PM will not “join France in asking for terms" but if told what the terms were, he "would be prepared to consider them"
extract Halifax: If UK independence not at stake "right to accept an offer which would save the country from avoidable disaster”
extract Halifax again raises Italy negotiations. Roosevelt has opened talks. French say they may offer territorial concessions
person Adolf Hitler
person Edward Spears
place Paris
place Europe
place Rome
organisation Canadian Forces Maritime Command
organisation French Army
 

Meeting minutes

extract Churchill: "Our success must depend first on our unity, then on our courage and endurance."
extract Churchill: “If we both stand out we may yet save ourselves from the fate of Denmark or Poland”
extract Churchill informs French PM Reynaud that the War Cabinet has decided it is not “the right moment” to approach Mussolini
extract Churchill: "Nations which went down fighting rose again but those which surrendered tamely were finished"
extract Chamberlain: Better for both UK and France “to play their part in the struggle” than to open negotiations with Mussolini
extract Halifax: UK may get better terms now, before France went out of the war and UK aircraft factories bombed than in 3 months
extract PM: “Clear” French wish Mussolini to act as intermediary with Herr Hitler. “Determined” not to get into this position
extract French again urge talks with Mussolini. Halifax says Italians want UK to request their mediation in European conflict
person Alexander Cadogan
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Maxime Weygand
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
person Bob Kerslake
person Neville Chamberlain
person Edward Spears
place Great Britain
place Malta
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Denmark
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation United States Navy
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
organisation United Nations
organisation French Army
 

Wednesday 12th June 1940

Preparations against Invasion. Leaflet submitted by the Minister of Information.

extract Information Minister presents draft leaflet for public on invasion: "If the INVADER comes - what to do and how to do it"
person Duff Cooper
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
organisation Air Force F.C.
 

Meeting minutes

extract General Dill: Dangerous "thrust towards Verdun" by Germans. "If successful, would turn the Maginot Line"
extract PM: If France refuse terms Hitler's only course to "smash this island". Then America in the war "within a fortnight"
extract Halifax: France must be made to see that Armistice "a slippery slope" to loss of their fleet and eventually their liberty
extract PM Reynaud to appeal for "maximum help" short of an expeditionary force from US. France to "hold on" for US response
extract Statement by US President "much heartened" French government. Churchill: "As near as possible to a declaration of war"
extract Churchill: PM Reynaud asked that France be released from agreement not to make a separate peace with Germany
extract Telegram from Roosevelt to PM Reynaud: US "doing everything in its power" to make war material available to Allies
person Anthony Eden
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Franklin D. Roosevelt
person John Anderson (Australian politician)
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
place Halifax Peninsula
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation United States Congress
 

Meeting minutes

extract General Dill: "No confirmation" of report of Soviet forces massing on the frontier of East Prussia
extract Report Swiss government to capitulate to military coup, allowing German troops free passage. Halifax: "A wild story"
extract BEF no longer under overall French command. "Grave risk" if French agree Armistice force "involved and unable to escape"
extract General Brooke reports that organised resistance in France has "come to an end". French army "disintegrating"
extract Roosevelt says his message "in no sense" promised US military action. PM: "Nothing short" of this will sustain France
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Franklin D. Roosevelt
person Adolf Hitler
place Iraq
place Turkey
place Malta
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
place Libya
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation United States Congress
 

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extract Cabinet approves evacuation of women and children from Hong Kong. War Secretary to look at UK recruitment in Far East
extract General Dill: Military operations in the Middle East confirm "reluctance of the Italians to fight"
person Walter Hines Page
person John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
person Francisco Franco
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Russian Empire
place Hong Kong
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Portsmouth
organisation Home Office
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Hopatcong High School
organisation Royal Navy
organisation French Navy
organisation French Foreign Legion
 

Wednesday 3rd July 1940

Communist Propaganda.

extract Home Secretary keen to take action to supress Communist leaflets such as "The People Must Act" and Daily Worker newspaper
person Adolf Hitler
person John Anderson (Maine)
place West Germany
organisation Morning Star (UK newspaper)
 

Comments on the recent conversation between His Majesty's Ambassador at Moscow and M. Stalin.

extract Halifax circulates progress of Cripps negotiations with Marshall Stalin. “Soviet-German co-operation is to continue”
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Russian Empire
place East Germany
place Iraq
place Moscow
place Turkey
place Europe
place Istanbul
 

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extract Halifax: Overseas intelligence Hitler still clinging “to the hope of working arrangement with the British Empire”
extract UK Ambassador Tokyo warns “real danger of Japan joining the Axis Powers”. Cabinet favours closing Burma Road for 3 months
extract Ministers to consider role of women in home defence. Suggestion they “be provided with uniforms and allowed to use arms”
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Walter Hines Page
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Samuel Hoare
person Francisco Franco
person Adolf Hitler
person Clement Attlee
person Robert Craigie (diplomat)
place Great Britain
place North America
place Berlin
place Tokyo
place Burma
place West Germany
organisation Home Office
organisation International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
 

Peace proposals by Germany.

extract Dominions Secretary warns Allies of likely attempt by Herr Hitler to launch peace conference and blame UK for conflict
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Adolf Hitler
place South Africa
place Europe
place South America
organisation United States Navy
 

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extract Cabinet rejects plan to transfer British fascists to St. Helena. To be kept in UK "under suitable conditions"
extract Cabinet divided over a response to the recent speech by Herr Hitler. PM Churchill to consult more widely
extract Halifax warns of impact of possible US oil embargo on UK stocks, Japan may be "stung" into seizing Dutch East Indies
extract First Sea Lord: Enemy air attacks on Malta continuing, three raids yesterday. "Only slight damage"
extract Air Chief: Enemy air activity concentrated against Channel shipping and Straits of Dover. "A few isolated raids" inland
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Hugh Dalton
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
person Adolf Hitler
person Clement Attlee
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
person Farouk of Egypt
place Hamburg
place Portugal
place Trondheim
place Egypt
place Halifax Peninsula
place Madrid
place Sicily
place Malta
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Home Office
organisation New Zealand Treasury
organisation RAF Coastal Command
 

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extract Commons to debate Hitler's Reichstag speech tomorrow. Press told speech requires no "official reply from this country"
extract Cabinet agrees uninterned aliens in the UK will be liable to military service on the same conditions as British subjects
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Samuel Hoare
person Adolf Hitler
person Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
person Farouk of Egypt
place Egypt
place Morocco
place Africa
organisation British Army
 

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extract Halifax: “We delude ourselves” if we think Russia will “by proper treatment be made a warm friend of this country”
extract Halifax: Resuming relations with France unlikely in view of UK bombing, blockade, leaflet drops. Not of great importance
extract Lord Halifax speaking to junior ministers. Tells meeting “We might now be at the turning point of the war”
person Charles de Gaulle
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
person Adolf Hitler
person Farouk of Egypt
place Great Britain
place Lancaster, Lancashire
place Russian Empire
place Egypt
place Singapore
place Europe
place Burma
place West Germany
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Thursday 8th August 1940

Meeting minutes

extract King George VI: My peoples "would rather all perish in the common ruin than fall or falter in their duty"
extract Halifax circulates draft rejection by King George of offer of mediation between UK and Germany by King Gustav of Sweden
extract PM Churchill: "We could never stand by and see a British Dominion overwhelmed by a yellow race"
extract PM: Invasion of Australia "could be retrieved" by USA. "In the last resort" UK would "abandon" Mediterranean and Mid-East
extract PM: We hope "to avoid war" but it could occur "at any moment". "Opening moves" likely to be against Hong Kong, Singapore
extract Churchill outlines policy in the event of Japanese aggression: UK Fleet needed in Mediterranean "to beat the Italians"
person William Lyon Mackenzie King
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
person Neville Chamberlain
place Great Britain
place Egypt
place Fiji
place Hong Kong
place Singapore
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Alexandria
place Africa
place Republic of China
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

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extract Cabinet agrees to maintain blockade of Europe. PM: Talk of food shortages can be put to German "Guns, not Butter" policy
extract Halifax: Sir Stafford Cripps met M. Moltotov yesterday in Moscow. He does "not appear to be making very much progress"
extract War Cabinet congratulate Secretary of State for Air and the Chief of the Air Staff "on this fine achievement"
extract Air Chief: Air action yesterday "great success". 66 enemy losses. Loss of 18 RAF fighters. "Thought" 6 pilots saved
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Stafford Cripps
person Adolf Hitler
person Clement Attlee
place Moscow
place Europe
 

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extract Halifax: Relations with Japan "somewhat improved" but relations between Italy and Greece "have deteriorated further"
extract PM: Looking to see "some kind of Council of Europe", European court, "an international air force", no harsh postwar terms
extract Cabinet forms committee to look at future of UK and "new Europe" after the war to make clear Britain's aims for fighting
person Anthony Eden
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Adolf Hitler
person Clement Attlee
place Athens
place Greece
place Turkey
place Europe
organisation Home Office
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation Royal Air Force
 

The Munitions Situation.

extract Supply Minister warns UK armaments industry "a very small infant compared with the giant that threatens to attack it"
person Herbert Morrison
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Russian Empire
place Birmingham
place North America
place Europe
place Africa
place Czechoslovakia
organisation Ministry of Supply
organisation German Army
organisation British Army
organisation United States Army
 

Tuesday 10th September 1940

Telegrams Exchanged with His Majesty's Minister in Stockholm.

extract Halifax: UK Embassy Stockholm has received apparent German peace offer ("World to be divided"). Draft rejection attached
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Finland
place East Germany
place Egypt
place Europe
place Republic of China
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet rejects advance by "secret emissary of Hitler" in Sweden. US to be told of UK's refusal of this "offer of peace"
extract PM warns "powerful armada" being deployed along French coast. Coast from N. Foreland to Dungeness to be further fortified
person Samuel Hoare
person Adolf Hitler
place Egypt
place Gibraltar
place Dakar
place Northern Ireland
 

Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco.

extract Halifax warns of likely German "diversion" against Egypt or Iberian Peninsula. "Great pressure will be placed on Spain"
person Charles de Gaulle
person Francisco Franco
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Portugal
place Egypt
place Halifax Peninsula
place Madrid
place Turkey
place Paris
place Europe
place Gibraltar
place Berlin
place Morocco
place Syria
place Africa
place Madrid, New York
organisation German Army
organisation Minister of Economic Warfare
 

Wednesday 2nd October 1940

German-Italian-Japanese Treaty.

extract Halifax: Three Power Pact means UK "must show a solid front" with US in Far East even if Japan move "huge piece of bluff"
person Joseph Stalin
person Adolf Hitler
place Moscow
place Europe
place Republic of China
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
 

Subversive Newspaper Propaganda.

extract Home Secretary: Not clear Daily Mirror deliberately intends to impede war effort. Will direct "friendly appeal" to Press
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
person Adolf Hitler
place New York, Lincolnshire
place Madrid
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Daily Mirror
 

Air Raid Shelter Policy.

extract New Home Secretary preparing wireless broadcast. Will tell nation "What I can do to make life easier, that will I do"
person Herbert Morrison
person Adolf Hitler
place West Germany
organisation Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Netherlands)
organisation Luftwaffe
 

Friday 8th November 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Morrison: Bombing more severe last 2 nights. "Good many casualties" at Southwark, Wandsworth, Richmond. Penzance attacked
extract Halifax: "Sharp and unhelpful" reply from M. Petain to the King's message. Nothing yet settled between Hitler and Vichy
extract PM: UK cannot tolerate shipping losses on present scale. Will ask Roosevelt to pressure Ireland to abandon neutrality
extract PM: "For the present" Crete appears in no great danger of Italian attack. Possible Australian units could replace Greeks
extract General Dill: Greeks advancing in Pindus sector (Italian morale "bad") but under "heavy pressure" in Epirus sector
extract General Dill: UK forces have captured Gallabat on Sudan/Ethiopia border and resisted Italian counterattack
extract Admiralty: Work on new German acoustic mines now allows certain counter measures. Method still in the experimental stage
extract Admiralty: "No further information" of convoy attacked by the Admiral Scheer. Surviving ships due in home waters tomorrow
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Charles de Gaulle
person Hugh Dalton
person Adolf Hitler
person Kingsley Wood
person John Dill
person Chiang Kai-shek
person Jean Bart
place Greece
place Egypt
place Halifax Peninsula
place Madrid
place Sudan
place Libreville
place Malta
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation RAF Coastal Command
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 

Relations with Vichy.

extract Churchill: We must make Vichy feel "we have teeth as well as Hitler". "Nice" policy will only help Germany at our expense
person Ronnie Campbell
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
 

Meeting minutes

extract Lord Halifax concerned Bulgaria may join Axis. King Boris "thought to have been pressed by Herr Hitler and Ribbentrop"
extract India Secretary: If arrest required Viceroy already told "he would have full support in allowing Gandhi to fast to death"
extract Viceroy warns of worsening political situation in India. Cabinet refuses request to outlaw Congress party, arrest Gandhi
extract PM: America must appreciate we are "fighting for our lives". Certain secret information we cannot possibly divulge
extract Cabinet agrees release of limited secret data to US. UK Scientists say US has "less to tell us than we have to tell them"
extract PM de Valera "in a very agitated and bitter mood" over use of Irish ports. PM Churchill refuses to rule out seizing them
extract General Dill: Italians have "retired in disorder" from Epirus sector. Greeks to do utmost to maintain momentum of advance
extract Air Chief: Duisberg main target for RAF overnight. Enemy attacks focused on Midlands including Birmingham and Coventry
person Alexander Cadogan
person John Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
place Kassala
place Greece
place Egypt
place Birmingham
place North America
place Sicily
place Sudan
place Malta
place Valona, California
place Bulgaria
organisation Home Office
organisation Royal Air Force
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Indian National Congress
organisation Congress Working Committee
 

Meeting minutes

extract Attorney General to consider legal action against Daily Worker newspaper for libellous cartoon of Labour Minister Bevin
extract PM: Utmost importance to build reserve of gas weapons. If enemy uses gas "we must be in a position to retaliate at once"
extract Greenwood: Damage in Birmingham "probably more serious" than Coventry but recovery in both cities "going ahead well"
extract Cabinet told an explosion has sunk the SS Patria carrying "illegal immigrants" to Palestine. 385 people unaccounted for
extract Halifax: Upshot of various reports that "probably not very much" settled at Berlin talks between Hitler and Molotov
extract General Dill: Italians landing at Durazzo, Valona to retrieve situation by extensive reinforcement. Vital to impede this
extract Admiralty reports "good progress" made in devising means for dealing with acoustic mines
person Anthony Eden
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Hugh Dalton
person Herbert Morrison
person Adolf Hitler
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
person John Dill
person Andrew Duncan
place Wellington, Nevada
place Cranborne
place Halifax Peninsula
place Birmingham
place Belgrade
place Turkey
place Sudan
place Malta
place Gibraltar
place Berlin
place Valona, California
place Bristol
place Bulgaria
place Greenwood, Nova Scotia
organisation Morning Star (UK newspaper)
organisation RAF Fighter Command
 

Sunday 8th December 1940

Draft letter from Prime Minister to President Roosevelt.

extract PM to cable Roosevelt on year ahead: "Unless we can establish our ability to feed this Island...we may fall by the way"
person Adolf Hitler
person Winston Churchill
place Great Britain
place Singapore
place Turkey
place North America
place Europe
place Africa
place Northern Ireland
place West Germany
organisation Air Force F.C.
organisation United States Navy
organisation Royal Navy
organisation Commonwealth of Nations
organisation French Navy
 

Meeting minutes

extract PM: Hitler's next move "a matter of speculation". "Most menacing outlook" in Spain. Germans may move to occupy N. Africa
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person Adolf Hitler
place Africa
organisation Hopatcong High School
 

Contacts with the Vichy Government.

extract Halifax: To go beyond this may be difficult for Vichy. They must be careful "to avoid rousing German suspicions"
extract Halifax: We have received written assurances from Vichy that France will retain her fleet and Empire and not attack UK
person Charles de Gaulle
person Samuel Hoare
person Maxime Weygand
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
place Greece
place Egypt
place Tangier
place Libreville
place Gibraltar
place London, Ontario
place Morocco
place Africa
place Madrid, New York
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
organisation Royal Navy
 

Meeting minutes

extract "...and as to the form which Hitler's counterstroke would be mostly likely to take"
extract Morrison: Adequate arrangements can keep fire risk "under control". The remedy is in our own hands
extract Home Secretary Morrison to broadcast tonight on the importance of firewatching. Firewatching duty to be made compulsory
person Herbert Morrison
person Adolf Hitler
organisation Home Office
organisation Indian National Congress
 

Thursday 6th February 1941

Developments at Vichy.

extract Eden: "Germans will stand no more delaying tactics from Marshal Petain". Renewed pressure for their use of French fleet
person Anthony Eden
person Maxime Weygand
person Adolf Hitler
place Paris
place Tunisia
place Syria
place Toulon
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation French Navy
 

Meeting minutes

extract Cadogan: General Franco refused "abject appeal for help" from Signor Mussolini at their recent meeting
extract Remaining UK assets in America to be given to US government. PM: We will receive "far more than we could possibly give"
extract PM: Japan offers to mediate between Hitler and ourselves. Will make clear our war purpose is the eradication of Hitlerism
person Alexander Cadogan
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Duff Cooper
person William Patrick Stuart-Houston
person Francisco Franco
person E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
person Adolf Hitler
person Kingsley Wood
person Clement Attlee
place Cranborne
place Africa
organisation Home Office
organisation House of Commons of the United Kingdom
organisation Parliament of the United Kingdom
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
 

Tuesday 11th March 1941

Civil Precautions against Invasion. Guidance to the Public.

extract Anderson circulates new anti-invasion leaflet "Beating the Invader". Also "Stay where you are" and "If the Invader comes"
person John Anderson (Australian politician)
person Adolf Hitler
place Great Britain
organisation Air Force F.C.
 

Friday 11th April 1941

Meeting minutes

extract General Dill: Now clear the Germans had assembled "a considerably stronger force in Libya than we had reckoned on"
extract Attlee: "Somewhat surprised at the rapidity and force" of Libya attack in face of telegrams received from Desert Front
extract Eden: Hitler's plans "retarded and thrown out of gear" by Greek resistance and Yugoslav coup - both with our support
extract Foreign Secretary Eden and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff outline discussions held in Balkans and Middle East
person Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
person Stafford Cripps
person Adolf Hitler
place Republic of Macedonia
place Athens
place Greece
place Egypt
place Belgrade
place Turkey
place Sicily
place Malta
place Tobruk
place Cyprus
place Alexandria
place Bulgaria
place Libya
place Tripoli
organisation United States Navy