April 22, 2015:

1940:  Fall of France and the Spirit of Dunkirk.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. Omar N. Bradley, United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army.

"After Adolf Hitler’s rise and take-over of power in Germany in 1933, the Nazi party promoted vastly ambitious demands based on Nazi ideology such as uniting all Germans (and further all Germanic peoples) in Europe in a single nation; the acquisition of "living space" primarily for agrarian settlers.  In a model similar to the American Manifest Destiny in the Far West the Nazis pursued policies and actions to  clear native inhabitants; eliminate Bolshevism; and create the hegemony (leadership or dominance)of superiority".