1st Sep 70th Anniversary of Start of WW2

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Did you know?

Do you care?

Is there any memorial services taking place? If not, do you think there should be?

etc etc etc

I heard it mentioned briefly on the news this morning, and thought, 'God, I never heard the exact date before'... but that was about the extent of it. It was more of a 'meh' moment after that.

Anyone here got any strong views?...

brummytom

Damn, I was sure we declared war on the 3rd

Well I'm sure there'll be some commermoration here, after all, it was a defining point for the world during the last century.

I know a lot of Irish people won't care too much, but quite a few Irish men signed up to the army (my granddad did), so it's something that should also be acknowledged over there...

Long Onion

Can't see the reason for celebrating the start of a war - the end maybe, but surely not the start.

genericguy

Long Onion wrote: »

Can't see the reason for celebrating the start of a war - the end maybe, but surely not the start.

to celebrate what could have been...

ein volk, ein reich...

doolox

WW2 is defined as starting on the 1st Sept as the date when the German Army attacked Poland. Britain did not respond until the 3rd Sept and dates the start of the conflict then. The US dates the start on the 7th Dec 1941, the date of the Pearl harbour attack.

It depends on where you are as to when the War started.

Arguably Japans attack on Manchuria in 1931 could be defined as the start of the conflict that was to expand into WW2.

prinz

Actually it began today 70 years ago with an operation in Gleiwitz ( present day Poland - in 1939 it was in Germany ) which the Germans used as an excuse to move militarily against Poland. One Franciszek Honiok, a German, and ethnic Pole, was drugged, shot through the head, and left on the steps of the radio tower in Gleiwitz, from which a broadcast announcing the Polish attack on Germany was relayed across Germany. The whole thing was a set up to give legitimacy to the German invasion the next day.

Daroxtar

prinz wrote: »

Actually it began today 70 years ago with an operation in Gleiwitz ( present day Poland - in 1939 it was in Germany ) which the Germans used as an excuse to move militarily against Poland. One Franciszek Honiok, a German, and ethnic Pole, was drugged, shot through the head, and left on the steps of the radio tower in Gleiwitz, from which a broadcast announcing the Polish attack on Germany was relayed across Germany. The whole thing was a set up to give legitimacy to the German invasion the next day.

So it was his fault so.

Blazer

Daroxtar wrote: »

So it was his fault so.

Agreed...stupid fcuker letting himself be shot.:pac:
Hey at least he took about 12million with him.

IvySlayer

It's OK, Neville Chamberlain got a note from Hitler, he swore he wouldn't do any more invading.

Wazdakka

Other things that happened today..
2006 – Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

brummytom

Wazdakka wrote: »

Other things that happened today..
2006 – Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

That's strange, the Daily Express' 'what happened on this day says:
31st August
1996 - 1 Year Until Princess Diana's accident
1997 - Princess Diana Killed in Accident
1998 - 1 Year Since Diana killed
1999 - 2 Years Since Diana murdered by Prince Philip
2008 - Ricky Gervais murders Diana memorial concert