RT. HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
ANNE FRANK
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Martin Gilbert’s
Winston S. Churchill Volume 6 Finest Hour 1939-1941
Chapter 26 “Tours: ‘the darkest hour’ (1983, pages 522-555)
Andrew Roberts’
Churchill Walking With Destiny
Chapter 21 ‘The Fall of France: May-June 1940 (2018, pages 554-559)
Hannah Pick-Goslar’s
My Friend Anne Frank Chapter 17 ‘Ghosts’ (2023, pages 265-274)
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June 13th 1940
Mr CHURCHILL said that this was certainly the darkest hour for the Allied cause.
Excerpt from Martin Gilbert’s Winston S. Churchill Volume 6 Finest Hour 1939-1941
(1983, page 535)
The mood as the Supreme War Council came to an end was one of renewed hope. The official minutes recorded the final exchanges of the two leaders:
Mr CHURCHILL said until their next meeting the British programme of disembarkations in France would continue as arranged.
M. REYNAUD expressed gratitude for this assurance. Everything that he had discussed earlier in the meeting was, of course, only a hypothesis which would arise if President Roosevelt’s final answer was of a negative character.
Mr CHURCHILL said that this was certainly the darkest hour for the Allied cause. Nevertheless, his confidence that Hitlerism would be smashed and that Nazidom could not and would not over-rule Europe remained absolutely unshaken.
M. REYNAUD said that his confidence remained equally firm; else he could not endure to go on living.
May 1947 Amsterdam
Another nearby street name had been changed to honour Churchill
Excerpt from Hannah Pick-Goslar’s
My Friend Anne Frank (2023, Page 267)
Approaching my old apartment building on 16 Zuider Amstellaan, I felt excited but also deeply weary. I was home but also so far away from home. I noticed the street name had changed to Rooseveltlaan, to honour US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Another nearby street name had been changed to honour Churchill. But the old poplar trees still lined the meridian dividing the cobblestone street; the buildings looked the same in their pale brown tidy uniformity. It all looked so deceptively stable, I thought.