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I was twelve years of age when the second World War started and I remember listening to the news on the radio of refugees in Europe being bombed by the German air force as they were trying to escape from the invading German army.
Television had only just started to be introduced and not many people in our class of society actually owned one, but the rare pictures that I managed to see on my friends TV were horrendous and frightening to a twelve year old child. The German fighters were machine gunning men, women and children civilians as they were running for their lives and jumping into ditches at the side of the road trying to escape the Nazi butchers.

The German hordes were streaming into the low countries on their way through Europe and everyone said that they would never penetrate the Maginot line, which was a French defence Zone and had all the latest technology and big guns, however, the Hun just by - passed it and drove on into France. They were dark days for this country and the World as Hitler and his gang seemed to be unstoppable as one country after the other fell to his onslaught. We were terrified at the thought of being conquered and taken away to an unknown fate, as no one knew the extent of the horrors which awaited anyone who was oppressed by that evil regime.

In those early days, we didn鈥檛 know about the concentration camps which were being built in Poland and elsewhere and the Gas chambers which were to murder six million Jews and other races, so, although we didn鈥檛 know it at the time, the same fate was waiting for us, if Great Britain had been invaded by the Devil and their cohorts, Italy, Japan, which were called the Axis powers. Neville Chamberlain had declared War on Germany after warning them to get out of Poland, but this country hadn鈥檛 got any Army, Navy, or Airforce, so it was impossible for the U.K. to beat Germany alone.
To stop Adolph Hitler in those days and we came very near to being taken over with the rest of the World and as Winston Churchill said, it would have been a return to the dark ages.

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