Miracle of Dunkirk & Sir Winston Churchill: his views on National Socialism & Sharia Islam
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Britain on May 10, 1940.
World War II would rage another year and a half before the entrance of Unite States.
The situation in Europe was desperate, as two massive Nazi armies were driving back British, French, Dutch, Polish and Belgian troops to the English Channel, bottling them up in the port of Dunkirk.
The Belgian army surrendered.
If the British forces were destroyed, Britain would be forced to negotiate a surrender.
For reasons still debated, Hitler approved an order on May 24 to halt for three days the advance of 800,000 Nazi troop, possibly to consolidate his forces or to let the Nazi Luftwaffe air force complete the annihilation.
King George VI, Winston Churchill, and all the people of Britain prayed, and on May 27, they courageously rallied a nine day evacuation.
In what came to be called "the spirit of Dunkirk," British citizens sailed their fishing boats, commercial vessels, private crafts, pleasure cruisers, and transport ferries across the English Channel.
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Miraculously, the sea was still as glass, and clouds hid them from the Nazi Luftwaffe air force.
Nazi office Halder wrote in his diary, May 30, 1940:
"Brauchitsch is angry ... The bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and we must now stand and watch countless thousands of the enemy get away to England right under our noses."
The Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Rev. Walter Matthews, called it the "Miracle of Dunkirk," in his address, June 2, 1940:
"It was remembered that the Archbishop of Canterbury had announced that the Day of National Prayer might well be a turning point, and it was obvious to many that God had answered the nation's collective prayer with the 'miracle of Dunkirk' ...
... The evidence of God's intervention was clear for those who wished to see it; papers had written of calm seas and the high mist which interfered with the accuracy of German bombers."
Suddenly, five days into the evacuations, on June 1, the sky cleared for two days, allowing Nazi artillery and planes to attack, sinking 243 boats.
British planes boldly responded, and together with guns from the British Royal Navy and the French Navy, shot down an estimated 240 Nazi aircraft, though loosing an estimated 177 British planes.
On June 3, 1940, the British army was safely back in England, though they had to leave behind tens of thousands of vehicles, truck, tanks, machine guns and military equipment.
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Winston Churchill insisted the citizens of Britain sail their vessels back one more day to rescue as many as possible of the trapped French, Polish, Belgian and Dutch troops.
In all, 861 vessels evacuated 338,226 troops.
Unfortunately, 35,000 French troops who had courageously held back the Nazi forces during the evacuation, were overwhelmed and captured.
On June 14, Nazi forces captured Paris and forced the nation of France to negotiate a surrender.
Individual French citizens, though, carried on a clandestine effort to fight back.
Before the House of Commons, June 18, 1940, Churchill warned:
"I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization ...
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war."
This was similar to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who stated September 1, 1941:
"Preservation of these rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them -- but to the whole future of Christian civilization."
Churchill continued:
"If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."
Churchill concluded:
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
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On JULY 19, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill held up two fingers as a sign of victory.
This became a symbol for all Western European resistance during WWII, with V's painted on walls and over Nazi posters.
"Nazi" was an abbreviation of the "National Socialist Workers Party," which was motivated by the racist, anti-Semitic, supremacist ideology expressed in Adolf Hitler's work Mein Kampf, 1925.
Mein Kampf, in recent times, has become a best-seller in some Muslim countries.
Winston Churchill described Hitler's Mein Kampf in his work, In From War to War (Second World War, 1958, Vol. 1, ch. 4, p. 50):
"... the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message."
Churchill's equating of Mein Kampf with the Koran finds its roots earlier in Churchill's career, 1897-1898, when he fought in northwest India, Egypt and Sudan, serving under the command of General Herbert Kitchener.