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War breaks out
THIS IS THE BBC CALLING:
“We have a clear conscience; we have done all that any country could do to establish peace. The situation in which no word given by Germany"s ruler could be trusted, and no people or country could feel itself safe had become intolerable ... Now may God bless you all. May He defend the right. It is the evil things we shall be fighting against—brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution—and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.” Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain
Kurt Huisman was woken from his bunk early on the morning of 1 September 1939. He knew something was going on from the secretive behavior of the officers the previous day, but as a simple nineteen year old ship’s gunner on a German Navy tra
