Hitler's Bitterest Enemies: Germans and Austrians in the British Army. (For full caption see FLM 1333). Picture shows:- The Company orchestra plays its 'theme song' written in Dachau by a young Austrian poet who afterwards died at the hands of the SS: "Pitiless barbed wire All around us, charged with death. Keep your step, Comrade, Lift your head, Comrade, Always think of the day, Comrade, When the bells of freedom will ring."
The 'Blitz' – from the German term Blitzkrieg ('lightning war') – was the sustained campaign of aerial bombing attacks on British towns and cities carried out by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) from September 1940 until May 1941.
During the Second World War, a group of basement offices in Whitehall served as the centre of Britain’s war effort. The complex, known as the Cabinet War Rooms, was occupied by leading government ministers, military strategists and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
When Britain went to war on 3 September 1939 there was none of the 'flag-waving patriotism' of August 1914. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force.
