He noted the dangerous changes taking place in German society. He warned the House of Commons in 1932, just months before Hitler took power, that the members should not “delude themselves” into believing that Germany simply required equal status or a few diplomatic concessions. He implored the people of Britain to stand up to the Third Reich, and was convinced that his country, along with their American cousins across the Atlantic, were the only hope to stop this unquenchable evil. Seventy-five years ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood before Parliament and delivered his “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech, arguably the finest oration of his career.Ĭhurchill had long warned of Adolf Hitler’s threat to the free world and of Nazi Germany’s looming tyranny.
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