Please click the icon to follow us on Facebook.on this day in Moscow the isolated "periphery powers" of Great Britain and the Soviet Union signed the Halifax-Molotov mutual security pact on the back of the French Government's decision to join the Axis Nations.

But it was no good, and inside of six months, the Red Army had been forced to withdraw deep into Soviet territory.

Sufficiently emboldened by this success the combined forces of the Kriegsmarine, Marine Nationale and Regia Marina swept the Royal Navy from the English Channel and Operation Sea Lion was launched without delay.

As the Jewish Population of England was being forcibly relocated to the Stepney Ghetto, King Edward VIII prepared for the most important speech of his life. Having pocketed fifty million Reichmarks from Walter Schellenberg as a sweetener to return from exile, the re-throned Nazi King desperately needed to assure the various races of the British Empire and Commonwealth that the Anglo-German partnership offered "the Colonies" the benefit of enhanced security in a dangerous new world.