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British Pilots First To Check Hitler Advance
Berlin reports outline the fall of France and the Battle of Britain as British pilots check Hitler’s advance. The piece traces the rise of Nazi power, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, North Africa, and Italy, leading to Hitler’s death, Germany’s surrender on May 7, and postwar trials.
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Hitler
Berlin
France
Britain
England
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
Soviet Union
Fuehrer
Balkan
Yugoslavia
Greece
Russia
Pearl Harbor
United States
Pacific
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
el Alamein
Rommel
Stalingrad
Sicily
Italy
Auschwitz
Germany
Rastenburg
East Prussia
Reich
Eva Braun
Alfred Jodl
Armed Forces High Command
Karl Doenitz
Nuernberg
Heinrich
Wilhelm Keitel
Hans Frank