Thousands of monuments to fallen British soldiers have slipped into disrepair or been abandoned. 27 Oct 2009 A video of Philip Spooner, an 86-year-old D-Day veteran who spoke at a Maine Judiciary Committee meeting in favour of gay marriage, has become a moving internet hit. 21 Oct 2009 Telegraph View: We praise Tony McNulty for wearing a poppy before the week running up to Remembrance Sunday. 15 Oct 2009 A prescription for a sleeping drug given to Adolf Hitler's Nazi deputy Rudolph Hess when he was a prisoner in the Tower of London is to be sold at auction. 14 Oct 2009 MI5 told Neville Chamberlain of Hitler's insults in order to try and persuade him to drop his policy of appeasement. 05 Oct 2009 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, introduced his War Budget in the House of Commons yesterday and announced that Income Tax is to be raised to 7s 6d in the pound – the highest figure ever reached in this country. 29 Sep 2009 Germany’s first air attack on the British Fleet, announced yesterday, was a complete and costly failure. 29 Sep 2009 The German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, arrived in Moscow at 5.45p, today at the invitation of the Soviet Government, in Hitler’s special Condor aeroplane, the Greuzmark. 29 Sep 2009 The announcement of the sinking of a Soviet steamer, the Metallist 968 tons, by an unknown submarine in Narva Bay, off the Estonian coast, about 6 o’clock this evening, came as the climax to a day of intense diplomatic activity here. 29 Sep 2009 Dr Boehmer, chief of the Foreign Press Department of the Ministry of Propaganda, received foreign press correspondents yesterday, according to the official German News Agency, quoted by Reuter. 29 Sep 2009 29 Sep 2009 Motorists who have faithfully followed the official lighting regulations were astonished to learn yesterday that the use of the new headlamp mask with three horizontal slits is to be made compulsory. 29 Sep 2009 Hush! A strange monster has gone to earth somewhere in this green and fruitful valley. Speak softly! 29 Sep 2009 WORLD WAR 2: COMMENT Find out how the museum's branches are commemorating this momentous period in history. A last tribute to the defenders of Warsaw and the Hela forts should be paid. There can never have been a greater display of gallantry against over-whelming odds or greater endurance of intolerable suffering. 29 Sep 2009 “Roll up the Map of Europe”, Pitt is reported to have said on hearing of Napoleon’s triumph at the battle of Ulm. “It will not be wanted for 20 years”. 29 Sep 2009 New Budget has its Moral for Official Spendthrifts. 29 Sep 2009 The approach of the fog season makes all the more urgent the widespread appeals for modification of the lighting restrictions. 29 Sep 2009 It was stated in London last night that the war situation is unaffected by the Soviet-German pact partitioning Poland, and that the Allies are not impressed by the Nazi-Bolshevik threat of consultation if the “peace offensive” fails. 28 Sep 2009 The French have made another important gain on the Western Front. 28 Sep 2009 The German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, according to the official Soviet communiqué, spent “over two hours” in the Kremlin last night negotiating a new Polish and, perhaps, even a new East-European so-called “settlement” with Joseph Stalin. 28 Sep 2009 Adolf Hitler's suicide in his Berlin bunker has been called into question after American researchers claimed that a bullet-punctured skull fragment long believed to belong to the Nazi dictator is, in fact, that of an unknown woman. 28 Sep 2009 Will he try an autumn coup in Holland? At the moment progress of the war requires little comment. 21 Sep 2009 Letter to the editor published in The Daily Telegraph on September 22, 1939. 21 Sep 2009 Mr Chamberlain in the House of Commons yesTelegraph articles on World War 2 from 1939, historical pictures and video and the latest news on the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 2.
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Britain's war memorials in disrepair
D-Day veteran's speech on gay marriage is YouTube hit
The first poppy
Hitler's Nazi deputy Rudolph Hess memorabilia on sale
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Income tax 7s 6d in the £
Navy beats off air attack
World War 2: Ribbentrop arrives in Moscow
Soviet ship sunk by submarine
Nazi leader's fortunes
Short hair now in fashion
Confusion over head lamps
The BBC moves West
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