Invasion of Crete: The First (and Only) Major German Airborne Operation of World War II
Emboldened by previous successes, the Germans launched Operation Mercury, dropping thousands of paratroopers onto the defended island of Crete.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Germans would the triumph at Crete, but their victory was bittersweet.
By May 1941, the German Luftwaffe’s fortunes had risen to great heights and plummeted to equally startling depths in the course of a single year of blitzkrieg warfare in Western Europe. Led by the narcissistic Hermann Göring, a former World War I flying ace, the Luftwaffe had been the perfect complement to the land-based Wehrmacht in the opening months of the war. In Scandinavia and the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, the Luftwaffe’s parachute light infantry, or Fallschirmjäger, had seized key objectives to speed the advance of Germany’s panzer forces, while high-level and dive bombers had hastened the capitulation of stubborn nations w
The audit took four months and was published in November. It identified 209 statues, buildings and street names with links to slavery but critics say the focus should be elsewhere during the pandemic.
A SCHOOL has dropped Winston Churchill and JK Rowling as house names. The move was made by Seaford Head School in Seaford after students questioned whether these figures represent the school s core values . A letter to parents, students and guardians said that war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a figure who promoted racism and inequality, unfairly imprisoning and torturing many . It added that students did not feel Harry Potter author JK Rowling was a a suitable representative, because of her recent words about the trans community . The letter, addressed from the school s students, read: Churchill could be considered an important historical figure. However, we are now more aware that Churchill was a figure who promoted racism and inequality, unfairly imprisoning and torturing many.
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Meghan Markle has been embroiled in a birth certificate row this week. The Duchess of Sussex’s given names, Rachel Meghan, were removed from her son Archie’s birth certificate in June 2019 – so it read Her Royal Highness Duchess of Sussex . The change occurred 19 days after Archie s birth certificate was registered on May 17, 2019. The Duke s name was also changed to insert the word Prince , which had been left out of the original.