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(Untitled), 10 Aug 1934

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/228/23

Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Rothermere, Burghfield House, Dornoch, Sutherland to WSC, on the size of the German air force. Confirming that his sources had stated that German air preparations far exceeded anything accomplished by any of the belligerents during the War, and that within two months the Junkers Works at Dessau would be as large as the Bethlehem Steel Works in Pennsylvania and three times as large as the Fords Works at Dagenham. Stating that pilots were being "trained by the thousand", and that by the summer of 1935 there would be nothing to prevent the Germans "throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of Europe" [typescript with a handwritten postscript "before the end of 1940 Hitler with his air fleets will have swept away half of the Governments of Europe"].

Dates

  • Creation: 10 Aug 1934

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Lord Rothermere

Extent

1 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

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