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Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg

Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg

| 27 min
Canada at War, Part 2: Blitzkrieg
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April - November 1940. With devastating speed Germany takes Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Italy declares war. The British withdraw from Dunkirk. Mackenzie King feels the Canadian pulse on conscription. England is strafed by the Luftwaffe, and Britons accept Churchill's challenge of 'blood, sweat and tears.'

See also
History - Canada - 1920-1945
Foreign Countries
War, Conflict and Peace
All subjects
Credits
  • producer
    Stanley Clish
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    Peter Jones
  • writer
    Donald Brittain
  • editing
    David Green
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • re-recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • narrator
    Budd Knapp
  • music
    Robert Fleming
    Eldon Rathburn
    Maurice Blackburn

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