ROOSEVELT’S LEND-LEASE TO AID WAR AGAINST AXIS
Washington, D.C. • January 6, 1941 Three days after Adolf Hitler had sent his Wehrmacht (German armed forces) into neighboring Poland on September 1, 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. Nine months later, following France’s surrender to the Wehrmacht in June 1940, the British government, which since 1939 had been paying for…