HITLER: GERMAN NAVY TO BRING ENGLAND TO HEEL
Berlin, Germany • November 29, 1939 On this date in 1939, nearly 3 months after the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) overran neighboring Poland, launching World War II in Europe, German dictator Adolf Hitler issued Fuehrer Directive Number 9, the first of 2 directives on measures his country would have to take to render the British economy and infrastructure…