Hitler promises war, as FDR promises munitions

1st January 1941: Britain remains the last enemy for Hitler, but the US President has announced that they will become the 'Arsenal of Democracy'

Jubilant crowds greet Hitler when he returns to Berlin in July 1940 after the Nazis had occupied most of Europe.

Adolf Hitler’s year of triumph had been incomplete. After the fall of France in June he had declined to attend a Victory Parade in Paris because the war was ‘not yet finished’. The continued resistance of Britain was now complicating his plans…