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Seven Days in Sept. 1939

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Photo shows Head of the German Air Force Herman Goring (Goering, German spelling) inspecting the damage inflicted by Shleswig-Holstien as in the previous photo looking across the canal at Westerplatte before going over to inspect the damage done by his air force, each side of him are the captains of the Schleswig-Holstein and German officers.
Goring and Hitler both fought in The Great War and how the World would have benefited if both men would have been killed and saved the World for the Horrors and Savagery, which those two men inflicted on people in WW2
 
Goring and his officers looking up at the German flag erected on the ruins of the old fort
 
Goring starts his tour of Westerplatte ahead of Adolph Hitler’s arrival
 
Hitler inspecting the damage from the shelling on the on the building holding the guns next to the barracks
 
Hitler coming down the embankment on the far West tip of Westerplatte on left of photo (Which cannot be seen )20-40 yards away the Schleswig-Holstien is anchored ready for an inspection by Hitler
 
Hitler heading for the Schleswig-Holstein.
From the Right of the photograph the 2nd man is the German Famed Summariner Vizadmiral (Vice Admiral) Lothar von Arnault de la Periere who in The Great War
Got Germanys highest decoration the Pour le Merite
 
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Just more and more stunning as we go through this set of pictures.
 
This is Hitler coming down the Embankment and the Shleswig Holstein in view
Hitler leaving Westerplatte
 
On September 19th 1939 Hitler moved his headquarters to the Kasino Hotel in Zoppot
Which was on the coast North West of Danzig
 
I am pretty certain that this photo shows the railway going into Westerplatte. Along the narrow strip of land going from just below were the railway tracks fork a wooden fence was built across from the canal to the sea, the gates opening to let the trains in and out.
It looks as though the entrance board has been repainted in a rush for Hitler’s visit
if you look at a section of my map I have marked position of wood fenced entrance
 
On the first day of the war the Polish Navy activated “Operation Pekin”
The escape of the Polish Fleet to England.
The destroyers GROM, BLYSKAWILA and BURSA sped out of the Baltic, leaving WICHER behind to confuse the Germans and lay mines.
On the 2nd Sept. WICHER fought an action with two German destroyers.
3rd Sept. German bombers sank GRYL and WICHER in Gydia Harbour north of Danzig.
Photo shows WICHER sunk in the harbour
 
I cannot identify this ship so cannot comment
Which is the last photograph in the album
Others in the album are not suitable for the site
So I cannot show them
 
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