Today in WWII History

Audio Clip: It’s getting close to the WWII’s 65th D-Day Anniversary. Hear from BBC Robin Duff onboard a sealed ship just prior to D-Day (1944-06-03).

World War II History for June 3

3 JUN 1938 – The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called “degenerate art.”

3 JUN 1940 – Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time, killing 254 people. Most of the people killed were civilians and school children.

Paris Bombed by Luftwaffe 3 JUN 1940 – Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.

3 JUN 1940 – In France, the allied evacuation of Dunkirk ended.