Real Time WW2 Tweets

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  Allied forces are retreating in Crete, before a tide of freshly airdropped German soldiers- they're abandoning west of island to Wehrmacht.

  May 23, 2013 - 9:46 pm
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  Greek King George has fled from Crete on a UK warship, narrowly escaping capture by German paratroops or being shot by suspicious Cretans.

  May 23, 2013 - 9:39 pm
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  Germans, infuriated by Cretan resistance to invasion, are massacring guerillas: tearing clothes off civilians, any with bruises being shot.

  May 23, 2013 - 8:01 pm
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  Richthofen: "My pilots are giving triumphant shouts of joy. We've finally shown that a fleet in range of the Luftwaffe cannot hold the sea."

  May 23, 2013 - 5:42 pm