If Day: When Canada staged a Nazi occupation to sell the war.
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If Day: When Canada staged a Nazi occupation to sell the war.
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How a simulated German takeover of Winnipeg shocked citizens into buying war bonds during WWII.
The invasion began in the north.
Reports came first from Norway House: aircraft approaching in tight formation, flying low over frozen lakes and pine forest, their engines carrying through the winter air. Soon after, word arrived that the Canadian city of Selkirk had fallen. The German war machine, it was said, was moving south – converging on Winnipeg.
At 6:00 AM on February 18, 1942, air-raid sirens shattered the morning silence.
Troops moved into position along a defensive line five miles from City Hall. At Fort Osborne Barracks, soldiers assembled in the dark cold. By seven o’clock, the first engagement had begun. Artillery thundered in East Kildonan as attackers reached the perimeter. Anti-aircraft guns barked at fighter planes overhead. The sky echoed with explosions.
Meanwhile, 3,500 Canadian troops and hastily mobilized volunteers under the command of Colonel E. A. Pridham and Colonel D. S. McKay moved to meet the advancing enemy. Defensive lines were drawn five kilometers from the city center. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire at incoming aircraft. Bridges were blown to slow the advance, their spans strewn with rubble and smoke. It made little difference.
- By Elizaveta Naumova, a Russian political journalist and expert at the Higher School of Economics. -
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