April 20, 1939.
It was no ordinary day for Hitler, Ted Williams, Billie Holiday, Neville Chamberlain, Eleanor Roosevelt, or the New York World's Fair.
It is Hitler’s 50th birthday.
The day is a national holiday in Germany, and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels puts on a lavish spectacle of Nazi military might in Berlin to honor the occasion.
40,000 to 50,000 German troops march through Berlin’s streets in a four-hour military parade for 20,000 official guests and hundreds of thousands of spectators…
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