Episode 48 - Our Finest Hour

This episode of History Date Night covers June 14th through the 17th. This is one of the most eventful four day stretches Justin and Jennie have covered so far in this war. Paris falls. Auschwitz and Theresienstadt receive their first prisoners on the very same day. A French Marshal takes power and asks for an armistice within the hour. And Britain suffers the worst maritime disaster in its history.

This episode also has a Finnish civilian airliner shot down by Soviet bombers, a British general declaring that it's impossible to make a corpse feel supported, the deposed German Kaiser sending Hitler a telegram of congratulations and finally we see Winston Churchill declare that this will be Britain's finest hour.