Episode 52 - Against Yesterday's Allies

History Date Night: A WWII Podcast · Oct 7, 2026 · 16m

This episode of History Date Night covers June 29th through July 5th, 1940. This week the most dangerous unresolved question of the armistice between France and Germany is answered in an extremely brutal manner as the British begins the process of neutralizing the navy of its former ally, first by negotiation, then by gunfire.

This episode also has German troops landing on the British Channel Islands without a fight, Britain turning its own beaches into fortresses, and a British passenger ship carrying asylum seekers to Canada being sunk by a German submarine. And while all of that happens…