70 years after Churchill's wartime speech "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" on 20 August 1940, Günter and I visited the War Rooms and Churchill Museum. The rooms look pretty much the same as they did in 1945, when just the lights were switched off in the Map Room and people left. For today's blog, Günter, who took all the pictures during the last two weeks, pictured a model of Churchill who's on the line with the American president Roosevelt. The sign on the door says "Engaged" so everyone in the bunker thought this was the only flushing toilet specially reserved for the Prime Minister.
In the rooms underground, Churchill's War Cabinet operated from the beginnung of the war in 1939 to its end in August 1945. It was very impressive on how little room a highly efficient team worked round the clock. Churchill himself must have been a real man of power although the exhibition said that even he showed some signs of burn out when the war came to its end.
It was Günter's last day here in London and I didn't want him to leave at all.
Unfortunately, his plane is late and while I'm publishing this blog he's still at Stanstedt airport. Hope his plane is able to land that late in Nuremberg.
Enjoy your time on the racetrack and come home safely, darling!
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