Blackpool Gazette [UK]
25 February 2017
It’s a story that has been told many times before […]:
Hitler loved Blackpool so much he spared it from the wrath of the Luftwaffe and
planned to turn it into his own personal holiday destination.
But is it true? Did the Nazi leader really want to
land his stormtroopers in Stanley Park before parading them down the Prom
following an invasion of Britain?
And if it isn’t, then just why did the resort, which
played a major part in the Second World War effort, emerge largely unscathed? […]
