UK News 21-04-2005 who: Adolf Hitler what: Earmarked sleepy Shropshire town for his British HQ, papers reveal where: BRIDGNORTH when: This week snippet: "A bundle of 1940s papers put up for auction contains maps highlighting strategic sites for attack by the Luftwaffe, including railway stations, power plants and bridges," says The Telegraph. "Experts believe that Hitler picked the town because it lies inland away from the urbanised West Midlands, was geographically in the middle of England and had an air base nearby." [... more]

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