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Max Beaverbrook

Lord Beaverbrook was a British politician and, during WW2, the Minister of Aircraft Production.

Person

  • William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook
  • Born on: May 25, 1879
  • Born in: Maple, Ontario, Canada
  • Died on: June 9, 1964
  • Died in: Leatherhead, Groot-Brittannië

William Maxwell (Max) Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook,[1] better known as Lord Beaverbrook,[2] was a British politician and newspaper publisher. In the first months of the war, he was Minister of Aircraft Production. Under his watch, Great Britain managed to build enough fighter planes to give the country a crucial advantage in the ‘Battle of Britain’.[3] After the Soviet Union and the United States joined the war against Gemnay, Beaverbrook was one of the main advocates of a ‘Second Front' in West Europe. He considered the bombardment of German cities insufficient to defeat the Nazi regime.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
  2. ^ Anne refers to him as: Mr Beverbruck. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 4 March 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  3. ^ Wikipedia: Battle of Britain.
  4. ^ Jaap Tanja, "The cat that walks alone", Bulletin Anne Frank Stichting, 18 augustus 2011.