Viscount Auchinleck

My name is Viscount Auchinleck, and I was born on August 21, 1905. I had one older brother and two younger and one younger sister. My older brother was pretty much a perfect kid; well at least my parents thought cause he never got caught doing anything and then later on became a wealthy investor. My sister always got what she wanted no matter what it was. She later on got married and I haven’t heard from her since. My brother after me was just about to move out because he finally is old enough to but he was a little spoiled by my father but not a whole lot. There isn’t much to say about my youngest brother. Now for me I was never really good at school, always got caught doing things I wasn’t supposed to and just felt like I was a burden to my parents and tried not too by leaving but they found me. After I left I figured I would actually try and do something with my life for a change.

I was about 10 at the end of World War 1, and that’s what made me want to be in the military after awhile because I thought there was nothing else to do for me really. I joined when I was 18 in 1915. After that I became a general after 16 years in the military. To become a general isn’t the easiest thing to be able to do. By the time it was World War 2 I was about 34 when the official war started. It started from the Germans and Russians invading Poland on September 1, 1939. The thing is if we didn’t give in to the Germans and what they wanted this would not have happened.

One event that led to this invasion was because the fact we gave what the Germans wanted from the Czech’s. Hitler demanded that he gets the Sudetenland that belonged to them in Czechoslovakia. So then came the Munich conference were Hitler was appeased. In this Munich conference the Hitler would get the land he desired but he would not be able to go further and get more land. After hearing all of this France was pleased to hear that Hitler would not be trying to get more land. The thing is the Germans didn’t stop with gaining land. This appeasement left Hitler wanting more land for his country. Hitler didn’t stop at jus Czechoslovakia.

On September 1 of 1939, is the day I remember the most. This was the day that Hitler and the Russians invaded Poland. I was one of the generals that were sent to help Poland on short notice because we didn’t expect this attack on them. When the French and British hears this we declared war on Hitler and the Germans for there actions and going against the Munich conference. They invaded from every side except the east. The polish had to withdraw. We and the French tried to help them but we were very limited on such short notice. It wasn’t for long until they had complete control over the polish people and there land. This was the very beginning of a very tragic war…..