The Six Day Affair – John Bradshaw

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The Six Day Affair – John Bradshaw

Hitlers armies were poised to invade Poland, while in Austria the International Six Days Trial was nevertheless underway. The trial was dubbed The Motorcycling Olympics, where the crème de la

crème from five or six nations competed in six days of hard riding.

Following the Olympics in Berlin three years earlier, the ISDT was seen by Hitler as being another opportunity for Nazi dominance – and the event was unexpectedly held in occupied Austria. Half way through, riding across the mountains surrounding Salzburg and with the British teams once again doing very well indeed, they received telegrams from the British Embassy telling them to get out and go home immediately.

World War II started just a week later
The story of how all the British competitors and spectators successfully made it away through Switzerland with the help of their German escorts has so far only been briefly mentioned in print, but extensive research has revealed much new material about this fascinating and exciting event in history.

Seventy five years later, one of the competitors tells his grandson all about his adventures

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