Laurel calls, on the run from the Berlin Gestapo. Lanny drives her to the Berghof in Bavaria, where she poses as a psychic to the superstitious Nazis. She pulls it off and may actually have psychic ability. At a private seance, Hitler sexually assaults her. Lanny whisks her to safety in Switzerland, then meets the irresolute Daladier in Paris. In London, Chamberlain accepts the need to back Poland, but the democratic countries cannot nearly match Hitler's spending for arms. The Left is shocked by Stalin's pact. Rick wants to help the UK pro-war effort, but socialist writers are not trusted. One million German soldiers invade Poland. FDR asks for intel on French and English reactions. American support for neutrality, long unshakeable, is now in turmoil; in England, Ceddy and Irma cease open support for Hitler. Irma asks why England is turning against the upper class; Lanny feigns bewilderment. Churchill is back in Admiralty. Rick's son Alfy is flying Spitfires. Ceddy confides that British intelligence has heard of a plan against Norway; suddenly Norway is occupied. Denmark is also taken, another easy Nazi victory. Churchill's star rises amidst division in England and France. Lanny sees folly; Rick sees poisonous capitalism. Monck says the invasion of France is imminent. Raoul arrives from the Pyrenees; 100,000 anti-Franco soldiers are being held in French concentration camps, but pro-Nazi ministers in the French cabinet block any action. Finally the dreaded blitzkrieg hits France: airfields are bombed, "merchant" ships docked in port spew Nazi troops who are directed by local spies; paratroopers land at key points. German tanks cut the French and British forces in two. Lanny's informally-adopted stepson Denis arrives from Sedan, wounded. He says his officers stood down to allow German "liberation" from France's own leftists. In Paris, Laval confides he will assist Petain with a new pro-German government. The French fascists encourage England to join in capitulation, but new Prime Minister Churchill puts the country on war alert as one million French and British troops retreat to the North Sea. Rick and Lanny sail in a convoy of hundreds of vessels of every description to Dunkirk, to rescue wading soldiers off the beach. After six exhausting days and nights of rescue, Lanny climbs onto a makeshift pier and heads ashore, hoping to contact German soldiers. His plan is to reach Kurt, and Hitler, to learn Nazi intentions on invading England. He finds an