Posted on 09/02/2011 4:57:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/sep41/f02sep41.htm
Hitler and Mussolini want cooperation
Tuesday, September 2, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Italy... The fascist newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia reports that Hitler and Mussolini propose to unify Europe and foster “harmonious cooperation of all European peoples.”
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm
September 2nd, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: London: It is announced in the London Gazette that OS Albert Howarth (d. 1976) of HMS FORESIGHT was blown into the sea when a ship exploded, but helped another man before being saved himself; it was then seen he had lost a foot. (Albert Medal)
Submarine HMS Umbra commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-175 is launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
FINLAND: In Karelian Isthmus the Finnish troops have reached the pre-1939 border, and are crossing it. Units have received orders to cross the old border to reach the shortest line across the Isthmus some distance behind it.
All along the Eastern Front, Red Army withdraws from use its so-called five number code. This code was used in communications between divisions and armies, and the Soviets had become aware that it is compromised. After a week a new version of the code is introduced.
For the Finnish codebreakers this marks an end of a golden era. Thanks to hard work, good luck, help from the Japanese and Soviet blunders, Finns had been able to read some 80% of the Soviet five-number code traffic from the beginning of the Continuation War in June. The significance of this intelligence for the Finnish offensive can be imagined. Major-General Taavetti Laatikainen, commander of the Finnish II Corps, once told to Lieutenant-Colonel Reino Hallamaa, chief of the radio intelligence, that thanks to the intelligence reports he received, Laatikainen often knew the enemy troop dispositions better than his own.
(Mikko Härmeinen)
U.S.S.R.: Leningrad: A desperate battle is raging at Gatchina, some 20 miles south-west of Leningrad, as the defenders try to halt the German advance. The guns of the naval squadron on the river Neva have joined in the battle, pounding the German positions with heavy shells.
To the south-west the railway town of Mga has fallen to the Germans after a see-saw battle lasting three days. This means that Leningrad’s rail links with the rest of Russia have been severed and the German ring around the city is almost complete. There is, however, little left here except people. While the Red Army has been holding up the Germans nearly 300 trains have carried the machine tools of 90 factories, including two heavy tank works, to safety behind the Urals where they are being reassembled.
The major problem which is emerging is food. Leningrad’s population of 2,500,000, with 100,000 refugees and the armed forces, must all be fed if a siege is mounted. Lack of bread, not bombs, may bring about Leningrad’s capitulation.
Thornycroft boat Syöksy sinks Soviet transport Meero south from Koivisto Sound. (Dave Shirlaw)
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: MacArthur informs Hart that there was “plenty of time” to prepare for war with Japan. (Marc Small)
JAPAN: Tokyo: The government sets up the Air Defence Bureau, which will organize air-raid precautions throughout Japan.
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Fredericton launched Sorel, Province of Quebec.
Patrol craft HMCS Ehkoli launched New Westminster, British Columbia.
Minesweeper HMCS Miramichi launched North Vancouver, British Columbia. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: The government grants a large loan to Mexico for cooperation for military and economic defence of the hemisphere. The U.S. also negotiates currency stabilization agreements with Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. (Jack McKillop)
Submarine USS Gurnard laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
"To counteract the Serbian Resistance movement, the Germans promulgated a harsh retaliatory policy: 100 Serbs would be killed for every German casualty.
Many Serbian Jews joined the Resistance, and Jews became special targets of German reprisals.
Here, a German soldier orders a group of Jewish and Serbian men into columns to be marched to their deaths.
"ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR 'MORE ENERGY' TO DEFEAT HITLER'S 'INSANE VIOLENCE'...OUTPUT NOT ENOUGH
President Bids Nation Do Full Part in Our 'Grim and Perilous Task'
BARS A DEAL WITH NAZIS
Appeasers are Assailed as Seeking to Make Executive 'Modern Benedict Arnold'
'We shall do everything in our power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces,' President Roosevelt pledged today on the second anniversary of the start of war in Europe..."
That is all but a declaration of war on Nazi Germany, I'd say.
FDR's words about Hitler's "forces of insane violence" doubtless reflect secret reports he has begun receiving about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
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