RUSSIANS 63 MILES OFF, BERLIN HEARS GUNS; AMERICANS WIN SUBIC BAY NAVY BASE ON LUZON (2/1/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 2/1/45 | Clifton Daniel, Lindesay Parrott, Hanson W. Baldwin

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Invasion of Luzon and the Advance to Manila, 9 January-4 February 1945
The Ardennes Area, 1944: Operations, 17 January-7 February 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Territorial Changes along the Front, 16 December 1944-7 February 1945 and Allied Plan for Rhineland Campaign
Southeastern France 1944: German Offensive, 1-30 January 1945 and Allied Reduction of Colmar Pocket, 20 January-9 February 1945
Poland, 1945: Russian Offensive to the Oder – Operations 12 January-30 March 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

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The Nimitz Graybook

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Landsberg Seized – 2-3
Battle Junction with Russia Seen – 3
Czechs Recognize 2 Polish Regimes – 4
Russians Disdainful of Fawning Germans; East Prussians Quickly Shed Arrogance – 4
War News Summarized – 4
2 U.S. Armies Gain (Daniel) – 5-6
Americans Take Olongapo and Island Fort on Luzon (Parrott) – 7-8
New Arms to Speed Defeat of Japan – 9
Stilwell Road: The New Lifeline to China (photo) – 9
Two Drives Compared-I (Baldwin) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 11-12

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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/1/01.htm

February 1st, 1945 (THURSDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Escort carrier HMS Puncher joined the RN Home Fleet.

Submarine HMS Talent launched.

GERMANY: 1,000 USAAF bombers raid Berlin. (Michael Ballard)

SWEDEN: The following UP report was released to the newswires - The Swedish minesweeper Landsort was attacked by an unidentified submarine today in international waters off Oland Island near the SE coast of Sweden. The submarine discharged a torpedo, which passed about 50 feet from the minesweeper.

POLAND: The Red Army captures Torun.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan “death march”. (Michael Ballard)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Thorlock completed workups Bermuda and departed for Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[Tax-chick]

I am reading this book (and so should all of you). At "this time," as Berlin hears the Russian guns, the author is three years old. Her German father died on the Russian front, and her American mother, six children, and mixed collection of refugees are inches from starvation on a farm about 100 miles north of Berlin. They won't evacuate until late spring, because local German officials have threatened to shoot them if they try.

[Tax-chick]

The little rayon dress on page 8 costs $25.00, and it would be about the same today at Target, or on the clearance sale at Belk.

[bert]

Tomorrow, February 2 is the birthday of my son.

He was born in the US Naval Hospital, Cubi Point, Olongapo, Zambales, Republic of the Philippines

He has a problem with short fill in the blanks after Place of Birth__________

[Tax-chick]

Happy birthday! My uncle was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

[fso301]

local German officials have threatened to shoot them if they try

Measures taken by the Germans in the East to prevent full scale panic were exceptionally harsh. Anyone who belonged to a military police, or security unit in 1945 and survived the war can be assumed to have considerable German blood on their hands.

[Tax-chick]

There were still civilian Nazi true believers around, even in May. The human capacity to deny reality is astounding.

[fso301]

The article on p4 is quite a testimony to the high ideals and professionalism of the red army that Russian soldiers are treating the German population so well in captured territories.

[fso301]

There were still civilian Nazi true believers around, even in May.

And after.

The human capacity to deny reality is astounding.

Some of it was for certain denial by shallow, non-thinking people... dupes. However, that explanation is insufficient for the fanatacism displayed by Hitlerites right up to the end. For that, one really has to look east to the pagan Japanese and what it was driving their fanaticism. A parallel also exists with the jihadis.

Nazism was a neopagan political religion. For the believers, they would stick to the end and then go off to Valhalla.

Pagan Europe was never fully Christianized. One only need drive around the countryside a little while to get a sense of that.

After Bizmarck, the newly secular Germans discovered that from the standpoint of the Left, secular means no Judeo-Christianity but anything else is okay. Thus, arose the back to nature Volkish movement which is analogous to our modern New Age environmentalsim. From within the Volkish movement arose many occultic groups, one of which was the Thule Society whose membership would become a who's-who of top Nazis.

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$328.80. Although it is available in sizes 10 to 20.

[fso301]

The photo on p9 shows a tree in the foreground which if growing from ground more or less even with the highway is of impressive size.

[fso301]

The article on p9 about U.S. forces in Europe being reassigned to the Pacific leaving everything behind is quite a testimony to American production capacity.

[Tax-chick]

Those old 10-20 sizes wouldn’t fit most of today’s better-fed women.

And although your inflation-adjusted price is probably accurate, I can get a nice rayon shirtwaist dress for $25.00 today.

[Tax-chick]

Good points. I guess there’s also a parallel with the Communists, insisting that everything is happy and prosperous in the Soviet Union (or Cuba, or Venezuela).

When people are starving as they hear the Red Army approaching, but still insist the Third Reich is going strong ... they’re some kind of bats.

[fso301]

The map on p7 is worth mention. Up until now, the war in the Pacific has been characterized as a jungle war. Will the Japanese give up on their religion and retreat from Manila, or stand and fight it out?

[fso301]

Good points. I guess there’s also a parallel with the Communists, insisting that everything is happy and prosperous in the Soviet Union (or Cuba, or Venezuela).

I've never really bought into communist ideals explaining the fanatacism of communists. How can an atheist believing the present is all there is sacrifice themselves the way so many communist revolutionaries, guerrillas and soldiers do?

Clearly in the case of the North Koreans, there is a pagan religious aspect to their brand of communism that bears similarity to the Japanese Shinto Buddhism and emperor worship. The cult of personality surrounding many communist leaders strikes me as little different from the old pagan emperor worship.

I've long been suspicious of Maoism as a syncrecism of communism and indigenous paganism, I'm now even more suspicious.

http://shanghaiist.com/2014/12/27/mao-worship.php