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RUSSIANS FIGHTING 3 MILES INSIDE BERLIN; ARE CLOSE TO A JUNCTION WITH AMERICANS (4/22/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 4/22/45
| Frederick Graham, Charles E. Egan, George Axelsson, W.H. Lawrence, S/Sgt. Ray Fitspatrick, more
Posted on 04/22/2015 4:16:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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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
Homers 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. Also visit our
general discussion thread.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Southern Okinawa: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru, 1945 XXIV Corps Operations, 9 April-6 May 1945
Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, 1945: Japanese Thirty Second Army Defensive Dispositions, 1 April 1945
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
Central Europe, 1944: The End of the War Final Operations, 19 April-7 May 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
Southern Asia, 1941: Third Burma Campaign-Allied Victory, April-May 1945
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04/22/2015 4:17:35 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
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04/22/2015 4:18:21 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from April 15.
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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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04/22/2015 4:19:33 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from April 18.
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Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers
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04/22/2015 4:21:30 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Continued from April 17.
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy
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04/22/2015 4:22:26 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Barricades Futile 2-3
Union Due Hourly 3-4
This German was Glad to Surrender (photo) 4
Allied Armies Hurry toward Hitlers Bavarian Redoubt (map) 5
300 Burned Alive by Retreating SS (Graham) 6
They Survived Nazi Atrocities in Germany (photos) 7
First Armys Radios Can Hear Russians 7
Fortresses Bomb Munich Rail Lines 8-9
A Flying Bomb Site in Holland Captured by the Allies (photo) 8
Po Bastion Falls 9-10
Goebbels Cajoles Berliners to Die (Egan, Axelsson) 10
Americans Grind Into Naha Line In Fierce Okinawa Battle, Win Ie (Lawrence, S/Sgt. Ray Fitspatrick, first-time contributor) 11-12
New York Fighting Men Honor Late President (photo) 11
Americans Stride in Mindanao Drive 12
War News Summarized 12
Veteran Hospitals Upheld in Inquiry 13
The Veteran (by Charles Hurd) 14
Veterans Criticize Preference Group 14
The Texts of the Days Communiques on the War 15-17
The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions 18
Order of the Day (cartoon) 19
Two Campaigns Remain to Reduce All Germany (by Hanson W. Baldwin) 20-21
Japans Chief Production Centers-and Targets For Our B-29s (map) 21
B-29s Over Japan Get Results Beyond Hopes (by George E. Jones) 22
Japans Divine Winders Fail to Sink Our Ships (by George Horne) 23
Here Comes the Crash (cartoon) 23
Answers to Fifteen News Questions 23
Battle of Berlin: Allied Drives and Allied Strategy on west and East (map) 24
The Dumbarton Oaks Structure and Its Objectives as the State Department Sees Them (chart) 25
Dumbarton Oaks Plan 26-27
Stage is Now Set at San Francisco (by Lawrence E. Davies) 27
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04/22/2015 4:23:49 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Where’s Patton right now?
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04/22/2015 4:33:48 AM PDT
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StoneWall Brigade
(And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Re: “Hitler’s Last Great Decision” narrative - a really powerful scene - someone should make a YouTube video of it sometime.
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04/22/2015 4:55:13 AM PDT
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Stosh
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Today is the 70th anniversary of the original "Hitler finds out about" rant. See the movie re-creation, with context,
here.
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04/22/2015 5:02:51 AM PDT
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Campion
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Page 25, the Dumbarton Oaks Plan flow chart, I don’t see any references to UN greed, graft, corruption, crime, Marxism, or global warming.
How could they have missed that?
To: StoneWall Brigade
Wheres Patton right now?Per the map on page 5 3rd Army is in Czechoslovakia aimed at Prague.
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04/22/2015 5:15:54 AM PDT
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Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Campion
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04/22/2015 5:19:13 AM PDT
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StoneWall Brigade
(And I will send fire on Magog- Ezkiel 39:6)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
April 22, 1944:
- "Six hundred Jewish and Serbian prisoners at Jasenovac, Croatia, revolt against their guards.
520 prisoners are killed by machine-gun fire and grenades.
The other 80, including 20 Jews, escape."
"These children, survivors of the Bergen-Belsen, Germany, camp, play with toys seized from surrounding towns by Allied soldiers.
With about six million Jews murdered during World War II, it is probable that most of these children were orphans who had no place to go.
Such scenes were not unusual; a large percentage of the inhabitants of the displaced-person camps were children and adolescents."
"Nazi exploitation of their victims extended beyond plundered hair and dental gold. It included even the ashes of the murdered.
At some camps, random ashes were collected in urns and sold to grieving survivors as the remains of specific loved ones.
This urn and barrel of ash were discovered at the Flossenbürg, Germany, concentration camp, where commandant Hans Vogel made tidy sums from the deception."
"These Polish women partisan soldiers had been captured by the Germans in the battle for Warsaw in the fall of 1944.
The women were liberated from German prisoner-of-war camps by Polish troops near Emden, Germany.
Some of the liberators found their wives here.
The Germans recognized some rights for West European soldiers who became POWs.
The Nazis treated gentile partisans less well, and accorded no rights at all to Jewish civilians."
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04/22/2015 5:39:14 AM PDT
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective.)
To: StoneWall Brigade
“Downfall.”
An excellent movie. I highly recommend it.
To: Homer_J_Simpson; henkster
To: EternalVigilance; StoneWall Brigade
Yes ... it’s based partly on the memoirs of Traudl Junge, one of Hitler’s secretaries.
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04/22/2015 9:12:40 AM PDT
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Campion
To: BroJoeK
http://retronewser.com/2015/04/nazi-concentration-camp-sachsenhausen-liberated-70-years-ago-today-apr-22-1945/
Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen liberated 70 years ago today (Apr 22 1945)
(Sunday, April 22, 1945) The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, Germany, (35 km north of the center of Berlin) used primarily for political prisoners, were liberated today by the Red Army and the Polish Armys 2nd Infantry Division.
Some 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. due to the poor living conditions between 1936 and 1945. Many were executed or died as the result of brutal medical experimentation.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rthvoo0z7_E
To: Homer_J_Simpson
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/guerrillawar.html
Adolf Hitler:
Orders To His Western Armies Concerning Guerrilla Warfare
The situation on the Western Front is unfavorable to us because of the enemy’s superiority in manpower, material and ammunition. Despite this, or rather because of it, we have to keep our energy up to key pitch.
Only attacks against the enemy’s flanks and rear, with the disruption and cutting of his lines of communication, can guarantee success. Success in battle consists of constant attacks on the enemy’s rear in conjunction with partisan warfare. The main point in these attacks is to force the enemy with cunning and guile into positions in which his troops are spread out all over the country and in the greatest strength in those areas where he cannot afford it.
Our own attacks have therefore not to be directed against the enemy’s strong points but against his weak spots-the flanks, the rear and the lines of communication-if possible in his administrative areas. Infiltration of our own attacking troops through the enemy lines is therefore of supreme importance.
We have to adopt the same method which was shown and taught us by the Russians in the years 1942-44. Our men have to infiltrate through the lines by ones or in small groups supplied with sufficient ammunition, petrol and other materials, and must attack only if they reach the rear areas where they can achieve complete surprise against the most sensitive points.
This order will naturally be applied to any major operation.
This order will be transmitted immediately to all troops of the army in the west.
He might as well be ordering them to go to the moon.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Steiner ist kaput.
Go clean your Walther, Adolf.
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posted on
04/22/2015 9:46:12 AM PDT
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InMemoriam
(Scrape the bottom! Vote for Rodham!)
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