REICH-SOVIET DEAL SAID TO GIVE NAZIS RUMANIAN WEDGE (1/25/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 1/25/40 | P.J. Philip, Raymond Daniell, Otto D. Tolischus, K.J. Eskelund, Herbert L. Matthews, Charles W. Hurd

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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ibtp :)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I did a search on the author of “Nazi Chiefs Emphasize Offensive,” Otto D. Tolischus. His name has been appearing on stories filed from Berlin for two years now so I thought I’d look him up. Wiki had some interesting information.

Otto David Tolischus (November 20, 1890-February 24, 1967) was a Prussian-Lithuanian-born journalist for the New York Times and winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence for his writing in Berlin during World War II.

Born in Russia in the Memel Territory when it was part of the German Empire, in 1907 he emigrated to the United States. After working in factories, he attended the Columbia School of Journalism and joined the Cleveland Press after graduating, working his way up to managing editor.

In 1923 he returned to Europe, working for Universal Service in Berlin until 1931 and for International News Service in London from 1931 to 1932 as chief correspondent. After some time back in the US, he joined the Berlin bureau of the New York Times in 1933, where he chronicled the rise of Nazi Germany until he was expelled in March 1940.

Tolischus was assigned to Tokyo in January 1941. A few hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that December, Tolischus was arrested and imprisoned for five months, where he was regularly beaten and tortured. During this period of imprisonment, the Japanese manager of the Times Tokyo Bureau, Junnosuke Ofusa, brought food and clothes to Tolischus. This on-going contact continued until Tolischus was sent to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange in 1942.

Based on his experience as a journalist, Tolischus wrote three books on World War II:

• 1940 -- They Wanted War. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock.
• 1943 -- Tokyo Record. New York: Reynald and Hitchcock.
• 1945 -- Through Japanese Eyes. New York: Reynald and Hitchcock.

Tolischus was a member of the Times editorial board until his retirement in 1964. He died of cancer in 1967.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Reich-Soviet Deal Said to Give Nazis Rumanian Wedge – 2-3
Nazis Reported Counterfeiting U.S. Money To Get Exchange in Balkans and Near East – 3
The International Situation – 3
Nazi Chiefs Emphasize Offensive; Reported Rift Now Believed at End – 5
Nazi Raid Repulsed by French Outpost – 5
Yugoslav Destroyer Sinks In a Storm Near Shiebnik – 5
Reds Pound in Vain To Cut Finns’ Trap – 6-7
Vatican Continues Atrocity Charges – 9
Senate Body Votes More Aid to Finns – 9-10
Women are Urged to Back Defense – 10
Finns’ Sailing Ship Saved In Buenos Aires Bomb Plot – 10
Finnish Fund Receives $100,000 From Chicago – 10
Washington Lists 30 Safely Out of Poland – 11
Dr. Butler Warns of Threat to U.S. – 13
Incidents in European Conflict – 13

Editorials – 14-15

The War at Sea
Finland’s Danger
Japan’s Unchanging Aims
Restraints By Unions
Southern Weather
New Zealand, 100 Years Young
The Commonwealth Fund

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f25jan40.htm

Canadian election over war preparation
Thursday, January 25, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Canada... Parliament is dissolved for an election on March 28th because of recent controversy over the alleged weakness of war preparations.

In Occupied Poland... The “Goring-Frank Circular” is issued. It specifies that all material resources and manpower is to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich. Copies of this top secret document are soon obtained by the Polish government-in-exile in France and widely publicized.

In Brussels... The Belgian Foreign Minister rejects Churchill’s appeal to join the Allies (issued in a speech on January 20th).

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/25.htm

January 25th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
Tug HMS Impetus launched.

Destroyer HMS Exmoor launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

BELGIUM: The Belgian Foreign Minister rejects British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s appeal to join the Allies that was issued in a speech on 20 January. (Jack McKillop)

NORTH SEA: At 0230, SS Biarritz was torpedoed by U-14 36 nautical miles NW of Ymuiden. She sank quickly and only one lifeboat with 19 people set off. 26 crewmen and 11 passengers (among them several women) died. 21 survivors and three bodies were picked up by the Norwegian SS Borgholm, which sailed nearby and were taken to Ymuiden. Several passengers were sailors who had paid off their ships and were on their way home.

U-19 sank SS Everene five miles off Longstone Lighthouse, Farne Islands.

At 2130, SS Gudveig was torpedoed and sunk by U-19 4.5 miles east of Longstone Lightvessel, north of Newcastle. Eight survivors were rescued and taken to Methil. Four of them probably by the Norwegian SS Vim. (Dave Shirlaw)

POLAND: The “Goring-Frank Circular” is issued. It specifies that all material resources and manpower is to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich. Copies of this top secret document are soon obtained by the Polish government-in-exile in France and widely publicized. (Jack McKillop)
A site near the village of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) is selected for construction of a concentration camp. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Parliament is dissolved for an election on 28 March because of recent controversy over the alleged weakness of war preparations. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: The motion picture “The Shop Around the Corner” opens at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, this romantic comedy stars Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS Tourny sunk by U-44. (Dave Shirlaw)

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U.S.A.: The motion picture “The Shop Around the Corner” opens at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, this romantic comedy stars Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan.

Sounds intriguing. We'd better send Nugent to check it out tonight.

[PzLdr]

The Germans first discuused counterfeiting currency as a method of economic warfare in Sept., 1939. The target was the British.

Desultory efforts led to the SS SD taking over the project [renamed Operation ‘Bernhard’, after the OIC]. Run out of, I believe, the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the operation used a variety of skilled prisoners[ but no professional counterfeiters until late in the war], because Heydrich, as Chief of Interpol in 1939-1940 forbade it.

Operation Bernhard was very succesful. The Swiss eventually stopped accepting British 5 pound notes, and the German 10, 20 and 50s were very good as well. U.S currency was tackled until almost the end of the war.

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You are added to the list.

The Vatican and the Church in general has been much in the news this last week. There are articles on Jan. 18 (image #5), Jan. 19 (#3), Jan 20 (#5), Jan 21 (# 4&5), Jan 23 (#13), and today (#9). Though the Catholic Church is not explicitly named, there was an article about planned parenthood in the Jan. 24 issue. I forget the number but it is on the table of contents.

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Thank you so much. This is indeed valuable.

[CougarGA7]

Day 57 of the Winter War, January 25, 1940

The voluntary defence organization Maan Turva is collecting musical instruments, games and books to entertain the patients in the military hospitals.
Photo: SA-KUVA

British aid fund for Finland already over 100,000 pounds

• Central Isthmus: an enemy detachment of company strength attempts another attack on the island of Suursaari in Lake Muolaanjärvi.

• Ladoga Karelia: enemy pressure on the Finnish positions to the northeast of Lake Ladoga continues for the fifth day.

• Eastern Isthmus: in the Taipale sector, Finnish troops repulse an attempted enemy assault in the early morning.

• The Finnish 7th Division defending Taipale announces its overall losses since the beginning of the war: 37 officers and 779 men killed, and 40 officers and 1,980 men wounded.

• Ladoga Karelia: the difficult situation causes the Commander-in-Chief to change Group Talvela's mission in the Tolvajärvi sector to allow it to adopt delaying tactics if necessary.

• Enemy offensives on different fronts are successfully repulsed.

• Elias Simojoki, a former Member of Parliament for the People's Patriotic Movement, is killed by an enemy bullet on the ice of Lake Ladoga as he is destroying an injured horse.

• The voluntary defence organization Maan Turva is collecting musical instruments, games and books to entertain the patients in the military hospitals.

• Abroad: the British aid fund for Finland has already collected over 100,000 pounds (about 25 million markkaa).

• The Norwegian author Sigrid Undset is donating her 1928 Nobel Medal to Finland.

• The French Academy expresses its warm sympathy for the Finnish people.

[CougarGA7]

Fascinating. So it looks like his time as a corespondent in Berlin is about through. I wonder if he continued to report for the times after his release in 1942.

[CougarGA7]

I’ve also noticed a surge in the number of reports on mass killings going on in Poland. The sad thing is that at this point the Nazis are barely getting started. This is more of a scrimmage compared to the intensity they will adopt next year. One report stated that they killed a group of 12 and 13 year old children which I would be interested to find out if that was true. At this earlier stage, Himmler and Heydrich were somewhat cautious about killing children and women for fear of the reaction of not only the German people if it leaked back to the home front, but more importantly, how the Wehrmacht would react to it.

[BroJoeK]

"Vatican Continues Atrocity Charges – 9"

This report names about a dozen Catholic clergy murdered by Nazis in Poland. As CougarGA7 said, the Nazis were barely getting started.

iirc, by war's end the totals in addition to millions of Jews and Christians murdered, about 2,000 clergy in Poland plus another 1,000 in other parts of Europe.

Nazi propaganda made it sound like only a war against the Jews. In fact it was a war against all religion that would not bow to Nazism.