[Homer_J_Simpson]

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 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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST, 1940, Situation 4 June, and Operations Since 21 May
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[GeronL]

before I get to the rest, I can’t imagine anyone describing war as “violent”.

lol.

[C19fan]

Bertrand Russell was a pacifist and a socialist so no wonder he was a defeatist; although to his credit he had some revaluation of his beliefs later. Funny the Soviet propoganda accusing the US of being war profiteers when Stalin sucked all the gold out of Spain during the Civil War there.

[untenured]

The article on Mosley refers to his actions in "the last war." This is the first time that I recall seeing what we now call World War I referred to as something other than "the World War." Perhaps it is now dawning on custodians of Times style that that catatrophe has not turned out to be sui generis.

[CougarGA7]

Interesting move on “fifth column” elements in Ireland. As of right now, the Abwehr is not in contact with the IRA though they want to be. The radio they had provided them last year was confinscated since the IRA was using it for general commands and the Irish Police were able to home in on it. After one failed attempt of getting them a replacement another was made when on May 5th Dr. Hermann Görtz jumped from a He-111 nearl Ballivor, County Meath.

Along with him, a radio was dropped as well on a seperate parachute. A chute that Görtz was never able to find. So once again, a radio (also Görtz’s food and a shovel to bury his chutes) was lost and contact still was not established between the Abwehr and the IRA.

A couple of strange things about Görtz. First he dropped wearing a Luftwaffe dress uniform complete with WWI decorations. Second, he carried with him a Luftwaffe paybook with the false name Heinz Kruze which he had signed Hermann Kruze.

Görtz found his way to an IRA safehouse in Dublin, which was raided shortly after his arrival (perhaps as part of or causing the reaction we see in this news article). In the raid the police found twenty thousand dollars in cash, Görtz’s Luftwaffe hat and medals, and details of a projected invasion of Northern Ireland by Germany. This of course alerted the Irish authorities of the presence of a German agent in the country.

Görtz for now has escaped and is being pursued by Irish police.

If you want to read more of this account as well as others in Ireland I recommend reading “The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland, 1939-1943” by Mark M. Hull, in The Journal of Military History; July 2002.

[CougarGA7]

Here's another perspective on the Halt Order. I found this account interesting since you can see the infighting that was going on at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels.

From Karl-Heinz Frieser, The Blitzkrieg Legend