Posted on 05/13/2011 5:28:41 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Big day, the Hess story would go on for years.
A lot is going to happen in the next few months, still very little reporting on Japan’s deeds.
Thanks for all your work Homer!
In a sense you are right. As we see from today's replies the story still generates interest. But I found in preparing the daily posts that the Hess story faded fast after getting a delayed start. (Remember that Hess flew the coop on the 10th - three days ago.) I guess since there was no dramatic fallout it dropped off the radar. Or rather it was pushed off by other major events during the following weeks. My whimsical estimate was that the Hess story had a half-life of 18 hours.
still very little reporting on Japan’s deeds.
The war in China only makes it into the paper in short, two or three paragraph items now and then. U.S.-Japan tension is to be found in historical excerpts for the most part. But Otto D. Tolischus is digging hard over in Tokyo. He may come up with something before long.
Coming 4 weeks before Operation Barbarossa Stalin was convinced that the Hess mission was to ratify a Peace Treaty with Great Britain so Hitler could concentrate his entire military might against the Soviet Union.
Thanks! I’ll look it up!
The little blurb at the bottom of panel 5 may answer a mystery I’ve wondered about for over a decade. I briefly met a guy in California on a couple of occasions whose last name was Hess, and he said he was somehow very closely related to THE Rudolf Hess. Unfortunately, I either didn’t ask or can’t remember the exact story. I’ll bet he’s descended from the man in the blurb, and is a nephew.
I still think Hess went to Britain on Hitler’s orders, Hess was extremely loyal to Hitler. But Hitler of course would disavow the mission if it went wrong.
I read a book by a Brit doctor who examined Hess at Spandau in the 70's. Hess had been shot through the chest in WWI; the bullet had damaged at least one lung and then exited out his back. The odd thing is the guy in Spandau didn't have any scars on his torso.
What was the movie called ,they steal Hess from prison and then they drug him up,to find where the Nazi’s hid the gold?
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/
Day 621 May 13, 1941
Iraq. The first shipment of Vichy French armaments from Syria arrives in Mosul. The Iraqi army receives 15,500 rifles, 6 million rounds of ammunition, 200 machineguns, 4 75 mm field guns and 10,000 shells. Kingcol (British mobile column from Palestine) arrives at Rutbah, Iraq, over halfway to RAF Habbaniya. The fort at Rubah (protecting the oasis spring and an airstrip for refueling British civilian aircraft flying to India) had been occupied by Iraqi troops on May 2 but abandoned on May 10 after bombing by RAF Bristol Blenheims of 203 Squadron from Basra.
In the morning off Greenland, U-98 and U-111 attack convoy SC-30 sinking British SS Somersby (all 43 hands rescued by Greek steamer Marika Protopapa) and convoy escort armed merchant cruiser HMS Salopian (3 killed 287 survivors in lifeboats picked up next morning by destroyer HMS Impulsive).
At 7.48 AM 700 miles off Sierra Leone, U-105 sinks British SS Benvrackie after chasing her for 34 hours. 13 crew and 15 survivors from MV Lassel are killed (MV Lassel was sunk by U-107 on April 30). 41 crew, 4 gunners and 10 Lassel survivors are rescued after 13 days in lifeboats by British hospital ship Oxfordshire.
Overnight, British gunboat HMS Gnat shells the German airfield at Gazala, Libya, 30 miles West of Tobruk.
This order specifically didn’t lead to her death since this was directed at citizens of the occupied Soviet areas, but the general mindset did lead to her demise for certain. The deeper down the rabbit hole the Nazis go, the easier it will become to justify killing almost anyone in their mind.
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