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Warns in Message – 2
Apologies Offered – 3-4
Udet Held Suicide, but Berlin Denies It – 4
The International Situation – 4
Casualties at 14%, Australia Reports – 4
Smolensk Fight Costly for Nazis; Red Army Presses On in Ukraine – 5
Soviet and Poles Sign Agreement – 5-6
Russo-Polish Agreement – 6
Nazi Leaders’ Sons are Victims of War – 6
Hopkins in Russia Offers Supplies – 6-7
Food Vans for the British to be Furnished by Ford – 7
Shanghai Germans Sell Supplies to British Navy and Soviet Army – 7
Defenders of Russia; Youthful Bomb Fighters and a Veteran Guerrilla (photos) – 8-9
Berlin Concedes Defensive Stand (by C. Brooks Peters) – 9-10
Execution of 142 in Serbia is Reported – 10
Vichyites in Syria Hostile to British (by A.C. Sedgwick) – 10
U.S. Navy in War, Gayda Proclaims – 10
Nazis Report Rout of Arctic attack – 11
Spy Hunt Disclosed in Hawaiian Raid – 11
Fleet Commander and Fleet Builder (photo) – 11
Fuel Funds Given to Japanese Ship – 12
U.S. Recognizes Czechs in London – 12
Anti-British Feeling is Lacking in Finland – 12
Far Eastern Tinderbox (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
Finns See Success in Leningrad Siege – 13
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 14

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f31jul41.htm

Nazis seeking “final solution” for Jews

Thursday, July 31, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Berlin... Goring orders Heydrich to make “all necessary preparations... for bringing about the complete solution of the Jewish question.”

On the Eastern Front... German 16th Army, part of the German Army Group North, continues the advance reaching the south side of Lake Ilmen. In southern Finland, Finnish attacks toward Viipuri and Vuosalmi begin.

In North Africa... The Axis forces are reorganized. General Cruewell now command the German Afrika Korps (DAK) with Rommel in charge of the new Panzer Group Africa. The 5th Light Division is renamed as 21st Panzer Division and Rommel, therefore, has two panzer divisions and one German infantry division in his force. In addition there are seven Italian divisions.

In the Mediterranean... There is a small British supply operation launched from Gibraltar to Malta.

In Washington... Roosevelt establishes the Economic Defense Board under Vice-President Wallace.