Posted on 08/01/2011 5:01:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Requested by Ickes – 2
The International Situation – 3
Going to England for the Red Cross (photo) – 3
Soviet Gains Seen – 4
Germans Vague on Russian Front – 5
Arrival of President’s Personal Envoy in Moscow (photo) – 5
British Air Fleet Strikes in Arctic – 6
Italian Corps Near the Russian Front – 6
R.A.F. Units Pound Nazis Along Coast – 7
The Latest Addition to the U.S. Armed Forces – 7
Newspapers Oppose Our Entry Into War – 7
London Sets 1-to3 Odds on 1941 Allied Victory – 7
Roosevelt Talks with Soviet Aides – 8
Base on Sardinia Pounded by R.A.F. – 8
U.S.-Miaja ‘Plot’ Charged in Spain – 9
Luxembourg Royalty Will Honor Our Envoy – 9
Vichy Ration Curbs Tightened by Law – 9
The War in Russia – I – 10
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 11-12
Soviet War ‘Pitcher’ Ready to Take the Mound (photo) – 12
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f01aug41.htm
US blocks oil exports to Japan
Friday, August 1, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Washington... President Roosevelt forbids the export of oil and aviation fuel from the United States except to Britain, the British Commonwealth countries and countries of the Western Hemisphere. This decision is aimed at Japan. Roosevelt’s decision confirms steps taken recently when Japanese assets were frozen (on July 26th).
In Tokyo... As a consequence of the American restrictions on oil exports, Japan is left with only limited stocks of oil. The position is such that Japan must either change her foreign policy very radically or decide to go to war and try to secure access to oil from the East Indies.
On the Eastern Front... The fighting is especially heavy near Vitebsk and Orsha. The Soviets attack only the northern edge of the Pripet Marshes from west of Gomel with the aim of striking into the German rear areas. In most target areas the Germans can withstand the attacks.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/01.htm
August 1st, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: No. 133 Squadron Fighter Command is formed. It will be composed of American pilots. (Jack McKillop)
GERMANY: Making even a short journey as a civilian in war-torn Germany is now fraught with every imaginable difficulty. Since the outbreak of war the entire transport system of the Reich has been geared towards the Wehrmacht and the armaments industry.
Now shortages of spare parts and fuel have made cars a largely forgotten luxury, so that there are more commuters seeking fewer trains. In Breslau in June passenger demand is reported to have exceeded train capacity by 200 per cent.
U-198, U-226, U-266 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
NORWAY: The German authorities have imposed a state of emergency in Norway to try and clamp down on native resistance to the occupation. Strikes have virtually crippled some regions and acts of sabotage by partisans aimed at Wehrmacht (Heer) installations and railways have also had a devastating effect. The Germans regard British radio propaganda as responsible for the resistance and they have confiscated 90 per cent of the populations radios.
U.S.S.R.: Kishinev: Germans shoot dead over a thousand Jews and communists.
German forces withstand strong Russian counterattacks north of the Pripet Marshes.
SPAIN: U-331 refuelled from the German supply ship Thalia in Cadiz. (Dave Shirlaw)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Brandon arrived Halifax from builder Quebec City, Province of Quebec.
Armed yacht HMCS Vencedor (ex Exmouth II) commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
CHINA: Japan attacks Communist troops in the Shansi-Chahar-Hopeh border area, launching the “Three All” campaign.
Chungking:
American mercenary pilots hired to fly fighter and bomber missions for the Chinese Nationalists are to become official members of the Chinese armed forces on the orders of General Chiang Kai-shek.
The 101 volunteers, nicknamed the Flying Tigers but officially designated the American Volunteer Group, are due here next month.
All the pilots are retired officers of the US Army and Navy Air Forces or serving officers who have been granted leave on “inactive status” and guaranteed no loss of seniority after their one-year contracts expire. They are being paid $750 a month each, plus a $500 bonus for every Japanese plane they shoot down.
The Tigers will fly P-40 fighters, rejected as obsolete by Britain, financed by the US under the recent $50 million lend-lease agreement between China and the USA. Their commander is Captain Claire L. Chennault, a 51-year-old Texan maverick compulsorily retired from the US Army Air Corps in 1937 because of deafness. He came here shortly after to retrain Chinese pilots at the direct request of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.
CANADA:
Corvette HMCS Brandon arrived Halifax from builder Quebec City, Province of Quebec.
Armed yacht HMCS Vencedor (ex Exmouth II) commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Washington: Roosevelt bans the export of aviation fuel to the Western Hemisphere, except for Britain and countries of the British Empire.
The transport USS West Point (AP-23) arrives in New York City from Lisbon, Portugal and disembarks American and Chinese consular personnel that had been stationed in Germany, German-occupied countries and Italy.
In the US, a microwave (AI-10) radar developed by the Radiation Laboratory and featuring a Plan Position Indicator (PPI) scope was given its initial airborne test in the Lockheed XJO-3 aircraft at the Boston, Massachusetts Airport. During the test flights, which continued through 16 October, scientists operated the radar and devised modifications. During the tests, surface vessels were detected at ranges up to 40 miles (64.4 km); radar-guided approaches against simulated enemy aircraft were achieved at ranges up to 3.5 miles (5.6 km).
“Parade” magazine devotes three full pages to a feature article describing the U.S. Army’s new vehicle, the “Truck, 1/4-ton, 4x4.”
The magazine calls it “...the Army’s most intriguing new gadget.” The gadget is a “tiny truck which can do practically everything.” The new “gadget” is more commonly known as the “Jeep.”
In U.S. baseball, New York Yankee pitcher Lefty Gomez breaks the major league record for walks in a shutout by walking 11 batters as the Yankees defeat the St. Louis Browns 9-0. (Jack McKillop)
AA cruiser USS Reno laid down.
Submarine USS Marlin commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
I was there and don’t give a rats ass and can’t see why anyone else would either!
Government absolutely loves scarcity. It empowers them.
Three months later, they bombed Pearl Harbor...
Expect Leningrad Siege
slight understatement
Thanks for posting. It looks as if Operation Barbarossa is bogging down.
Interesting article at the bottom of page 7 about a survey revealing that the nations newspapers oppossed entry into the war by a margin of 2-1
So true...the pleasures of being a Nazi superman were
beginning to wear a tad thin
Leningrad...the disaster begins
Now away from the Russian-German front.
August 1941:"Following the German slaughter of Jews at Cesis, Latvia, German troops and security police celebrate with a Totenmahl (“death banquet”).
"In Belgium, a collaborationist military organization, Legion Wallonie (Wallonian Legion), is established.
"German troops in Slobodka, Ukraine, fill the local synagogue with dead cats and force Jews to tear up the Torah scrolls and scatter the pieces atop the dead animals. The Nazi troops then set fire to the building.
"Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin, denounces the so-called euthanasia program.
In late October he declares that he wants to share the Jews’ fate of deportation to the East so that he can continue to pray for them there.
He is subsequently denounced to the Gestapo and arrested."United States Senator Gerald Nye denounces the “Yiddish controllers” of American theater and movies.
U.S. Senator Burton Wheeler attacks Jews in the movie business as “Hollywood Hitlers.”
U.S. Senator Champ Clark sponsors an investigation into Hollywood’s “unpatriotic” Jewish filmmakers. (Unpatriotic because their films advocate involvement in the European war.)
Other congressmen express antisemitism.
Many Americans agree with these sentiments.
Many Americans also believe that should the United States go to war, it must be against the Soviet Union, not against Germany."Hundreds of Jews die during death marches from Bessarukiato, Bessarabia, to the Dniester River.
August 1:
"Ghettos established in Bialystok and Lvov.
"More than 1,000 Jews are killed by an Einsatzkommando at Kishinev, Romania.
"Shmuel Verble, chairman of the Jewish Council in the Ukrainian village of Kamien Koszyrski, volunteers for death after discovering an execution list with the names of 80 ghetto residents."
This photo scanned from page 240 of the Holocaust Chronicle book.
If this procedure works well, I'll select more.
As an example of this there was the man called the "Death-dealer of Kovno" which I mentioned last month. He was Lithuanian who it is reported had lost both of his parents, killed by the NKVD only days before. A German colonel who was a adjutant to the staff for Army Group North witnessed this man at work on 27 June 1941:
On the concrete forecourt of the petrol station a blond man of medium height, aged about twenty-five, stood leaning on a wooden club, resting. The club was as thick as his arm and came up to his chest. At his feet lay about fifteen to twenty dead or dying people. Water flowed continuously from a hose washing blood away into the drainage gully. Just a few steps behind this man some twenty men guarded by armed civilians, stood waiting for their cruel execution in silent submission. In response to a cursory wave the next man stepped forward silently and was then beaten to death with the wooden club in the most bestial manner, each blow accompanied by enthusiastic shouts from the audience.
This is just one example, but there were many. It is important to understand that the Germans didn't come across their anti-Semitic ways strange. The Jews had been driven East for hundreds of years. The English expelled the Jews from the islands in 1290 marking the first such expulsion. The French expelled Jews in 1306 followed by the Spanish in 1492. Western European countries continually forced Jewish populations east. There were also expulsions by the Russians over a period of history that basically compressed the bulk of European Jewry into the areas of the Baltic states, Poland (with the largest number), and other countries in that region. Unfortunately, even where the bulk of the Jews ended up concentrated, Antisemitism was still prevalent which is why the Germans found it so easy to round up willing accomplices among the local gentry to have "spontaneous actions" against the Jews in the newly occupied territories.
Of course, there is a very long, sad history, going all the way back to the Jewish Revolts against the Roman Empire, and the later teachings of St. Augustine regarding the special status of Jews in Christian lands.
If anyone wishes, we can review all this in great detail.
But the important point is, beginning with the Age of Enlightenment, the American Revolution and especially the French Revolution, the status of Jews in Europe had improved significantly -- until, that is, until the Nazis came to power.
But the Nazis did not simply turn back the clock to some prior age, they executed a program -- the methodical Final Solution -- that no previous age had even imagined.
So no matter where we look in history for some possible precursors, or earlier examples which might "explain" the Holocaust, we won't find them in ancient or early modern history.
Where we find them is in Adolf Hitler's personal history, and in the examples set by his, in effect, mentor -- yes, I said "mentor" -- Joseph Stalin.
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