[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[dalereed]

I was there and don’t give a rats ass and can’t see why anyone else would either!

[John123]

I thought the headlines for the first newspaper was interesting. "US Accepts Tokyo's Apology" dated August 1, 1941.

Three months later, they bombed Pearl Harbor...

[fso301]

Thanks for posting. It looks as if Operation Barbarossa is bogging down.

[fso301]

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

[CougarGA7]

Here are some items I have in my notes for August with no exact date:

• "Army Group Guderian is too weak to also defeat these forces [Soviet reserve armies around Krasnopolye] on its own. 4th and 9th Armies are busy, Panzer Group Hoth will not be ready to attack until the 20th [of August]. The whole thing becomes a partial blow which places the armoured groups at risk without promising a strategic success." - Field Marshall Bock

• "Under cover of early morning mist two regiments of Russians burst through the thinly-held lines of our neighboring Regiment 37 and penetrated as far as their regimental battle-post...the 37th regimental commander had fallen as well as ten other officers; eight more officers were severely wounded and more than two hundred N.C.O.s and men had been killed" - Dr. Heinrich Haape

• Army Group Centre needed 24 trains a day to maintain its supplies just for normal operation. In reality they only received about 18 per day.

• At the beginning of Operation BARBAROSSA the average German infantry division consisted of 17,000 men. By the end of August casualties had reached 4,000 men in 14 divisions, 3,000 in 40 divisions, 2,000 in over 30 divisions and under 2,000 in 58 more.

• By the end of August, German casualties had reached 400,000 with 14,457 of them being officers.

• Some of Timoshenko's Western Front divisions number only 1,000 to 2,000 troops.

  Now away from the Russian-German front.

• Fritz Houtermans works out the basic ideas needed to make a atomic bomb in Germany, but the processes determined will depend solely on uranium and the use of heavy water.

• General Chaffee, the first chief of the Armored Forces dies of cancer.

[CougarGA7]

Now for August 1st notes (well, note):

• "The situation has become critical. The encirclement of the 6th and 12th Armies is complete. The direct threat of the breakup of the 6th and 12th Armies' combat formation into two isolated segments centered at Babanka and Teklievka regions is at hand. There are no reserves. Please clear the way by committing new forces in the Ternovka and Novo-Arkhangel'sk sectors. There is no ammunition. Fuel is running out." - Lieutenant General Ivan Muzychenko

[BroJoeK]

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.

[Rebelbase]

Thanks again for posting these headlines.