TWO MORE U. S.-OWNED FREIGHTERS SUNK; REDS HOLD AT MOSCOW; NAZIS GAIN ON AZOV (10/22/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 10/22/41 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, Daniel T. Brigham, Lansing Warren, Arthur Krock, Hanson W. Baldwin

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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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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36 Men are Missing – 2-4
10 American Ships Sunk – 3
Kearny on Convoy, Stark Discloses – 4
The International Situation – 4
Soviet Army Firm – 5-6
Hostages are Shot – 6-7
1,000 Italians Slain, Says Yugoslav Aide – 7
Nazi Industry Repair Halts; Yearly Loss 5 Billion Marks – 7-8
Hurley Asks an End of Neutrality Act – 7
Arias Begins Exile; Flies to Managua – 8
Mexico and Britain End Diplomatic Rift – 8
Army Contracts First – 10
Clodius Due in Rome for Nazi Trade Deal – 10
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 11-12
Russia’s Will to Fight – 12
Knox Arranges Contest for Nation’s Shipbuilding – 12

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f22oct41.htm

Resistance and reprisals in France
Wednesday, October 22, 1941 www.onwar.com

Civilian hostages under German guardIn Occupied France... The German commander at Bordeaux is shot by members of the French resistance. Hostages are taken and again shot by the Germans when no perpetrator is found.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/22.htm

October 22nd, 1941

FRANCE: Bordeaux: 100 more hostages are taken and a curfew is imposed following the assassination of another German officer.

GERMANY: U-406 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Odessa: A massive delayed-action Soviet bomb blows up General Ioan Glogojanu, the commander of the Romanian 10th Infantry Division, and the first city commandant appointed to occupied Odessa, and 51 of his staff (Sixteen officers - twelve being Royal Romanian Army officers and four German Kriegsmarine officers - were killed, together with thirty-five soldiers and nine civilian officials (including a pair of interpreters in German service). As the building chosen for Romanian headquarters was situated near the former NKVD building, the likelihood of its having been boobytrapped had been brought up several times (even Antonescu admitted to having received at least two such warnings) but no action was taken. The explosion was devastating indeed, the blast throwing glass and debris across several city blocks.

Enraged Romanian leader Ion Antonescu ordered reprisals. Two hundred hostages were to be shot for every officer killed and one hundred for every soldier. Originally these were to be Communists, but in Romanian eyes Jews were essentially the same thing. Executions took place in Odessa and the outlying districts — hangings, head shots, machinegunnings en-masse, and other methods as struck the fancy of individual military commanders. The reprisals quickly got out of hand, and became an orgy of killing and mutilation directed mainly against the city’s Jewish population. Elements of the German “Einsatzgruppe D” execution commando - which had been given free rein to “cleanse” the areas occupied by Romanian forces, and had already shot some five to six thousand Jews and Communists in Bessarabia, also participated in this prolonged massacre. Totals of victims executed in reprisal actions range from between nineteen and twenty-three thousand according to official Romanian accounts all the way up to forty-one thousand when the outlying districts are included. There were for the most part Romanian actions. Victims of the local SS Einsatzgruppe were in addition to these horrifying excesses. (Michael F. Yaklich and Greg Kelley)(122 and 123)

TERRITORY OF HAWAII: Final flight of 26 B-17’s under LTC Eugene Eubank arrive in Hawaii.

U.S.A.:

Submarine USS Trigger launched.

Destroyer USS Bristol commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: An aircraft dropped two bombs on U-203 in the North Atlantic; the boat survived but suffered some damage.

U-68 sank SS Darkdale. (Dave Shirlaw)

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in case you were wondering what "Persian Broadtail" is:

Persian Broadtail: Broadtail is the most perishable and one of the most expensive kinds of lamb. It is best for a second fur. It is used in coats (usually very dressy) but, because of its thin, soft leather and fine short hair, it is also used in “fantasy furs”. A broadtail evening suit, for example, would be the ultimate in broadtail – and fur – apparel and fashion.

Broadtail comes from stillborn and unborn lambs of karakul sheep.

Broadtail has a silky texture and fine moiré or watered-silk pattern. Natural gray broadtail wears the best, with natural brown broadtail wearing next best. Black broadtail is dyed, and, like all dyed furs, wears least well, as is the case with the high-fashion colors that broadtail can also be dyed.

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Here is an appropriate link for today. Thank you, Ravnagora.

70th Anniversary of the German Occupation of Serbia and the Kragujevak Massacre October 1941