Enemy Plan Foiled – 2
House Forbids OCD Funds for ‘Dancers,’ Donald Duck – 3-4
The War Summarized – 4
Spy Data Sought from 1940 Census (Trussell) – 6-7
Lessons of Winter War (Baldwin) – 8
Deaths of Hunger on Rise in Athens (Sedgwick) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 9-10
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Nazi minister killed in plane crash
Saturday, February 7, 1942 www.onwar.com
Fritz TodtFrom Germany... The German Minister of Munitions Todt, is killed in an airplane crash. Albert Speer, Hitler’s architects is appointed to replace him. Todt has been responsible for attempting to place Germany’s economy on a war footing. Speer will continue to push these policies. At this point, the German economy is still producing consumer goods at almost a prewar level although recent reversals in the USSR and Todt’s polices are being to change the situation.
In North Africa... Rommel’s Afrika Korps halts its advance near Gazala. They have recaptured almost all of the territory the British had taken in 1941. The British 1st Armored Division is in disarray and the morale of the British 8th Army is sinking.
On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces attack Rzhev, to the west of Moscow.