JAPAN REPORTS TOKYO, YOKOHAMA BOMBED BY ‘ENEMY PLANES’ IN DAYLIGHT; CLAIMS 9 (4/18/42)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/18/42 | Nat Floyd, Charles Hurd, Frank Hewlett, Hanson W. Baldwin

[jazusamo]

Thanks for your post and the heads up from the other day.

[BroJoeK]

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April 18, 1942:

• In the Warsaw Ghetto, 52 people on a wanted list are dragged from their beds and killed.
  This will become known as "The Night of Blood."

• One thousand Jews who leave the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto by train for a ghetto at Rejowiec, Poland, are diverted to the death camp at Sobibór.

• Disgusted with the inability to take Leningrad, Hitler relieves Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb of command of German forces in north Russia.

Joseph Goebbels

"Joseph Goebbels was the most ardent member of Hitler's inner circle.
Cunning and amoral, he was a masterful manipulator whose control of German media rallied the populace to the cause of Nazism, and threw gasoline on the fires of antisemitism.

"Paul Joseph Goebbels was born in the Rhineland in 1897 to parents of the lower middle class.
Crippled by polio while a small boy, he devoted himself to the development of his intellect.
He earned a doctorate in literature and philosophy in 1921 and soon joined the Nazi Party.
A failed novelist with grandiose ideas, Goebbels was initially more fond of Nazi ideology than of Hitler.
He soon fell under Hitler's spell, however, and became, after Hitler himself, the No. 1 proponent of the "Führer myth" of infallibility.
For his loyalty, Goebbels was named minister of propaganda when Hitler assumed power in 1933.

"Goebbels prohibited Jewish publishing activity and demanded the demonization of Jews through Nazi propaganda: feature films, faked newsreels, phony documentaries, fabricated news stories, radio plays, and choreographed antisemitic demonstrations.
Under his guidance, "Jew" became synonymous throughout the Reich with "enemy" and "vermin."

"Goebbels and his wife, Magda, committed suicide in the Führerbunker on May 1, 1945, shortly after poisoning their six children."

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[CougarGA7]

I got this message from Homer today. Look to see your Sunday edition a little late this evening.

Dear Ping List and Lurkers,

I am at the library gathering the news from May 1942. I will not be able to start the thread for April 19, 1942 until I return this evening around 7:00 p.m. PDT. See you then.

- Homer

[ken5050]

Even back then, gawd-damn NY Times...

Japs sneak attack Pearl Harbor..US is enraged, wants vengeance...so we launch the Doolittle raid, and the Times, in its headline on page 1, lists the Jap claims that we bombed hospitals. etc...

The stunk, may back when..

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the heads up.