Posted on 08/29/2013 4:49:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The News of the Week in Review
Moves and Possible Moves in Allied Strategy for Global War (map) – 9
Grand Strategy – 10-11
On the Fronts – 11-12
Twenty News Questions – 13
Bombing Berlin is Air War At Its Toughest (Middleton) – 14-15
Russian Drives Point Toward the Dnieper (map) – 16
Russians Meeting Fierce Resistance (Werth) – 17
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 18
A Pattern of Possible Allied Attacks Against the Japanese (map) – 19
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/aug1943/f29aug43.htm
Red Army advancing west of Kharkov
Sunday, August 29, 1943 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces capture Lyubotin, west of Kharkov.
In Occupied Denmark... The German military governor, General von Hanneken, declares martial law and there is some fighting in the country. Most of the Danish Navy is scuttled, a few are captured by German forces and a few sail to Sweden.
http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/thismonth/29.htm
August 29th, 1943 (SUNDAY)
DENMARK: The Danish government of Prime Minister Erik Scavenius, resigns and the Danish Army is disbanded after the Danes refuse to yield to a German demand that saboteurs be executed. The majority of the Danish Navy, 1 coast defence ship, 9 submarines, a tender, 3 minesweepers and 4 minelayers, is scuttled at Copenhagen and a coast defence ship is scuttled at Isefjord. A patrol boat, 3 motor minesweepers and 9 small auxiliary vessels sortie to Sweden; the German capture 3 minesweepers and 2 patrol boats.
The Germans impose martial law and move in 50,000 troops.
At noon on 24 August a violent explosion wrecked the capital’s Forum Hall, which was capable of holding 16,000 people.
Strikes and sabotage have become more and more frequent as news of Allied victories in Russia and southern Europe has spread. The Germans demanded the introduction of a curfew, press censorship and the death penalty for sabotage. The Danish government, backed by King Christian, rejected the demands.
In recent weeks, factories have been blown up, trains derailed and a power station in East Jutland wrecked. In the provincial capital of Odense, where strikes have shut factories, crowds have paraded in the streets singing patriotic songs, waving British and American flags and chanting “Long live the Allies.”
U.S.S.R.: Lyubotin, just west of Kharkov, is liberated by the Russians and Taganrog on the Sea of Azov is evacuated by German troops.
Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: MS “Djalita” - by U-18, at Poti area (Sergey Anisimov)(69)
ITALY: During the day, 39 Northwest African Strategic Air Force (NASAF) B-17 Flying Fortresses visually bomb the Orte marshalling yard, and B-26 Marauders bomb Torre Annunziata; Northwest African Tactical Air Force fighters escort the NASAF bombers, hit a rail junction at Bagnara, bridge and town of Angitola, gun positions in the Villa San Giovanni-Reggio di Calabria areas, and a marshalling yard at Lamezia.
During the night of 29/30 August, 73 RAF Liberators of No. 205 (Heavy Bomber) Group visually bomb the marshalling yard at Torre Annunziata with the loss of one aircraft.
INDIAN OCEAN: Submarine HMS Trident missed training cruiser HIJMS Kashii off Sabang in the Strait of Malacca with a spread of eight torpedoes.
U.S.A.: Washington: Roosevelt warns Germany that its crimes against civilians in occupied Europe will be brought to account after the war. (”Trustworthy information has reached the United States Government regarding the crimes committed by the German invaders against the population of Poland. . . . The United States Government reaffirms its resolve to punish the instigators and perpetrators of these crimes. It further declares that so long as such atrocities continue to be committed by the representatives and in the name of Germany, they must be taken into account against the time of the final settlement with Germany.” Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 219, p. 150.)
The formation of USN combat units for the employment of assault drone aircraft began within the Training Task Force Command as the first of three Special Task Air Groups was established. The component squadrons, designated VK, began establishing on 23 October.
Destroyer escort USS Atherton commissioned.
Destroyer escorts USS Merrill and Snyder launched.
Destroyer USS Marshall launched.
Submarine USS Guavina launched.
Sumner Welles, very close to both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, is being forced out at the State Department because of a homosexuality scandal which started in 1940. The story has become so widespread that Welles must leave.
Note that the press does not print a word of this. The facts remain hidden until 1956.
An article in the 8/26 post, titled “Capital Convinced Welles Resigned,” said only that Welles “suffered a recurrence of an old illness.”
I saw that. I am sure that that was someone’s idea of an inside joke.
"This is a page from the scrapbook of Kurt Franz, deputy commandant of the Treblinka death camp.
After arriving there in the late summer of 1942, Franz began to keep an extensive photographic record of events in the camp.
He later wrote, 'Everywhere there were corpses.
I remember that these corpses were already bloated.'
Franz was among the Treblinka personnel tried between October 1964 and August 1965.
He was sentenced to life in prison."
"A Jewish volunteer in a coastal artillery battery holds a shell on which is inscribed in Hebrew: 'A gift for Hitler.'
Formed in 1940, these units served as part of the British force in Palestine.
As news of the death camps reached Palestine, the desire for revenge grew among Jewish troops.
Ultimately, the British agreed to form the Jewish Brigade Group."
Interesting....I was under the impression Nuremberg was one of the few German cities spared major Allied bombing...
Guess because the infamous Nuremberg Trials were held there in post war germany.....
And I especially enjoy the WW2 cartoons.
As always, Thank you, Homer for providng us this “feast of daily History”
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The Jewish Brigade would serve in Italy late in the war. For a time after the war they ran a sophisticated smuggling operation to get refugees out of Europe. The vets became the core of the IDF.
IIRC, in Judgment at Nuremberg Spence Tracy enters the city driving past block after block of buildings in rubble.
Yeah. A nuke wouldn’t have destroyed many of the cities laid waste with blockbusters and incendiaries much more thoroughly.
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