GERMAN ARMY ATTACKS POLAND (9/1/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 9/1/39 | Otto D. Tolischus, Jerzy Szapiro, Ferdinand Kuhn Jr., Frederick T. Birchall, P.J. Philip

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EDITORIALS

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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”.)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

GERMAN ARMY ATTACKS POLAND;
CITIES BOMBED, PORT BLOCKADED;
DANZIG IS ACCEPTED INTO THE REICH

The New York Times, raising its voice to suit the occasion in its eight-column once-in-a-generation italic headlines, topped the sprawl of newspapers on the desk under Hugh Cleveland’s stocking feet. The other papers had headlines far larger and blacker than the Times’s genteel bellow.

Herman Wouk, The Winds of War

This is my introductory excerpt from Wouk. I will try to restrain myself from posting segments involving fictional characters like this in the future, but some of his narrative about real events is concise and accurate so I will throw it into the mix. Note that the headline is dead on. - Homer

[TADSLOS]

Please add me to the class roster. Thanks.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Anachronism alert: Though “Over the Rainbow” was the Number 1 hit of 1939, this video was made in 1943. It might be appropriate, though, to take a peek into the future and see where the events of 1939 will lead.

Over the Rainbow

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Hitler Gives Word – 2-4
Bulletins on Europe’s Conflict – 6
Free City is Seized – 7-8
Conscription Age Set at 17 in Russia – 9
Hostilities Begun – 10
British Mobilizing – 11
Hitler Tells the Reichstag ‘Bomb Will Be Met by Bomb’ – 12-13
British Children Taken From Cities – 14-16
Daladier Summons Cabinet to Confer – 17-18
U. S. Voters Favor Poland in Survey – 19
‘Peewee Hitler’ Found in America – 20
21 Arriving on the American Clipper Tell Of Feverish Preparations for War Abroad – 21
Slovakia Demands Poles Return Land – 21
Hitler To His Army (Editorials) - 22

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
Gleiwitz incident

[abb]

http://www.muzeum.gliwice.pl/en/radiostacja/
museum in gliwice

[agere_contra]

The repeated assertions by the Nazis that ‘the Poles started it’ have their echoes even today.

Liberal projection never changes, nor does the ugliness it attempts to conceal.

[abb]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958453-1,00.html
Blitzkrieg September 1, 1939: a new kind of warfare engulfs Poland

Polish Radio Broadcast
http://www.history.com/video.do?name=militaryhistory&bcpid=1681694250&bclid=1699210677&bctid=1606750320

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/08/99/world_war_11/default.stm
The day the war began

[HereInTheHeartland]

“The repeated assertions by the Nazis that ‘the Poles started it’ have their echoes even today.

Liberal projection never changes, nor does the ugliness it attempts to conceal.”

Very much so.
Hitlers words in segment #2, jumped off the page to me; and could have been uttered by someone today.

[whershey]

The day the world changed forever. Our grandchildren will still be feeling the repercussions.

[henkster]

“At 10:30 a.m. on September 1 the French cabinet met briefly to consider the country’s response to Hitler’s aggression. It was decided to decree general mobilization, to convoke Parliament for the next day and to ask it to vote the necessary credits to wage war. This in the view of the majority, though not of Monzie, would get around asking Parliament for a declaration of war. The Constitution of 1875 stipulated that the President of the Republic could not declare war without the prior assent of the two chambers. But constitutional authorities had held that if they voted war credits that could be considered an “assent.” That was what Daladier proposed to do. He shrank back from asking for an outright declaration of war.”

William Shirer, “The Collapse of the Third Republic” p. 490.

What a half-assed way to enter a war! You can clearly see from this response, as if we didn’t need any more evidence, that France was not going to go “all-in” for this war.

In the coming months and through June of next year, as Homer posts excerpts from “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” I will post from his equally great work on the Fall of France “The Collapse of the Third Republic” along with Ernest May’s “Strange Victory.”

[mainestategop]

ITS BEGUN!

[JimC214]

Today is the Anniversary of one of the most important events in the history of the human race and our fearless leader doesn't even mention it? The man does not disappoint on his level of stupidity.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Please add me to the class roster. Thanks.

Done.

Boy, you just slipped into the classroom during the pledge of allegiance.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thank you much for the contributions.

By the time this thing is over we'er going to be so smart it makes me sick just to think about it.

[dfwgator]

I will try to restrain myself from posting segments involving fictional characters like this in the future, but some of his narrative about real events is concise and accurate

Nobody captured the true horror of the Holocaust better than Wouk, than he did in War and Remembrance.