NAZIS CLAIM OLYMPUS AND LARISSA; LONDON SUFFERS BRIEF HEAVY RAID (4/20/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/20/41 | C. Brooks Peters, Craig Thompson, Hanson W. Baldwin, Philip Jordan

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW

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[texanyankee]

"I question their answer to #16. "Four stars on his uniform" suggests two on each shoulder. Making the officer in question a lowly major general. Not a full general, like Marshall.

I question their "answer" to question #19 - Switerland. I googled the question to double check and there were several sites that claim San Marino is the oldest republic....which I wouldnt have guessed right either....

[TheOldLady]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I sent “On War” an e-mail with a detailed breakdown of the development the Adolf Hitler unit along with my source material on the subject. I also made sure to thank them for their site since it has been very useful here.

Thanks for that. Better they should hear from somebody who knows what he's talking about. I would just have been relating second-hand info. Which I probably would have gotten garbled. Anyway, I know you wouldn't want me to neglect the post for the day I was working on. One of the most important events of the war occurred in May 1941, and I want our coverage to be thorough. That's right - the premier of "Citizen Kane."

[xp38]

These campaigns in the Balkans and Greece were in hindsight a fatal error for Hitler. They delayed the start of Barbarossa and thus allowed the winter of 1941-2 to stop the Wehrmacht as much as the Soviets themselves. Moscow came within a hairsbreadth of falling and who knows what would have happened if it had. The entire war situation might have been different.

[dfwgator]

Moscow came within a hairsbreadth of falling and who knows what would have happened if it had. The entire war situation might have been different.

It turns out Stalin my have saved himself by purging the Red Army in 1938, because there might have been a very good chance he would have been overthrown in a coup had he not.

[PzLdr]

A friend gave me a book on WW II for Christmas. Among the most blatant errors: Stating Manstein was a Field Marshal in 1940, claiming Guderian was returned to Panzer command in 1943, showing a photo claimed to be Admiral Yamamoto, which is actually Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo.

[CougarGA7]

That’s right!! Citizen Kane if a very significant historical event. I might have to make that the picture for the month of May on the Year in Review thread.

[CougarGA7]

I know how that feels. I got a video series called “Definitive History of WWII” for Christmas a few years ago and there were so many errors in the first DVD that I never even watched any of the other ones.