NAZI RAIDS ON BRITAIN GROW; LENINGRAD DEFENDERS GAIN; 57 MORE CZECHS EXECUTED (10/3/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 10/3/41 | Daniel T. Brigham, C.L. Sulzberger, George Gallup, Hanson W. Baldwin

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[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” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Five Towns Suffer – 2-3
The International Situation – 2
Revolt Flares Over Europe as Nazis Intensify Terror – 3-4
Diplomat is Appointed Minister to Costa Rica – 4
Nazis’ Lines Cut, Moscow Reports – 4-5
Germans Report Blows by Soviet – 6-7
62% Favor ‘Shoot-at-Sight’ Policy, Final Returns in Survey Disclose – 7
Britain Disciplines Defense Prisoners – 7
The Needs of Russia – 8
Rome War Budget 24,000,000,000 Lire – 8
Britain Increases Food Rations; Reich Cutting Clothing Quota 50% - 9
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 10

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f03oct41.htm

Hitler confident of victory in the east
Friday, October 3, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Berlin... Hitler claims in a speech that “this enemy [the USSR] has already been broken and will never rise again!” Goebbels announces that 1,500,000 children and 150,000 mothers have been evacuated from cities to safer areas.

In Occupied Czechoslovakia... Mayor Klapka of Prague is executed for alleged anti-Nazi activities.

[Fiji Hill]

I noticed the news item about Arthur Bliss Lane being appointed as minister to Costa Rica. That won't be the last time he would be in the news. In 1948, he would publish I saw Poland betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports to the American people (New York: Bobbs Merrill). Time Magazine's review of the book, The Angry Ambassador, may have been written by Whittaker Chambers.

[GeronL]

My weekly fat ration was increased from 8 to 10 ten ounces a week, praise be!

lol.

Shoot on sight, huh? I thought we weren't at war yet?

[GeronL]

My weekly fat ration was increased from 8 to 10 ten ounces a week, praise be!

lol.

Shoot on sight, huh? I thought we weren't at war yet?

[Larry381]

If one were to rely only on the Times as a primary source of information on the Russo-German war it would almost appear that the Germans are on their last legs. But then we have Hanson Baldwin who throws a bucket of ice-water on his pro-Soviet buddies on the Times and comes close to revealing the real situation-i.e.The Soviets are in real peril, especially without outside help from you-know-who.

[BroJoeK]

October 2, 1941

• "On this Jewish Day of Atonement, Jews are taken from the ghetto at Podborodz, Ukraine, and killed.

• "A Nazi raid on the Jewish ghetto at Vilna, Lithuania, leaves 3000 dead at nearby Ponary.
  One victim, Serna Morgenstern, is shot in the back by an SS officer after he complimented her beauty and told her she was free to go."

"Winter comes early to the Ukraine, so in October of 1941 this little Jewish girl at Lubny already is bundled against the cold.
More than chill air threatens her, however, for she is part of a group awaiting execution at the hands of a Nazi kill squad, probably Sonderkommando 4a, which was active in the Lubny, Ukraine, region in the latter half of October.
An official genocide update, euphemistically titled "Operational Situational Report USSR No. 132," describes October Sonderkommando activities in the area, and the liquidation of 1,363 Ukrainian Jews, Communists, and partisans."

[BroJoeK]

October 3, 1941

"German soldiers struggle to free their vehicle from the mud during the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941.
Despite the early successes of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans were unprepared for the rigors of the Russian climate.
They would be defeated in Russia as much by the weather as by the Soviet Armed Forces."

[CougarGA7]

• "The enemy has been broken and will never rise again." - Adolf Hitler

• The MAUD Committee officially transmits their report to James Conant of the U.S. program.

• The daily report for the OKH summarizes that Hoth's Third Panzer Group "penetrated to the Dnepr east of Kholm'-Zhirkovskii and captured two intact bridges. South of the town a tank battle is raging with approaching Russian tank units."

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/03.htm

October 3rd, 1941
FRANCE: Paris: A seventh synagogue, where a bomb had been planted yesterday, but the fuse had failed, is blown up “for safety reasons”, by the Germans.

GERMANY: Berlin: Propaganda minister Joseph Göbbels, announces that 150,000 mothers have been evacuated to safer parts of Germany.

Hitler tells a rally that Russia has been crushed “and will never rise again.”

“For the last forty-eight hours an operation of gigantic proportions is again in progress, which will help to smash the enemy in the East. I am talking to you on behalf of millions who are at this moment fighting and want to ask the German people at home to take upon themselves, in addition to other sacrifices, that of Winter Help this year.” (Jack McKillop)

U-635 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: The US Secretary of State Cordell Hull congratulates the Finnish Ambassador Hjalmar Procope for the reconquest of Karelia, but states that continuing the offensive is short-sighted. (Mikko Härmeinen)

U.S.S.R.: German troops capture Tsarskoe Selo, outside Leningrad, and units of Heeresgruppe Mitte capture the industrial centre of Orel, south-southwest of Moscow.

INDIA: Mahatma Ghandi calls upon all the subjects of the British Raj to start a campaign of passive resistance.

AUSTRALIA: Canberra: The Labour leader, John Curtin, aged 56, is Australia’s new prime minister following the fall of the Country Party government. The Fadden coalition government fell after being defeated in the House of Representatives when the two Independent members, Arthur Coles and Alex Wilson, voted with the Labour opposition to beat the government by 36 votes to 33. Fadden advised the Governor-General Lord Gowrie that Labour leader John Curtin should be commissioned as prime minister.

The new prime minister is fully committed to the prosecution of the war against the Axis, but he has in the past given greater weight to the threat from Japanese imperialism and less to the Middle East where the Australian forces are mostly concentrated. (Daniel Ross)

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Nipigon joined Sydney Force. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The motion picture “The Maltese Falcon” opens at the Strand Theater in New York City.

Directed by John Huston, his first directorial role, this film-noir crime drama, based on a Dashiell Hammett novel, stars Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane and Elisha Cook Jr.; Walter Huston appears in an uncredited role. The plot has San Franciso private detective Sam Spade (Bogart) trying to find the person who murdered his partner. Suspects are his client Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and his gunsel Wilmer (Elisha Cook, Jr. who played “Ice Pick” in the “Magnum, P.I.” TV series). And of course, there is the elusive “Maltese Falcon” they are all trying to find. The film is nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture (it loses to “How Green Was My Valley”), Best Supporting Actor (Greenstreet) and Best Writing (Huston). The American Film Institute rates this film as Number 23 on the list of the “100 Greatest Movies.” (Jack McKillop)

Gerow advises Marshall that the Philippine reinforcements had changed “the entire picture in the Asiatic area.” (Marc Small)

Brereton summonsed to the War Department. (Marc James Small)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-129 was accompanying the German support ship Kota Pinang when the latter was sunk on this day by the British cruiser HMS Kenya. The U-boat took on all 119 survivors and three days later put them ashore in Spain. (Dave Shirlaw)