U.S.-OWNED TANKER TORPEDOED, SUNK, OFF BRAZIL; HITLER, IN SPEECH, DECLARES RUSSIA ‘BROKEN’ (10/4/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 10/4/41 | George Gallup, James MacDonald, C.L. Sulzberger, Daniel T. Brigham, Herbert L. Matthews, more

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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

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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

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John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance

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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of October 4, 1941

#1 - “Piano Concerto in B Flat” (“Tonight we Love”) - Freddy Martin, with Jack Fina
#2 - ““I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire”” - Horace Heidt, with Larry Cotton and Donna & Her Don Juans
#3 - “Chattanooga Choo Choo” - Glenn Miller, with Tex Beneke and the Modernaires
#4 - “Blue Champagne” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#5 – “Green Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell
#6 - “Yes Indeed!” - Tommy Dorsey, with Jo Stafford and Sy Oliver
#7 - “Jim” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell
#8 – “Yours” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#9 - “You and I” – Glenn Miller, with Ray Eberly
#10 – “Til Reveille” – Bing Crosby

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Struck on Sept. 27 – 2
Nazi Army Praised – 3-4
The International Situation – 3
Armaments Urged to Defeat Hitler – 4
Nazis Slay Prague’s Mayor and City Council Members – 4-5
Average American Still Bets a Bit, War or No War, Gallup Survey Finds – 5
Halt Called in Prisoner Exchange after British Put Nazis on a Ship – 6
8 American-Owned Ships Sunk Since War Started – 6
Full Rationing is Urged in Italy – 6
Soviet Counters Drive for Donets – 7-8
Pope Denounces Curbs on Marriage and Deplores ‘Mania for Divorce’ – 8
London Stresses Raid Cost to Foe (by David Anderson) – 8-9
Nazis Press Hard Toward Kharkov – 9
Ship Watch is Set at 6 Eastern Points – 9
Oil Executive Asks Return of Tankers – 9
Woolton Pledges to Keep Britons Fit in Adversity – 10
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 10
Onkel Franz On the Grill (Sports of the Times, by John Kieran) * – 11

* The game was rained out yesterday so we just have this column to tide us over. I like reading Kieran’s old-time sportswriter style, even though I don’t always know what he is talking about.

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f04oct41.htm

Panzers breaking through
Saturday, October 4, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Hoeppner’s Panzer Group 4 attacks near Vyazma from the south. Hoth’s forces in the north are still battling the Soviet line between Vyazma and Rzhev. On the right wing of the attack, General Guderian’s forces are approaching Orel and Bryansk. Large numbers of Soviet troops are in danger of encirclement.

[PzLdr]

Heydrich isn’t a “Deputy Gestapo Chief”. He was Chief of the RSHA,which was comprised of the Sicherpolizei [Gestapo and Criminal Police], and the SS SD, of which he was also Chief.

The Chief of the Gestapo was SS Lieutenant General Heinrich Mueller.Heydrich was his boss.

[GeronL]

lol. Was there no other sports to report on?

[BroJoeK]

October 4, 1941

"Fifteen hundred Jews from Kovno, Lithuania, are transported to the Ninth Fort and murdered.
In Kovno proper, Nazis lock the Jewish hospital and set it ablaze, incinerating all inside."

"Christian Wirth was a central figure in the Nazi extermination programs.
Wirth joined the NSDAP in 1931 and worked for the Stuttgart division of the Gestapo (the Secret Police).
As a member of the T-4 euthanasia program, Wirth experimented with gassing those classified as unfit for human life.
He organized the first euthanasia installations outside of Germany and supervised the killing installations at the Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibór, and Treblinka death camps.
He was assassinated by Yugoslav partisans in 1944."

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Was there no other sports to report on?

I'm sure there was, but I am maxed out with sports now. No time for new projects.

[GeronL]

Just tell me the Redskins lost again. lol.

[CougarGA7]

• "On 4 October I reported to Stalin about the situation in the Western Front and about the enemy penetration of the Reserve Front... and also about the threat of a large enemy grouping reaching our forces' rear area...Stalin listened to me, however, made no decision. Communications were disrupted and further conversation ceased." - Lieutenant-General Konev