NAZIS REPORTED CLOSER TO MOSCOW; RUSSIANS ANNOUNCE LOSS OF BRYANSK (10/13/41)

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1 posted on 10/13/2011 5:23:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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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

2 posted on 10/13/2011 5:24:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

3 posted on 10/13/2011 5:25:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...

Germans Smash On – 2-3
Moscow Admits More Nazi Gains – 3-4
The International Situation – 3
Nazis Add 8 Ships to British Losses – 4
Assails Priorities as Reducing Jobs – 4
Hazards Against Invasion – 5
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 6-7
A.F.L. Will Hear Racket Analysis – 7

4 posted on 10/13/2011 5:27:16 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f13oct41.htm

Soviet resistance weakening
Monday, October 13, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet army is forced to retreat from Vyazma and resistance in the area is faltering.

5 posted on 10/13/2011 5:33:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/13.htm

October 13th, 1941

GERMANY: RAF bombers make their first large-scale night raid on Nürnberg.

Hitler comments on the US economy:

America can be paid only in gold. A commerce based on the exchange of products is not possible with America, for America suffers from a surplus of raw materials and a plethora of manufactured goods. This gold which the Americans receive in exchange for the labor they supply, they hide it away in their strong-rooms - and they imagine the world will yield to this policy born in the smoky brain of a Jewish thinker! The result is their 13 million unemployed. (207)

U-733 laid down.

U-705 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Vyazma is captured by the Germans essentially ending Soviet resistance of the nearby pocket.

German forces of Heeresgruppe Mitte capture Kalinin, 100 miles (160.9 km) west of Moscow. (Jack McKillop)

JAPAN: The Foreign Ministry sends a message to the embassy in Washington. Part of the message states that “The situation at home is fast approaching a crisis and it is becoming absolutely essential that the two leaders meet if any adjustment of Japanese-U. S. relations is to be accomplished. I cannot go into details now, but please bear this fact in mind.” (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Kamsack and minesweeper HMCS Georgian arrived Halifax from builders Montreal and Toronto respectively. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: Secretary of State Hull spoke on behalf of arming American-flag ships engaged in foreign trade. (Dave Shirlaw)

6 posted on 10/13/2011 5:34:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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October 13, 1941

"Fifteen thousand Jews are murdered at Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine"

"Already massively overcrowded and short on food, the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto became the destination for trainloads of Jews deported from Germany, Austria, and Bohemia beginning in autumn 1941.
To accommodate the influx, the Nazis required Chaim Rumkowski, the head of the ghetto administration, to select 20,000 residents for deportation.
By late January 1942 Rumkowski had negotiated the number down to 10,000 deemed "asocial"; that is, not contributing to the ghetto's industries."

7 posted on 10/13/2011 7:00:03 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)

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German forces announce that the forces encircled around Viaz'ma have been destroyed.
Odilo Globocnik meets with Himmler to discuss how he was to complete the clearing of the Lublin area for German settlement. As a result of this meeting, Globocnik made the decision to begin construction of an extermination camp at Belzec.

8 posted on 10/13/2011 8:57:46 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Sauron was just trying to get his land back.)

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9 posted on 10/13/2011 9:03:48 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Sauron was just trying to get his land back.)

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It’s not really a nekkid lady picture if it’s just a cartoon.

10 posted on 10/13/2011 7:56:01 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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Yea, what about all those ‘nude statues’ in Argentina. And the ‘Record Shop Premiere’ is purely degenerate.

11 posted on 10/14/2011 4:45:28 PM PDT by PAR35

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