Second World War tweets from 1941 @RealTimeWWII
I livetweet the Second World War as it happened on this date in 1941, & for four years to come. Third time's the charm. Alwyn Collinson, [email protected] patreon.com/RealTimeWWII Britain Joined August 2011-
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Brutal Red Army purges of "defeatists, cowards & traitors"in response to losses in Ukraine; NKVD have now killed over 10,000, often forcing platoon-mates to shoot the condemned.
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Stalin livid at disaster in Kiev- just 15,000 Red Army soldiers have escaped German pincers, 500,000+ lost- he's threatening to shoot Nikita Khrushchev for failure to hold Kiev.
Ever more paranoid of Nazi spies, USSR has banned civilians from mailing picture-postcards, chess or crossword puzzles in case of hidden codes, & envelopes- to make it easier for letter-censors.
US Navy welcomes a minor celebrity to its ranks- John F. Kennedy, son of former US Ambassador to UK & author of popular appeasement-explaining book: "Why England Slept"
Russian writer Vassily Grossman- who barely escaped capture in Ukraine- reports: "So much grief- people begin to cry as soon as they speak."
Soviet war correspondents, in danger of being shot for "defeatism" if they send back negative news, are now reporting: "much-battered Germans continue their cowardly advance."
Last pockets of Soviet resistance in vast Kiev encirclement are being wiped out- Germans have taken 350,000 prisoners in last 2 weeks.
In German-occupied Kiev, Soviet guerrillas have blown up a Wehrmacht barracks, killing hundreds of newly arrived German troops; Nazis blame the Jews, plan reprisal shootings.
Film begins with a scene (left) drawn from real life (right): flying aircraft up to the US-Canadian border, then having local farmers tow them across- to prevent USA breaching neutrality laws by "delivering" weapons to British territory.
Released today, Hollywood war drama "A Yank in the RAF", starring Tyrone Power as a pilot from neutral USA who volunteers to fight for Britain. Already accused by isolationist American senators of being "pro-war propaganda".
President Roosevelt announces that the US Navy- already shooting German U-boats on sight in Atlantic- will start to arm its merchant shipping to deter "Nazi piracy".
Wehrmacht forces have crossed the Tartar Ditch, an ancient 15-metre-deep fortification on the Isthmus of Perekop, smashing into the Crimea.
Partisans have established workers' councils & opened a newspaper, Borba ("Struggle"). Chetniks are making plans to create "Greater Serbia" & ethnically cleanse non-Serbs as soon as German invaders leave.
Anti-Nazi forces in Yugoslavia divided between Communist partisans & Serbian Nationalist Chetniks, for now working in fragile alliance. They're parading captured German soldiers through streets of Užice, their new capital:
Yugoslavian resistance fighters have struck a blow against German invaders, capturing city of Užice & declaring a tiny republic: first territory liberated from Nazi-occupied Europe.
German nutrition expert consults for the Wehrmact: "Leningrad will eat itself. The more people stay there, the sooner they will die- without losing a single one of our soldiers"
Nazis have decided Leningrad's civilians are more useful as hungry mouths: they will be kept entrapped as a drain on resources as Germans try to starve besieged city.
German Command have considered, as a grand propaganda gesture, offering all Russian civilians trapped inside Leningrad safe passage to neutral USA, as refugees.
Rudel is a master with his Stuka, boasting that he drops the huge bomb "with a rapier's finesse"- 20 Soviet tanks destroyed by him so far.
Luftwaffe Stuka ace Hans Rudel cripples the Soviet battleship Marat in Leningrad harbour- he sent a 1000kg bomb straight down steam-tower:
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