Savage hatred rife –
Greatest hunt in all history is on in Europe
Oppressed peoples pursue fleeing Nazis
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Savage hatred rife –
Völkischer Beobachter (September 9, 1944)
Präsidentschaftskandidat Dewey stellt fest:
Krieg bestes Geschäft für Roosevelt und Genossen
vb. Berlin, 8. September –
In einer Rede erklärte der republikanische Kandidat für die Präsidentenwahl Gouverneur Thomas Dewey: „New Deal hat Angst vor dem Frieden. Die Verwaltung weiß, daß der Krieg mit seinem ganzen tragischen Gefolge von Tod und Zerstörung das einzige ist, das sie gerettet hat.“ Er bestätigt damit, daß Roosevelt die USA bewusst in den Krieg trieb, um sein Amt zu retten.
Dewey unterstreicht mit dieser Feststellung nur eine bekannte Tatsache, auf die wir immer wieder hingewiesen haben: Roosevelt erlitt mit dem New Deal, der 1933 als Allheilmittel gepriesen worden war, völlig Schiffbruch. Der Oberste Gerichtshof erklärte 1937 einige Verordnungen des Präsidenten als rechtsungültig. Darauf flüchtete sich Roosevelt in die Kriegshetze, beginnend mit der berüchtigten Quarantänerede in Chicago vom Oktober 1937. Mit eiserner Stirn hat Roosevelt seinen Mitbürgern vorgelogen, sie seien das Opfer feindlicher „Aggression“ geworden. Dewey brandmarkt das jetzt als dreiste Erfindung. Dieser Krieg ist Roosevelts Werk, er soll sein Versagen in allen sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Fragen in Vergessenheit bringen. Diesen Zweck hat er unzweifelhaft erfüllt und soll dies auch weiter tun. Die Verluste an Gut und Blut, die er über das amerikanische Volk bringt, kümmern einen Roosevelt wenig, wenn nur er und sein jüdischer Anhang an Profithyänen dabei auf ihre Kosten kommen!
Im Übrigen muß man bedenken, daß die Feststellungen Deweys keineswegs Ausfluss eines überspitzten persönlichen Kampfes mit Roosevelt sind, da sich ein Beauftragter Deweys mit einem Mittelsmann Roosevelts dahin geeinigt hat, daß außenpolitische Meinungsverschiedenheiten im Wahlkampf keine Rolle spielen sollen. Daß Roosevelt aber den Krieg planmäßig herbeigeführt hat, ist heute in den Vereinigten Staaten eine so allgemein bekannte Tatsache, daß ihre Erwähnung kaum noch überraschen wird. In geschichtlicher Perspektive bleibt sie indessen einer der bestimmenden Faktoren für die Ursachen und den Ablauf dieses Krieges, deren Untersuchung ja auch die Aufsatzfolge des Stellvertretenden Reichspressechefs Sündermann in den letzten Nummern des Völkischen Beobachters gewidmet war.
Führer HQ (September 9, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
In Nordfrankreich scheiterten feindliche Vorstöße gegen die Seefestungen Brest, Boulogne und Dünkirchen. Im Festungsbereich von Le Havre wurden am vergangenen Tage 29 feindliche Panzer und 12 Panzerspähwagen abgeschossen.
In Flandern stehen unsere Nachtruppen weiter in harten Abwehrkämpfen gegen den nachstoßenden Feind. Angriffe des Gegners aus seinem Brückenkopf Antwerpen nach Norden wurden zerschlagen, feindliche Brückenköpfe nordwestlich Hasselt im Gegenangriff eingeengt. Der Feind hatte dort besonders schwere Verluste und verlor 21 Panzer. Um die Zitadelle in Lüttich und im Raum nordwestlich Metz wird heftig gekämpft. Gegen vorgestoßene feindliche Truppen sind Gegenangriffe angesetzt. Bei Besançon und weiter östlich am Doubs stehen unsere aus Süd- und Südwestfrankreich zurückgeführten Verbände im Kampf mit dem von Süden her angreifenden Feind, der mit starken Kräften versucht, zur Burgundischen Pforte durchzustoßen.
Die Kämpfe an der adriatischen Küste, die vorübergehend in ihrer Heftigkeit nachgelassen hatten, nahmen im Verlauf des Tages wieder an Erbitterung zu. Unsere Truppen zerschlugen jedoch alle feindlichen Angriffe, die teilweise sechsmal wiederholt wurden, in schweren Kämpfen. Eine Einbruchsstelle wurde im Gegenangriff eingeengt. Vor unseren zurückgewonnenen Linien blieb der erneut anstürmende Feind unter hohen Verlusten liegen,
Am Szeklerzipfel in Südostsiebenbürgen wurden zahlreiche heftige Angriffe des Feindes abgewehrt. Gegenangriffe deutscher und ungarischer Verbände warfen den Gegner an mehreren Stellen zurück.
Verbände der Luftwaffe bekämpften wirksam den feindlichen Nachschubverkehr im rumänischen Raum.
Am Nordrand der Waldkarpaten und am unteren Narew scheiterten erneute feindliche Angriffe am zähen Widerstand unserer Divisionen.
Von der übrigen Ostfront werden Reine größeren Kampfhandlungen gemeldet.
Nordamerikanische Bomberverbände führten Terrorangriffe gegen Orte in Südwestdeutschland. Besonders in den Städten Karlsruhe, Mainz, Mannheim und Ludwigshafen entstanden Schäden und Personenverluste. 22 feindliche Flugzeuge wurden zum Absturz gebracht.
Bei Nacht warf ein Verband britischer Flugzeuge Bomben auf Nürnberg.
Im Weichselbrückenkopf westlich Baranow haben die unter dem Oberbefehl des Generals der Panzertruppe Balck und dem Befehl der Generale der Panzertruppe Breith und Gräser sowie des Generals der Infanterie Recknagel stehenden Truppen im vergangenen Monat den Durchbruch massierter sowjetischer Kräfte vereitelt und den feindlichen Brückenkopf durch erfolgreiche Gegenangriffe eingeengt. Der Feind erlitt schwere Verluste an Menschen und Material. Vom 3. August bis 7. September wurden 650 Panzer und Sturmgeschütze, 942 Geschütze aller Kaliber vernichtet oder erbeutet und 3.000 Gefangene eingebracht – Fliegende Verbände und Flakeinheiten einer Luftflotte unter Führung von Generaloberst Ritter von Greim vernichteten 80 weitere Sowjetpanzer, 156 Geschütze sowie über 1.000 Fahrzeuge aller Art und schossen 374 feindliche Flugzeuge ab.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (September 9, 1944)
Communiqué No. 154
Expansion of the Allied bridgehead over the ALBERT Canal has met growing enemy resistance. The capture of BOURG-LÉOPOLD was completed against strong opposition.
Our troops continued the advance through ROULERS and reached THIEL yesterday, where sharp fighting continues. Another armored thrust from this area advanced some miles towards BURGES. Further north, Allied armor has captured DIXMUDE.
Our troops continue to close in on the ports of CALAIS and BOULOGNE.
In eastern BELGIUM, Allied troops have occupied LIÈGE, 21 miles from the GERMAN frontier, after advancing along the north bank of the MEUSE River against scattered enemy resistance. Elements have moved to ROMSEE, three miles southeast of LIÈGE. In the area south of the MEUSE between NAMUR and LIÈGE, our troops have reached the village of NEUVILLE-EN-CONDROZ, ten miles east of HUY.
In the ARDENNES Forest, our troops are advancing eastward between GIVET and SEDAN against resistance from isolated strongpoints. Elements have reached HAUT-FAYS and MAISSIN. East of SEDAN, we are at SAINT-CECILE after and advance of 12 miles.
Allied bombers were sent against three resisting harbor defenses in FRANCE yesterday while fighters and fighter-bombers continued to harass enemy movements, transport and communications in the Low Countries and in western GERMANY.
Yesterday morning, heavy bombers attacked LE HAVRE and strongpoints and gun positions at BREST were targets for fighter-bombers. In the evening medium bombers attacked fortifications at BOULOGNE.
Ten enemy aircraft were destroyed on the ground during attacks by fighter-bombers on enemy movements in the Low Countries and against airfield and transport in Western GERMANY.
A road bridge east of ROTTERDAM was attacked during the night by light bombers.
U.S. Navy Department (September 9, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 552
For Immediate Release
September 9, 1944
Cruisers and destroyers of the Pacific Fleet shelled the Palau Islands on 6 September (West Longitude Date). The naval bombardment destroyed and damaged numerous buildings and defense installations. Many large fires were started on Angaur, the southernmost island in the group, and carrier-based planes scored direct hits on supply facilities. There was meager antiaircraft fire. Bomb hits were made on communication facilities at Peleliu Island.
Numerous large fires were started at Koror, and a radio station and fuel dump were hit on Arakabesan Island. There was no damage to our surface ships.
Liberators of the 7th AAF bombed airfields and installations at Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands on September 6 and 7. Several fires were started. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate. Of four enemy fighters airborne on September 7, one was probably destroyed.
On September 7, Liberators of the 7th AAF attacked Chichijima in the Bonin Islands, damaging an enemy cargo ship in the harbor. On the same day, Pagan Island in the Marianas was attacked with rocket and machine-gun fire.
Army Liberators bombed Moen airfields in the Truk Atoll on September 6. Moderate antiaircraft fire was encountered.
Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing continued their attacks on remaining positions in the Marshalls on September 7. A single Navy search plane bombed Nauru Island on the same day.
Joint Statement
For Immediate Release
September 9, 1944
The following joint Anglo‑American statement on submarine and antisubmarine operations is issued under the authority of the President and the Prime Minister:
Last month, due to the effectiveness of the Allied operations in France, the principal U‑boat operating bases in the Bay of Biscay were neutralized. As a consequence, the Germans have been forced to operate their underseas craft from Norwegian and Baltic bases, thereby stretching even thinner their difficult lines of operation. The exchange rate between merchant ships sunk and U‑boats destroyed continues to be profitable to the United Nations’ cause. While U‑boat operations continue, they are sporadic and relatively ineffectual.
U.S. State Department (September 9, 1944)
Lot 60–D 224, Box 55: DO/PR/17
Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State to the Secretary of State
Washington, September 9, 1944
Subject: PROGRESS REPORT ON DUMBARTON OAKS CONVERSATIONS – EIGHTEENTH DAY
Meetings of the Formulation Groups and the Joint Steering Committee
The formulation groups (which had worked late the night before) produced by early afternoon a draft of the entire joint recommendations for consideration by the Joint Steering Committee.
The latter Committee met at 3:00 p.m. and, with an interruption for dinner, continued until after midnight.
Points of particular interest include the following:
a) New proposal on the subject of human rights and fundamental freedoms
I suggested at the meeting of the Joint Steering Committee the addition of a new paragraph on this subject for insertion in the chapter entitled “Principles.” The new proposal, a copy of which is attached to this report, had been approved by the American group earlier in the day with the strong recommendation that it be brought to the attention of the other groups. Sir Alexander Cadogan expressed opposition to the reference to human rights and fundamental freedoms, saying that he thought such a provision would give rise to the possibility that the organization might engage in criticism of the internal organization of member states. Ambassador Gromyko said that it was his personal opinion that the reference to human rights and basic freedom is not germane to the main tasks of an international security organization. They will both consult their Governments.
b) Name of the Organization
Ambassador Gromyko continued to maintain the Soviet reservation as to our proposal that the organization be known as the United Nations. He suggested tentatively the title World Union. Sir Alexander Cadogan, somewhat to our surprise, said for the first time that he did not believe that the British Government is particularly “keen” about the title “United Nations.” He added that the British Government had at one time thought of proposing adoption of a title making use of the word “Union.”
c) British proposal for special qualifications for non-permanent members of the Council
The British suggestion of a modification of this proposal has been made the subject of a separate memorandum to you.
d) Regional arrangements
Sir Alexander Cadogan pointed out that the provision that “no enforcement action should be taken [under regional arrangements or] by regional agencies without the authorization of the council” might raise difficulties in connection with the enforcement of the German surrender terms.
e) Responsibility for control of the Axis states
Partly as a result of Sir Alexander’s comment referred to in the preceding paragraph, it was agreed to include tentatively in the draft document a provision that the council be empowered to take such responsibility for insuring the execution of continuing measures of control over the Axis states as might be assigned to it by the powers concerned.
f) Interim arrangements
In a further attempt to meet Sir Alexander’s point it was also agreed to insert tentatively a provision to the effect that pending conclusion of agreements for the provision of forces and facilities, the four powers and other states in a position to do so should provide such forces and facilities as may be needed for the maintenance of peace and security.
Other points of importance which still remain open:
(1) Voting in the Council. You are familiar with special steps being taken in this connection.
(2) Sites for bases and (3) An international air force. It was not possible to reach final agreement on these questions although it still seems unlikely that they will prevent final agreement.
(4) Assistance to states carrying out measures decided upon by the Council. We continue to feel that some form of agreement on this point should not be too difficult.
[Annex]
Additional paragraph suggested by Mr. Ben Cohen for inclusion in Section II, principles, of the draft proposals
The International Organization should refrain from intervention in the internal affairs of any state, it being the responsibility of each state to see that conditions prevailing within its jurisdiction do not endanger international peace and security and, to this end, to respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all its people and to govern in accordance with the principles of humanity and justice.
The Pittsburgh Press (September 9, 1944)
Yanks surge on West Wall; Channel trap drawn tighter
1,500 U.S. warplanes rip Siegfried Line bases in softening up blow
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer
Rolling toward border of Germany, Allied forces have broken through the last barriers to the Reich. On the coast, Allied troops captured Ostend and closed on Dunkerque (1). British troops battled along the Albert Canal in the Beringen area (2). The U.S. 1st Army (3) drove beyond captured Liège, and to the south occupied Maissin, close to the Luxembourg border. In the Sedan area (4), U.S. troops advanced to the southeast, while in the Metz–Nancy region, the 3rd Army stormed across the Moselle River in five places. Up from southern France (5), the U.S. and French 7th Army closed on the Belfort Gap into Germany and surged to within 22 miles of Dijon.
SHAEF, London, England –
U.S. tanks and troops tore open the Ardennes Forest and Moselle River barriers almost within artillery range of Germany today while a fleet of 1,500 U.S. warplanes struck a mighty softening-up blow at the Nazi West Wall bases in the Rhine and Ruhr Valleys.
Meanwhile, a desperate breakout attempt by tens of thousands of Germans trapped along the Channel coast was thwarted and the enemy was squeezed into a tighter pocket. The breakout attempt, into which the Nazis threw everything they had, was against the British lines between Lille and Ghent yesterday.
Thundering across the battle lines for the second straight day, a force of 1,000 U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators and 500 Mustang fighters raked the German rear lines with bombs and gunfire, smashing at road and rail targets and the Rhineland cities of Düsseldorf, Mainz and Mannheim.
German supplies and reinforcements were reported streaming into the Siegfried Line, barely 18 to 20 miles beyond the advancing Allied armies in Belgium and France, and the U.S. 8th Air Force hurled its full striking power against them.
A communiqué issued by the U.S. 2nd Tactical Air Force said that 23 bombers and four fighters were missing from these operations.
A front dispatch revealed that new and deadly P-61, America’s Black Widow night fighter, had gone into action to help choke off the flow of enemy reserves to the front.
Unofficial front reports said the British 2nd Army had smashed across the Albert Canal in Belgium in a second crossing at Gheel, 12 miles from the first bridgehead at Beringen.
Gain 12 miles
Attacking behind the great aerial barrage, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s U.S. 3rd Army drove five solid bridgeheads across the Moselle River in the Metz and Nancy area, while the U.S. 1st Army hammered out sensational gains running up to 12 miles through the hilly defiles of the Ardennes Forest.
German troops committed to the defense of the Ardennes, probably the strongest natural barrier west of the Nazi frontier, were in full flight for the dubious safety of their Siegfried Line, hounded every step of the way by U.S. flying columns of tanks and motorized infantry.
On the 1st Army’s southern flank, armored spearheads advanced 13 miles southeast of Sedan to the village of Blagny, only 28 miles from the Luxembourg-Germany-France border triangle above Metz which was already menaced by Patton’s troops.
Gain above Sedan
Other 1st Army units struck out east and northeast of Sedan for gains of four to 12 miles and captured Saint-Cecile, Haut-Fays and Maissin, the last barely 13½ miles from the borders of Luxembourg.
The 1st Army vanguards were eight to 23 miles beyond the Meuse on their southern bridgeheads and a front dispatch from United Press writer Joseph W. Grigg said the German lines along the Meuse had been shattered completely and its defenders put to rout.
Farther to the north, the 1st Army pushed three miles southeast of the captured fortress city of Liège to within 18 miles of the Nazi frontier, crossing the Meuse and taking the town of Romsee.
Gain west of Liège
The Americans also forced a new bridgehead over the Meuse just west of Liège, and captured Neuville-en-Condroz.
Gen. Patton’s 3rd Army forces, meanwhile, pressed their slow, slugging battle against strong German covering units holding the heights east of the Moselle, deepening and strengthening five bridgeheads across the river above and below Metz and just west of Nancy.
Headquarters spokesmen revealed for the first time that Gen. Patton’s mechanized army was being supplied by air with gasoline and oil, to get his huge array of armor started again on the road to the Rhineland.
A great flow of guns and supplies was also moving up to the Moselle by road and it was indicated that the “big push” was about to resume, if it had not already done so.
Fan out from Moselle
A number of unidentified towns north and south of Metz were liberated by Gen. Patton’s men as they fanned out along the east bank of the Moselle under heavy fire from mortars and field guns commanding the river. None of the new positions was identified, however, but an eastward advance above Metz would put the 3rd Army line less than 20 miles from the Reich.
The Germans attempted one strong counterattack early Friday morning, shooting a heavy force of Panther tanks and armored cars across the Moselle under cover of darkness, with some 6,000 Nazi troopers clinging to them.
Bursting into a sleeping headquarters encampment, the Germans poured a murderous rain of fire into the Americans and almost succeeded in breaking through the lines.
The wild attack was broken, however, by a motley force of American company clerks and cooks who fought off the Nazis with rifles and carbines until armored reinforcements arrived. U.S. tanks and tank destroyers swarmed over the enemy column, destroyed between 25 and 35 tanks and inflicted heavy casualties on the German infantrymen. The rest of the Nazi force scuttled back across the Moselle.
British 2nd Army troops in northeastern Belgium faced equally stiff opposition along the Albert Canal line, where a mixed force of green Nazi troops and survivors of the ill-fated 15th Army were reported to have received a “stand and die” order from Adolf Hitler himself.
The British were solidly established on the east bank of the canal along a five-mile line from Beringen to Bourg-Léopold, however and the communiqué said the latter town, 26 miles west of the German border, was completely occupied today.
Open sluice gates
Unconfirmed reports said the Germans had opened the sluice gates of the canal and flooded the battle area in a desperate effort to stem the British advance.
British, Canadian and Polish troops to the west cleared most of the isolated German pockets just inland from the Channel coast and closed in on the chain of ports still held by diehard Nazi garrisons.
Canadian armored patrols drove into Ostend and Brugge and found both ports deserted, Dixmude, 15 miles southwest of Ostend, was also captured by the Canadians after a 35-mile advance from Saint-Omer.
Military experts say –
European War may last winter
Quicker end possible if we get all breaks
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
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