War Time: WWII

Currently in 1942, tweeting day by day of news from the Second World War as well as other current events as they happened. 🇺🇲 Austin Warren

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@Vidor1 Big time. Especially going for STALINgrad.

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RAF Lancaster Bombers fly 1,750(2,816 km) to bomb the German shipyards at Danzig. Longest raid of the European theatre so far.

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Rommel's forces have been stopped in El Alamein.

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After a week of fierce fighting at El Alamein, Axis advance into Egypt has been halted, with fierce Australian & South African counter-attacks seizing German strongpoints. New York Times map shows where armies clash in the North African desert:

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Finally, the British are allowing the women and children to eat.

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After public campaigns in Allied countries, demanding relief from starvation for occupied Europe- including the newly formed "OxFam", Oxford Famine Relief- British govt. is allowing food aid to be sent to Greek women & children.

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The horrors that this war has had on civilians.

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In the streets of Athens, starving children beg German officers for olive pits to suck on, & emaciated corpses stack up:

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Both the British and Germans have been responsible. The Greeks have been caught in the middle and starved.

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With British Royal Navy blockading food ships, & Germans confiscating crops, famine stalks Greece; last winter, 1000 Greeks starved to death every day.

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It has been a year and three months since Greece fell to the Nazis and that nation has been starved ever since.

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Nazi occupation of Greece has left the country starving, with massive unemployment while Germans loot food & resources:

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Salonika*

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From a Salonima resident courtesy of @RealTimeWWII

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Greek Itzchak Nechama, in Salonika, is watching the brutal Nazi mistreatment of Jews: "German girls applauded gleefully from the balconies after every beating."

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More news from the Eastern Front: The Germans captured the rail hub town of Rossosh and established a bridgehead on the east Bank of the Don River.

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Map of the Axis advance courtesy of @RealTimeWWII

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Spearheads of the new German offensive in USSR are joining up, as two panzer armies meet on banks of the River Don; New York Times map of the Axis advance past Kharkov & Kursk:

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The Greek Jews are being beaten and humiliated before a German crowd.

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Before a cheering German crowd, Nazis make Greek Jews squat in sun for hours, beating them mercilessly when they fall.

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Jewish men in Greece are now being ordered to register for forced labor.

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Nazi occupiers of Greece have ordered all Jewish men in city of Salonika- ~7000 people- to assemble in central Liberty Square, to register for forced labour.

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Anne Frank describing the attic where they're hiding.

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Anne Frank writes in her diary: “I doubt I'll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn't mean I loathe it, it's like a holiday in a very strange hotel."

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The Frank family's home for the foreseeable future.

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Frank family's attic in Amsterdam is spacious compared to most Dutch Jew's hiding places- 46 square metres for 8 people.

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As packing the clothes in a suitcase would raise suspicion.

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Dutch Jews may not leave Amsterdam's ghetto; to conceal their move into hiding, the Franks carry one small bag each, each sweltering hot as they wear many layers of clothes.

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Otto Frank's friends and most trusted employees helped the family with hiding.

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Otto Frank has prepared a secret annex in the attic above his jam business, to hide his family & other Dutch Jews from Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands.

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The Frank family was planning to begin hiding on July 16, but had to leave earlier as Margot Frank, Anne's older sister, received a call-up letter from the Central Office for Jewish Immigration ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp.

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In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Jewish Frank family have gone into hiding, to prevent their eldest daughter's arrest by Germans.

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Hitler has split up his forces. One will take Stalingrad and the other the oil fields of the Caucasus.

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9 July 1942: #German dictator Adolf Hitler changes his plan for his forces to only take the city of #Stalingrad and orders a simultaneous attack on both Stalingrad and the oil-rich Caucasus. Army Group South was split into Army Group A and #Army Group B. This fateful decision proved to be a catastrophic strategic blunder, as dividing already-strained forces diluted their combat power and exposed vulnerable flanks, ultimately paving the way for the disastrous defeat at Stalingrad. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/CVJYhtshzA

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A U-boat(U-701) was depth charged and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by a Lockheed Hudson bomber. The Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico need more of this as U-boats continue to sink cargo ships on a daily basis. Over 300 ships have been sunk since December 7, 1941.