World War II History

Steven Terjeson | June 15, 2009

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Audio Clip: BBC Giles Fairplay reports on the Last Days of Singapore – 15 June 1942

World War II History for June 15
15 June 1940 – The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.
15 June 1942- On the carrier IJN Zuikaku Captain Yokokawa was relieved by Captain Tameteru Notomo.

IJN Zuikaku [...]

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Tags: 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, Audio, Blobel, Carrier, France, Holocaust, IJN, Photo, Podcast, Saipan, Singapore, SS, Verdun, Zuikaku

Steven Terjeson | May 21, 2009

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World War II History for May 21
21 May 1940 – A Nazi “special unit” began murdering more than 1,500 hospital patients in East Prussia. The operation of killing the “unfit” mentally ill patients took 18 days.
21 May 1941 – [...]

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Tags: Auschwitz, IG Farben, Photo, Poland, Robin Moor, Sobibor, SS, U-69, U-boat

Steven Terjeson | January 20, 2009

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World War II History for January 20
20 JAN 1942 – Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their “final solution” that called for exterminating Europe’s Jews.
In July 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, to submit [...]

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Tags: 1942, 1944, 1945, Budapest, Burma, China, Heydrich, Himmler, Inauguration, Jews, President, Prussia, Roosevelt, SS, Wannsee

Steven Terjeson | October 4, 2008

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World War II History for October 4
1940 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1943 – Heinrich Himmler encourages his SS group leaders
On this day in 1943, the Reichsfuhrer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, addresses the squad leaders of [...]

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Tags: 1940, 1943, 1944, Alps, Eisenhower, Himmler, Hitler, Mussolini, Shell Shock, SS

Steven Terjeson | August 28, 2008

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World War II History for August 28
1941 – In occupied Ukraine, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Gestapo.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union had advanced to the point of mass air raids on Moscow and the occupation of parts of Ukraine. On August 26, Hitler displayed [...]

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Tags: Audio, History, Holocaust, Hungary, Jews, Podcast, SS, Today, Ukraine, WW II, WW2, WWII

Steven Terjeson | August 18, 2008

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World War II History for August 18
1940 – Canada and the U.S. established a joint defense plan against the possible enemy attacks during World War II.
1941 – Hitler suspends euthanasia program
On this day in 1941, Adolf Hitler orders that the systematic murder of the mentally ill and handicapped be brought to [...]

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Tags: Canada, Defense, Germany, Hitler, Poland, SS, US, WWII

Steven Terjeson | July 7, 2008

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World War II History for July 7
1942 – Heinrich Himmler decided to begin experimenting on women and extending experimentation on males in the Auschwitz concentration camps. Adolf Hitler agreed to the plan for medical experiments on the condition that it remain top secret.
Himmler, architect of Hitler’s program to exterminate Europe’s [...]

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Tags: Auschwitz, Himmler, History, Hitler, SS, Today, WWarII, WWII

Steven Terjeson | June 30, 2008

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World War II History for June 30
1934 – Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and bringing to power the SS in the “Night of the Long Knives.”
1943 – General Douglas MacArthur launched Operation Cartwheel. The purpose of the operation, which took nine months to complete, was to [...]

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Tags: History, June, MacArthur, Nazi, SS, WWarII, WWII

Steven Terjeson | June 15, 2008

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World War II History for June 15
1940 – The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.
1943 – Paul Blobel, an SS colonel, was given the assignment of destroying the evidence of the systematic extermination of European Jews.
As the summer of 1943 approached, Allied forces had begun making cracks in Axis [...]

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Tags: Blobel, History, Saipan, SS, Today, Verdun, WW II, WWarII, WWII