TXXZ CZZOOU CTAT2CMAIL CALD-L OrJXSCn 1 "i V-DAT EDincn nnsn ft u u FAC2 TBI mB War of Unprecedented Cruelty Takes lives of 6,000,000 Men .And Costs One Trillion Dollars Holocaust Breaks Out With New Fury After Winter-Long Delay Continued from Pare 3. Section 1 on Friday mornirig, Sept.; I, 1939, when German armies invaded Po land. ; j ' ; Despising the Poles too much to declare war formally. Hitler an nounced only that he was; answer ing "force with force. , - With smug conceit he declared, "I am putting on the uniform (the field gray of the German army) - and I shall take it off only in vic tory or, death." POLAND ; Hitler planned a blitzkrieg lightning war and ( probably never expected that England and France would do more than wage a token war when they saw the uselessness of trying to save their ' Amazing armored spearheads sliced through the Polish cavalry divisions to Wht Wisla (Vistula) trapped a huge army in the Kutno area west of Warsaw and another at Radom to the south. In 18 days, Hitler boasted of victory inw speech at Danzig, . though it was Sept! 27, 1939, be fore Warsaw, battered to a pulp, surrendered. Hitler claimed 300,' 000 prisoners. . j j , ; Taking cognizance of" British predictions of a long war three years Hitler declared he was ready for a seven-year j war. - The same day Joachim von Rib . bentrop arrived in Moscow and two days later concluded with 1 Russia the fourth partition of Pol- and and an agreement to bring pressure upon Britain and France to make peace. if1 THE "PHONEY WAR Great Britain and France served an ultimatum on Germany on Sept 1, 1939, and declared war on Sunday, September 3," while London hastily evacuated her children and waited j breathlessly for the bombs to fall. None fell. This was the "phoney war." On Sept. the French an nounced that their- army had come "in contact" with the Ger mans, but the French preferred to have the Germans throw them' selves on the Maginot line and struck into German territory only for a tew thousand yards near Saarbrucken. Their "offensive" never developed. The British were dropping leaf lets on Germany all winter long as H i 1 1 e r alternately threatened "total war" and held out hope of peace. . 1 NORWAY AND DENMARK On April 9, 1940, the war broke ut with all its fury. Hitler's! troops slipped into Denmark and Norway by sea and air. A; few goose-stepping soldiers and a military band marched in and !. took Oslo. Soldiers jhidden in the holds of previously-arrived ships seized Narvik, Bergen, Stavanger, Trondheim and the other coastal points. . j The British, caught napping, landed a few thousand Allied - troops on both sides of Trondheim and later at Narvik, but were .. forced to leaye. On April 30, Hit , ler proclaimed a j complete vic " tory, and within a short time Al lied troops had withdrawn. BATTLE OF; FRANCE May 10, 1940, the great blow In BETRAYS NORWAY V - VI i . - X s QUISLING betrayed Norway and became a puppet die-' tator in 1940; "quisling" now is a synonym for betrayer. the west fell on Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. The fate of Germany would be sealed for 1000 years by tlje outcome, Hitler told his soldiers. Swarms of parachutists descend ed oh the airports near Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam, seiied the bridge at Moerdijk, south of Rotterdam. The vaunted Dutch "water line" proved ineffectual Holland fell in four days. The Nazis overwhelmed.the Bel gium fort, Eben Emael, and rushed their columns across the vaunted Albert canal near Maastricht. Fire, Terror Spread In three days, German tanks surprised the French, seized Sedan and were racing for the English channel, with fleets of tnotorcy clists spreading fire and terror ahead of the armored detach ments. . I The Germans reached the chan nel at Abbeville on May 21, 1940 and King Leopold announced the surrender of his 300,000-man Bel gian army on May 28. Dunkerque, the Britisfy epic of the war, in which a strange ar mada of 900 warships, skiffs, tugs and yachts rescued an army of 337,000 men from the beaches, was over by June 4. For four years, the Kaiser's ar mies had fought to win Control of the channel ports. Hitler! got them in less than a month. Mafinot Line Turned In vain, Gen. Maxime Weygand set "mousetraps" for tanks along the Somme. Turning south on June 6, Hitler brushed; aside the vaunted French army. The Magi not line was turned. k The French government evacuated Paris June 10, the same day Mussolini Com mitted his "stab in the backhand sent troops into the border area of France, where they dug in with out any attempt to help Hitler clean up. Taking over the French govern ment, Marshal Petain announced on June 17, "with a broken heart," that he had been compelled to ask Hitler, as one soldier to another, for an honorable armistice. The high point of the war for Hitler came at Compiegne on June 21, 1940, in' the railway car where Marshall Foch had dictat ed peace terms to Germany in 1918, and France signed an armistice. urandly pleased by this re venge for the "dictates of Ver- sailles,f Hitler visited: the tomb of Napoleon; --' i I BATTLE FOR BRITAIN. Most (popular song in Germany was : - we re sailing Against jung land." if Britain seemed helpless. She has lost all but a few score guns and tanks. aThe ! RAF : was outnumbered. J She', fell back on hastily organized home guards to fight from haystacks and hedge rows. 1 ' ' , : ; : . '! "' -. ! Hastily importing hunting rifles, old ( tanks and World; war guns from; America, Prime Minister Churchill hunched his .head down between ibis great shoulders and declared, "We will fight on the beaches and the landing grounds, in the fields, : in the' streets, on the hills. We will never surren der" S It was Britain's time for blood, and swjeat, and 'tears.- 50.000 Britons Did i , GrimJy, 700 Spitfires and Hur ricanes! opposed the entire .-German lirf orce. British fighting planes mounting eight guns, and radar, 1 which gave . warning - of coming raids, probably saved the British in the aerial battle that lasted from August through May. But 50,000 Britons died ! from bombs. -' lLt 's, r- l :- ! September 15, 1940; when the Germans lost 185 planes and were forced! to switch to night bomb ing, his been called ;one of the decisive battles of ' the war Waterlbo or Trafalgar. ; ti" In September and October, the Germans were assembling their invasion fleet of 3000! barges and 4,000,000 tons of ships. Not until 1944 did Churchill disclose the reason! why ' the Germans never Invaded England the invasion fleet ras smashed by the! j RAF bombing command before it could leave port. ! 1 I THE BALKANS , Mussolini: believed; the Greek generas had been bought off and invaded Greece from; Albania on October 28, 1940. three hours aft er a 3 fe." m. ultimatium, and there upon pune 1 one of the big sur prises lof the war. j i jl -j Instead of ; wilting, f the Greeks foughtj Not merely did they am bush and slaughter thousands of Italianji a few miles inside Greek territory, but they captured Cor- rlza . ahd other strongholds i in countet-invasion.1 I M i . Hitler, who had not been in. forme of Mussolini's plans, let ms parmeri sweat in. his trouble through the winter. One bv one. Hungary, Romania ahd Bulgaria naa lauen into the Hitler lineup Romania on October 8, ; 1940, when ilGerman troonu following the iron guard's ouster oi Jung Carol, Hungary on No vember 20 when she joined the i - SYMBOL OF LffiERHY WE'LL MAKE OUR PRESENTS I likt a bat over the htod! . . . with bullets, bombs and torpedoes from every direction! I . . until the "Hon? Japs learn the meaning of justice to r -, 'A , - Ja . i 7 w Ai"4 DeGAULLE, a minor general tn 1940, rallied war-scattered Frenchmen and grew in: stats ure to be Free France symbol. axis alliance, and Bulgaria , son March 1, 1941, when she signed the Rome-Berun-Tokyo pact. Now the screws were put on! Yugo slavia.'!, i i- Hi '.:. Belgrade Bombed ' But an uprising upset the Yugo slavia pact with Hitler,- and on Sunday morning. April 6. the Ger man dictator launched bis Bal kan campaign with a ferocious bombing of Belgrade. Striking: from Bulgaria,' i the Germans in three days had brok en across the Vardar valley, sev ering the links between Greece and Yugoslavia, and had reached the Aegean, ! seizing Salonika, f In vain a tiny British force! which had been rushed in fromj Africa made a stand at Thermopylae, The nazi mechanized divisions marched into Athens on Aprilg 27 and again the British carried but a costly evacuation, this time from the Peloponnesus. if The swastika had floated over the Acropolis only about thtee weeks when Hitler struck , his most audacious air-borne blow, invading Crete on May 20, 1941 Ten days later the British ad mitted the loss of the island. ! AFRICA The battle of Africa reajl started in the tragic event of July 3, 1840, when the British sat tacked the French fleet at Men el-kebir. to prevent warshipsf df their former allies from faliing into enemy 'hands. 1 j ' Six times the battle swept back and forth across the rim of north Africa but in the end the Ger mans could not win because they did not control the Mediterranean. The Italian fleet soon was driv en into, hiding.'; .Marshal Rudolf o Graziani be gan an attack on Egypt August 6, ' 1940,- simultaneously with .an invasion of British Somaliland. He got no farther than Sidi Barrani, where the British under Wa veil started a lightning comeback in December which reached beyond Bengasi. lj ; " ' . t . Fail Back la Spring ! r But the British fell back even faster . in the spring when they were forced , to . send troops -jo Greece. Again in November, 1941, the British launched an offensive which relieved Tobruk shortly be fore the last Italian1 stronghold in Ethiopia surrendered. ; ' ; . . Not long thereafter came Pearl Harbor, and Hitler; declared war on the United! States. His ulti mate extirpation began to' loom on the horizon then, for he had turned the spigot which was to produce a flood of allied war ma teriel and meni-v. PA-' .. But there still were black days in store for the allies, and Sun day, June 21,1 1942, v ranks with the blackest of . them all. I Rommel ' Takes Tobrak I.. On that day, Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa corps .took. To bruk in a surprise thrust, winch carried him to within 60 miles of Alexandria. A junction of Ger man and Japanese forces on the shores ; of the Indian ocean was threatened. The Germans . were preparing the ; summer offensive which might break the Soviet Un ion and which; was to take them from Kharkov to Stalingrad. . The allies had lost Singapore, the Philippines, Burma, the Dutch East Indies and parts of the Aleu tians. Australia still was men aced, despite two Japanese air- sea defeats in the Coral sea and at Midway, in May and June. 1000 Bombers in Raid Almost the brightest spot in the allied, picture was that only three weeks before the British had car ried out their j first 1000-bomber raid against Cologne. : Air and tank forces rushed to Africa eventually' turned the tide, permitting Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth army to score its great (victory at El Ala mein in Egypt on October 23, 1942, and begin its march' to meet the American and British forces of Gen. Dwight D.i Eisenhower which landed in Morocco and Al geria on November 7. Trapped on Cape Bon In Tuni sia, the Germans and Italians fi nally surrendered on . May . 12, 1943, ending the battle of Africa, and the stage was set for the in vasibn of Italy, Axis casualties in Tunisia 'were placed at 341,000.' KLi&siA - vassmo, esiaousneq ujc ica.tuiciu ' Until Sunday morning, June 22, at Anzio below Rome, and finally, ,1941, everything went well with on May 11, 1944, launched the; of Hitler's war. That was the day tensive : which carried jthemj to he loosed his invasion of Russia. Rome. On June 4 the Palazzo! Ve- Joined I by Finland.- Romania, neziaj where Mussolini's balcony Hungary and Italy, Hitler boasted stands, was turned Into si museum, of the greatest .front in history t INVASION j I 2000 miles from the Arctic to the Two days after the first fatt of Black sea. Stories from Berlin 8Q Axis capital, Ihe greatest am- .UAU. T T .1 t . I I kuvi uic nuis oeuevea wey wouia crush Russia in three to six weeks. Swiftly, the 4 German : armies sliced through Russian annex territories of Poland, Estonia, Lat via, Lithuania, Karelia, Bessar abia; swept across White Russia and the Ukraine. Moscow Never Falls Russia ;nevef again will rise." Hitler declared in October, 1941, launching a "final assault" on Moscow. Another final assault was ordered in November. Moscow did hot fair Then, at the right time, the Russian counter-offensive Was launched. The t Germans were caught in the worst Russian win ter in years, and the retreat along the Napoleonic road to disaster was begun. f In August, 1942, the 'Germans reached their high water mark of conquest at Stalingrad, 1300 miles from Germany's eastern border, 2200. miles from Hitler's western front on the French coast. The great Red army counter offensive began on Nov. 22, 1942, at Stalingrad. It has been under way ever since, with pauses. Official ' Russian figures place Russian dead, captured and woun ded at 5,300,000, German dead and captured; at 7,800,000. The Ger mans have claimed as high as 10,000,000 Russian casualties. ITALY ' The allies' invasion of Europe r really began with the attack on Sicily by Gen. Eisenhower's Brit ish and American forces on July 10, 1943. Fifteen days later Musso lini was ousted in Rome the first serious break in the axis struc ture. Striking swiftly on September 3, 1943, after completion of a 38-day campaign in Sicily, Gen. Mont gomery's troops invaded the toe of Italy. The Fifth army of Gen. Mark Clark landed at Salerno be low Naples and, after a bloody battle with the Germans, estab lished a beachhead six days later, almost simultaneously with an nouncement of the surrender ,ot the government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio which had succeeded Mussolini. The first of the big three in the Axis had been knock ed out of the war. Through a bitter winter cam paign, the Americans and . - their allies made but slow progress from Naples, fought the bloody battle of phibious Invasion force of all time touched "land la Normandy. The D-day, for which American fac tories bad been turning out weap ons since Dec 7, 1941, had dawned. Untried: American divisions quickly proved they could ' beat Hitler's best veterans. . . ." The results were not long ia showing in Berlin. . "UE ARE HERE TO LIBERATE HOT TO SUBJUGATE!" lij-l ?" 1 a Xj . tin .1 - ,1- i,i ! , I .1 ' i ' ' ' l , ABA lcn-9 mechcmlxecl unit rous nolsUY 'down 1 fX'XW-XXv.i.XW .;: j; " . " --i'-: , . . - . If 0. ' ! : :w W.I. lj To THOSE WHO : ML V. 1 ' . 1 I i Som II ' - -i ! ' died. ; ;. . ' V'. i '. i ' ' ' ,1 t i . t I i SACRIFICED . fi men'are awardecTtrtff Purple Heart posthumously. - - !' : ' ' , Soma live to wear it with pride . . j -"- and memories. Memories of by how slim a chance they lived while others. The" ipirit of those .who Jail and . . j. . - . . ' of thosei whosurviveis the same Each hero in battle WOULD give all! I i t ' ' ' ; Vith a full. understanding that only the perpetuation of freedom is worth' such sacrifice. W; WE jean help'the living and honor 'our ""dead i heroes.Tonly by doing a the cobbled streets oi a small down its machines .and men are not Greeted bj the sight of barred windows ... barricaded doors . . or. cowering groups of poopls overwhelmed bj tho advsnl of a now terror. Thty crro AHiod tanks driven by boys who llred In similar towns half a world away. The load ay goes up Americans! Americemslt Thess tanks of war designed for fierce fighfingars broughf liberation to another town of nslaved people. Otixens gather in tit streets to" welcomo fhs coming of those they know to be friends in heart and spirit. They, do nof Spak the same language. They do not havs the same customs but thsy understand each other afWty those who : hare fought the same fiendish enemy can. These people who hare bred to see the bonds of tyranny lifted from their town know once more the toy of freedom. They can now realize again the glorious feeling of speaking as they, wish of at tending the churches of their faith. G&aren can see smiles on the faces of parents who hare not had reason to smile for a long lime. Slowly the raTages of" fear ore wiped from the hearts of men and women who hare llred without hope ix so lona. Where before fhey hare felt the; brutality of the iron whip of Fascism they now feel the kindly helpfulness of democracy. They are once more a free people. Instead of a people enslared by the bonds of fear. The Ideals of democracy which lire io strongly In the bearU of all Americans, once! more bring the light of freedom to a darkened Europe. I we can to shorten the warl, i - ! i PIGGLY-WIGGLY iSUPER MARKET ' ' j H. CAPITOL AND MARXET STS. ! SALEM the tune of Unconditional Surrender! ' Vith that as our goal, there's no rccrn for a let-down here at home. v ; Get in with everything you've got. ' Ctr.::rvs, wives! Buy Mere War Csnds! ... for Victory! 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