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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON. TUESDAY, MAY 8. 1945
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Soviet Riches
Luref uehrer
To Ruination
Iffy Of5Arf?S Cv;- , J
Birthplace at Braunau. Austria. I I , -JTV ' !
As a baby.
In World War I.
On release from prison. In 1924.
THE HOUSE PAINTER (1889-1924)! The turbulent life of Adolf Hitler had its humble beginning at
Braunau. Austria, where the "little man with big ideas" was born April 20. 1889, the son of a
drunken petty official Hitler's early life was an unhappy one, both at home and later in Vienna and
Munich, where he went as a youth to work as a common laborer, house painter, and newspaper sketch
artist
Serving as a corporal in the Bavarian Army during World War I, Hitler was wounded, gassed, and
later decorated. After the war he joined with a group of six men, the original National Socialist Ger
man Labor Party In 1923 came the Munich "beer hall revolution," when Hitler led an uprising
against the government and proclaimed himself dictator
Sentenced to jail for Ave years (he served only eight months), he spent his prison time writing
"Mein Kampf." wherein a portent of things to come was set forth as "A state which, in an age of
racial pollution, devotes itself to cultivation of its oest racial elements, must some day become master
of the earth "
(By United Press)
"If I had the Ural mountains
with their Incalculable store of
treasures in raw materials, Si
beri with its endless forests, and
the Ukraine with its tremendous
wheat fields, Germany and the
national socialist leadership
would swim in plenty."
That was Ado Hitler's dream
as early as the Nuremberg nazi
party conference of 1936. He also
may have been thinking of the
oil of the Caucasus and the Donets
basin coal.
But with his fateful non-aggros-slon
treaty with Russia in Au
gust, 1936, Der Fuehrer seemed
to have Jettisoned this long-standing
goal. Hand-in-hand, it ap
peared, Germany and Russia were
planning to conquer Europe to
gether. Happily, events proved
this alliance not to be what it
looked.
For by the the spring of 1941,
the nazi machine, victorious on
many fronts, still had a long way
to go. Russia's resources again
looked very sweet. Moreover, the
long-cherished German "drive to
the east" must remain a blue
print so long as such a dangerous
threat stood poised on the nazi
Xlank.
Nazi Estimate: Four Months
In any event, Hitler turned the
whole tremendous weight of his
military machine against Russia
In June, 1941. The entire job, the
nazi generals figured, would take
at most four months. What they
had done before in Poland and
France, they simply would do
again on a larger scale: chop up
the soviet lines, annihilate the
red army, parade into Moscow I
and write the peace in the Krem
lln.
Accordingly, the Wehrmacht
plunged forward June 22 in four
major drives, covering a l.uuu
mile front stretching from the
Baltic south to the Black sea, the
nazi offensives were aimed
toward (1) Leningrad, the old
Czarlst capital in the north; (2)
Moscow, In the north center; (3)
Kiev, the Ukrainian metropolis on
the upper Dnepr, and (4) Rostov,
gateway to the 'Caucasus at the
mouth of the Don.
Through the end of June, July
and into August, the campaign
seemed to go substantially as the
Germans had planned. The Rus
sians resisted fiercely and
scorched the earth as they re
treated, but still they retreated
To the outside world, It seemed
that literally thousands of towns
and villages were being overrun
and put to the torch by the in
vaders, their populations mas
sacred. The advance threatened Lenin
grad almost immediately from
two sides. One German-Finnish
army drove down the Karelian
isthmus toward the city from the
north, while a German force un
der Gen. Franz von Lecb raced
inrougn me tramc smies irom through the former Pol sh me-
the west. On Aug. 13, von Lech's j tropolis of Lwow and burst west
columns entered Novgorod, 100 j ward onto the rolling plains and
miles below the ancient capital, fat farmlands of the upper
and two weeks later the historic : Ukraine In 13 davs. By July 13,
siege of Leningrad began. I their advance had engulfed the
Drive Snrted ! manufacturing city of Zhitomir,
The drive on Moscow started , 90 miles into Russia, and was
almost as fast. From East Prus- i menacing the tanning town of
gia, a German spearhead under Berdlehev, HO miles southwest of ; sarnbia and into southern Russia
Gen. Feodor von Bock swept , their goal at Kiev. I Q surround Odessa, the Soviet's
through Poland and past Minsk, I The Ukrainian advance went second port, late in July. From
just inside Russia, within a week. more slowly from there, but on there, they battered their way on
By mid-July armored vanguards j Aug. 22, the retreating Russians i to occupy successively the manu
had smashed through the rail cen-! were forced to give their most facturing city of Nikolayev, Kher
ter of Smolensk and were driving .dramatic demonstration of the 'son at the mouth of the Dnepr,
on Moscow, 230 miles beyond. soviet scorched earth policy, blow- j the Iron mining center of Krivoi
The push into the Ukraine fol- Ing up their giant $110.000.000 1 Rog, and the manganese city of
GERMANS PROTEST VERSAILLES TREATY REVOLUTION AND UNREST STIR NATION
the beleaguered city. West of cap
tured .Kiev, von Bock's armies
pressed 250 miles across the
Ukraine to seize the Industrial
center of Kharkov, but were halt
ed sharply there.
Bed Army Intact
Along the Black sea salt
marshes, von Kleist's armies ham
mered home a two-pronged offen
sive. One army finally entered
Odessa Oct. 16 and then swung
southward onto the Crimea to
open the long siege of SevastapoL
Another smashed along the Sea
of Azov to take the steel city of
Stalino and the port of Taganrog
by storm.
It was this second army which
closed late in October on von
Kleist's major objective Rostov,
perched high on the bank of the
Don, 1,000 miles inside the Rus
sian border. Four weeks later,
just as the earliest and bitterest
winter in years descended on the
battle fronts, the battered but vic
torious nazis ran up the swastika
over Rostov's ruined city hall.
That hard-won victory was the
high-water mark of the German
advance for the year. It seemed
impressive, yet none of Hitler's
principal goals had been gained.
The Wehrmacht had battered its
way through-an area four times
the size of England. Yet the red
army still stood and the major
soviet resources remained un
tapped. The Soviet Union still loomed
a powerful figure in both Europe
and the East in December, 1941,
and until she was defeated, Hit
ler was obliged to forego all other
plans.
USES LINCOLN'S RAZOR
Barre, Vt. HP) Abe Lincoln s
razor is in good shaving condition,
to Which Judge Herbert D. Mason
will attest. The judge has shaved
with it on every Lincoln's birthday
since 1927, when he bought it for
$5 at a Springfield, 111., hotel be
fore It was discovered that it was
a Lincolnian relic.
WANTS LANDLORD EVICTED
Medford, Mass. IH William ;
Kelllher felt sorry for his room! '
less landlord, Angelo Frame, and . j
rented him a bedroom. However" l"f
shortly - afterward, Kelliher at 1
cased him of disturbing the peaot '
and petitioned the court to have
him evicted. S
'SABOTAGE AT FOX HUNTS
Adrian, Mich. U The newly,
organized Britton Fox Hunting
club reports very good hunting
for someone else. Club members
say their dogs usually manage to
flush a fox, but that some alert In
dividual is shooting the foxes a
mile ahead of the dogs. . ,
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HALF-STARVING GERMANS RIOT FOR FOOD . FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY RUHR INDUSTRIES
1919-23: World War I armistice terms were delivered, to a resentful, impoverished, war-weary,
leaderless Germany, devoid of national unity or purpose. The Republic was unable to cope with the
political and sociul conflicts among Communists, Monarchists; Socialists and Republicans. Bloody riots
and revolts rocked the country. Loss of colonies, Lorraine, the Saar and Silesia, left German industry
on the verge of collapse. Unemployment was widespread, there was a serious food shortage and cur
rency was almost worthless. After a succession of chancellors and cabinets, German industry and agri
culture were still floundering desperately. Unable to meet war reparations, the nation considered it
insult added to injury when, in 19z3. French troops crossed the Rhine and entered the German coal and
iron reuion of the Ruhr valley. German political soil was awaiting seeds of dictatorship.
ture of Kiev, Russia's third city, solves the trouble. This time the
three weeks later. blitz was bogged down for good.
On the long fourth front down The Germans also stepped up
along the Black . sea. Col. Gen. i their attacks on the other three
Ewald von Kleist's German and i fronts in October. They met with
Romanian armies tared equally
well at first. Inexorably, they
drove from Romania across Bes-
varying success. At Leningrad,
von Leebs forces made a deter
mined but futile effort to reduce
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This is another Zero Hour in the history of America Civili
zation's Zero Hour! The job is only half done . . . but we will
continue until Total Victory! You are counting on us to do
the job. But remember, we are counting on you to do yours
... to dig down deep ... to dig out those doHars in your
pockets and buy Bonds. And don't for a minute slacken on
the job. Don't let us down in this fateful hour when the war
is only half won.
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lowed a parallel course and went
even farther. Gen. Gerd von
Rundstedt's panzers ground
dam across the Dnepr at Dnepro
petrovsk, 250 miles below Kiev.
Von Rundstedt claimed the cap-
There's Only One Way to
Celebrate Germany's Defeat
and that's by buying more War Bonds!
Let's not forget the grim struggle ahead for
the defeat of Japan . . . beating them calls
for the same "blood, sweat and tears" that
was shed to crush the Nazi oppressor.
It's a fight to the finish from here on . . .
we can't fail now . . . WAR DOXDS are the
only answer I
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A Local Institution
Nikopol in the Dnopr bend.
losses in Minimis
But spectacular as all these
gains were, they were less than
the Gorman timetable required.
As the summer wore on, the fact
that Hitler had made n monu
mental blunder became pleasant
ly clear to the allied world. The
red armies were neither clumsy
nor disorganized, as he had sup
posed. Soundly equipped and
smartly led, they waged a new ,
and devastating variety of deton-!
sive war, and they waged It with '
growing confidence as they tasted
success.
The resulting battles now!
dwarfed everything that had gone !
IWore. Losses to both sides were
counted in the millions, in key i
areas Leningrad; Orel and Hry- j
ansk, below Moscow; Poltava, 1
east of Kiev, and Odessa strug- p
gles of Immense proportions
swayed back and forth. More and
more frequently the Russians' "de-!
fonse in depth'' tactic succeeded in :
swallowing up. a n d destroying
the Wchrmacht's thrusts. Rarely 1
did the Soviets permit themselves j
to be trapped by the speedy blitz. I
A stalemate threatened us the
Russian leaves turned to brown
and time began to desert the .
nazis. j
tin Oct. 2. Hitler announced an
all out drive to capture Moscow
and end the war before snowfall.
Uy Oct. 13. a desperate German
charge had reached the rail hub
of Vyazma, 130 miles west of the
capital. By mid-Novcmhcr, the red
armies were driven hack within
50 miles of the city. Two weeks
later, the thunder of the German
big guns could be hoard in the
Kremlin.
That was as close as Hitler gut. '.
The Soviets counterattacked furi
ously to stall the nazi push. Kor
safety, the Russians moved their
capital to Kuibyshev, 600 miles to '
the east on the Volga. Rut they;
might as well have saved them-
THE DECKS Are Cleared
FOR ACTION . . .
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HERE WE
COME!
War Bonds and more War Bonds
are needed to back our men in
their final' drive for complete
Victory. Hold those you have and
buy more!
The Germans can'f stop us now! Their torn and battered army is de
feated! Their little mustached leader no longer threatens the wcrid
with his fanatical dreams of power. Now, Yellow Man, all our guns
are to be trained on you! Our planes loaded with guns and bombs
are turned toward Tokio and the mighty Allied fleet is headed for
Japan. Behold and tremble, Jap, for the gigantic forces of the United
Nations are marching forward to crush your little bland under tons
of bombs and ammunition and the heels of a million fighting men.
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The Dairy Store
Gohrkes Meat Market