Second World War tweets from 1940 @RealTimeWWII
I livetweet the Second World War as it happened on this date in 1940, & for five years to come. Third time's the charm. Alwyn Collinson, [email protected] patreon.com/RealTimeWWII Britain Joined August 2011-
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Höss: at the moment Auschwitz is just "lice-ridden barracks", but it will be the most efficient camp in the Reich: "Here, we shall do things differently."
Höss comes from Sachsenhausen prison camp in Germany, where he was praised by superiors; there, in January this year, 145 infirm prisoners were left to freeze to death in the snow at his order.
Rudolf Höss today takes up his post as Commandant of a newly built concentration camp in German-occupied Poland: Auschwitz.
Hitler, self-described "first soldier of the Reich" has issued congratulations to German troops in Norway on "inexorable advance to victory".
The Jewish ghetto in Łódź is now sealed; Nazi occupiers announce they will supply food to the 230,000 imprisoned Jewish Poles only if they are a "useful workforce."
US journalist William Shirer, on radio from Berlin: "What kind of war is this, where the world's 2 greatest armies stand facing but refrain from killing each other?"
A German plane has crashed on the British seaside resort of Clacton, injuring 160 people & killing Fred & Dorothy Gill: the first civilians to die in England. youtube.com/watch?v=jc1hLJ…
French warship Maillé Brézé has sunk after one of its own torpedoes was accidentally fired onto the deck, setting fire to fuel tanks & ammunition- 25 sailors have died.
Citizens of Pittsburgh, USA, have offered a $1 million reward, in cash, for delivery of Adolf Hitler for trial by the League of Nations. Group is "not over-optimistic" about capturing Hitler, but "even a slim possibility is worth encouraging- it would avert untold suffering".
Allies in Norway have suffered tremendous casualties; Lt. Adams: "Only 120 men of the Sherwood Foresters left- 1200 came ashore last week!"
Lt. John Adams, with Royal Navy evacuation fleet: "Åndalsnes itself was in indescribable ruins. Not a wall standing & fires everywhere. The German Air Force certainly knew their stuff."
2 weeks after they came to "cleanse Nazi tyranny" from Norway, Allied troops are evacuating from ports of Namsos & Åndalsnes under constant Luftwaffe bombing:
William Shirer, US journalist in Berlin: "I doubt whether the British are taking the Norwegian campaign very seriously. What they need is a reverse or two to remind them they are at war."
Blokhin wears a butcher's apron & long leather gloves to keep his NKVD uniform clean. Using German Walther Model 2 pistols, he has shot 250 men/night- making him the most prolific executioner in history.
Blokhin performs the killings at Kalinin prison, one of five NKVD execution centres (including Katyn). Over 20,000 Poles have been shot since April 4, all at night, their bodies buried in mass graves.
Soviet officer Vasily Blokhin, the NKVD's chief executioner, has been decorated with the Order of the Red Banner for personally shooting over 7000 Polish prisoners-of-war this month.
"My dear Signor Mussolini:" US President Roosevelt, hoping to convince Italy not to enter the war, has sent a personal telegram to Il Duce: ibiblio.org/pha/paw/151.ht…
Norwegian King & ministers had to run along a burning quay to board the British ship in Molde harbour- Luftwaffe bombers have been hounding the government ever since it fled Oslo.
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