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World War 2 facts is published to help us remember what occurred during #WW2 as our war veterans fade into memory. http://www.worldwar2facts.org/timeline
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Siege of Tobruk worldwar2facts.org/siege-of-tobru…
Fresh Soviet offensive & Allied counter-attack in Ardennes mean German forces are now being squeezed on western & eastern borders of Reich: #WW2
Axis forces in Poland are being overwhelmed by millions of Red Army men pouring west across river Vistula; most German "divisions" are now significantly understrength. #WW2
Hitler orders Grossdeutschland Panzerkorps to counterattack new Soviet offensive in east Poland- overruling German generals' urges to retreat & form a defensive line closer to German border. #WW2
90% of Warsaw's buildings have now been destroyed by Nazi occupiers- even as Red Army closes in on city. Since Warsaw uprising by Polish Home Army, Germans have demolished 923 historic buildings & 1 million homes in a bid to destroy Polish identity. #WW2
In mountainous central France, African Free French troops- Senegalese volunteers from French colonies- simultaneously battle German troops & extreme winter weather near the Swiss border. #WW2
British Lancaster bomber crew mocks the Luftwaffe chief, printing Göring's boast: "No enemy plane will fly over the Reich territory" on their plane, alongside bomb icons marking number of bombing raids: #WW2
Under leadership of obese, drug-addicted Reich Marshal Göring, Luftwaffe has suffered terrible losses in men & machines. Germans are now incapable of contesting daily Allied air raids, & have abandoned skies over western front. #WW2
German fighter ace Adolf Galland has been stripped of Luftwaffe command, for leading a pilots' protest against Göring's incompetent leadership. Recent daylight bombing raids on Allied airbases in France, demanded by Hitler, have caused horrific losses for German air force. …
One German commander: "I began today with an understrength battalion... after the Russian's artillery bombardment, I have a platoon of effective soldiers." #WW2
Over 2 million Red Army troops are crossing Vistula river in huge offensive, smashing into German-occupied eastern Poland. Soviets outnumber Axis forces 5 to 1, with superiority in artillery & tanks. #WW2
Red Army forces have begun a massive offensive across the River Vistula. Enormous artillery barrages are pounding German bridgehead on the eastern bank, clearing way for Soviets to sweep across the river deep into Nazi-occupied Poland. #WW2
OSS wants sabotage field manual translated & broadcast across occupied Europe, to inspire "purposeful stupidity". Read more: regmedia.co.uk/2021/01/05/sim… #WW2
For anti-fascist managers who want to sabotage Nazi-controlled factories: "Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done… Don't order new materials until your current stocks have been exhausted… Be pleasant to inefficient workers, give them undeserved promotio…
Allied Office of Strategic Services releases "Simple Sabotage" manual, to help anti-Nazi workers in occupied Europe lower productivity with office politics. Tips include "When possible, refer all matters to committees, for further study and consideration". …
Taking advantage of a poorly phrased speech by Montgomery & British press tendency to denigrate American troops (who have suffered 80,000 casualties in "Battle of the Bulge") German fake news has caused a rift between Allied commanders in Europe. More: blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/how-nazi-fake-… …
BBC reports of a press conference by UK Field Marshal Montgomery, taking credit for stopping the German offensive in the Ardennes, cause outrage among Americans up to Gen. Eisenhower. In fact, excerpts are fake, transmitted by Nazi propagandists on same wavelength as BBC rad…
In the Ardennes, the "Battle of the Bulge" has decisively turned, with fragile German advances now facing Allied assault from every side- map shows shrinking Axis gains along French-German border: #WW2
Nazi Germany also produces fake enemy stamps as propaganda, like this imitation Silver Jubilee stamp, replacing King George's head with Stalin's, using the slogan: "This war is a Jewish war". #WW2
Operation Cornflakes plan to smuggle propaganda through German postal system hits a slight snag: thanks to Allied bombing, German cities are in ruins, with 100,000s of homeless refugees unable to receive fake letters: nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/o… #WW2
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