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Category : OSS & SOE
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Albert Steinrueck, Alexander the Great, Alois Hitler II, Alois Schickelgruber, Angela Hltler-Raubal, Anton Drexler, Artur Kannenberg, Bach, Bavaria, Beethoven, Berchtesgaden, Bismarck, Blucher, Bolsheviks, Brahms, Braunschweig, British Navy, British Parliament, Brueckneis, Brueckner, Brutus, Caesar, Capt Roehm, Catiline, Chopin, Christ the Nazarene, Christian Weber, Circus Krone, Cromwell, Czech Blood, Deutscher Turnertag, Deutschland ueber Alles, Dietrich Eckart, Dr Sedgwick, Duchess of Braunschweig, Frau Winnefried Wagner, Frederick the Great, Frederick William I, French Revolution, Fuehrer, Funk, Geli Raubal, Gen de Bono, Gen de Veochi, Gen Luedendorff, German Faith and Courage, Goering, Goethe, Grieg. Wagner, Gustave Adolf, Handel, Hapsburgs, Haydn, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hoffmann, Henry VIII, Hermann Esser, Herr von Katte, Herr von Seidler, Hindenburg, Hohenzollerns, Horst Wessel, Hugenberg Party, Italo Balbo, Japanese Empire, Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, Josef Goebbels, Julius Schaub, Kachelofen, Kaiserhof Hotel, Kannenberg, Keistersinger, King of the Jews, Klara Poelz, Koenigsberg, Kurfuerstendamm, Kutusov, La Pucelle d'Orleans, Lammers, Leipzig, Liszt, Lohengrin, Luther, Lutheran Bible, Maennerheim Brigittenau, Magda Goebbels, Magyar, March on Rome, Marius Sulla, Marshal Vorwaerts, Matilda Wesendonk, Max Amann, Max Haushofer, Messiah-Complex, Michel Bianohi, Mohammed, Moscow, Moses, Mozart, Mrs Brigid Hitler, Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten, Munich, Mussolini, Napoleon, National-Socialist, Nuernberg, Oasis of Siva, Ober-Regierung's-Rat, Oberammergau Passion Plays, Oliver Cromwell, OSS, Otto Dietrich, Pacific Ocean, Paris, Pasewalk, Patrick Hitler, Pension Moritz, Prince Eugen of Savoy, Rakocszy, Reichskanzlei, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Robert Fulton, Robespierre, Rudolf Hess, Russian Revolution, Schaub, Sieg Heil, Solon, St Matthew, US Secret Police, Verdi, Victor Emmanual III, Vienna, von Clausewitz, Waterloo, Wettins, Wilhelmstrasse, Wittelsbachs, Wolf, Woodrow Wilson
Memo copy above is from RID/ATI file folder on Adolf Hitler filed under Wah X-2 Personalities #13; the folder contains 1 copy of a 28 page report on Heinrich Himmler in addition to the 68 page paper on Hitler of which the attached copy is an extra one extracted for inclusion, with memo above, in the Hitler 201 file (if not already duplicated therein): 201-93533-EUCMH-Gunter
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Category : Army Air Forces, Strategic Bombing
Tags: Admiral Doenitz, Albert Speer, Allied Strategic Plan, Ardennes Counter Offensive, Army Air Force, Austria, Baranov, Battle of Britain, Belgium, Casablanca, Cologne, Combined Bomber Offensive, Czechoslovakia, D-Day, Daimler-Benz, Danube River, Dortmund Canal, Eder Dam, Edmund Geilenberg, Eighth Air Force, Ems Canal, Essen, Fifteenth Air Force, Focke-Wulf, Focke-Wulf 190, Ford Cologne, France, General Jeschonnek, German Navy, Goering, Hamburg, Hexogen, Holy Ghost Plaza, Huels Rubber Plant, Hungarian Oil Fields, Hydrogen, Jaegerstab, Kassel V1 Plant, Keitel, Kesselring, Leuna, Lorraine, Low Countries, Luftwaffe, Luxembourg, ME-262, Messerschmitt, Methanol, Mittelland Canal, Mohne Dam, Moscow, Ninth Air Force, Nitrogen, North African Invasion, Norway France, Opel Brandenburg, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang, Panzer Divisions, Pearl Harbor, Peenemunde, Ploesti Oil Fields, Poland, Reichsbahn, Rhine River, Rouen, Royal Air Force, Ruhr, Ruhr District, Rumania, Russia, Schkopau, Schweinfurt, Sotteville, St Lô, Sweden, Synthetic Rubber, TNT, Twelfth Air Force, V-1, V-2, V-Weapons, Vistula, Wehrmacht
US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEYS
EUROPA AND PACIFIC THEATER
WORLD WAR TWO
THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY
The new relation of air power to strategy presents one of the distinguishing contrasts between this war and the last. Air power in the last war was in its infancy. The new role of three-dimensional warfare was even then foreseen by a few farsighted men, but planes were insufficient in quality and quantity to permit much more than occasional brilliant assistance to the ground forces. Air power in the European phase of this war reached a :
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Category : War Conferences
Tags: Annexation, Austria, Axis Powers, Belgium, China, conferences, Crete, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Fascism, Fascist Regime, Foreign Secretaries, France, French Territories, Great-Britain, Greece, Hitlerite Aggression, Italian Government, Italy, January 1942, Joint Four Nation Declaration, Luxembourg, March 15 1938, Moscow, Nazi Brutalities, Netherlands, Norway, Premier Stalin., President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Soviet Union, United Nations, USA, World War Two, Yugoslavia
JOINT FOUR-NATION DECLARATION
The governments of the United States of America, United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China;
- United in their determination, in accordance with the declaration by the United Nations of January, 1942, and subsequent declarations, to continue hostilities against those Axis powers with which they respectively are at war until such powers have laid down their arms on the basis of unconditional surrender;
- Conscious of their responsibility to secure the liberation of themselves and the peoples allied with them from the menace of aggression;
- Recognizing the necessity of insuring a rapid and orderly transition from war to peace and of establishing and maintaining international peace and security with the least diversion of the world’s human and economic resources for armaments;
Jointly declare :
- 1. That their united action, pledged for the prosecution of the war against their respective enemies, will be continued for the organization and maintenance of peace and security.
- 2. That those of them at war with a common enemy will act together in all matters relating to the surrender and disarmament of that enemy.
- 3. That they will take all measures deemed by them to be necessary to provide against any violation of the terms imposed upon the enemy.
- 4. That they recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
- 5. That for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security pending the re-establishment of law and order and the inauguration of a system of general security they will consult with one another and as occasion requires with other members of the United Nations, with a view to joint action on behalf of the community of nations.
- 6. That after the termination of hostilities they will not employ their military forces within the territories of other states except for the purposes envisaged in this declaration and after joint consultation.
- 7. That they will confer and cooperate with one another and with other members of the United Nations to bring about a practicable general agreement with respect to the regulation of armaments in the post-war period.
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Category : War Politic Papers
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Austria, Bohemia, British Government, Danzig, France, Frenchman, German, German Reich, Germany, Göring, Hess, Italy, Molotov, Moravia, Moscow, National Socialist Party, National-Socialist, Poland, Polish Ambassador, Prussian King, Reichstag, Russia, Russian Foreign Commissar, Saar, Sudetenland, Versailles, Western Powers
For months we have been suffering under the torture of a problem which the Versailles Diktat created – a problem which has deteriorated until it becomes intolerable for us. Danzig was and is a German city. The Corridor was and is German. Both these territories owe their cultural development exclusively to the German people. Danzig was separated from us, the Corridor was annexed by Poland. As in other German territories of the East, all German minorities living there have been ill-treated in the most distressing manner. More than 1.000.000 people of German blood had in the years 1919-1920 to leave their homeland.
As always, I attempted to bring about, by the peaceful method of making proposals for revision, an alteration of this intolerable position. It is a lie when the outside world says that we only tried to carry through our revisions by pressure. Fifteen years before the National Socialist Party came to power there was the opportunity of carrying out these revisions by peaceful settlements and understanding. On my own initiative I have, not once but several times, made proposals for the revision of intolerable conditions. All these proposals, as you know, have been rejected – proposals for limitation of armaments and even, if necessary, disarmament, proposals for limitation of war making, proposals for the elimination of certain methods of modern warfare.
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Category : Battle of the Bulge, The Bulge (CMH)
Tags: 12. SS Corps, 17. Bayerisches Kavallerie Regiment, 2. Motorcycle Rifle Battalion, 2. Panzer Div (WH), 25. Kavalerie Regiment, 2nd Baltic Front, 2nd Belorussian Front, 3. Preussisches Kavallerie Regiment, 5 Panzer Army, 52. Infantry Regiment von Alvensleben, 6. Prussian Infanterie Division, 7. Panzer Grenadier Brigade, 8. Panzer Division, Abwehrschlacht im Westen, Adolf Hitler, Africa, Alpbachtal, Antwerp, Arlon, Army Group Afrika, Army Group B, Army Group Center, Army Group North, Army Group Vistula, Arnhem, Arras, Aufmarschanweisungew, Austria, Baccarat, Bamberg, Baranovichi, Battle of Bastogne, Battle of Berlin, Battle of France, Battle of Kursk, Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, Battle of Verdun, Belgian Ardenne, Belgium, Belgorod, Belorussia, Berlin, Berlin-Krampnitz, British Troops, Brussels, Canadians Troops, Charles V. P. von Luttichau, Colonel Friedrich August von der Heydte, Courland Pocket, Diekirch, Division von Broich, Dnieper River, Dr. Schuster, Dresden, Echternach, Eifel, Epinal, Erich von Manstein, Erwin Rommel, Estonia, Feldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, Fichtenhain, France, Free Democratic Party of Germany, Freikorps, Friedrich von Mellenthin, Galicia, Geilenkirchen, General der Infanterie Hans Krebs, General der Kavellerie Siegfried Westphal, General der Panzertruppen Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel, General Erhard Raus, General Gotthard Heinrici, General Konstantin Rokossovsky, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, Generalleutnant Friedrich John, Generalmajor Franz von Rantau, Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, Genthin, Georg von Küchler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, George S. Patton J, German Bundestag, German Revolution, German Spring Offensive, Gestapo, Givet, Grenadier Division Großdeutschland, Guard Ersatz Division, Günther von Kluge, Hans von Seeckt, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Heinz Guderian, Heinz Harmel, Hermann Balck, Hermann Breith, Hermann Göring, Hermann Hoth, Herta Huyssen, Hürtgen Forest, Hussar Regiment, Imperial German, Iohnca, Ivan Konev, Jodl, Joseph Goebbels, Kalinin, Kampfgruppen, Kavallerie Regiment Erfurt, Kharkov, Kirovograd, Koln, Konstantin, Krefeld, Kremlin, Kriegsschule, Lama River, Leningrad, Liège, Lithuania, Lokhvitsa, Longwy, Lorraine, Lt Gen George S. Patton Jr, Ludwig Beck, Lützkampen, Luxembourg, Lvov, Maastricht, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Martelange, Mecklenburg, Metz, Meuse River, Minsk, Monschau, Montbéliard, Moscow, Namur, Nancy, Narva, Neisse, Netherlands, Neufchateau, Nuremberg, OB WEST, Oberbefehlshaber West, Oder River, OKW, Oosterbeek, Operation Alcase, Operation Bagration, Operation Barbarossa, Operation Buffalo, Operation Citadel, Operation Herbstnebel, Operation Holland, Operation Kutuzov, Operation Liège, Operation Lorraine, Operation Luxembourg, Operation Market-Garden, Operation Mars, Operation Typhoon, Otto Sponheimer, Panzer Group 3, Panzer Group Eberbach, Panzer Troop Command, Panzer Troop School II, Poland, Potsdam, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Randow Swamp, Rathenow, Red Army, Reichswehr, Reith, Rhine River, Rokossovsky, Romania, Roslavl, Rostov, Run, Schild und Schwert, Seelow Heights, Semois River, Seymour Freiden, Sittard, Smolensk, Somme, Soviet Union, Stettin, Sudetenland, Susteren, Sychevka, Thuisko von Metzch, Truppenamt, Tunisia, Tyrol, Ukraine, US Military Academy West Point, V-1 Rockets, V-2 Missiles, Vesoul, Vilnius, Volkhov, Wacht am Rhein, Warsaw, Wasserbillig, Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab, Weimar Republic, Western Front, Western Pomerania, Willi Bittrich, William Richardson, Zhitomir, Ziegenberg
CHAPTER II
Planning the Counteroffensive
Details of the Plan
About 25 September Generalorberst Alfred Jodl was ordered to begin a detailed analysis of the Hitlerian concept, the only function now left to the great General Staff. Some latitude remained to the individual staff officers and those favored few in the high echelon of command who retained access to the Führer in kneading and shaping the very general outline handed down by Hitler into an operations plan. The outline as it now had taken shape contained these major points :
- (a) the attack should be launched sometime between 20 and 30 November;
- (b) it should be made through the Ardenne in the Monschau – Echternach sector;
- (c) the initial object would be the seizure of bridgeheads over the Meuse River between Liège and Namur;
- (d) thereafter, Antwerp would be the objective;
- (e) a battle to annihilate the British and Canadians would ultimately be fought north of the line Antwerp, Liège, Bastogne (1);
- (f) a minimum of thirty divisions would be available, ten of which would be armored;
- (g) support would be given by an unprecedented concentration of artillery and rocket projector units;
- (h) operational control would be vested in four armies and two panzer armies abreast in the lead, two armies composed largely of infantry divisions to cover the flanks;
- (i) the Luftwaffe would be prepared to support the operation;
- (j) all planning would aim at securing tactical surprise and speed;(k) secrecy would be maintained at all costs and only a very limited number of individuals would be made privy to the plan.
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Category : Killing R. Heydrich, OSS & SOE
Tags: Abwehr, Admiral Canaris, Anton Kral, Aryan Origin, Balkans, Baron von Neurath, Berlin Gestapo, Brandt, Brave Norwegians, Brave Poles, Brezary, Canned Goods, Capt Anderle, Cholmondly, Col Rostock, Croix de Guerre, Czechoslovakia, Czechs, Dachau Concentration Camp, Deputy Reichsprotektor Karl Hermann Frank, Eduard Benes, Einsatzgruppen, Emanuel Moravec, Ernst von Rath, France, French Maquis, Gebhardt, Gen Frantisek Moravec, General Ingr, Gleiwitz, Gregor Strasser, Hradcany Palace, Jan Kubis, Jews, Josef Gabcik, Kladno, Lezaky, Lidice, London, Lt Col Stragmueller, Lt Opalka, MI-6, Minister of Defense, Morell, Moscow, Nazi Party, Operation Salmon, Paris, Polish Attack, Prague, Radio Prague, Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reichsprotektorat, Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reinhard Heydrich, Reslova Street, Royal Air Force, RSHA, Scandinavia, Sicherheitsdienst, SIPO, Slovakia, Southern Moravia, SS General Kurt Daluege, SS Main Security Office, SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich, St Bartholomeus Orthodox Church, Sudeten, Terezin Ghetto, USSR, Yugoslav Partisans
A tyrant’s death at patriots’ hands revealed as Operation Salmon of Czech Intelligence in exile.
ASSASSINATION REINHARD HEYDRICH (R. C. Jaggers)
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Category : OSS & SOE
Tags: Abwehr Staff, Admiral William D. Leahy, Allied Control Commission, American Government, American Joint Chiefs of Staff, American Military Mission, Amtorg, Attorney General Biddle, Averell Harriman, Azerbaidzhan, Balkans, Brig Gen Hill, British, British SOE, Bulgaria, Cairo, China, Col Haskell, Col Ossipov, Commissariat for Internal Affairs, Danube River, Diplomatic Intelligence, Economic Intelligence, Erich Vermehren, France, German Embassy, German Intelligence, German Intelligence Hqs Turkey, German Teutonia Club, Germany, Iran, Istanbul, Japan, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Karl Alois Kleczkowski, Kleczkowskis, Lt Gen Fitin, Lt Gen P. M. Fitin, Maj Gen Aleksandr P. Osipov, Maj Gen J. R. Deane, Maj Gen Walter E. Prosser, Marshal Tito, Middle East, Military Intelligence, Moscow, Mr Molotov, MVD, National Intelligence Survey, Naval Intelligence, Nazi Party Turkey, Neubacher, NKVD, NKVD London, Norwegian North Cape, NXVD, Office of Strategic Services, OGPU, OSS, OSS-Soviet, President Roosevelt, Ribbentrop, Rumania, Russia, Russian Embassy, Russians, Sava River, SD (Security Service), Section 12, South Eastern Europe, Soviet External Intelligence Service, Soviet Foreign Office, Soviet Government, Soviet Union, State Department, Subversive Activities in Enemy Countries, Sydney Weinberg, Teheran, Top-Secret, Turkey, Ukrainians, US JANIS, US Military Mission, Von Papen, Western Germany, Willi Hamburger, William J. Donovan
William J. Donovan’s voluminous memoranda to President Roosevelt (1) include half a dozen concerning collaboration between the US and Soviet intelligence services, and these are supplemented by a few addressed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one recording a conversation in the NKVD offices in Moscow.
Originally proposed as an exchange of representatives to each other’s headquarters, this liaison was reduced by political considerations to communication between heads of services through Gen J. R. Deane, chief of the US Military Mission in Moscow.
The documents are reproduced below.
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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: Alene Dresmal, America, American Army Headquarters, Archive Stories, Army Driver, Audley Street, Austria, Belgium, Bushey Park, Captain Ernest (Tex) Lee, Chef Hunt, Cheltenham, Chequers, Claridge’s, Col Oveta Gulp Hobby, Cotswolds, Denmark, Dixie Belle, Dorchester, Downing Street, Egypt, Eighth Air Force, England, Ethel Westermann, France, Gen Carl Tooey Spaatz, Gen George C. Marshall, Gen Henry Happ Arnold, Gen Walter Bedell (Beetle) Smith, George Bernard Shaw, Germany, God Save the King, Grosvenor Square, Harry C. Butcher, Hendon Airport, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Hungary, Hyde Park, Iceland, Imperial General Staff, Inish Beg, Ireland, Italy, John G. Winant, Kathleen McCarthy-Morrogh, King Haakon, Lady Astor, Lambeth, London, Louise Anderson, Luxembourg, Maj Geg Dwight D. Eisenhower, Major Sy Bartlett, Martha Rogers, Mattie Pinette, May 1942, Mississippi, Moscow, Motor Transport Corps, Mr. Harry Hopkins, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, North-Africa, Northholt, Paddington Station, Palestine, Park Lane, Pinetree, Prestwick Airport, Prime Minister, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Rhode Island, Rover, Royal Engineers, Russia, Ruth Briggs, Scotland, Sergeant Mickey McKeogh, Sicily, St James Park, Supply Headquarters, T. J. Davis, Telegraph Cottage, the Netherlands, The Sheltered Life, Tower of London, US Air Headquarters, Waiter Moaney, War Office, Warwick Court, Westminster Abbey, Winston Churchill, Worth's of Paris, Wycombe Abbey
Tossed by the fortunes of war into close association with World War IPs top leaders, Miss Summersby tells the inside story of military command from a woman’s point of view. Hers is a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as few could see him, continuously, at moments of tension, making great decisions, during long hours of routine work, and while he relaxed at bridge or horseback riding.
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