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Nazi-Soviet Front If the Urals, with their immeasurable treasure of raw materials; Siberia, with its rich forests, and the Ukraine, with its limitless grain fields, were to lie in Germany, this country under National Socialist leadership would swim in plenty.
mission to Moscow cited by Hitler in war proclamation against USSR; text
Yorkville Chamber of Commerce offers plan to rehabilitate Yorkville as residential area
THIS morning's most impressive item -- and cheerful news for the country at large -- is that Ed Wynn is going out to see his friends. His calling card will be "Boys and Girls Together," and you have it on the word of the sometime fire chief that it will visit every one of the forty-eight States, beginning on Labor Day in Hershey, Pa.
1941Ed Bradley, American journalist (died 2006)[†]
Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and news anchor who is best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News.
1941Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician[†]
Terttu Savola is a Finnish politician. She is the chairperson of the For the Poor party, a member of the council of the city of Espoo, the ambassador for human rights and children's rights in the Finnish United Nations alliance, and a lecturer in the Finnish Refugee Help Association.
1941World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.[†]
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.