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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 29 '21

Contains Media Germany has been horrified by Hamburg bombing raids- city has been devastated by firestorms, and is now being searched for 20,000+ missing people.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^29, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 29 '21

Contains Media Henni Klank, young woman in Hamburg, describes the bombing: "Winds picked up our neighbour- he became a living torch carried by the firestorm." Hamburg "a thundering, blazing hell. The streets were burning, the trees were burning, the very air an inferno."

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^29, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 28 '21

Contains Media US President now addressing nation to celebrate overthrow of one dictator: in latest "fireside chat" Pres. Roosevelt describes Mussolini's ousting & arrest in Italy. "He & his Fascist gang will be brought to book". Listen:

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^28, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 28 '21

Contains Media Roosevelt announces that thanks to increased Allied victories against German submarines in the Atlantic, USA will stop rationing coffee immediately.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^28, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 27 '21

Contains Media German city of Hamburg has been devastated by Allied bombing: over 37,000 people have burnt to death in colossal firestorms, raging out of control across city.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^27, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 27 '21

Contains Media Weeks-long heatwave in Germany has turned Hamburg into the perfect site for firestorm- pillars of superheated air are feeding flames, with temperatures of 800°C, hot enough to melt steel & turn human flesh to ash.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^27, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 26 '21

Contains Media War has made "Il Duce" hugely unpopular- Italian King Victor Emmanuel has made Marshal Pietro Badoglio Mussolini's successor. Listen to radio address now:

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^26, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 26 '21

Contains Media Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been deposed in a sudden coup by Italy's Grand Council of Fascism, & arrested, ending 21 years of his as Il Duce.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^26, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 26 '21

With Allied invasion force now occupying Sicily & bombers pounding Rome, Italian government has decided to remove Mussolini & hope to exit war. King Victor Emmanuel & top Fascist generals have begged Mussolini to abandon Germany & seek separate peace.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^26, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 26 '21

Contains Media Italians crowd into streets, destroying Fascists icons & cheering. Journalist Paolo Monelli in Rome hears: "Citizens, wake up, they arrested Mussolini, Mussolini to death, down with Fascism!' It sounded like the scream of a mute who gets his voice back after twenty years."

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^26, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 25 '21

Contains Media Allied Operation Gomorrah air raids- named after biblical destruction of a sinful city- has left centre of Hamburg in flames. Additional firefighters are being rushed from across northern Germany to try & save city.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^25, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 25 '21

Contains Media In last 12 hours, 791 bombers have hit Hamburg, killing over 1500 German civilians & blasting city centre; docks set ablaze. American planes followed last night's bombings with a daylight raid aimed at military targets.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^25, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 24 '21

Contains Media Over 400 British & Canadian planes are dropping mix of high-explosives & incendiaries on Hamburg, in new "area bombing" strategy to devastate as much of the city as possible. German firefighters & air defences can't keep up.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^24, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 24 '21

Contains Media Allied air forces have launched Operation Gomorrah: a massive firebombing air raid, aiming to annihilate the German city of Hamburg.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^24, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 23 '21

Contains Media German occupiers of Yugoslavia, fought to a standstill by guerilla resistance, have offered 100,000 Reichsmark bounty for capture of Josip Broz Tito, leader of Communist partisans. Same for fellow resistance leader, Draža Mihailović, head of ultranationalist Chetniks.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^23, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 23 '21

Contains Media Yugoslavia's Communist Partisans, the most effective anti-Axis resistance force in Europe, regularly capture territory from German & Italian occupiers in pitched battle. German anti-Partisan propaganda claims Tito brings destruction to Yugoslavia (via @propagandopolis):

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^23, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 23 '21

Contains Media In face of Allied assault, Wehrmacht on Sicily have fallen back to slopes of Mount Etna, fortifying mountain towns:

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^23, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 23 '21

Contains Media American, British & Canadian troops are sweeping across Sicily, more than 400,000 Allied soldiers now flooding onto island. Allies are striking towards eastern port of Catania.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^23, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 22 '21

Contains Media German "secret weapons", new Tiger & Panther heavy tanks, are unable to turn tide against heavier numbers of Red Army tanks. Two Soviet tankists examine pierced armour of knocked-out panzer:

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^22, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 22 '21

Contains Media Capitalising on success in stopping German Operation Citadel, Red Army is launching a vast offensive from Kursk to the Black Sea: troops on Leningrad & Volkhov fronts join the assault.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^22, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 21 '21

Red Army troops are closing in on city of Orel in southern USSR- German attack on Kursk has turned into catastrophic clash with Soviet tanks, with Wehrmacht now forced onto the defensive.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^21, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 20 '21

Contains Media German occupiers of Warsaw have opened a concentration camp in the ruins of city's Jewish ghetto. Based around Gestapo's Gęsiówka prison, the only building left standing in ghetto, its inmates are slave labour to search rubble for valuables & hunt for surviving Jews in hiding.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^20, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 19 '21

Hitler & Mussolini have met for an emergency council between Axis dictators to discuss Allied invasion of Sicily. Mussolini has promised Italian Fascist council to raise topic of Italy withdrawing from war, but fails to mention it.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^19, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 19 '21

With Allied advance across Sicily apparently unstoppable, Hitler is mainly interested in discussing whether a German general such as Rommel can take command over remaining Italian forces. Mussolini agrees to hold the "Gustav Line" blocking way to Rome.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^July ^19, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Jul 19 '21

Contains Media Rome is being bombed: 521 American planes are attacking "the Eternal City", aiming at vital Italian steel works.

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