cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6265159

[Transcript]

Mogen Dovid and Swastika To Fly Side by Side

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HAMBURG — The Blue and White Zionist flag with the Mogen Dovid, the star of David, will fly side by side with the [Fascist] swastika flag, when two [Fascist] boats will begin to operate, within a short time, on Palestinian coastal transport.

The Atlantic Shipping Company is sending two motorships to Palestine loaded with the belongings of German Jews who have emigrated to Palestine. As the ships are registered in [the Third Reich] they are bound to carry the official [Fascist] flags. But upon their arrival in Palestine, where they will be used for local service, they will in addition fly the Zionist flag, probably in the hope of securing Jewish business and of counteracting the hatred of the swastika flag.

Source: The Jewish Western Bulletin, November 9, 1933. Credits to Tony Greenstein’s Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation, page 86, for showing me this.

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Click here for events that happened today (November 17).

1901: Walter Hallstein, Axis Oberleutnant, existed.
1906: Soichiro Honda, Axis industrialist, started his life.
1931: Imperial troops assaulted Qiqihar, Nenjiang Province, and Imperial artillery bombardment along with cavalry charges overwhelmed Chinese defensive lines.
1932: Franz von Papen resigned as the Weimar Republic’s Chancellor.
1933: For the first time the Third Reich sent people to its concentration camps for reasons unrelated to their politics.
1939: The Third Reich executed nine Czech students as a response to antifascist demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. The Fascists shut down all Czech universities and sent more than 1,200 students to concentration camps.
1940: Hamburg suffered another Allied bombing for the twoth night in a row.
1941: Following twelve months of illness, depression and strain at the Luftwaffe’s increasing losses on the Eastern Front, Generaloberst Ernst Udet, the Third Reich’s Director General of Air Armament, suicided by shooting himself while on the telephone with his girlfriend, Inge Bleyle. Udet, the German Reich’s second highest fighter ace of the First World War (behind the Red Baron) with 62 kills, had already lost favour with his Chancellor after the air force’s performance in the Battle of Britain. The official version was that he had died whilst testing a “new weapon” and Jagdgeschwader 3 was named in his honour. Udet was accorded a state funeral at which he was eulogised by Hermann Göring, who described him as his “best friend”.

Additionally, Axis troops near Moscow fought Central Asian troops for the first time (Soviet 44th Cavalry Division) at Musino, 70 miles west of the capital. Axis artillery blunted the cavalry charges, with the Axis claiming 2,000 killed. Likewise, Luftwaffe III./KG 55 received orders to relocate from Kirovograd, Ukraine to Saint-André-de-l’Eure, France for rest and refitting after spending only seven weeks at Kirovograd. Around the time, the Reichskommissariat Ostland became established under Alfred Rosenberg to administer territories stolen from the Soviet Union.

Lastly, Axis Admiral Yamamoto revealed the Pearl Harbor attack plan to the IJN’s leadership, then Axis special envoy Kurusu Saburo arrived in Washington, D.C. and met with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
1942: The Axis formally absorbed the French Protectorate of Tunisia into the borders of Italian North Africa, and the 3rd Battalion of the Eastern Axis’s 229th Infantry Regiment along with 300 reinforcements landed near Gona.
1943: Foch’s wreck was captured by the Axis at Toulon, and London announced that Sir Oswald Mosley, well known British fascist, was to be released from imprisonment due to health reasons, provoking public protest. Axis submarine I-176 fired three Type 95 torpedoes at an unidentified submarine south of Truk in the Caroline Islands, claiming two hits. (The target was believed to be USS Corvina.) Lastly, Axis commander Koichi Shiozawa passed away from an acute pancreas ailment, and somebody relieved Shokaku’s commanding officer Captain Hiroshi Matsubara; the successor was unknown.
1944: Axis physicist Yoshio Nishina reported to his army liaison officer Major General Nobuji that the atomic bomb research project under him had not made much progress in the past nine months. This was partly because his cyclotron could not operate at full power due to the poor quality vacuum tubes. Apart from that, Vice Admiral Kinpei Teraoka became the commanding officer of the IJN’s 3rd Air Fleet.