Background: This page is part of a larger project to trace the history of World War II as reflected in the headlines of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party’s daily newspaper.
July 1941 was a good month for Germany. The invasion of the Soviet Union was going well. Roosevelt, not yet in the war, had some problems. The U-Boats were hard at work. From the German perspective, the war was rapidly heading for a victorious end.
Völkischer Beobachter: July 1941
1 July 1941
Lemberg and Libau Fall
50,000 BRT Sunk in the Atlantic
2 July 1941
Unstoppable March in the East
Beresina Reached — Düna Crossed
Breakthrough Attempts of the Surrounded Armies Stopped with Bloody Losses — 280 Soviet and 23 British Aircraft Destroyed
3 July 1941
100,000 Captured at Bialystok
Surrounded Soviet Armies Largely Destroyed
620 Tanks and 300 Artillery Captured or Destroyed — The Attack from Finland has Begun — Blows against England
4 July 1941
England Lost 768,950 BRT in June
Resistance Strength of Soviet Army Broken
Attacks along the Whole Front from the Black to the Arctic Sea
5 July 1941
Unstoppable Attacks along the Entire Front
Latvian-Russian Border Reached — Beresina Crossed in Numerous Places
6 July 1941
Bloodthirsty Bolshevist Beasts
Horrifying Pictures Accuse!
7 July 1941
352,000 Prisoners So Far in the East
Planned Operations against the Stalin Line
500 Trucks and 18 Locomotives Destroyed — 281 Soviet Aircraft Destroyed — 8 British Merchant Ships Sunk
8 July 1941
Soviet Air Force Destroyed
Heavy Losses of Soviet Fliers — Czernowitz Captured
9 July 1941
“...Fighting for Human Rights”
The Paradise of Workers, Farmers, and Soldiers!
10 July 1941
Finkelstein Celebrates Bolshevist-Plutocratic Brotherhood
The Old Soviet Jew Steps Out from behind the Curtain
11 July 1941
Bolshevists Fly a New Flag
Soviet Hangmen in Priestly Garb
Stalin’s Ambassador Maisky Arm in Arm with the Provost of St. Paul’s Cathedral
12 July 1941
The Epitome of Jewish Shamelessness
Stalin’s Slogan: “Stop Thief!’
Battlefield Hyenas Now Play the ‘Liberator”
13 July 1941
The Same Old Lie
London Claims “Victory” Again
The Reprieve before the Next OKW Communique is Used
14 July 1941
The Stalin Line Broken Through Everywhere
Soviet Army Fatally Hit
15 July 1941
London Obligates Itself to Save Bolshevism
Treaty Confirms British-Soviet Brotherhood
16 July 1941
The Alliance of the Bankrupt
Plutocrat Churchill with Hammer and Sickle
Bolshevist Stalin with Cross and Top Hat
17 July 1941
Moscow Demands Invasion of Spain and Portugal
Plans of Jewish World Imperialism Revealed
18 July 1941
Nine Million Fighting
Last Soviet Reserves in Action
19 July 1941
Roosevelt’s Fight to Have a Monopoly on Exploiting the World
American Dollar War Strangling Latin American Economy
20 July 1941
The Washington Adventurer’s Admission
Roosevelt Admits His Firing Order
Roosevelt had suggested American ships would fire on German ships interfering with shipping to Iceland.
21 July 1941
Advances East of the Dniester
Soviet Breakout Attempts Repulsed with Bloody Losses
22 July 1941
Churchill Builds a Cabinet of Cousins
Private Secretary and Son-in-Law as New Aides
Chief Liar Duff Cooper Shipped to the Far East
23 July 1941
Heavy Bombing Attack on Moscow
Soviet Front Torn into Unconnected Groups
24 July 1941
Pure Talmudic Hatred
Roosevelt Demands the Sterilization of the German People
The Extermination of All Germans within Two Generations
This refers to a book by one Theodore Kaufmann, supposedly a member of Roosevelt’s Brain Trust, which got wide publicity in Germany. Roosevelt had nothing to do with it. For details see my article: “The Argument for Genocide in Nazi Propaganda,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91 (2005), 37-62.
25 July 1941
Superiority on All Fronts
The British Defeated across the Channel and the Third Major Attack on Moscow
26 July 1941
Stalin — the Great Hope!
Wilkie Calls for “Surprising Germany” to Save the Democratic Show Horse
27 July 1941
Gangster War against South America
Roosevelt’s Warmongering Uses Forged Documents and Extortion
28 July 1941
Success is Clear
Destructive Blows against Soviet Forces
29 July 1941
The “Belmonte Case”
Roosevelt Guilty of Forgery
Statement by Bolivian Military Attache Proves USA Gangster War against South America
30 July 1941
40,000 Japanese Landed So Far in Indochina
Breaks in the Encirclement of Japan
31 July 1941