20 Dec 1942
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1942
Page
1
Continued rather cold in North Carolina with a chance of light rain or snow in the mountains Sunday. South Carolina expected to stay mild on Sunday with mild temperatures across the region.
Soviet dispatches report 273,500 German and satellite soldiers killed or captured as troops advance 30 to 37 miles in four days in northwest Novaya Kalita Monastirschina and Bokovskaya sectors. The offensives push through many towns near the Don, with heavy losses for the enemy and continued pressure on Stalingrad and Velikie Luki fronts.
The week’s tally lists eight more vessels sunk or damaged including a 42,000 ton anti submarine schooner and several supply ships. Air forces attacked retreating Axis units near Zauta En Nafilia while Eighth Army bombers hit Tunis and La Goulette. In northern Tunisia fighting shifts to patrols and raids as terrain stays soft from rain.
Reports describe intensified air raids across Akyab and the Arakan front with British American planes targeting railways stations bridges airfields and docks along Mandalay line. Japanese counterattacks claim several transports sunk near Chittagong amid ongoing exchanges.
A wartime press briefing outlined stricter enforcement of gasoline rationing across industries dealers and consumers. Officials cited bootlegging as a risk to military supplies and urged cooperation while noting suspensions of several dealers and tighter control of deliveries and black market activity.
A report details mass killings of Jews under German occupation in Poland and Yugoslavia including executions at Chelm and Belzec, with 99 percent of Yugoslav Jews dead and survivors interned. It covers Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece and Luxembourg, noting deportations, property confiscation, and forced labor affecting tens of thousands.
The report notes that over 2,000 Jews escaped Luxembourg during occupation, while the rest faced liquidation by deportations. It claims about 180,000 Jews lived in the Netherlands and predicts none will remain by end of 1943. In Norway, Jews are beaten and dispossessed, Oslo Jews arrested, and about 1,000 sent on a ship bound for Poland.
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