Et Tu, Brute?: The Assassination of Benito Mussolini

From The Battle For The Republic:

For the Falangists, the appointment of a new top negotiator to represent them at the cease-fire talks in Lisbon came just in the nick of time. Not only had most of the rebel naval strength been eliminated at the Battle of the Alboran Sea, but the Falangist armies were taking heavier and heavier losses too...

From the morning edition of the June 29th, 1937 New York Post:

ARMY AIR CORPS STRIKES BERLIN!

Munitions Factories, Airfields Targeted In First U.S. Raid On Nazi Capital

From the evening edition of the Washington Star that same night:

HITLER SWEARS REPRISALS FOR BERLIN BOMBING

Tells Reichstag U.S. Will Feel “Full Wrath” Of German Power

From a CBS Radio news broadcast dated June 30th, 1937:

President Roosevelt today told Congress that any Nazi attempts to attack or invade American soil would be resisted with “all the force and determination our people can muster”....

From the morning edition of the July 2nd, 1937 New York Daily News:

EXTRA--NANTUCKET SABOTEURS FOUND GUILTY

Execution Of Nazi Agents Could Come Any Day

From the July 3rd, 1937 Times of London:

BREAKTHROUGH POSSIBLE IN SPANISH CEASE-FIRE TALKS

From a Mutual Radio news broadcast that same evening:

Riots are sweeping Manila tonight as the Japanese Army Air Force continues its relentless bombing campaign against the Filipino capital...

From the morning edition of the July 4th, 1937 Boston Globe:

FDR TO MAKE SPECIAL INDEPENDENCE DAY RADIO ADDRESS Speech Intended To Boost Morale Of Our Armed Forces In Europe And The Philippines

From the afternoon edition of the July 6th, 1937 Washington Star:

JAPANESE SUB LOBS SHELLS AT MARINE BASE ON MIDWAY ISLAND!

No Word As To Losses; Navy Hunting Down Enemy Vessel

From a BBC Home Service news broadcast dated July 8th, 1937:

Word has been received from the Royal Navy tonight that one of the German navy’s most notorious U-boat commanders has been captured off the Scottish coast...

From Gray Wolves:

For the Kriegsmarine, the capture of U-47 acting captain Günther Prien was an embarrassment of the first magnitude. Prien, a four-year naval veteran who had assumed command of the sub when the previous captain was killed in action, was one of the Kriegsmarine’s most distinguished young officers; his seizure by the British was a major propaganda coup for Whitehall...

From a Fox Movietone newsreel released July 12th, 1937:

This film is the first motion picture to show the carnage inflicted by an enemy sub at Midway Island! As you can see in these graphic and disturbing images, the Imperial Japanese Navy showed no compunction whatsoever about murdering civilians in cold blood! In fact, there are some who say these dead man were intentionally targeted for death as a part of Tokyo’s policy of unrestrained brutality against all who challenge her expansionist agenda....

From the morning edition of the July 10th, 1937 New York World-Telegram:

NANTUCKET SABOTEURS EXECUTED; JAPANESE SUB RESPONSIBLE FOR MIDWAY RAID REPORTED SUNK

From the July 12th, 1937 Daily Mail:

ACCORD REACHED TO END CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN

From the afternoon edition of the July 13th, 1937 Indianapolis Star:

CEASE-FIRE TAKES EFFECT IN SPAIN; REBEL FORCES TO BEGIN TURNING IN THEIR ARMS TODAY

JAPANESE TROOPS ENGAGING U.S. AND FILIPINO ARMIES WEST OF MANILA

From Gray Wolves:

With the Falangist rebellion in Spain crushed Hitler’s already daunting task of trying to gain control of the North Atlantic became a near-impossible pipe dream. The Führer had hoped a Falangist victory in Spain would clear the way for German u- boats to operate from Spanish bases, but Franco’s death had triggered a collapse in the insurgents’ morale and the insurgency itself had fallen apart shortly thereafter. To complicate things even further the Italian resistance was growing in strength every day and tying up military resources that could otherwise have been used to oppose the Allied advance into Germany...

From the July 15th, 1937 Times of London:

ALLIES CAPTURE BONN

From the July 16th, 1937 Völkischer Beobachter:

ALLIED TROOPS COMMIT BARBARIC ATROCITIES ON GERMAN WOMEN!

Indisputable Proof Of British And French Barbarity!

From a CBS Radio news broadcast that same evening:

A British Army spokesman today dismissed German accusations of rape by Allied soldiers against German women as “ridiculous propaganda” and “a transparent attempt to distract the world from the German army’s own crimes”....

From the 2013 National Geographic Channel documentary Hitler’s War Machine:

The rape accusations leveled at Allied troops by Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry were in fact nothing more than a distorted version of the Wehrmacht’s own very real and serious atrocities against civilians during its invasions of Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Poland. Indeed, one set of photographs purportedly showing the “victims” of fictitious sexual assaults by French soldiers turned out to be crude forgeries doctored up by the Propaganda Ministry’s film department from actual mug shots of women detained by the Gestapo...

From a German academic paper published in December of 2004:

Sexual assaults by Wehrmacht troops against foreign women weren’t merely tolerated, they were often actively encouraged. This was particularly true in Italy, where rape was used as a method of retaliation against partisan women...

From the morning edition of the July 16th, 1937 Washington Post:

DALADIER REJECTS NAZI RAPE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ALLIED TROOPS

Calls Them “Slanderous Lies” In Address To French Parliament

From the afternoon edition of the July 18th, 1937 New York World-Telegram:

ALLIED TROOPS REPULSE NAZI ATTEMPT TO RETAKE BONN 180 American Troops Among The Casualties

From the evening edition of the July 20th, 1937 Toronto Globe & Mail:

CHAMBERLAIN TO ADDRESS HOUSE OF COMMONS TOMORROW

Guerrilla War In Italy, Hostilities In Asia To Figure Prominently In Speech

From a Mutual Radio news broadcast dated July 21st, 1937:

The House of Commons today rang with applause for Neville Chamberlain as the British prime minister pledged to resist Japanese aggression against British interests in the Far East and reaffirmed his continued unswerving support for the anti-Nazi rebels in occupied Italy. In a conspicuous demonstration of that support, Royal Navy warships today attacked a German munitions facility on the Sardinian coast...

From the July 22nd, 1937 Völkischer Beobachter:

KRIEGSMARINE REPULSES TREACHEROUS BRITISH SNEAK ATTACK ON SARDINIA

Enemy Naval Force Annihilated

From the afternoon edition of the July 23rd, 1937 Washington Post:

BRITISH, ALLIED FORCES BELIEVED TO HAVE FOOTHOLD ON SARDINIA

German Losses Said To Be Heavy

From the evening edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer that same night:

EXTRA--ALLIED PLANES BOMB GERMAN POSITIONS ON CORSICA

From the July 25th, 1937 Daily Mail:

HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED NEAR ORISTANO

To Be Continued

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