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South Europe: reports from 26th Panzer Division, Sept 22; reports from 29th Panzer...
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HW 1/2036
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1943 Sept 23
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South Europe: reports from 26th Panzer Division, Sept 22; reports from 29th Panzer Division and 76th Panzer Corps, Sept 22, continuous enemy reinforcements; Hermann Goering Division reports enemy reinforcements landing at Salerno, Sept 22; German 10th Army expects pressure on a broad front, Sept 22; 29th Panzer Grenadier Division to report situation at Muro-Bella, Sept 22; 1st Parachute Division requests GAF reconnaissance, Sept 22; Hermann Goering Division to hold positions, Sept 22; German 76th Corps to withdraw to successive lines of resistance, Sept 23-25-27-30; GAF unable to protect Corsica-Italy transports or prevent a landing on Corsica, Sept 21; GAF Mediterranean situation as at Sept 21; Assault Brigade SS report on progress on Corsica, Sept 22; remnant of Italian Navy (shore facilities) ready to cooperate with German Navy, Sept 22; German taking counter-measures against 14-15,000 escaped British prisoners armed with Italian weapons, Sept 20; German security service Rome report that Italian Piave Division has been told to lay down its arms or be destroyed by parachute division, Sept 22; German secret service liaison officer moving north of Rome with Kesselring, Sept 22.
South-east Europe: Argostoli, Cephalonia, in German hands, Sept 22; Germans to operate against Andros (Cyclades) on Sept 22; east Adriatic harbours open to German shipping, Sept 22; German E-boats support land attack on partisans in Rovigno on Sept 22; GAF Roumania fears attack on oil fields from Allied bombers in Sicily and south Italy, Sept 22.
Southern Russian Front: Army Group A and 1st Air Corps to withdraw from Crimea to Nikolaev, commandeering of navy premises, Sept 22.
West Europe: German Navy destroy midget submarine inside Tirpitz's net-barrage.
Naval Headlines: Germans destroying Naples harbour.
Japanese ambassador, Berlin: Italian armistice and escape by ambassador to Rome, Sept 18; Japanese ambassador, Rome, apologises for failure to detect Badoglio's treachery, Sept 20.
Portuguese ambassador, Vatican: Mussolini's resuscitation, Sept 21.
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