(While this report casually mentions that this was a team effort, HMAS Voyager was part of the team, along with four HM destroyers. The unnamed submarine sunk was Console Generale Liuzzi.)

(The Gestapo claimed that they had arrested Otto Strasser and Herschel Grynszpan. It was not true that Strasser was arrested, and the reason for this announcement is not clear. My speculation is that it was a trick to get Strasser. Perhaps somebody who knew him might slip up and the Gestapo would gain some information as to his whereabouts.

Otto Strasser, along with his brother Gregor, were founding members of the NSDAP, long before Adolf Hitler took over the party. Gregor was killed on June 30, 1934 in what was to be known as the Night of the Long Knives. (Hitler's purge of the Sturmabteilung (SA or Assault Division) leadership.) Otto had been expelled from the Nazi party in 1930 and in 1940 was living in France. He escaped France and went to Bermuda and later Canada. He returned to East Germany in 1950 where he attempted to organize a new National Socialist party, which failed. He died, still a socialist, still a Nazi, in 1974.

Herschel Grynszpan had been collected by the Gestapo. He was in a French prison and was handed over to the Nazis on their request. Grynszpan had shot a Nazi diplomat named Ernst vom Rath in Paris on Nov. 7, 1934, he died two days later, on the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. This murder was used by Propaganda Minister Goebbels and the Nazis to attack the Jews, since Grynszpan was Jewish. On Nov. 9-10, 1934 the Sturmabteilung, along with many German citizens, conducted a pogrom against German Jewish citizens in what is now known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night or the Night of Broken Glass.) About 100 Jews were murdered, 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. 200 Synagogues were damaged, burned or destroyed along with hundreds of Jewish owned businesses. (The real number of Jews who died is unknown.)

Grynszpan would become one of them. After being taken from a French prison, he was taken to the infamous Gestapo headquarters on the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin. From there he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later to others, but for unclear reasons, he was never brought to trial. He was last known to be alive in late 1942, but his fate, like that of many others, is unknown to this day.)

(England's no - an S.O.S. call.)

(Halifax prays - Churchill is silent.)