On this day in 1941 Sunday newspaper readers in Hawaii woke up to read that war with Japan was imminent. Indeed, headlines in the Hilo Tribune and Honolulu Advertiser read that Japan might strike that next weekend, the weekend of December 6/7. In fact, the Emperor had issued permission to Tojo to proceed to war.
The Germans retreated near the Mius after the Soviets successfully took back Rostov. Gerd von Rundstedt issued the order and then continued the retreat in spite of having received direct orders from Hitler to stop it. On the same day, the commander of the German Army Group Center, Fedor von Bock, directly quested German intelligence estimates of the forces opposing him, which he correctly guessed to be inaccurate.
Also, on the same day they commenced mass murder in Rumbula, Latvia, of the area's Jewish population. Ultimately, 25,000 people would die.
Two Faced Woman was released. The movie would be Greta Garbo's last appearance. The film was a bomb, featuring Garbo as a woman posing as her own, fictitious, twin engaged in an effort to recapture the affections of her ex-husband. The movie met with poor reviews and with the condemnation of the Legion of Decency. Given the latter, the film was withdrawn and recut, but still bombed.
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