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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Leningrad and Ukraine Offensives – Operations, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
Anzio-Cassino Area, 1943: Attempts to Cross Rapido and Garigliano Rivers, 17-20 January 1944. Anzio Landing, 22 January 1944. German Counterattack at Anzio, 16-19 February 1944
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December

April 15, 1944:

"Jewish slave laborers forced to exhume corpses of murdered Jews and Soviet POWs at the Ponary, Lithuania, killing ground, near Vilna, mount an escape attempt.
Of the 40 who manage to enter a secret tunnel dug into the side of the burial pit, 15 reach nearby woods.
Most of these join partisan groups; See April 20, 1944.
"In Hungary, tens of thousands of Jews are forced from their homes and into ghettos."

"On March 19, 1944, the Nazis occupied Hungary and began to draw up plans for the annihilation of that country's 725,000 Jews, who had been largely unmolested until then.
Most of these Jews were deported to Auschwitz, the largest of the death camps.
This map shows the police districts into which the Nazis divided Hungary for the purpose of efficiently transporting the nation's Jews."

"The process of ghettoization and deportation proceeded remarkably quickly in Hungary, and Jews were usually shipped out just a few days after being forced into ghettos.
This photograph shows Moritz Goldstein and his son Endre in the ghetto in Debrecen.
Moritz and his wife, Matilde, had four sons, only one of whom, Ernst, survived the war.
He immigrated to the United States in 1946."