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
Homers posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homers profile. Also visit our
general discussion thread.
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Northwestern Europe, 1940: Pursuit to West Wall Operations, 26 August-14 September 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Balkan and Baltic Campaigns Operations, 19 August-31 December 1944
The Western Pacific, New Guinea, and the Philippine Islands: Allied Advances to the Palaus and Morotai, 30 July-17 September 1944 and Air Attacks on the Philippines, 7-22 September 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign Slims Offensive, June 1944-March 1945
September 3, 1944:
- "Brussels, Belgium, is liberated by Allied troops.
- "The Allies begin air evacuations of Jews from partisan-held regions of Yugoslavia to Allied-occupied Italy.
- "A senior Italian police officer named Giovanni Palatucci, arrested in the German-held Yugoslavian city of Fiume for aiding Jews, is sent to the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, where he dies.
- September 3-5: "Anne Frank is among 1,019 Jews deported on the last transport from the Westerbork, Holland, camp to Auschwitz; See September 6, 1944."
"In August 1944 the by-now largely non-Jewish Polish underground revolted against German troops in the city of Warsaw.
Some early triumphs, such as the capture of German soldiers (top photo), were psychologically important, and the Poles were further buoyed by the nearness of Soviet troops."