[Homer_J_Simpson]

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 .)
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 Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
West-Central Germany and Belgium, 1945: The Rhineland Campaign – Operations, 8 February-5 March 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Summary – The Rhineland Campaign, 8 February-21 March 1945
Poland, 1945: Russian Offensive to the Oder – Operations 12 January-30 March 1945
The Western Pacific: Allied Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (Operation Iceberg), 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

[PAR35]

Patton seems full of excuses these days. 3rd Army needs to get the lead out and catch up with the 1st and 9th.

[BroJoeK]

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March 1, 1944:

• Early March: "Fifteen-year-old Anne Frank dies at the Bergen-Belsen, Germany, concentration camp.

• "Arthur Nebe, Einsatzgruppe B commander in Belorussia, is executed by the Nazis because of his involvement in the plot against Hitler.

• March-April: "Two thousand inmates from the Köszeg, Hungary, slave-labor camp are marched for weeks through rugged Hungarian and Austrian countrysides."

"This jacket belonged to William Luksenburg, a Holocaust survivor.
After his parents were deported to Auschwitz in 1942, Luksenburg was sent to one of Auschwitz's satellite camps.
By January 1945 he had been shipped to Flossenbürg and then Regensburg, Germany, where he worked on the railroad.
As the end of the war drew near, Luksenburg survived a death march.
An American soldier who found Luksenburg's jacket and buried it to avoid the spread of disease dug it up four months later and kept it as a 'souvenir.' "

"Nazi exploitation of their victims extended beyond plundered hair and dental gold.
It included even the ashes of the murdered.
At some camps, random ashes were collected in urns and sold to grieving survivors as the remains of specific loved ones.
This urn and barrel of ash were discovered at the Flossenbürg, Germany, concentration camp, where commandant Hans Vogel made tidy sums from the deception."

"These Polish women partisan soldiers had been captured by the Germans in the battle for Warsaw in the fall of 1944.
The women were liberated from German prisoner-of-war camps by Polish troops near Emden, Germany.
Some of the liberators found their wives here.
The Germans recognized some rights for West European soldiers who became POWs.
The Nazis treated gentile partisans less well, and accorded no rights at all to Jewish civilians."

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