[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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

[BroJoeK]

July 24, 1944:

• "258 Jewish orphans from Paris and the surrounding area are seized.

• "At Bourges, France, Gestapo agents and militiamen massacre 28 Jewish men and eight Jewish women active in the Resistance. Some victims are thrown alive into a well.

• "The German Army adopts the Nazi salute, abandoning the standard military salute."

LIBERATION OF MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS, 1944-1945

"As Allied troops pushed toward Germany, they encountered Nazi concentration camps and liberated their prisoners.
The Soviets first discovered atrocities at Majdanek, near Lublin, Poland, on July 23, 1944, while U.S. troops first witnessed the Holocaust at Ohrdruf, Germany, on April 4, 1945. "

"On November 9, 1942, 4000 Jews from Lublin, Poland, were the first to die in Majdanek's gas chambers.
Like Auschwitz, Majdanek's death factory made use of the pesticide Zyklon B to murder its victims.
Here, in 1944, a pair of the camp's personnel holds canisters of the crystals, which could turn into a deadly gas at room temperature.
These two Germans would later be executed for the crimes they committed at the camp."

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[Steven Scharf]

61,000 captives since D-Day.

Getting a handle on total POWS on both sides is difficult due to German attrocites with eastern county prisoners, but to put this number in some perspective, The Germans held about 95,000 Americans service members as POWS and about 14,000 civilians. We brought about 425,000 Germans to Amercia for interment. I suspect most of those came after June 1944.

Although we caputured between 19,000 and 50,000 Japanese, most of them were shipped to Austrlia and New Zealand for confinment acording WIKI.