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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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October 17, 1944:

"SS functionary Adolf Eichmann returns to Budapest, Hungary, to secure 50,000 healthy Jews, who will be marched to Germany for forced labor; See October 20, 1944.
"Dr. Josef Mengele supervises further gas-chamber selections of inmates at Auschwitz."

"By the fall of 1944 the German situation in Poland was crumbling rapidly, as Soviet forces advanced westward through the country toward Germany.
And so the Nazis, who had enjoyed absolute mastery over Poland's residents not long before, now found themselves fighting a defensive war with a foregone conclusion.
The horror, of course, is that this turn of events came too late to prevent the extermination of three million of Poland's 3.3 million Jews.
Here, Polish fighters armed with submachine guns take aim at Nazi troops at Praga, a Warsaw suburb."
"A Jewish Brigade soldier teaches children Hebrew at the Rinshonim hachshara (agricultural training farm) in Bari, Italy, near the Adriatic Sea.
The first of the training farms in Italy, Bari and those that followed sought to prepare refugees and survivors for a new future in Palestine.
Reaching Italy in November 1944, the soldiers of the Brigade would take part in the final Allied offensive the following spring."