[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: Invasion of Luzon and the Advance to Manila, 9 January-4 February 1945
The Ardennes Area, 1944: Operations, 17 January-7 February 1945
Eastern France and the Low Countries, 1944: Territorial Changes along the Front, 16 December 1944-7 February 1945 and Allied Plan for Rhineland Campaign
Southeastern France 1944: German Offensive, 1-30 January 1945 and Allied Reduction of Colmar Pocket, 20 January-9 February 1945
Poland, 1945: Russian Offensive to the Oder – Operations 12 January-30 March 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

[BroJoeK]

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January 29, 1944:

• "Late January: 29,000 Jews, mostly women, are evacuated on forced marches from Danzig, Poland, and Stutthof, Poland.
  Only 3000 survive.

• "Thousands of Jews are sent on a death march from the Lamsdorf camp near Breslau, Germany, westward toward Thuringia, Germany.
  Hundreds die or are killed on the way."

"A page from the Hadamar Institute's death register.
The institute was one of the six major facilities in the German "euthanasia" program.
The document indicates each victim's date of arrival, family and given names, date of birth, date of death, cause of death, and age at death."
"No one is exactly sure how many concentration and work camps the Nazis established.
Many camps had numerous subcamps in which inmates could be housed while they participated in temporary work assignments.
This survivor was discovered in the Vaihingen camp, a subcamp of Natzweiler in Germany."

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[iowamark]

We can imagine Douglas MacArthur’s reaction when he read in the NY Times that his participation in the war was coming to an end and that the Navy would take over.

[C19fan]

The Soviets will dismantle all the factories they captured in Silesia and relocate back to the USSR. Stalin when discussing the plans for the offensive with the generals pointed to Silesia and remarked something along the lines of “Gold”.

[Rebelbase]

We should be reading about the raid on Cabanataun in a couple of days. The town is visible on the upper right of the page 10 map.

[fso301]

Hmm? Soviets take Memel. I guess that means the veteran Wiener is dead.