[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 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]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[agere_contra]

Thanks HJS for another fascinating roundup.

I loved the humorous detail about Germans gaining promotions just before they became POWs.

[fso301]

Gen Patton’s son-in-law mentioned on p7 as a POW. Something tells me Patton will try to rescue him.

[BroJoeK]

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May 13, 1943:

• "Hans Frank, governor-general of Occupied Poland, sends SS Chief Heinrich Himmler a list of personal goods and valuables stolen from Jews.
  Among the booty are 25,000 fountain pens and 14,000 pairs of scissors.

• "German and Italian troops surrender in Tunisia."

"This flower-shaped cloth brooch was handmade by a young girl from Warsaw who was incarcerated at the Bergen-Belsen, Germany, concentration camp.
Fellow inmate Sala Spett received the brooch as a present from her husband and children in May 1943.
The family members traded a slice of bread for the brooch, an act that meant a day's hunger."

"These Jewish women and their babies were photographed in the Rothschild maternity hospital in Paris.
All but one of a group of 40, Fanny Kraus--who managed to escape with her child--were shipped to Auschwitz in May 1943.
They were among the nearly 50,000 Jews deported to Eastern Europe from France through June 1943.
Most of them died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Chelmno."

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