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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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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Leningrad and Ukraine Offensives – Operations, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
Anzio-Cassino Area, 1943: Attempts to Cross Rapido and Garigliano Rivers, 17-20 January 1944. Anzio Landing, 22 January 1944. German Counterattack at Anzio, 16-19 February 1944
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December

April 10, 1944:

April 8: "On this first night of Passover, Polish rabbi Mosze Friedman, newly arrived at Auschwitz, grabs an SS lieutenant and excoriates him for his crimes, promising the eternal existence of the Jews and the imminent destruction of Nazism.
April 10: "Two Slovakian Jews, Alfred Wetzler, age 26, and Rudolf Vrba, age 19, escape from Auschwitz.
The pair will later provide the Allies with the first eyewitness accounts of the "Final Solution," as well as a warning about the Nazis' intention to exterminate Hungarian Jewry.
"The Red Army captures Odessa, Ukraine."

"Max Josef Metzger was a Catholic priest, and a pacifist.
A World War I German Army chaplain, he founded and headed the Peace Alliance of German Catholics.
During the war he called for a non-Nazi government for Germany.
Arrested and condemned for high treason by the vehemently pro-Nazi People's Court, he was executed in April 1944."

"On April 13, 1944, one of the final deportations of Jews from the Drancy, France, transit camp left for Auschwitz.
Fifteen hundred prisoners arrived in Auschwitz on April 16, including the Brin family (pictured).
All but 388 perished in the gas chambers."

In the Pacific, we tune in to Radio Tokyo, and through the static, we hear Iva Toguri d'Aquino, whom we have dubbed Tokyo Rose...

APRIL 10.....XMTN 10...MUSICAL 1-1-1-1

ANN:
Thank you kindly sir, she said!.. Hello Everybody, this is Ann of Radio Tokyo with our regular programme for our Friends in Australia and the South Pacific. It's pretty music tonight, guaranteed to take your mind off the present, and to make you forget for a while ‘the haunting spectres of the might-have-been'!...yes, it's a quotation, but I don't know who wrote it, do You?..think it over, and here's some music to oil the wheels..Franz Lehar's 'Gypsy Love'.. played as a Concert Waltz by Nat Shilkret and Orchestra....

BUS:
'GYPSY LOVE'...CONCERT WALTZ..(V.J.B. 95-A)

ANN:
Like that? well be good and we'll have an even better one directly, in the meanwhile here's an old smoothy for you, Savino's 'A study in Blue'....please to listening!.

BUS:
'A STUDY IN BLUE'..(V.J.B.-90-B)

ANN:
This is Radio Tokyo's special programme for listeners in Australia and my Boneheads in the South Pacific. Right now I'm lulling their senses before I creep up and annihilate them with my nail file..but don't tell anybody!.. Now here's the next waltz I promised you, Victor Herbert's 'Kiss Me Again'..you heard me!.

BUS:
'KISS ME AGAIN'..(V. 9146-A)

ANN:
And now here's your News Announcer to read you the News from the American Home Front...Come on in...

TED READS A.H.F. NEWS.......

Thank you..thank you.....And so back to our music. This is your favorite little enemy Ann calling you from Radio Tokyo and this time we have two of the movements from Eric Coates 'London Suite'..First of all the Tarantelle 'Covent Garden'..

BUS:
LONDON SUITE. (045276-A)

ANN:
Pretty music isn't it?..and now let's listen to the 'Meditation'.. 'Westminister'..from the same London Suite and then it'll be time for your News Highlights and the Zero Hour..Coming Over!...

BUS:
LONDON SUITE. (045276-B)

NEWS....

ETC....