[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”.)
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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

On 29.XI.39 the following entry was made in the war diary of Admiral Doenitz: “Following the report that U.47 had torpedoed a cruiser, Propaganda claimed a sinking. From the service-man’s point of view such inaccuracies and exaggerations are undesirable.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Kandy Atz]

A little off topic, but this caught my eye:

Big flavorful cocktails from $0.25

Inflation stinks!

[BobL]

Oh come on, this is all a conspiracy...FDR needs to show his manhood to get re-elected. Germany, Japan, they will NEVER threaten us - they told us that.
(spoken like a true liberal)

[beebuster2000]

the hunt for the pocket battleships in the pre-radar era. within a short while radar makes the whole concept of surface raider obsolete, and really destroys the submarine srtategy as well/

[CougarGA7]

Nazis Killed Thaelmann, London Paper Declares

This story is pretty interesting. In the text of it we have that he was executed, died in prison, and released.

None of these are true. Ernst Thaelmann who was a former Social Democrat who became the leader of the Communist Party in Germany was arrested in 1933 and stayed incarcerated for eleven years before he was finally executed in Buchenwald concentration camp on August 18th 1944.

As of right now he is still alive and well in prison awaiting his trial that will never come.