[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 .)
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]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Evolution of Plan Yellow, October 1939-January 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Homer_J_Simpson]

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[mainepatsfan]

Ah the final days of the sitzkrieg.

[SteamShovel]

The census stories are interesting.....

.....One told of a man giving her a "drink and cigarette" but added "his wife was there"...

[married21]

The article about having 4 million Romanian children, ages 7 to 18, required to leave school and go pick crops because the German Reich needed them is just appalling.

The Romanian government thought this was perfectly fine— to draft their little kids to do farm labor merely to help some other country meet their desired import goal for grain? I never heard about this before. I think I need to learn more about why those vassal states of Hitler did what they did.