[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
CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST, 1940, The Pursuit, 13-25 June
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[cotton1706]

The articles on Willkie at the Republican Convention are just as interesting. The republicans rejected the Hard-line conservative Bob Taft in favor of a moderate former democrat who agreed with most of the democrat policies. Taft was defeated by the moderate Dewey in 44, 48, and 52 also. In 52 with the help of Earl Warren (the Republican VP nominee in 48) and Richard Nixon, neither a fan of conservatives as future events would show.

The moderate influence should be defeated at all cost. They’re parasites.

[ichabod1]

Hitler was the fate of the german people and this fate could not be stayed. Field Marshal Walther Von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the German Army, 1938-41

Sadly, this makes me think of our current predicament.

[CougarGA7]

[CougarGA7]

I found General Mittelhuaser’s statement that French Syria would continue to fight. I’m betting that will only last a few days before they give in. Syria will be involved in an interesting sequence of events next year that is not in the mainstream histories of World War II so stay tuned.

[CougarGA7]

Today seems like a good day to update the antics of the German Abwehr in Ireland.

For those keeping score, Hermann Görtz is still on the run in Ireland and still cannot establish contact with Germany.

I mentioned a little over a week ago the story of Walter Simon and speculated that reports of two agents being dropped may have been in reference to Wilhelm Preetz.

As far as I know Preetz was not dropped at the same time as Simon, but he has landed by now. Preetz unlike some of the other agents dropped in Ireland was at least familiar with the country. He had married an Irish girl from Galway.

With a Irish passport under the name Patrick Mitchell, Preetz set off towards Dublin with the same mission that Simon had, set up a weather monitoring station and report on shipping between England and Ireland. Unlike Simon, Preetz did make it to Dublin and made contact with Joseph Donohue of the IRA. The two rented a loft in Dublin and proceded to set up a wireless station for transmitting to Germany. This is his status at the moment, but don’t worry, it wont be too long before I update his status.

- From “The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland 1939-1943” by Mark Hull in the Journal of Military History, July 2002.