[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
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[Moose4]

Think we’d see unions “acting patriotically” today? I doubt it.

Also, interesting that this is the date of the announcement about forming the Tuskeegee Airmen.

}:-)4

[Tank-FL]

Is this the 1941 Jeep Wagon that was road tested?

[Western Phil]

The short article about the trial & death sentence of Ludwig Cyranek caught my eye.

From : Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Third Reich: sectarian politics under persecution
 By M. James Penton, page 183

http://books.google.com/books?id=h61sHeXTwXcC&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=ludwig+cyranek&source=bl&ots=EmmiiQt999&sig=8Jx0rFyjV3RcFAO1ThQ72uscSbQ&hl=en&ei=2AmKTb7GGIzUgQef3bDNDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=ludwig%20cyranek&f=false

Not all Witness activity outside prisons and concentration camps stopped. Local groups reorganized, often with women playing important roles. In a subsection headed “The Stream Continues to Flow,” the 1974 Yearbook gives an account of how tow Witness men, with the help of a number of women, continued to mimeograph and distribute The Watchtower in many parts of Germany during much of the war even though this courted execution. What happened was that loyal Witness, Ludwig Cyranek, wrote letters containing non-controversial information to these women. But written in invisible lemon juice on the same letters were instructions telling them where to take copies of The Watchtower and how many. On receiving the letters, the women simply pressed them with a hot iron and the messages became visible. Eventually Cyranek was arrested on information given to the Gestapo by a Witness traitor named Mueller, and on 3 July 1941 he was executed.