[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
North Africa – Rommel’s First Offensive, 24 March-15 June 1941
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[PzLdr]

Noticed the headline on Charlie “The Bug” Workman getting life for whacking Dutch Schultz in Jersey. Probably Murder, Inc.’s best hitman [with apologies to Pittsburgh Phil Strauss, Abe Reles, and Happy Maione].

[Larry381]

Reich Said To Press Demands On Moscow

What a truly remarkable article.
The outlines of the coming Nazi attack on Russia is right there (for anyone who was willing to see it)for all to read. Even the part where the Germans cut the Swedish telephone connection just as "right of passage" was being transmitted. For months there had been many diplomatic rumors about the Germans seeking passage through the Ukraine to get at Britain's "back door". It was certainly believed by a large portion of the German troops (including my uncle who was stationed in the Wehrmacht near Lublin) who had been massing along the German-Soviet demarcation line in Poland.

I guess in those days correspondents actually went out and questioned everyone concerned in order to get a valid story-unlike today where it seems that the purpose of being a newsman is largely concerned with blackening your political opponents reputation. I'm still shocked at the information contained in this small article and can imagine what the German reaction was.

[iowamark]

The story about Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, allegedly visiting Rome is certainly false. He is being held by the British in Kenya, where he will die of tuberculosis in March 1942.