[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
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[ml/nj]

3 Nervous Thugs Try Hold-Up in 5th Ave.; 1 Shot as Pistol, Used to Club Victim, Goes Off – 11

Be sure to note the straightforward, non-PC, opening paragraph of this story.

ML/NJ

[Rebelbase]

As always, good stuff! Thanks for the effort it takes to post these.

[Lancey Howard]

The story about Paul Kern (’Kern Denounces Hitler, Not Stalin’) on page 7 is fascinating. This communist, Paul Kern, President of New York’s Civil Service Commission, was grilled during hearings in City Council Chambers and asked by counsel if he, “was or ever had been a Communist or a knowing follower of the Communist party line”. Naturally, Kern (subscriber to ‘The Daily Worker’) slimed his way through the hearings and evaded most questions. This was in 1941!

Long before HUAC and Joe McCarthy (all of whom, the world now knows, turned out to be right) America was well aware of the covert war the communists were waging against the nation through organized labor, the press, and Hollywood. It is astonishing that, 70 years later, the communists have fulfilled their goal of getting a communist in the White House and passing communist health care legislation. ...Right in front of our very eyes.

[tcrlaf]

Soviet “News of the Day” Newsreel #60, 27 Jun 1941, from the Central Newsreel Studio.

Women marching in the streets singing patriotic songs while carrying Soviet flags, people rushing to buy newspapers with news of the war, but the interesting part is the Commissar informing the crowd that the Germans have invaded.

No combat footage, and it’s pretty clear the news of the German invasion was added after the fact.

http://www.archive.org/details/NewsOfDayNo.60june271941

[CougarGA7]

• Colonel I.V. Vasil'ev's 34th Tank Division of the 8th Mechanized Corps attempts to take Dubno directly, but runs head long into the 16th Panzer Division. The Corps is battered and surrounded.

• Lieutenant-General Muzychenko's 6th Army abandons its defenses in the Rava-Russkaia region and fall back to L'vov.

[WKUHilltopper]

So very interesting.