[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

[PzLdr]

FDR embargos all aviation fuel, and severely limits Japan’s access to most other petroleum products. The fuse is lit. FDR’s long sought after for war is on its way.

[Rebelbase]

“Switzerland is Gay on 650th Birthday”

It was a different time.

[BroJoeK]

From the Holocaust Chronicle:

August 2:

"Four thousand Jews are killed by about 80 drunken Germans at Ponary, Lithuania.

"An American Jewish woman is among the approximately 200 Jews killed at Kovno, Lithuania."

Question: how well do these photos and accompanying descriptions show up?

[CougarGA7]

• "The situation has become critical. The encirclement of the 6th and 12th Armies is complete. The direct threat of the breakup of the 6th and 12th Armies' combat formation into two isolated segments centered at Babanka and Teklievka regions is at hand. There are no reserves. Please clear the way by committing new forces in the Ternovka and Novo-Arkhangel'sk sectors. There is no ammunition. Fuel is running out." - Lieutenant General Ivan Muzychenko

[PeterPrinciple]

Reds Capture ‘Loudspeaker’ Gun

MOSCOW, Aug. 1 — Germany has brought a new secret weapon into play on the Eastern Front, dispatches from the combat zone said today. = radio loud speakers which make one machine gun sound like hundreds. Russian scouts found and destroyed one such loud speaker next, it was asserted with the result that the whole sector became quiet at once.

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Wonder if that was real or Stalin propaganda for the troops.