[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. Also visit our general discussion thread

[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

[iowamark]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14374541
“Douglas Bader’s World War II autograph book sells for £33,600”

[PeterPrinciple]

SAN FRANCISCO AROUSED

They Are Asking for it, Let Them Have It, Seems Public’s view

..................Yet California approaches this attitude from a national viewpoint, which apparently has almost no connection with its local anti-Japanese record - the result of the domestic land and labor problems.’...................

-————————————Rather, this attitude is more sympathetic here than elsewhere. Newspapers, for instance, run front page pictures of Japanese Boy Scouts and Legionnaires gathering scrap aluminum in the civilian defense drive. This is perhaps due to the fact that ant-Japanese sentiment had already reached a peak, largely through Chinese efforts. San Francisco long ago became used to a boycott of Japanese goods...........................

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Hadn’t thought about the role of Chinese citizens in the USA at that time.

[PeterPrinciple]

SAN FRANCISCO AROUSED

They Are Asking for it, Let Them Have It, Seems Public’s view

..................Yet California approaches this attitude from a national viewpoint, which apparently has almost no connection with its local anti-Japanese record - the result of the domestic land and labor problems.’...................

-————————————Rather, this attitude is more sympathetic here than elsewhere. Newspapers, for instance, run front page pictures of Japanese Boy Scouts and Legionnaires gathering scrap aluminum in the civilian defense drive. This is perhaps due to the fact that ant-Japanese sentiment had already reached a peak, largely through Chinese efforts. San Francisco long ago became used to a boycott of Japanese goods...........................

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Hadn’t thought about the role of Chinese citizens in the USA at that time.

[CougarGA7]

General Verdillac isn’t much on personal space is he.

[CougarGA7]

• "At the beginning of the 7th week of battle the army group stands with partially worn out units, limited munitions supply and without meaningful reserves, in a difficult and costly struggle to achieve the victorious end of the encirclement at Smolensk. The enemy is in number and material greatly superior. On the outer defensive front the bridgehead at Yel'nya is a deeply endangered flashpoint." - Army Group Centre diary

• "The question of munitions is for the time being unsolvable because the trains are failing to appear" - Franz Halder

• "We wonder sometimes what the winter will bring. We will certainly have to remain here in Russia...So we will have to endure here a positional war along an enormous front." - General Gotthard Heinrici

[BroJoeK]

From the Holocaust Chronicle:

July 1-August 31, 1941:
"Members of the Einsatzgruppen, the Wehrmacht, and Esalon Special, a Romanian unit, kill more than 150,000 Jews in Bessarabia, a region of eastern Romania."

August 3:
"Twelve hundred Jews are arrested by the local Einsatzgruppen at Chernovtsy, Romania; 682 are executed by German and Romanian police.
Fifteen hundred Jews are murdered at Mitau, Latvia.
Several hundred Jewish professionals are shot at Stanislawów, Ukraine."