[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

[Vermont Lt]

“Taxes through levies on excess profits.”

I run my own business. I have often wondered where I can get some of them “excess” profits. My creditors would be happy to get their hands on them too. As would my wife.

[BroJoeK]

"Hungarian Jews take a moment to rest and eat while en route to their final destination in the Ukraine.
Laden with their belongings, this group was one of the many that was expelled from their homes by the Hungarian government.
The deportation operations of July relocated almost 18,000 Jews to Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine."

"Many Ukrainians welcomed the Germans when they took Ternopol in July 1941.
What followed was a massacre of 5000 Jews, many of them burnt to death in their synagogues by Germans and Ukrainian nationalists.
A few months later the Germans created the Ternopol Ghetto, consisting of more than 12,000 Jews.
Only a few hundred Jews survived to liberation by the Soviet Army in 1944."

[PeterPrinciple]

.............the original aim (of the defense revenue bill) was to provide two-thirds of the defense costs through taxation and the other thirds by borrowing. However, between the time that aims was enunciated by Secretary Morgentheu in April and the present, the expenditures and commitments for defense have risen substantially, so that if the present measure became a law today, revenue would fall almost 50 percent below the amount necessary to finance the defense effort.

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Wonder what the final was?

[CougarGA7]

• "I am not the kind of person to accuse someone. However, it is often extremely annoying when one must fight the authoritative people for the clear and simple lines denoting the big and deciding questions. One would not believe how big the predilection is for discussing minor questions, that every day waste hours and hours, only to evade the big decisions until the last minute." - Franz Halder

• "With the destruction of the Russian divisions cut off at Smolensk, the three-week 'Battle at the Dnepr and Dvina and of Smolensk' has concluded in another brilliant victory for German arms and German fulfillment of duty. Taken as booty were: 309,110 prisoners, 3,205 captured or destroyed tanks, 3,000 [artillery] guns, 341 aircraft. The numbers are not yet complete. This deed of yours, too, has become part of history! It is with gratitude and pride that I look upon a force that is capable of such an accomplishment. Long Live the Führer!" - Field Marshal Bock's order to Army Group Centre on the completion of the battle for Smolensk

• Halder notes that support vehicles had already fallen out at a rate of 30 percent for requisitioned civilian vehicles, and 20 percent for military vehicles.