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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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"How much longer? I have no great hope that it will be soon. The distances in Russia devour us." - Field Marshall Rundstedt
"Only after these threats [encirclement of Leningrad and objectives in the Ukraine] to our ranks have been entirely overcome and armoured formations have been rehabilitated will it be possible to continue the offensive, on a wide front and with echeloning of both flanks, against the strong enemy forces which have been concentrated for the defense of Moscow. The object of the operation must then be to deprive the enemy, before the coming of winter, of his government, armament, and traffic centre around Moscow, and thus prevent the rebuilding of his defeated forces and the orderly working of government control." Adolf Hitler, War Directive 34a
The OKH orders Rundstedt to destroy all Soviet forces between Zaporozh'e and the mouth of the Dnepr to trap the 9th, 18th, and Coastal Armies against the Black Sea.
The meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland ends with the two respective ships heading to their own ports.

Interesting side note on the laying down of the keel for the USS Cabot in the Two Ocean Fleet article. The Cabot was laid down last month in a shipyard in Massachusetts. This ship is to be designated CV-16. When the Lexington (CV-2) is sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea, a campaign is begun to change the name on CV-16 which was almost completed by this time to Lexington. Thus, this ship would become the second Lexington carrier to see extensive action in the Pacific during the war.

August 12

"Chava and Jadzia Liwer received a gift of life on June 24, 1941: a Polish passport issued in Tokyo, Japan.
The certificate was obtained by Abram Liwer, husband of Chava and father of Jadzia.
The Liwer family had fled their native Bedzin, Poland, on August 20, 1939, and resettled in Lvov, Ukraine.
When Chava and Jadiza were deported to Siberia, Abram Liwer fled to Vilna and then later to Kovno, Lithuania.
In Kovno he obtained the passport for his wife and daughter and a visa for himself.
The family was reunited in Tokyo on April 1, 1941."

"Of physicians among the Yugoslavian partisans, the vast majority were Jewish.
Dr. Rosa Papo, a Yugoslavian Jewish partisan, served as the first woman general in the Yugoslavian Army."