[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

[BroJoeK]

August 19

"Einsatzkommando 8 as well as local collaborators in Mogilev, Belorussia, kill more than 3000 Jews."

"These two images portray Jews of Lvov, Ukraine, in July 1941.
Jews have been rounded up in Lvov, Ukraine, in July 1941 to be murdered.
A truck carries the bodies of executed Lvov Jews en route to burial.
Most likely, the men accompanying the corpses later buried them.
If they were Jews, they were probably shot at the end of their burial detail."

[fella]

My Dad was sent to South America to build the airfields to ship those planes across the Atlantic. For some reason our government got him a house that overlooked the German embassy in Bolivia and sent him into the jungle numerous times. My older brothers who were there said it was to recover nordan bomb-sights from crashed planes.

[CougarGA7]

• "It is not tolerable that the life of the peoples of the continent should depend upon England. The Ukraine, and then the Volga basin, will one day be the granaries of Europe. We shall reap much more than what actually grows from the soil...If one day Sweden declines to supply any more iron, that's alright. We'll get it from Russia." - Adolf Hitler

• "We talked about the Jewish problem. The Führer is convinced that his earlier prophecy in the Reichstag is proving correct, that if the Jews succeed again in provoking another world war it would end with the annihilation of the Jews. This is being proved in these weeks and months with an apparently eerie certainty. In the east the Jews must pay for this..." - Joseph Goebbels

• Admiral G.V. Zhukov is placed in command of the Odessa Defensive Region.

• The Stavka alters the defenses around Kiev first by ordering Kirponos to withdraw Potapov's 5th Army back across the Dnepr where it is to defend the west bank. Vlasov's 37th Army is assigned to defend a bridgehead around Kiev, and Lieutenant-General K.P. Podlas's 40th Army is deployed between the 21st and 13th Armies to protect the north from Guderian.