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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 .)
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

"The armoured units are so battle-weary and worn-out that there can be no question of mass operative mission until they have been completely replenished and repaired." - Army Group Centre war diary
"Throughout the whole day the enemy had complete air superiority. The division has until now heavy losses through bombing attacks." - 7th Panzer Division
"We have suffered greatly under the Russian artillery fire and we must live day and night in our foxholes in order to gain protection from shrapnel. The holes are full of water. Lice and other types of vermin have already snuck in." - Corporal W.F. on the eastern front.
"Yesterday was a day so immersed in blood, so full of dead and wounded, so blasted by crackling salvoes, shrapnel from shells and groans and shrieks of the wounded, that I can not yet write about it...As if by a wonder I was drawn from the heaviest fighting in the afternoon and remain until now unhurt...At any rate my old non-commissioned officer Grabke and many other comrades are dead" - Harald Henry, a German soldier on the eastern front

August 22

"Joining his colleagues Burton Wheeler and Champ Clark in condemning Jewish influence in Hollywood, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota zeroed in on the "Yiddish controllers" of American theater and movies.
Nye was adamant that the United States should stay out of the war and not allow the Jews to drag America into the conflict.
Hollywood films, he believed, were swaying American public opinion to the interventionist point of view."

"A German Army patrol searches "suspicious" civilians in Baranovichi, Belorussia.
The faces of the German officer and his men reveal that they are enjoying exercising their power of life and death over civilians.
At first, orders emanating from Berlin required German Armed Forces to execute Communists, partisans, and Jews.
Unlike these other categories of people to be killed, Jews were on the death list not because of anything they did, but simply because they were born Jews."