[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
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

[vicar7]

Interesting that in a 2 year overview of the War it is deemed a stalemate at this point. Of course there is winter coming on the Russian front which will be a killer for the Nazi military. Of course before the year ends America will join the battle to kill people and break things.

[BroJoeK]

September 3, 1941

• "First gassing tests in Auschwitz using Zyklon-B.
  The victims were Soviet prisoners of war and non-Jewish polish inmates.

• "Six hundred Soviet prisoners of war and 300 Jews are “euthanized” at Auschwitz.

• "Six Jews who refuse to serve on the Jewish Council at Dubossary, Ukraine, are publicly hanged.
  Later, 600 elderly Jews are driven into Dubossary’s eight synagogues and burned alive when the synagogues are set ablaze.

"Under the control of Einsatzgruppe B of the SS, these dejected Jewish men in Mogilev, Belorussia, march to forced labor or death.
The large size of the Star of David on their clothing suggests that this photograph may have been intended as part of a propaganda film, designed to fuel hatred of the Jew as a subhuman threat to society.
Oversized stars, signs hung around necks, degrading labor--all of these were filmed and photographed to transform human beings into the sorts of Jewish caricatures favored by Nazi cartoonists and illustrators."

[Lady Lucky]

Just finished a very good book: Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944, by Anna Reid.
It began 9/08/41. Seventy years ago. Over half a million died.

[CougarGA7]

• A Japanese liaison conference agreed that "if by the early part of October there is still no prospect of being able to obtain our demands, we shall immediately decide to open hostilities against the United States, Great Britain and the Netherlands."

• Experiments in gassing Jews began in Mogilev and Minsk

• Guderian, having seized bridgeheads over the Desna near Korop and Novgorod-Severskii begin to threaten Kirponos' rear area.