[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

[iowamark]

Homer, do you have more of the front page story on Charles Lindbergh's speech?

Lindbergh threatening the Jews in Des Moines on September 11 1941:

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy both for us and for them. Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastations. A few far-sighted Jewish people realize this and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not.

Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire. But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war.

We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

[fella]

Almost our entire merchant marine has been torpedoed by our congress and burdensome regulations. At the time these articles were written we had the largest merchant marine in the world and today we have a skeleton merchant marine. All those jobs lost.

[CougarGA7]

• Model's 3rd and Hube's 16th Panzer Divisions capture Lubna and Lokhvista and the 9th Panzer Division captures Mirgorod.

• Stavka appoints Timoshenko to replace Budenny as commander of the Southwestern Direction High Command.

• The deportation by Stalin of the Volga Germans to Siberia begins taking only two days.

• Zhukov arrives in Leningrad with trusted lieutenants Major-Generals I.I. Fediuninsky and M.S. Khozin.

[CougarGA7]

I wish I had more time to get into details of this, but notice that this is the second time now that there has been a front page story on unrest in Norway. The resistance in Norway is really starting to pick up steam now and is probably one of the more unknown but fascinating stories of the war. The website for the resistance, www.forsvarsbygg.no used to have a virtual tour, but I cant find it right now.

[BroJoeK]

September 13, 1941

• "Suspicious that the Allies may be decoding its radio messages, Berlin orders German commanders in the Soviet Union to send future reports of Nazi executions of Jews and other Soviet civilians by courier instead of radio.

• "Eleven members of the Jewish Council of Piotrkow, Poland, who had cooperated with the city’s Jewish underground, are executed following two months of Gestapo torture.

• "Charles and Anne Lindbergh, members of the America First Committee, attend a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Lindbergh blames the Jews for 'agitating for war...for reasons that are not American....
  Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.' "

"Distraught and terrified, these Jewish women struggle to recover from a severe beating at the hands of Romanians and/or Germans.
This violence was the first in a wave of persecution unleashed against the Jews of Bessarabia, Romania.
It was followed by deportation and death marches to camps in Transnistria, Romania.
Many did not survive the cruel journey, falling victim to shootings, hunger, and thirst.
Thousands perished by drowning in the Dniester River."