[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

[CougarGA7]

• Ermakov's group launches a counterattack in an attempt to close a wedge created by Guderian's forces. His forces are only committed piecemeal and fails. By noon, Lemelsen's XXXXVII Motorized Corps captures Sevsk.

[BroJoeK]

September 26, 1941

"Jews of Swieciany, Lithuania, are massacred in the nearby Polygon Woods.
Several hundred young Jewish men manage to escape."

Massacre at Babi Yar
"Days after the German Army captured Kiev, Ukraine, the bloodiest shooting massacre of the Holocaust took place on the outskirts of that city.
Over the course of two days in September 1941, Einsatzgruppen and Security Police commandos slaughtered more than 33,000 of Kiev's Jews at a ravine called Babi Yar.

"When a series of explosions and fires in Kiev killed many German soldiers and destroyed army headquarters, Jews were blamed. In retaliation, German authorities posted a sign announcing a supposed "resettlement" of the city's Jews.
Under threat of death, more than 30,000 were marched to the Jewish cemetery.
From there they were marched in small groups to Babi Yar.

"Stripped of all clothing, the trembling Jews were led into the ravine.
Ordered to lie down, each was shot in the back of the head.
The massacre continued uninterruptedly.
New victims were forced to lie on those already dead.
Corpses stacked up in layers.
A survivor recalled being miraculously untouched by the bullets but, clutching her son to her naked body, fell under "a heap of warm, bloody bodies.
The bodies of old men rested on the bodies of children, who lay on the bodies of their dead mothers."
Commander Paul Blobel later attempted to obliterate all traces of the massacre.

[BroJoeK]

September 27, 1941

"Heydrich made 'Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.'

"More than 3200 Jews of Ejszyszki, Lithuania, are executed at pits on the outskirts of the city."

"Among the most infamous mass executions perpetrated by the Germans during the war was that at Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev, Ukraine.
On September 29 and 30, 1941, the Germans, with the aid of Ukrainian collaborators, rounded up and executed 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar.
This massacre was one of many carried out by German Einsatzkommandos and police regiments following the invasion of the Soviet Union."

[BroJoeK]

September 28, 1941

"Jews at Kiev, Ukraine, are ordered to assemble for 'resettlement.' "

"Paul Blobel was commander of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C, which carried out numerous atrocities in the Ukraine during the summer and fall of 1941, among them the Babi Yar massacre.
He also headed another enormous massacre at Kharkov, Ukraine, in late December 1941.
More than 21,600 Jews were slaughtered."