[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

[PzLdr]

Heydrich isn’t a “Deputy Gestapo Chief”. He was Chief of the RSHA,which was comprised of the Sicherpolizei [Gestapo and Criminal Police], and the SS SD, of which he was also Chief.

The Chief of the Gestapo was SS Lieutenant General Heinrich Mueller.Heydrich was his boss.

[BroJoeK]

October 4, 1941

"Fifteen hundred Jews from Kovno, Lithuania, are transported to the Ninth Fort and murdered.
In Kovno proper, Nazis lock the Jewish hospital and set it ablaze, incinerating all inside."

"Christian Wirth was a central figure in the Nazi extermination programs.
Wirth joined the NSDAP in 1931 and worked for the Stuttgart division of the Gestapo (the Secret Police).
As a member of the T-4 euthanasia program, Wirth experimented with gassing those classified as unfit for human life.
He organized the first euthanasia installations outside of Germany and supervised the killing installations at the Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibór, and Treblinka death camps.
He was assassinated by Yugoslav partisans in 1944."

[CougarGA7]

• "On 4 October I reported to Stalin about the situation in the Western Front and about the enemy penetration of the Reserve Front... and also about the threat of a large enemy grouping reaching our forces' rear area...Stalin listened to me, however, made no decision. Communications were disrupted and further conversation ceased." - Lieutenant-General Konev