[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 .)
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

[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

[The Sons of Liberty]

I know I must’ve asked this before, but why is a 70 year old headline in being posted here?

[Former Proud Canadian]

$7 for a suite at the Gramarcy Park Hotel? Wow, I thought New York was expensive. I’m packing my bags right now!

[CougarGA7]

• Plant relocations from Leningrad begin. 92 plants will be relocated before the city is surrounded.

[Fiji Hill]

This week, I didn’t do too well on the news quiz. Out of 29 possible answers, I missed nine, for a grade of D+.

[BroJoeK]

October 6 - 7, 1941

"The majority of Jews in Dvinsk, Latvia, are murdered."

"These Jews, confined to a German work camp in Occupied Russia, chisel the mortar off the bricks of destroyed buildings.
As the Germans made their way through the Soviet Union, they wrought such havoc that many structures had to be rebuilt from scratch, often making use of the materials left in the Wehrmacht's wake."

[BroJoeK]

October 5, 1941

"Wilhelm Kube was a Nazi official who was appointed Generalkommissar of Belorussia in 1941.
One of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, Kube was a Nazi deputy in the Weimar Republic's Reichstag before Hitler's ascension to power in 1933.
A political figure to the end, Kube opposed SS deportations and mass murder because he didn't want more Jews brought into his area.
He was assassinated by a Russian partisan disguised as a housemaid in September 1943."

[Fiji Hill]

The article on the Baltic states is by Frank Kluckhohn who would serve under President Eisenhower in the State Department and then write a book excoriating the Kennedy administration entitled America: Listen! (Derby, Conn.: Monarch, 1961).