[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

[BroJoeK]

October 9, 1941

"Hans Frank, governor-general of Occupied Poland, tells ministers of the German Generalgouvernement that Jews 'must be done away with one way or another.' "

"A mother holds her newborn baby in the Kovno (Lithuania) Ghetto hospital.
A Jewish star is sewn onto the child's blanket, marking the baby for probable death just minutes after he or she was born.
Of the 30,000 original residents of the Kovno Ghetto, which was established in the summer of 1941, less than ten percent survived."

[CougarGA7]

• "I was constantly impressed by the high morale, technical proficiency and devotion to duty of the personnel of the 2d Armored Division...Your leadership has produced a fighting organization." Lt. General Walter Krueger, Third Army Commander to George S. Patton

• Vannevar Bush carries the MAUD report directly to FDR which leads the president to endorse the creation of an atomic bomb.