[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

[fso301]

I’m not what the significance is of the increased mention in these articles of Soviets shifting reserves from the east and of the upcoming Russian winter.

[BroJoeK]

October 15, 1941

"German authorities in Poland decree that any Jew found outside a designated ghetto will be shot. Further, any non-Jewish Pole who aids a Jew will be executed."

"The victims of Nazi massacres were almost always buried in mass graves, such as this one in Yugoslavia containing the bodies of Jews and Gypsies murdered by the 750th Infantry Regiment in October 1941.
As part of an effort to conceal their horrific crimes, the Nazis would later dig up many of these mass graves so that the bodies could be burned.
This is yet another example of atrocity compounded by stupidity.
To unearth mass graves was a monumental undertaking, as the Nazis had been filling them across Europe for months.
Many graves remained untouched until discovered by Allied troops, and even when remains had been exhumed by Germans, considerable physical evidence remained at overburdened ovens and ineffectual outdoor pyres."