[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

[icwhatudo]

Very interesting stuff on Finland. If anyone else has more info or links about Finnish involvement in WW2 (Were they ideological allies of the Nazi’s or just looking for help from anyone who would give it?) I would appreciate it. Thanks!

[CougarGA7]

[BroJoeK]

November 1941:

• "More than 15,000 Serbian Jews deported to a concentration camp at Sajmiste, Yugoslavia, are later killed in mobile gassing units disguised as Red Cross vans.

• A Jewish ghetto is established at Brest-Litovsk, Belorussia.

• Thousands of German-Jewish deportees arrive in Minsk, Belorussia.

• Newspapers in London and New York report Nazi murders of 52,000 Jews in Kiev, Ukraine.

• Construction of an extermination center begins at Belzec, Poland.

• A Jewish ghetto at Grodno, Belorussia, is established.

• A Nazi-sanctioned concentration camp opens at Hadjerat-M'Guil, North Africa."