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
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general discussion thread Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Southeast Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941
Malaya, 1941: Topography-Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-January 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Operations of the Japanese First Air Fleet, 7 December 1941-12 March 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – American Carrier Operations, 7 December 1941-18 April 1942
Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive-Japanese Fourth Fleet and South Seas Detachment Operations, December 1941-April 1942
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Centrifugal Offensive, 10 December 1941-6 May 1942-Fourteenth Army Operations on Luzon
Netherlands East Indies, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-April 1942, Sixteenth Army and Southern Force (Navy) Operations
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
North Africa, Auchinleck’s Offensive, 18 November-31 December 1941
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
The Mediterranean Basin
Mid-December 1941:
"Hitler appoints himself supreme commander of the German Armed Forces."
December 16, 1941:
"Hans Frank, governor-general of Occupied Poland, notes in his diary that some 3,500,000 Jews live in the region under his control; See January 25, 1944."
"As part of an effort to attract German companies to the Warsaw Ghetto, German soldiers film Jewish women at work in a textile factory.
Recognizing the need to bring money into the ghetto to pay for food and medical supplies, the Judenrat (Jewish Council) strove to provide the companies with skilled workers, an effort hampered by the unwillingness of the companies to pay even minimally acceptable wages."
Yes FDR lied about the aftermath of Pearl harbor.
There was a church in SoCal where the pastor was showing the familiar newsreel footage of the disaster that we all are familiar with today. Family who were in SoCal at the time say that the FBI came and seized the film so people would not know how bad things were, but by then the news was out.