[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]

[AmericanInTokyo]

Keep up these posts, please. Fascinating stuff. Including the ads, too (Wowie! $2.50 a night hotel room in mid-town, probably even with a heater).

[BroJoeK]

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January 21, 1942:

"Jews in the Vilna (Lithuania) Ghetto establish the Unified Partisan Organization to resist Nazi terror."

"Wannsee, outside Berlin, was a beautiful location, and the leaders of the Third Reich met there frequently, most importantly for the infamous January 1942 conference.
This photo shows some of the leaders of the Third Reich's immense police apparatus.
From the left they are: Kurt Daluege, head of the Order Police; Karl Wolff, chief of Heinrich Himmler's personal staff; Himmler, head of the SS; Captain Bonin of the Order Police; Field Marshal Erhard Milch; SD chief Reinhard Heydrich, who was put in charge of implementing the "Final Solution"; and Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger, chief of police in the Generalgouvernement."

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[CougarGA7]

• An Australian Catalina piloted by Flight Lieutenant Robert H. Thompson spots the Japanese invasion fleet off the coast of Kaveing, New Ireland. He radios the information to Port Moresby before being shot down by the fleets protective screen of Zeros.

• Japanese troops land at Balikpapan on Borneo.