[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.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
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
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

[MestaMachine]

I thank you for posting these every day. We had an enemy. We named it. We knew it. And we fought it. Now, we can’t even identify it by name because our cic is one of them. The world has changed and our enemy lives in OUR house.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[BroJoeK]

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March 1942:

• "Nearly 5000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto die of starvation.

• "24,000 Jews from the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto are gassed at the Chelmno death camp.

• "The Nazis begin deportations from Central Europe to the death camp at Belzec, Poland.

• "In Norway, the Hirdens Bedriftsvern, a collaborationist, anti-Resistance unit, is created to protect Norwegian factories and infrastructure from saboteurs.

• "A Russian collaborationist group, Russian National People's Army, is established in Smolensk.

• "A brief article appears in the London press reporting that all Jews in Mariupol, Ukraine, have been killed.

• March 1: "The Nazis begin the construction of a new death camp at Sobibór, Poland.

• March 1-2: "Thousands of Belorussian Jews are transported to Koidanav, Belorussia, where they are murdered."

  
  "Inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria haul cartloads of dirt and stones for the construction of the "Russian Camp."
  Located outside the main prison camp, the Russian Camp housed Soviet POWs.
  The conditions within this installation were particularly harsh.
  The Russian camp had its own perimeter of barbed wire, and the inmates lived in rude huts close to Mauthausen's notorious rock quarry.
  A convenient thoroughfare connected the Russian camp to the main-camp gas chamber, morgue, and crematorium.
  Nazi guards were particularly harsh to Soviet noncommissioned officers who had escaped from other camps and been recaptured.
  Of the 5000 Soviet POWs who arrived in the first shipment in 1941, only about 80 were still living in March 1942."

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[fso301]

I wonder to what extent the British officer mentioned in the last paragraph on pg18 was speaking literally when he spoke of cannibalism by the Japanese?

There are known instances of non-survival based cannibalism by Japanese forces.