[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
Battle of Bataan, 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

[fso301]

It certainly is reassuring that Uncle Joe says he seeks no foreign soil. You see, he really is a swell guy.

[Snickering Hound]

May 1, Shokaku and Zuikaku weigh anchor in Truk and head south to support the amphibious invasion of Port Moresby. The invasion is prevented by the Battle of the Coral Sea.

[BroJoeK]

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During May of 1942:

• "More than 3,600 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto die of starvation. Nazis force their way into Jewish apartments in Warsaw, shoot and club the residents, and throw the bodies from windows.

• "A slave-labor camp opens near Minsk, Belorussia.

• "Small groups of Jewish youths manage to escape into the woods outside Lida and Stolpce, towns in Belorussia.

• "Slovakian Jews and resident Jews at Chelm are deported to the nearby Sobibór death camp and gassed.
  In addition, more than 36,000 Polish Jews from communities located between the Vistula and Bug rivers are gassed at Sobibór.

• "In the Eastern Galicia region of Poland, Jews aged 14 to 60 are driven to isolated spots and killed by hand grenades and machine guns after being forced to dig their own graves.
  Other victims of this Aktion include orphans, residents of old-age homes, and women in the streets.

• "Inmates at Auschwitz-Birkenau are put to work as slave laborers at the camp itself and at a synthetic-oil and rubber plant at nearby Monowitz.

• "Jewish women at Auschwitz-Birkenau are selected for medical experiments.

• "A Jewish inmate at a labor camp at Schwenningen, Germany, is buried in earth up to his shoulders as punishment for having an attack of diarrhea outside a barracks; after more than ten hours in the ground, the man dies.

• "A slave-labor camp opens at Maly Trostinets, Belorussia.

• "In Holland, a collaborationist auxiliary police unit, Vrijwillige Hulp-Politie (Volunteer Auxiliary Police), is established.
  It is charged with the roundup of Dutch Jews for deportation to the East.

• "Communist Jews in Paris initiate organized armed resistance to the Nazi occupiers.

• "The Bund (Jewish Labor Organization of Poland) appeals to the Polish government-in-exile in London to persuade the Allied governments to warn the German government about the consequences of the murder of the Polish Jews.
  The Bund's appeal contains detailed information concerning the systematic mass murder of Jews.
  It reports that 700,000 Polish Jews have already been executed.

• "2,600 Libyan Jews are deported to a forced-labor camp at Giado, Libya, to build roads for the military.

• "More than 1,750 Jews are deported from Tripoli, Libya, to forced-labor sites at the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Homs, and Derna.
  Hundreds perish from heat and hunger, and others die during Allied bombings after being forbidden to use air-raid shelters."

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