[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
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942

[fso301]

Interesting threat by Churchill to use gas.

A passage in Otto skorzeny's "My Commando Operations" tells of Soviet threats to use gas unless the Germans stopped using some sort of oxygen/liquid oxygen related ordinance in the Moscow sector circa 1941. I've never been able to determine the veracity of Skorzeny's statement, or what sort of weapon he might have been referring to.

[ml/nj]

Interesting to see that the NY Times referred to David Ben-Gurion as a "Palestinian"!

ML/NJ

[CougarGA7]

• "I talked over the insignia matter with the Chief of Staff, Ground Forces today. Fortunately, I have with me the Deputy Chief of Staff from the British Army in Egypt. I quote him as follows: 'but you know , you must have the vehicles marked. You must have a sign on it. Yes, of course you must.' I got the promise that something was going to be done about it!" - Dwight Eisenhower to George S. Patton on Patton's concerns over vehicles being unidentifiable as to which unit they belonged to.

[CougarGA7]

[BroJoeK]

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May 9, 1942:

• "The Jews of Markuszow, Poland, led by Shlomo Goldwasser, Mordechai Kirshenbaum, and brothers Yaakov and Yerucham Gothelf, escape to nearby forests; See October 1942."

• "American poet Ezra Pound, who is working for the Fascist Italian government, broadcasts from Italy: "You would do better to inoculate your children with typhus and syphilis" than allow more Jews into the United States.
  America, Pound continues, is ruled by Jews and their allies, who are "the dirtiest dirt from the bottom of the Jew's ash can."

"This woman resided in Kerch in the Crimean Peninsula of the Soviet Union.
The Jews of Crimea were murdered up through April 1942.
That month the Germans declared the Crimea judenrein (cleansed of Jews)."

"The Markuszów (Poland) Ghetto was liquidated on May 9, 1942, a day when the ghetto's remaining 1500 Jews were deported to the Sobibor death camp.
This and other May deportations from ghettos in the region signaled the beginning of Sobibor's mass-extermination program.
However, a few of Markuszow's Jews escaped to the Parczew Forest, located about 25 miles northeast of the city.
There, men and women--ill-trained, poorly armed, and underfed--organized as partisans and resolved to take the measure of their persecutors."

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May 11-12, 1942:

• "American Zionists participating in the Biltmore Conference at New York City's Biltmore Hotel demand that Jews be given sovereignty over Palestine.
  The demand is ignored by Britain, which controls Palestine.

• "Alter Dworetsky, a member of the Jewish Council at Diatlovo, Belorussia, escapes to a nearby forest, only to be shot to death by Soviet partisans after refusing to hand over his pistol."

"Prominent Soviet Jews, at the behest of their government, established the Jewish Antifascist Committee in April 1942.
Its function was to rally Western Jews behind the Soviet Union's effort to resist the Nazi invasion.
Pictured here, at a rally held in New York City's Polo Grounds, are writer Itzik Fefer (center) and the committee chairman, Shlomo Mikhoels (right).
The Jewish Antifascist Committee also attempted to document the experience of Soviet Jewry during the Holocaust, but Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin thwarted these efforts, eventually disbanding the committee in 1948."

"From May 10 to 12, 1942, about 1500 Jews were sent from Sosnowiec, Poland, to Auschwitz, the first of several deportations from that city.
In August 1943 the Nazis deported Sosnowiec's remaining 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz."

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[PAR35]

Thanks for your efforts on this.