[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]

[iowamark]

The mini submarine attack on Sydney was part of the Japanese attempt to distract from the upcoming attack on Midway.

[C19fan]

Hard to conceive what it would be like to have to go through a fire storm. I was watching one of those History channel shows and the RAF Bomber Command pilots talked about how they could smell charred humans brought up by the updrafts from the storm.

[BroJoeK]

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June 1942:

• "The World Jewish Congress, based in New York, announces at a press conference that Eastern Europe is being turned into "a vast slaughterhouse for Jews."

• "At the Belzec and Sobibór death camps, more than 23,000 Jews are gassed.

• "A young Sosnowiec Jew named Harry Blumenfrucht endures two weeks of Nazi torture, refusing to name his co-conspirators in a scheme to steal weapons.
  His suffering ends when he is hanged.

• "Auschwitz is ravaged by an epidemic of typhus.

• "Germans invade Jewish hospitals in Sosnowiec, Poland, murdering newborns and tearing patients from operating tables.
  Ambulatory patients are sent to Auschwitz and gassed.

• "Jews from Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, led by Rabbi Isaac and gathered in a Jewish cemetery, defy their Nazi captors when they hold hands, dance, and drink "to life."
  The enraged Germans shoot and disembowel the entire group.

• "Four thousand Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto die of starvation.

• "At Lutsk, Ukraine, Jewish resistance is led by Joel Szczerbat.

• "Three thousand Jews at Pilica, Poland, are deported to Belzec, but several hundred manage to escape before the journey is complete.

• "In Norway, Jews are given identity cards stamped with the letter "J."

• "In Yugoslavia, a collaborationist paramilitary force, Heimwehr (Home Defense), is established.

• "Mordecai Gebirtig, a Kraków carpenter whose songs of freedom are sung throughout Poland, is executed at Belzec.

June 1, 1942:

• "Polish Jews are deported from Hrubieszów to the Sobibór death camp.
  Another 500 will be deported the following week.

• "Warsaw's underground newspaper, Liberty Barricade, published by the Polish Socialist Party, reveals Nazi gassing activity at the Chelmno death camp.

• "I.G. Farben's Buna-Monowitz synthetic-rubber and oil works opens near Auschwitz.

• June 1-6, 1942: "Seven thousand Jews from Kraków, Poland, are murdered at the Belzec exterminationcamp.

"A German and a local militiaman shoot Jews outside a Ukrainian village.
The SS often received help from auxiliary forces to carry out the mass executions that were part of the "Final Solution."
In the Ukraine, members of the local populace eagerly participated in these murderous campaigns.
The relaxed men in this picture appear as if they are hunting birds, not human beings."

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[CougarGA7]

Luidmila Pavilchnko will end up with 309 confirmed kills including 39 other snipers. Some of the best snipers the Soviets had during the war were women.

[CougarGA7]

• After conferring with Hitler, Speer reports that since the project would take 3 to 4 years it was not worth pursuing the atomic bomb project and the program was scuttled. Unknown to the allies, the Germans had given up on making an atomic bomb.

• The army, navy and FBI agree to divide the cryptanalytical work. The army would focus on "MAGIC" intercepts, the FBI would work on clandestine radio transmitters, and the navy would concentrate on Japanese naval traffic.

• The Main Force of the Japanese Midway attack group are scheduled to rendezvous with their oilers in preparation for the final move into position. As they reach the meeting point, their oilers are nowhere to be found. Planes are launched from the Hosho to try and find their tenders, but poor weather and visibility leads to them coming up empty. At this point the tanker chain radio's its position to the Yamato so they can meet up.

• A U.S. Navy flying boat exchanges machine gun fire with a Japanese patrol plane 500 miles north-northest of Wotje. This implies that to the Japanese that the Midway has extended its patrols out to 700 miles.

[CougarGA7]