[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]

[iowamark]

Re: 50 dollar per month pay for servicemen. Equivalent to $706 in 2012 dollars.

US military enlisted pay starts at $1491 in 2012. This excludes housing, substinance, uniforms, of course.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

http://www.navycs.com/2012-military-pay-chart.html

[PeterPrinciple]

Churchmen who defy Hitler

In the days when Quislings were carrying on their traitorous activities, priests refused to countenance Masses for those “martyrs” who were shot, but with every show of reverence and respect they continued to bury dead British airmen. Cardinal van Roey forbade his priests to give communion to any pro-German in uniform or to sanction masses for the dead. He would not even permit uniforms in church.

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We have been told that the churches would not stand up to Hitler and supported him. Another left lie of history.

Also, this is the first time I have seen the word Quisling used. He has aready made his mark in history it seems.

[InMemoriam]

In grim occupied Europe, the mood is lifted in one tiny corner for a birthday party for a newly-minted teenager. Her loving dad shows a Rin-Tin-Tin movie at her party, and she gets the autograph book she wanted, that she saw in a store window. She immediately repurposes it as a diary.

Although she died in a concentration camp before her sixteenth birthday, Time Magazine has called her one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century, based on what she wrote in the autograph book. You may have it on your shelf, and can read what she wrote today, and later as she pondered WWII life.

Happy Birthday, Anne.

[BroJoeK]

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June 12, 1942:

• "Jewish babies, children, and elderly of Khmel'nik, Ukraine, are shot in a nearby forest.

• "Anne Frank turns 13 years old."

"This destitute girl, perhaps dead, lies on a street in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Notice the people who casually walk by.
Starvation became so common in Warsaw that several Jewish physicians undertook a self-study of the effects of famine that resulted from the horrible conditions imposed by the Germans.
They considered the study an act of resistance performed to commemorate the dead.
One of the doctors involved insisted that the study was proof that 'not all of me shall die!' "

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