[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
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[agere_contra]

The Battle of El Alamein (Hanson Baldwin) on Page 9 is particularly gripping.

Right now it really sounds like the Axis forces will push through to Cairo. A pivotal battle.

[PeterPrinciple]

REICH FLOATING DEBT UP

Now 69,5;70,000,000 Reichsmarks, Official Agency Says.

Berlin - From German broadcast - The floating debt of the Rich rose in April by 2,710,000,000 reichsmarks to 69,570,000,000 reicshmarks, DNB offical German news agency said today.

The increase, the agency added, was mostly due to greater circulation of non-interesting bearing Treasury bonds and Reich bills, which rose by 2,240,000,000 reichsmarks.

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Remember the Jews were only allowed to invest in govt securities. Never thought the Nazis would be bold enough to offer non interest bearing bonds. But then we are close to that now.

[Western Phil]

More detail on the treason case, from: http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/November-2010/Books-lsquoNo-Ordinary-Crime-rsquo/

“Before he met Stephan, Krug arrived at the east-side flat of Margareta Bertelmann, a German immigrant whose address Krug remembered from packages she sent to POWs in the Canadian camp. She also supplied him with money and clothing.

Stephan was charged with treason, convicted, and sentenced to hang. Bertelmann couldn’t be charged with treason because she wasn’t an American citizen, and was sent to an enemy alien camp in Texas.

Although Michigan had long abolished the death penalty, this was a federal crime. The case was a sensation, in no small part because this was only the second time in U.S. history in which the defendant was sentenced to die for treason. The first was during the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1790s, but the two convicted men were pardoned by President George Washington.

Eight hours before he was scheduled to swing, Stephan received clemency, too. President Franklin D. Roosevelt commuted his sentence to life in prison, which is where Stephan died of bowel cancer in 1952.”