[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
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

[BroJoeK]

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July 13-15, 1942:

• "Several thousand Jews of Rovno, Ukraine, are rounded up and executed in the streets by Einsatzgruppen."

Police Battalion 101:

"As dawn broke on July 13, 1942, Major Wilhelm Trapp, 53, the beloved commander of German Reserve Police Battalion 101, addressed his men near Jozefów, a village with 1800 Jews in the Generalgouvernement of Nazi-occupied Poland.
Mostly middle-aged family men who had been in Poland less than three weeks, these members of the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) heard the teary-eyed major explain that the battalion had orders to round up Jozefów's Jews.
They were to select the able-bodied males for labor, and then shoot everyone else--women, children, and the elderly.

"Trapp's explanation included a significant option: Those Ordnungspolizei who could not perform the task did not have to kill. Murder, in other words, was not mandatory.
About a dozen members of the 500-man battalion accepted this offer.
The rest murdered 1500 of Jozefów's Jews.
By the end of 1943, Reserve Police Battalion 101 (members pictured) --in conjunction with other Order Police killing units--had shot 38,000 Jews and helped to deport another 45,000 to Treblinka.

"Using postwar interrogation records, Holocaust scholar Christopher Browning's book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland documents this history and explores one of the Holocaust's most fundamental questions: How could apparently normal persons become mass murderers?"

"A number of Jews are being buried in the Jewish cemetery in Siedlce, Poland.
The Germans forced the local firemen, among them the man who took this photograph, Tadeusz Castelli, to bury the bodies."

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[BroJoeK]

Headline:

"RELIEF RECIPIENTS BEING PUT TO WORK IN USEFUL CITY JOBS

"4,259 Assigned to Projects in Parks, Hospitals, Clearing Weeds and as Watchmen...

"Only the Physically Unfit Will Be Excused -- Pay Equal to Former Allowances"

Well now, isn't that a good idea?
I'll bet it proves so sensible that even 70 years later, to the very day, no US President would dare to even think of eliminating such a policy.

I mean, after all, isn't that why we're going to war, to defeat National Socialism?

;-)

[CougarGA7]