[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

[EEGator]

Where do you get these?

[fso301]

Interesting p4 mention of new German tactics and the p6 mention that large scale encirclement of the Red Army is not possible.

[C19fan]

Did anybody else noticed the little article about the Wehrmacht using larger combined arms units?

Also the little article where the Germans admit their whole strategy of encirclement has been a failure. The Germans were obsessed from the late 19th century onwards with destroying their enemy in massive Cannae type battle. Form my understanding of Operation Blue Ivan finally learned not to let themselves get encircled so Germans captured lots of vast spaces in the endless steppe but their actual take of soldiers and equipment was severely disappointing.

[tcrlaf]

“Rzhev Is Where I Died” by the State Academic Russian Choir
http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=The+State+Academic+Russian+Choir+conducted+by+A.V.+Sveshnikov+Rzhev+is+where+I+died

Based on a poem written by Soviet War Correspondent Aleksandr Tvardovsky.

Rzhev is the battle that will bleed the Russian Army, throwing huge numbers against the much smaller German forces for the next several months.

The Soviets took well over 800,000 casualties here in the course of just a few months. Zukov’s operations here was such a disaster, (”The Rzhev Meat Grinder”, Operation Mars) they were literally stricken from Soviet records for decades, until the were finally acknowledged in 1989.

In 2009, a TV movie was made called, Rzhev: Marshal Zhukov’s Unknown Battle”. It made no attempt to cover up the huge losses suffered by Soviet forces, and as a consequence, there were public calls in Russia for the arrest of some of those involved in its production.

It brought back too many inconvenient memories.

[BroJoeK]

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July 14, 1942:

• "Thousands of Dutch Jews are arrested in Amsterdam and deported to Auschwitz, where many are gassed.

• The Przemysl, Poland, ghetto is sealed by the Nazis."

'The news bulletin of the United Romanian Jews of America published reports of atrocities committed against Romanian Jewry as early as June 1942.
Printed in New York City and distributed throughout the United States, the headline proclaimed the "Mass Execution of Jews" and queried the government's policy of silence.
Pleas such as this were typical of Jewish organizations throughout the United States.''

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[CougarGA7]

• The Working Committee of the National Congress in India adopts a resolution proposed by Gandhi that calls for the British to "Quit India" immediately, but allows for Allied forces to remain.