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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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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 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

July 22, 1942:

"German authorities and Ukrainian and Latvian guards in SS uniforms surround the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Mass deportations of Jews from Warsaw to the Treblinka death camp begin; personnel at the camp railway station are told to expect a "shuttle service" of Jews."

"Prisoners at Auschwitz were used to build the Birkenau killing center.
This picture shows crematorium IV, under construction.
Early on, the victims of the gas chambers were buried in pits.
As the pace of the killing intensified, the bodies were burned, first in the pits themselves and later in the crematoria.
Construction at Auschwitz-Birkenau was continuous from the winter of 1941 through the summer of 1944."

July 23, 1942:

"Adam Czerniaków, chairman of the Warsaw Ghetto's Jewish Council, commits suicide rather than acquiesce to German demands to prepare 6000 Jews each day for deportation.
"SS Senior Colonel General Viktor Brack advises Heinrich Himmler that all healthy Jews should be castrated or sterilized, and the remainder annihilated.
July 22-September 12, 1942: "265,000 Jews are deported from Warsaw to the Treblinka death camp, where they are exterminated."

"The ovens for crematorium II in Auschwitz-Birkenau, like those in the first crematorium, were built by prison inmates.
With a ready supply of labor and the confiscated wealth of European Jewry at their disposal, the Nazis had the necessary resources for their genocidal agenda."

Your piece # 6 from the New York Times (July 23, 1942) is absolutely sickening - so much so I couldn't believe what I was reading.

According to the story, some drowned German Nazi sailors whose bodies were recovered from a sunken U-boat were buried with military honors by Americans on American soil!!!

The bodies should have been burned and the remains unceremoniously dumped into the sea, like Osama bin Laden's was more recently.

And there should have been military discipline meted out to those Americans who were foolish enough to plan and carry out the ceremonies for the enemy military personnel whose insane goal was undeniably to spread the ideology of Hitler and Nazism to the entire world.