[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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Japanese Advance, 21 July-16 Sept. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 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

[C19fan]

A good writer could turn the little story about the arrest of the Russian Tsarist industralist supposedly turned Soviet spy into a spy novel. Kidnappings, double agents, and perhaps honey traps. It has it all!

[fso301]

Interesting P7 article about Serge Tretiakoff. This use by the Soviets of ostensibly virulent anti-communists as spies and agents would repeat itself many times around the world.

[BroJoeK]

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August 5, 1942:

• "SS troops in Radom, Poland, shoot 600 older people and children as well as hundreds of other Jews found in hiding places.
  Six thousand Jews from the city's small ghetto and 2,000 from the large ghetto are deported to the Treblinka death camp.

• "The Jewish community at Pilica, Poland, is liquidated."

"Inmates work in a chemical factory at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Manufacturers at the site utilized slave labor to staff their enterprises.
Inmates greatly coveted positions of skilled labor.
Italian author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi attributed his survival to being a trained chemist.
Levi's skills relieved him of the torturous heavy labor that consumed so many lives."

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