[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

[BroJoeK]

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August 13-27, 1942:

• "53,750 Jews from Warsaw are deported to the Treblinka death camp.

• "United States State Department officials and the British Foreign Office decide that the Riegner Cable outlining details of the Holocaust be kept secret."

"Head of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) in Warsaw, Adam Czerniaków was caught between the dictates of his conscience and the demands imposed upon him by the Nazis.
In late July 1942 new deportations were ordered with the goal of greatly reducing the ghetto.
When Czerniaków learned that even the children and orphans would not be spared, he decided to take his own life, writing in his diary:

'My heart trembles in sorrow and compassion. I can no longer bear all this.' "

"Calling for "freedom and honor," this flyer from the White Rose organization urges German youth to rise up against Nazi tyranny.
Devastated by the deaths of so many young men at the battle of Stalingrad, siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl and their circle of courageous friends struggled to change Germany's course.
Using carefully hidden duplicating machines and varying the sources for paper and ink, they printed leaflets that were distributed at the University of Munich and at other universities throughout Germany."

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[CougarGA7]

• Stalin hands Churchill a formal protest stating the British not creating a second front "complicates the situation of the Red Army at the front and compromises the plans of the Soviet command."