[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
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

[AU72]

The next few weeks mark the Nazi high water mark on the Western Front.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Left column of the front page mentions rationing to begin in earnest.

Here’s a bit about rationing:

http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm

And here’s a radio special dealing with rationing (George Burns / Gracie Allen): http://ia601208.us.archive.org/28/items/1942OwiMileageRationingProgram/1942-12-01-SYN-Special-OWI-Mileage-Rationing-Program-Jack-Benny-Dinah-Shore-Eddie-Cantor-Burns-Allen.mp3

It is undated, but is relevant to the article.

[BroJoeK]

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September 1 1942:

• during September 1942: "Fourteen thousand Jews are taken to gravel pits at Piatydni, Ukraine, and machine-gunned.

• "Moshe Skoczylas and Michael Majtek form Jewish partisan units at Dzialoszyce, Poland.

• "German troops reach the Caucasus and begin exterminations of indigenous Jews.

• "SS chief Heinrich Himmler suggests that camp inmates be put to work in on-site arms factories.
  Armaments chief Albert Speer objects,offering a compromise accepted by Hitler:
  Himmler's inmates will be made available to Speer for labor in conventional arms factories.

• "New York Congressman Emanuel Celler, a Jew, submits legislation to allow French Jews about to be deported to their deaths in Eastern Europe to immigrate to the United States.
  The bill is killed by the House Committee on Immigration.

• "As Jews are being deported from France to their deaths in the Third Reich, the Vichy Ministry of Information urges the press to remember "the true teaching of Saint Thomas and the Popes...the general and traditional teaching of the Catholic Church about the Jewish problem."

• Early September 1942: "An SS guard on a deportation train headed for the Belzec death camp shoots and kills Jadzia Beer, a Polish girl from Jaworów, after her skirt becomes caught in a railcar window and she dangles helplessly from the window.

• On September 1, 1942: "Thousands of Jews from Stry, Ukraine, are murdered at the Belzec death camp.

• "Security forces raid five hospitals in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, evacuating and slaughtering patients. Babies are thrown out of an upper- story windows, some bayoneted before they hit the ground.

• "A German shepherd that licks the face of a Jewish baby at the Treblinka extermination camp is savagely beaten by its SS master before the guard tramples the baby to death."

"This poster is a painful commemoration of the fate of Polish Jewry during the first three years of the Nazi occupation.
The Hebrew text reads, "Polish Jewry Day: September 1, 1939-September 1, 1942."
No group in World War II Europe suffered as profoundly as Poland's Jews, who by their very numbers were marked by the Nazis as special targets.
From the time that the German Army first occupied Poland in September 1939, Polish Jews were systematically herded into crowded ghettos, deprived of life's essentials, and subject to summary executions.
Beginning in the spring of 1942, Polish Jews were deported to Nazi death facilities.
Of the more than 3.3 million Polish Jews alive in September 1939, three million were dead by 1945."

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[fso301]

I don't see how the Germans have enough time to take Stalingrad and establish wintertime defensive positions along the front before the Volga and Don freeze solid.

I also thought that p1 article about workers in the German war industry receiving compulsory communal meals was very interesting. Since a state of total war existed, most every German worker would have been required to eat all their meals at work. Since the nazis didn't take too kindly to adults who were unable/unwilling to work, this would mean most of the nation ate communally. I don't think I've ever before heard mention of such situation.

[Yo-Yo]

Just want to say that I’ve been reading your daily newspaper posts for quite a long time now, and I can’t wait to read how this war thing turns out...

Thanks for the daily dose of History.

[jan in Colorado]

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