[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
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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September 23, 1942:

• "Hundreds of Jews from Slovakia and 641 from France are gassed at Auschwitz.

• "At the Treblinka death camp, 10,000 Jews from Szydlowiec, Poland, are killed.

• "British Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison opposes any further admission of Jewish immigrants into Britain.
  He fears this would encourage the French Vichy government to "dump" Jewish children into Britain."

"This badge of a Jewish policeman in the Czestochowa (Poland) Ghetto was issued by the local Jewish Council.
When the ghetto was liquidated in September 1942, nearly 40,000 Jews were deported to the Treblinka death camp.
This massive operation spawned a resistance movement that engaged in successful operations against the German Army."

"The liquidation of the Czestochowa (Poland) Ghetto in September 1942 prompted the officials of the Generalgouvernement to issue a decree about harboring Jewish escapees.
Jews who left the Jewish Quarter without permission were subject to the death penalty.
In addition, persons who offered escaping Jews shelter, funds, or food were also subject to death.
Given, however, that the Jewish population was already targeted for extermination, the stern warning was directed primarily at the gentile population."

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[Peter W. Kessler]

Description of the Battle of Midway:

http://ia701200.us.archive.org/0/items/1942RadioNews/1942-09-23-BBC-Midway-Eyewitness-US-Captain-Elliot-Buckmaster.mp3

Glenn Miller joins the Army:

http://ia701200.us.archive.org/0/items/1942RadioNews/1942-09-23-CBS-Chesterfield-Moonlight-Serenade-Glenn-Miller-Joins-The-Army.mp3