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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 .)
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.

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Allied Advance Across Owen Stanley Mountains, 26 Sept.-15 Nov. 1942
Allied Reinforcement by Air and Advance to Buna, 14 Oct.-15 Nov. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Japanese Counteroffensive, 23-26 October 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

October 24, 1942:

"252 friends and relatives of persons from Lidice, Czechoslovakia, are murdered at the camp at Mauthausen, Austria, in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich."

October 25, 1942:

October 25-26, 1942: "Male Jews in Norway are arrested and sent by sea to Szczecin, Poland, then by railcar to Auschwitz; See November 25, 1942.
"Germans demand that Oszmiana, Lithuania, give up 400 of its 1,000 Jews.
The selection of the victims is assigned to the Jewish police in the nearby city of Vilna.
Vilna Ghetto leader Jacob Gens decides to hand over Oszmiana's elderly Jews in order to save the others. "

"Although the Nazis employed threats and violence to destroy the underground press, courageous residents of the Warsaw Ghetto persevered.
In this pamphlet illustration, a youthful Jewish fighter aims his gun at a Nazi officer.
Hoping to instill defiance and fan the flames of resistance, the pamphlet proclaimed: "Nazis dare not travel alone in the streets.""