[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
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
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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November 2, 1942:

• "In the Lithuanian town of Marcinkance, 370 Jews who refuse to board trains for deportation bolt for the ghetto boundaries.
  In the melée that follows, 360 Jews and many guards are killed. Between deaths and successful escapes, not one Jew is left to board the trains.

• "In Zolochev, Ukraine, the chairman of the Jewish Council is murdered by Germans after refusing to sign a paper saying that the liquidation of the ghetto was necessitated by the spread of a typhus epidemic.
  2,500 Zolochev Jews, including poet S. J. Imber, are deported to Belzec.

• "More than 100,000 Jews remaining in the towns and villages in the Bialystok region of Poland are arrested and deported to holding camps at Zambrów, Volkovysk, Kelbasin, and Bogusze before being sent to the Auschwitz and Treblinka death camps.

• "Six thousand Jews are deported from Siemiatycze, Poland.
  Resistance is led by Herschl Shabbes.

• "Wolfram Sievers, head of Germany's Ancestral Heritage Society, requests skeletons of 150 Jews.
  SS chief Heinrich Himmler okays a plan to establish a collection of Jewish skeletons and skulls at the Strasbourg Anatomical Institute in France, near the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

• "Allied forces at El Alamein, Egypt, send German General Erwin Rommel's troops into full retreat.

• "Six thousand Jews are deported from Siemiatycze, Poland.
  Resistance is led by Herschl Shabbes."

"Jews from the Tomaszów Mazowiecki Ghetto were transported to the Treblinka death camp, and were among the first Jews to die in the camp's new gas chambers.
The new units had a capacity of 3,800, an 'improvement' over the three original chambers, which could hold 600 people at one time."

"Jews from Chmielnik (Poland) were forced into a ghetto in March 1940.
The subsequent overcrowding was exacerbated because Jews from beyond the region of Chmielnik were sent to the ghetto, as well.
Here, Chmielnik Jews are loaded into open boxcars for deportation to Treblinka in the fall of 1942.
Earlier in the year, from August 20 to 24, 21,000 of the region's Jews were shipped to Treblinka, where they died in the gas chambers."

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[CougarGA7]

[CougarGA7]

• Montgomery launches operation SUPERCHARGE which will be the decisive blow on Rommel forces at El Alamein.