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.
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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
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To: 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: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 19 November-12 December 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Special Guest Map-November Race for Tunis (from
Ike: An American Hero, by Michael Korda)
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 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
2 posted on
11/27/2012 4:23:58 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
November 27, 1942:
- "November 25-26: Jews in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, who are lured from hiding places by Nazi promises of no retribution, are taken to a synagogue, locked inside, and subjected to random gunfire by Ukrainians; See December 19, 1942.
- "532 Jewish women and children in Norway are arrested and deported to Auschwitz.
Although more than 700 Norwegian Jews were eventually sent to Auschwitz, about 930 found refuge in Sweden." - November 27: "More than 110,000 Poles are expelled from their homes in the fertile Zamosc province so that the area can be resettled by ethnic Germans, SS troops, and Ukrainians.
More than 300 villages are affected.
Thousands of Polish children are deported from the area to Belzec and other death camps. - November-early December: "Members of the ZOB in Kraków, Poland, disrupt rail lines and assassinate a German soldier, a German policeman, a German flier, two Gestapo agents, and a senior German clerk in the local Nazi administration."

"This title page of the Yugent-Shtime (Yiddish for Young Voice) portrays a hand crushing the symbol of Nazi oppression, the swastika.
Typed and duplicated in secret within the Warsaw Ghetto, the paper--the organ of the Bund's youth movement--reached hundreds of people.
Its writers and readers faced death if caught."

"The Donau steams with its cargo of Jews from Norway to Germany.
\ In November 1942 the ship sailed with 532 Jews aboard, 346 of whom were killed as soon as they reached Auschwitz.
Of the 763 Jews deported from Norway, on the Donau and on the Monte Rosa, only 24 survived the war.
Meanwhile, some 900 Jews evaded deportation by fleeing to neutral Sweden.
While the Norwegian church protested the deportations, puppet leader Vidkun Quisling aided the Nazis in making Norway 'Jew free.' "
"Numbering fewer than 2000 when Germany invaded Norway on April 9, 1940, Norway's Jews seemed an unlikely target for the 'Final Solution' as 1942 began, because ships, which were scarce, would be required to send them to Nazi killing centers in Poland.
That autumn, however, the German Navy made shipping available.
On November 26, 532 Norwegian Jews--including children, the elderly, and ill persons taken from hospitals--were deported from Oslo aboard the Donau.
"Rough seas delayed the dismally packed ship's arrival at the port of Stettin, Germany.
The Norwegian Jews were then sent by rail to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
They arrived at night on December 1.
A selection process sent 346 of them to the gas chambers immediately.
The remaining 186 were spared for labor, but within four months only about 20 were still alive.
Fewer still survived the Holocaust.
"In this relatively remote part of Europe, the Final Solution was quite thorough.
In all, 763 Jews were deported from Norway.
Only 24 returned.
Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about 45 percent of the Norwegian Jews.
By comparison, 80 percent of Jews in both France and Italy survived."
7 posted on
11/27/2012 6:26:29 AM PST by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
- "I sat next to the Pasha [of Marrakech], whose French being almost as bad as mine, understood me very well. He is 68, has 20 wives, and is supposed to sleep with each one at least once a week. He is very thin" - George S. Patton
11 posted on
11/27/2012 11:11:43 AM PST by
CougarGA7
("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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