[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: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 19 November-12 December 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
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

[BroJoeK]

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December 11, 1942:

• "Jewish inmates of a labor camp at Lutsk, Ukraine, are informed by a Christian woman that the camp is about to be liquidiated.
  The Jews quickly plan a revolt; See December 12, 1942. "

Gestapo" Müller

"With the nickname "Gestapo" Müller, Heinrich Müller embodied to many Germans the feared Secret State Police.

"A decorated fighter pilot in the Great War, Müller afterward joined the Munich police department, becoming the department's authority on communism and left-wing movements.
His zeal and knowledge of the Communist Party brought him recognition from Reinhard Heydrich, who advanced Müller's career within the Bavarian police.
In 1936 Heydrich appointed him chief of Gestapo Division II and charged him with finding internal enemies of the Reich.

"In 1939 Müller succeeded Heydrich as Gestapo chief, a position he held until the Nazis' defeat.
A participant at the Wannsee Conference, Müller was deeply involved in the mass extermination of Jews. In October 1939 he commissioned Adolf Eichmann to begin the deportation of Austrian Jews to the Lublin-Nisko region.

"Devoted to Hitler, Müller was relentless in tracking down those who had participated in the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt against the Führer.
Müller was at Hitler's side during his last days in the Berlin bunker, but he disappeared at the end of the war.
Thinly supported rumors maintained that Müller found sanctuary in South America or the Middle East."

"Founder of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (National Socialist Movement), engineer Anton Mussert sought to steer a middle path within the right wing in the Netherlands.
He was grudgingly rewarded for his loyalty to the Reich in late 1942 when the Nazis appointed him "Leader of the Dutch People," a position of no real authority.
Mussert was never fully trusted by the Nazi authorities, partly because he was opposed to Nazi measures against the Jews.
At the same time, he was hated by his own people because he collaborated with the Nazis."

"The Nazis murdered their victims in a variety of ways, not just by shooting and gassing.
This Jewish man, an inmate at the Belzec extermination camp, was forced into an ice hole, where he froze to death.
Many camp guards became notorious for their cruelty, trying to outdo each other in devising fiendish methods of killing their victims."

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[Colonel_Flagg]

I am unable to find any evidence in the historical record of Zeitzler belonging to the SS or serving with Himmler. Apropos of nothing, but the headlines did get me to wondering.