[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
Attack on Buna Mission, 18-28 Dec. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Tunisia 1942: The Race for Tunisia-Situation 1 January 1943, and Operations Since 17 November 1942
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Southwest Russia, 1942: Soviet Winter Offensive, Operations, 13 December 1942-18 February 1943
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 23, 1942:

• "Nazi troops gathered at Cyganeria, a coffee house in Kraków, Poland, are attacked by Jewish partisans.
  Several SS officers as well as two partisans, including partisan leader Aharon Liebeskind, are murdered during the attack. "

"The workers of the Lutsk, Ukraine, slave-labor camp were prepared for a revolt on December 12, 1942.
Nazi troops who arrived to liquidate the camp were thrown back by Jewish workers, who were armed with axes, knives, acid, iron bars, bricks, and small arms.
The Germans regrouped and tossed grenades at the carpentry shop for more than 12 hours.
Finally, after the Nazis set the shop ablaze, about 50 of the resisters hanged themselves rather than die in the manner their antagonists intended.
The resisters seen here are Lutsk-area partisans, whose own brand of defiance further preoccupied the Germans."

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[redfreedom]

I find it fascinating the amount of prisoners and useable war materials the Russians captured.

I don’t envy the common German grunts choices, die freezing fighting Russians, or surrender and die starving and freezing in a Siberian death camp or en-route to the camp.

[InMemoriam]

The stirring declaration of loyalty of the Sons of Italy would have been a lot more impressive two months ago.