[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 .)
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.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa, 1941: Pursuit to Tunisia, November 1942-February 1943
Tunisia 1942: Axis Initiative-Situation 14 February 1943, and Operations Since 1 January
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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January 4, 1943:

• "The SS administrative office instructs all concentration-camp commandants to send human hair taken from Jewish women to the firm of Alex Zink, Filzfabrik AG at Roth, Germany, near Nuremberg, for processing.

• "Young members of the Jewish Fighting Organization are rounded up in Czestochowa, Poland.
  Its leader, Mendel Fiszlewicz, uses a hidden pistol to wound the German commander of the Aktion.
  Fiszlewicz and 25 other men are immediately shot, and 300 women and children from the group are deported to the Treblinka death camp and gassed."

"Fritz Sauckel was Germany's plenipotentiary-general for labor mobilization from 1942 to 1945.
As such, he secured slave laborers from the Soviet Union and other occupied territories and forcibly relocated more than five million people from their homes in occupied territories to Germany.
Sauckel also bore responsibility for the extermination of tens of thousands of Jewish workers in Poland.
Sauckel paid for his crimes with his life: He was hanged by the Allies on October 16, 1946."

"Prisoners in Allach, a subcamp of Dachau in Germany, work in the Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) plane-engine factory.
As the war progressed, camps provided an invaluable pool of labor for the German armaments industry.
Private firms such as BMW could hire slave laborers at extremely low costs.
In the 1990s business "arrangements" of this sort came back to haunt BMW and other still-extant German firms."

"Pictured with French collaborator Marcel Déat is Joseph Darnand (right), one of the most hated of the French collaborators.
Darnand led a French military organization that openly fought for the Germans.
As head of the Legionnaire Law and Order Service (SOL), Darnand was responsible for security operations throughout Vichy France.
The SOL tracked down and brutally tortured members of the French Resistance.
When France was liberated in 1944, Darnand and 6,000 followers fled to Germany."

"Doctors and nurses examine an infant refugee from Europe in the offices of the World International Zionist Organization in Tel Aviv, Palestine.
Despite British efforts to limit Jewish immigration to Palestine, Jewish refugees steadily streamed into the region throughout 1943--many illegally."

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[Bringbackthedraft]

As a kid I remember all this happening. I couldn’t read yet, but I remember the pictures in the News Papers. The NY Daily News and The Mirror had most pictures. They also had the best comic cartoons, and only 3 cents a copy.