[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 18, 1943:

• "After a four-month break, Germans resume deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto.
  Warsaw Jews react with their first acts of overt resistance, expressed in brutal street fighting.
  1,000 Jews are executed in the streets and 6,000 are deported to the Treblinka death camp.
  An elderly, blind Jewish man is shot by an SS man because he is unable to walk without a guide.

• "Nobel-prize winning Polish émigré poet Czeslaw Milosz--a righteous Christian--condemns antisemitism and nationalism as 'ills that like cancer were consuming Poland.'
  In his poem, "Campo dei Fiori," Milosz laments from Warsaw in 1943--and he's being literal, not figurative--that the carousel's carnival tunes and the laughing crowds in the Catholic area of Warsaw drown out the sounds of the Germans shooting Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto."

"A vast pile of brushes, from women's hairbrushes to men's shaving brushes, attest to the Nazis' desire to rob those they executed of their most personal possessions.
Hair became the raw material to stuff mattresses and weave cloth.
Brushes were sold to consumers in Germany or distributed to soldiers at the front or in hospitals."

Joint Rescue Committee

"Despite the odds, this committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine was determined to obtain information concerning Jews imprisoned in Polish ghettos.
The Joint Rescue Committee, based in Jerusalem, wanted to send these Jews food parcels.
The members also wanted to help them, should they manage to escape from the Nazis, to obtain immigration certificates to Palestine.

"Early leaders of the committee were Itzhak Gruenbaum (pictured), Moshe Shapira, Eliyahu Dobkin, and Emil Schmorak.
Gruenbaum felt that because the Nazis were so formidable, because the Allies were indifferent to the Jewish plight, and because no significant resources stood behind the committee that nothing the committee did could significantly help the Jews trapped in Nazi Europe.
Instead, Gruenbaum believed they should focus on establishing Palestine as a home for the Jewish survivors after the war.
By 1945 the committee was devoting all of its efforts to establishing a Jewish state in Palestine."

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