[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
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 22, 1943:

• "The Jewish ghetto at Grodno, Belorussia, is liquidated.

• "Jewish girls at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp light candles and sing songs for the Sabbath.

• "A death train that originated in Grodno, Poland, on January 17 erupts in violence at the Treblinka death camp when 1,000 Jews armed with boards, knives, and razors attack guards.
  By morning 10,000 Jews and guards who had been on the train are dead, killed by Treblinka SS troops armed with machine guns and grenades.

• January 22-27, 1943: "During Operation Tiger in Marseilles, France, Nazis seize more than 4,000 Jews for deportation.
  At nearby Les Accates, 29 Jewish children are seized at La Rose Orphanage.
  Their guardian, Alice Salomon, insists on remaining with them; See March 23, 1943."

"Krupp was among the many German corporations to make extensive use of the abundant supply of slave labor that the concentration-camp system provided.
This airplane factory in Essen was just one of several major Krupp plants located throughout the Reich and the occupied territories.
In September 1944 Krupp employed around 288,000 workers.
During the Nuremberg Trials, the Allies accused Alfred Krupp, chief of the corporation, of profiting from the work of approximately 100,000 slaves, probably an underestimation."

"Huddling in small groups, Jews from Novo Moskovsk in the Ukraine are deported.
Some 400 Jews from this town were transported to the death camps of Poland in spite of the Wehrmacht's protests that trains were more urgently required for military purposes.
Although the harsh winter weather halted the transports, they began again in mid-January 1943."

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[fella]

That air crash in South America might have been part the the spy war that was being waged there during WWII. from wikipedia “In 1943, at which time he was a major in the United States Army – Special Services, Knight was killed in an air crash in Dutch Guiana (now Surinam) in South America”.