[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
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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February 6, 1943:

• "A marathon roll call at Auschwitz forces inmates to stand motionless in snow without food for over 13 hours.
  Many die on their feet and many others who are too weak to dash back to the barracks at day's end are sent to the gas chamber.

• "SS chief Heinrich Himmler receives a report about the quantities of items taken from Jews at Auschwitz and other camps in the Lublin area.
  Cited items include 155,000 women's coats, 132,000 men's shirts, and more than 6,600 pounds of women's hair."

"The inhumane living conditions created in the Polish ghettos and German concentration camps provoked some Jews to fight over crumbs of food and scraps of wood for heating.
Here, Jews in Lódz battle for a few bits of wood.
The dehumanization of European Jewry produced heart-wrenching incidents that would be unimaginable under normal conditions.
Survivor/author Elie Wiesel relates the story of a boy who beat his father to death to secure a crust of bread."

"Standing before the annual general assembly, Ottó Komoly, president of the Zionist Federation, addresses the group in Budapest, Hungary.
Komoly's most important role began in 1943, when he became one of the leaders of the effort to rescue Jews still alive in Poland and smuggle them to relative safety in Hungary.
Although the German occupation brought those efforts to an end, Komoly's rescue work continued.
He strove to save the Jews of Budapest from the Nazis and from fanatical members of Hungary's Fascist Arrow Cross Party."

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