[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
Central Tunisia, 1943: Battle of Kasserine Pass-Operations, 14-22 February 1943
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Counteroffensive, Operations, 19 February-18 March 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

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The scene from “Patton” when the General is touring the battlefield at Kasserine after the Allied loss is one of the most visually stunning and emotional scenes ever laid on film.

[BroJoeK]

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February 22, 1943:

• February 18: "The anti-Nazi White Rose activities in Munich, Germany, culminate in the arrest of University of Munich students (and brother and sister) Hans and Sophie Scholl; See February 22, 1943.

• February 20: "Crematorium II is completed at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  It can burn 1,440 bodies per day.

• February 22: "White Rose student resistance leaders, the brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, are beheaded in Munich, Germany; See Mid-July 1943.

• "Bulgaria signs an agreement with Germany to allow deportations of 20,000 Jews from the former Yugoslav region of Macedonia and former Greek region of Thrace, both now controlled by Bulgaria. About 11,000 Jews will actually be deported (in March).

• "In Lyons, France, Italian military authorities order the local chief of police to nullify a German order for the deportation of several hundred Jews to the Auschwitz extermination camp.

• "The Jewish community at Stanislawów, Ukraine, is annihilated."

"Germany's allies played an important role in the perpetration of the Holocaust.
This agreement is signed by Bulgarian Commissar for Jewish Affairs Aleksander Belev and German Plenipotentiary SS Haupsturmführer Theodor Dannecker.
It is concerned with the deportation of 20,000 Jews from Thrace and Macedonia, newly annexed by Bulgaria, to Eastern Europe.
Upon arriving in Occupied Europe, the Jews were murdered by the Nazis."

"Janine Putter, a refugee child from France, lights one of the memorial candles at a protest prayer service held in New York's Mecca Temple on February 22, 1943.
More than 3,000 children from 518 religious schools in the New York area attended the event to protest the treatment of children in Nazi-occupied Europe."

"Resistance against the German invaders was especially strong in the Soviet Union, where the Nazis pursued barbarous occupation policies.
These five Soviets were hanged in Kharkov.
The signs around their necks read, "Punishment for blowing up mines."
Such acts of sabotage played a role in the turning of the tide on the Eastern Front and the eventual defeat of the Third Reich."

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