[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
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

[twister881]

And on the left side of the front page: FDR price controls and rationing. Or more accurately, FDR price controls which caused FDR rationing. Obama’s dream for America.

[BroJoeK]

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February 23, 1943:

• "The 16th (Lithuanian) Division of the Red Army, which includes many Jews, attacks a superior German force in the Ukraine."

"In March 1943 4,000 Jews from Bulgarian-controlled Thrace in Greece were rounded up and sent to their deaths at Treblinka.
A week later another 7,000 Jews from nearby Macedonia in Yugoslavia were shipped to a tobacco company, whose buildings were converted into a concentration camp (pictured).
The Jews were kept there a few weeks, then sent to Treblinka.
Few survived."

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[Ecliptic]

Stalin: Shut up!! He was only concerned about his dictatorship. It didn’t matter how many Russians died. And now he wanted us to invade Europe ASAP. Well, we cared about our soldiers’ lives. We were not going to throw men into a meat grinder and lose millions of them just to make it easier on him.
It was bad enough that England and the US were listening to him as much as they did. We were supporting Stalin with materials and they would not be doing as well as they were without what we gave them.
We had fronts in Europe, Africa, China, Burma, the Pacific, and the Atlantic Ocean just to mention a few and he is whining because we don’t sacrifice ourselves on his alters of war.
I’m glad Stalin did not show up at the last confab that FDR and Churchill had. He may have bullied them into doing something to hurt our war efforts.