[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

[BroJoeK]

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February 24, 1943:

• "A ghetto is established in Salonika, Greece."

The Rosenstrasse Protest

"One of the most effective acts of resistance against Nazi tyranny occurred in early 1943.
Hundreds of male Jews married to gentile women were arrested and interned at the Rosenstrasse Jewish community center in the heart of old Berlin, but their wives' incessant demands for their release proved successful.
This singular successful act of mass German protest against the deportation of German Jews raises a haunting question: What might have been achieved had more Germans acted in a similar manner?

"The remarkable episode began when the last Jews remaining in Berlin were rounded up on February 27, 1943.
Those married to German gentiles were brought to the Rosenstrasse facility.
A "telephone chain" of interfaith couples spread the word on the whereabouts of their loved ones and, soon, anxious spouses arrived at Rosenstrasse.
They demanded information about their husbands, brought them food, and insisted that the men be released.

"Although the women were ordered to disperse and threatened with gunfire, they remained steadfast in their demands.
The protest ended when Joseph Goebbels and others in the Nazi hierarchy grew fearful of domestic unrest, and released the Jewish men."

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[Ecliptic]

Is it me or does it seem that Churchill is the only person in the UK who is trying to look at the big picture and all the details as well?
Or is it that Churchill is the one who thinks he is the only one who is?