[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
Tunisia, 1942: Situation 22 April and Operations Since 26 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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March 17, 1943:

• "More than 1,200 Jews from Lvov, Ukraine, are killed at Piaski, Poland, as retribution for the March 16 murder of an SS trooper by a Jewish man.
  Eleven Jewish policemen are hanged in the ghetto, 1,000 Jewish slave laborers are executed, and an additional 200 Jews are murdered."

"Wilhelm Boger (far right) was generally considered the cruelest of the guards at Auschwitz.
Witnesses at his trial claimed that his hands often became coated with the blood of the victims of his sadistic methods of torture.
On the left is a model of the "Boger swing," an apparatus for torture that Boger called his "talking machine.""

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[fso301]

An interesting nugget I missed yesterday is on p5 at the end of the second paragraph of the second column.

The Germans used tanks at Kasserine as prime movers for their artillery pieces. Perhaps this was done to reduce dust clouds but I suspect a lack of prime movers and lack of fuel was also involved.

Maybe the order of battle was such that once the attack began, prime movers would quickly move forward into position but I tend to suspect once unhitched from the tanks, those men were on their own.