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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: 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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April 2, 1943:

• "April 1943: A concentration camp is established at Bergen-Belsen, Germany.

• "Germans launch an offensive against Jewish partisans active in the Parczew Forest, Poland.

• "Resistance members derail a death train in Belgium.

• "Pope Pius XII complains that Jews are demanding and ungrateful.

• "Dr. Julian Chorazycki, a former captain in the Polish Army and a leader of inmate resistance at the Treblinka death camp, takes poison when the camp's deputy commandant spies currency Chorazycki had planned to use to buy small arms; See May 3, 1943."

"The concentration camps provided Nazi doctors with a large pool of human guinea pigs for their "experiments," many of which had specifically military objectives.
This man was the victim of an air-pressure experiment at the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp, the goal of which was to measure human endurance at extremely high altitudes.
In the course of the experiment, the man was placed in a pressure chamber from which air was slowly removed.
Thus, Nazi "scientists" could determine how high their pilots could safely fly."

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