[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]

Reply: The first part of the following excerpt is continued from April 19.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

[BroJoeK]

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May 16, 1943:

• "Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop reports the final liquidation of the Jewish ghetto at Warsaw, although some Jews remain in hiding; See June 3, 1943. "

"Female prisoners work in a factory owned by the AGFA company, one of the many companies that belonged to the I.G. Farben conglomerate.
German industries that supported the Nazi regime's war effort benefited greatly from their access to forced labor.
Hundreds of thousands of people were removed from their homes, relocated to Germany, and forced to work in German factories connected to the war effort."

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[colorado tanker]

I googled the Times Afghanistan reporter and found out that he scooped the world by finding Fidel Castro in Cuba after everyone thought he was dead. His dispatches were so flattering that most of America thought Castro was a democracy loving freedom fighter, before finding out the truth. There's even a book on the subject:

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times (annotated Edition)
by Anthony Depalma
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006

Never did find out what he was doing in Afghanistan.