[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]

Coco Nuts and Bananas. (This letter is on regular paper – not V-Mail.)

[BroJoeK]

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May 24, 1943:

• "Jewish partisan group organized by Judith Nowogrodzka escapes from the Bialystok (Poland) Ghetto.
  The escape is led by Szymon Datner.

• "The Germans end their submarine attacks on Allied Atlantic convoys."

"A group of elderly Sephardic Jews gathers in the Jewish Quarter of Salonika, Greece.
Such religious and social occasions would soon come to an end, as the Nazis began to enforce severe restrictions in 1943.
The first deportations to Auschwitz followed in mid-March. By mid-August nearly 50,000 Jews had been sent to Auschwitz and Treblinka, with almost 80 percent killed there.
Italian efforts to save Salonika's Jews were largely ineffectual; most of the Jews who avoided deportation did so only because they held passports issued earlier by Turkey, Italy, and a few other nations."

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I have read that the US Goverment refused to put guards on railroad bridges as they did not want to scare the public. They also refused to believe that German agents were in the US committing sabotage.

During the war years there was a large increase in railroad wrecks as a result.

[untenured]

Some interesting items unimaginable now. First, a reporter freely refers to Allied resistance in the Balkans as “terrorism.” Second, an American cardinal celebrating a mass in Iran.

[wideminded]

If I were to be injured in a train accident, I don’t think I would want to be taken to a “Homeopathic Hospital”.