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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.
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Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

[BroJoeK]

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June 15, 1943:

• " A coal-mine labor camp at Jaworzno, Poland, near Auschwitz, opens.

• "SS Lieutenant-General Richard Glücks, chief of the Concentration Camp Inspectorate, orders that sensitive buildings at Auschwitz be relocated from prying eyes.

• "At the Janówska death pits at Lvov, Ukraine, hundreds of Jewish slave laborers are forced to exhume corpses of Jews, plunder them for jewelry and gold dental work, and then burn the corpses to destroy evidence of the killings. "

"With a benevolent Winston Churchill in the foreground and tanks and planes in the background, this recruiting poster calls upon members of the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine) to join the British effort to defeat the Axis powers.
Although the British resisted creating a separate Jewish combat division, in 1940 they formed Jewish coastal artillery batteries and infantry companies as part of the British force in Palestine."

"Hans Frank (right), governor-general of Occupied Poland, hosts SS chief Heinrich Himmler at a dinner held at the Wewel castle in Kraków, Poland, in June 1943.
Frank objected to Himmler's complete control of the 'Jewish problem' in Poland and the decision to use the Generalgouvernement as a dumping ground for Jews.
His protests to Hitler were to no avail, as Himmler's SS retained supreme authority over the 'Final Solution.' "

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[PAR35]

The battle in the Aleutians discussed on page 5 is yet another example of the culture of cowardice (or at least excessive caution) shown by the Japanese navy which time after time allowed it to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.