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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 .)
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Kursk and Vicinity 1943: Battle of Kursk, 4 July-1 August 1943
Sicily, 1943: Italo-German Counterattack, 11 July and Allied Advance, 12 July-17 August 1943
South Pacific Area Operations: Capture of New Georgia, 21 June-27 August 1943
New Guinea Force Operations: Capture of Salamaua and Lae, 29 June-16 September 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
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944

July 16, 1943:

"Vilna, Lithuania, police invade a meeting between members of the United Partisan Organization and Jacob Gens, head of the Vilna Jewish Council, and seize its leader, Yitzhak Wittenberg.
Outside, Jewish partisans attack the police and free Wittenberg; See July 17, 1943.
"Theophil Wurm, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, Germany, sends a letter to Berlin in which he asks that the persecution of 'members of other nations and races' be halted immediately."

"The Nazis hang 20 prisoners in the Buchenwald, Germany, camp, a reprisal for the killing of a German guard.
As usual, the entire camp was forced to view the executions.
The Nazis hoped that the inmates would conclude that such resistance would never go unpunished, and that the innocent would suffer along with the perpetrators."

"The notorious Amon Goeth, SS captain and commandant of the Plaszów, Poland, work camp, waits on his villa balcony for an opportunity to shoot a Jewish prisoner--any prisoner.
Such 'sport' was unique among camp commanders and ultimately cost Goeth his life, for he was tried by the Poles after the war and executed in Kraków.
The commandant's passion for his demonic pastime was portrayed in the film Schindler's List."