[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]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
New Guinea Force Operations: Capture of Salamaua and Lae, 29 June-16 September 1943
Allied Invasion of Italy and Operations to 25 September 1943, Planned German Delaying Positions
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

[BigCinBigD]

I wonder if Rigg’s is still open...

[BroJoeK]

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September 16, 1943:

• September 13: "In the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, Icek Bekerman is hanged for taking leather scraps for use as shoelaces.
  The ghetto carpentry shop is ordered to construct the gallows.

• September 14: "Jacob Gens, Judenrat leader at the Vilna (Lithuania) Ghetto, is shot by Nazis.

• Mid-September 1943: "At the Sobibór death camp, members of the corpse-burning detail have built an escape tunnel intended to lead them into the camp minefield.
  Most of the 150 members of the detail are killed.

• September 16: "More than 37,000 Italian Jews come under German rule."

"Enjoying a reprieve from work, a platoon of forced-labor workers gathers for a photograph.
Although mostly garbed in civilian clothing, these members of an Hungarian labor battalion all wear military caps.
While Heinrich Himmler and the SS sought to kill all of Europe's Jews, Albert Speer, as head of the German war economy, maneuvered to secure as many workers as possible to rebuild factories and produce desperately needed war materiel."

"The demolition of this Luxembourg synagogue was completed in the fall of 1943 after a two-year delay.
The order to destroy the Jewish house of worship was issued in May 1941.
No local contractor was willing to do the job, so the Nazis hired two Italians to complete the task.
Approximately 3,500 Jews lived in Luxembourg at the beginning of World War II.
The tiny nation was declared judenrein (cleansed of Jews) after the last Jewish transport left the country on September 28, 1943."

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