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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
Soviet Summer and Fall Offensives: Operations, 17 July-1 December 1943
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943
South Pacific Operations: Advance to Bougainville, 27 October-15 December 1943
New Guinea and Alamo Force Operations: Clearing the Huon Peninsula and Securing the Straits, 19 September 1943-26 April 1944
Cartwheel, the Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, and Concurrent Air and Naval Operations, 30 June 1943-26 April 1944
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943; Situation in Pacific, 1 November 1943

November 18, 1943:

November 14: "Jews from Ferrara, Italy, are deported to Auschwitz.
November 16: "Ill Jewish slave laborers at the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, ammunition factory, who are lured from their barracks by Ukrainian guards and SS men promising soup, are gunned down or loaded onto trucks and taken to an execution site elsewhere in the camp.
November 17: "995 Dutch Jews arrive at Auschwitz; 531, including 166 children, are immediately gassed.
"Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu orders his Cabinet to resist German efforts to exterminate Jews in the Transnistria region."

"A concrete wall topped with broken glass and steel spikes surrounds part of the Vught concentration camp, the main transit station for Jews in the southern portion of the Netherlands.
Vught was established in December 1942 and received its first Jewish prisoners the next month.
While conditions inside the camp were not as bad as those in Eastern Europe, the fact remains that Vught functioned as a transfer station to Westerbork, an important way station on the one-way journey to Auschwitz."

" A free-standing crematorium stands outside the barbed-wire fence of Vught, Netherlands.
While Vught was not an extermination camp, many prisoners died while they were incarcerated, especially during the period from October 1943 to January 1944, when the camp was run by SS-Sturmbannführer Adam Grünewald.
A pile of human ashes lies in front of the oven."