[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 and the occasional radio broadcast 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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Leningrad and Ukraine Offensives – Operations, 2 December 1943-30 April 1944
Allied Advance to Volturno River, Reorganization, and Attack on Gustav Line (17 January-11 May 1944)
Anzio-Cassino Area, 1943: Attempts to Cross Rapido and Garigliano Rivers, 17-20 January 1944. Anzio Landing, 22 January 1944. German Counterattack at Anzio, 16-19 February 1944
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

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>RUSSIANS SHUT A TRAP IN UKRAINE, REPORT 10,000 SLAIN, 4,000 SEIZED (3/15/44)

Ooops. Thought for a minute it was a current headline.

[NonValueAdded]

History repeating itself? Vote is today, no?

[BroJoeK]

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March 15, 1943:

• "March 15-April 2, 1944: The Germans undertake a sweeping search for Jews on mainland Greece for deportation to Auschwitz."

"About 60,000 of Greece's 75,000 Jews were deported to their deaths.
These Jews from northern Greece were rounded up in March 1944.
For a time, Jews in sections of Greece under Italian occupation were protected by the Italian Army.
However, the Germans ultimately occupied those areas, too.
Most Jews were deported to their deaths in Poland."

The Holocaust in Greece

"The devastation of Greek Jewry is one of the bleakest chapters of the Holocaust.
Of the more than 58,000 Jews who were deported from Greece from March 1943 to July 1944, fewer than 2,000 returned.

"The murder of Greek Jews went through three stages.
In March 1943 the Jews of Thrace (pictured) and Macedonia, two Greek regions annexed by Bulgaria, were deported to Treblinka.
About 4200 Jews were gassed when they arrived.

"In the second stage, Jews living in the German-occupied zones of Greece were isolated in ghettos located in Salonika, and later transported to Auschwitz.
Approximately 45,000 Jews were deported during the months of March through August 1943.
About 34,000 were gassed immediately and more than 12,000 were selected for forced labor.

"The final stage of the murderous campaigns against Greek Jewry took place after the September 1943 surrender of Italy.
Deportations from Athens and many smaller mainland towns carried more than 9,000 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz.

"Some Greek Jews resisted the Nazi oppressors.
Greek prisoners helped blow up crematorium III at Auschwitz, and one man, Albert Errera, escaped after wounding his guards."

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[fso301]

Reading the p4 article about the Germans bombing London has me wondering why they wasted their Heinkel He-177s over London in symbolic raids rather than using them as strategic bombers in the East?

[dfwgator]

Funny how that headline could make sense today.