[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 .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Northwestern Europe, 1940: Overlord Plan, Combined Bomber Offensive and German Dispositions, 6 June 1944
The Western Pacific, New Guinea and the Philippine Islands: Allied Advances to the Marianas, Biak and Noemfoor, 22 April-24 July 1944, and Japanese Kon and “A” Go Operations 30 May-19 June 1944
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign – Slim’s Offensive, June 1944-March 1945

[PeterPrinciple]

POLE SAYS NAZIS PLAN SLAVE TOWN -

75,000 acres? 117 sq miles? We usually think of Auschwitz as an extermination camp which it was but it was more, at least initially. The reference here might be to an earlier vision, not what it was? Note that Himmler began to close this down in October 44 to hide the evidence.

This is a reference to The Auschwitz Complex. Auschwitz III - was the synthetic oil plant? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowitz_concentration_camp Reference here says there were 45 other subcamps.

I guess the key thought here is that Auschwitz was a BIG COMPLEX, not the one killing camp we think of.

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Expanding Auschwitz’s capacity, both to murder Jews and to assist in the Nazis’ war effort through the use of slave labour, was of paramount importance.
In 1940 Auschwitz I had 20 buildings. By 1942 there were 28 buildings, all of which had two storeys. Work commenced in 1942 on building Auschwitz-Birkenau, which could accommodate 200,000 people. Birkenau is 2 miles away from Auschwitz I.
An additional satellite camp (Auschwitz III), the first of a series of forced labour camps, was opened as part of the construction of a massive synthetic oil and rubber factory, known as Buna Monowitz.
Thus the three main Auschwitz camps became one huge extermination complex, eventually to encompass not only gas chambers and the camps themselves, but also 45 sub-camps, factories, and mines in Upper Silesia and the Sudetenland.

http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/auschwitz.html

[PeterPrinciple]

FALSE INVATIONS REPORT

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/opinion/l-they-announced-the-invasion-at-the-polo-grounds-on-june-3-301698.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2014/06/d_day_anniversary_on_june_3_1944_american_radio_broadcasters_announced_that.html

[PeterPrinciple]

REPUBLICANS PUSH...(ROY ACUFF)..GOVERNER

Acuff was so popular during World War II that Japanese troops charging at Okinawa were reportedly yelling, “To hell with Roosevelt, to hell with Babe Ruth, to hell with Roy Acuff.” In 1948 he ran for governor of Tennessee and got the Republican nomination, but didn’t win the general election.

http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3451895/

[untenured]

Looking back, there are several striking things in today's paper.

1. There is a remarkably accurate account of Auschwitz/Birkenau, although on p. 7. Yet more testimony to how much was known. When I went there in 1991 I was told that most of the killing of people straight off the trains in gas chambers was actually in Birkenau. I am sad to report that it was in a dilaipdated state in 1991, the remaining barracks full of graffiti, some of it anti-Semitic.

2. It is five months before the Presidential election, and there is no breathless horse-race coverage. The story about Dewey and the West is no big deal. How I wish we could return to that.

3. That columnist Douglas S. Freeman is personally praised by FDR seems no big deal. Now, the DC/NYC media circus would be in high gear talking about what it all means, press bias, etc.

4. One doesn't hear much talk of "hillbilly singers" in 2014.

Oh and, the shape of things to come. A photo of Romans waiting for the Allies to arrive. The source site says it is actually from June 5:

[GreenLanternCorps]

RE: U-505