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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 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. Also visit our general discussion thread.

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Thanks Homer. Of particular interest here is that Zuider Zee was Canada's last major battle of WWII. Corps Commander Major-General Charles Foulkes (pictured) spoke of his experiences in this battle during an address to the Empire Club in Toronto on October 4, 1945.

Canada Ping!

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Captured Heinkel He 162.

The first claimed victory by an He-162 was on April 19, 1945. Feldwebel Kirchner was credited with shooting down a British aircraft, but he crashed before he could return to base. On April 20, Leutnant Rudolf Schmitt became the first and possibly only pilot to use the jet's ejection seat and survive. Ten days later, Unteroffizier Rechenbach was credited with a British aircraft and confirmed. In early May, Schmitt made the only confirmed kill by an He 162, shooting down a Hawker Tempest flown by Flight Officer M. Austin.11

Heinkel He 162 A-2 120227, at RAF Museum London.

Read the whole story of this aircraft here....

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Under heavy enemy fire in Nuernberg, 3rd Infantry Division soldiers cautiously advancing behind a tank on April 19, 1945.

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The Abbott and Costello Show
First broadcast on April 19, 1945

https://free-classic-radio-shows.com/Comedy/Abbott-and-Costello/1945-04-19-Abbott-and-Costello/index.php#.VTR0s5PG6l8

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/19/officials-in-germany-commemorate-liberation-sachsenhausen-ravensbrueck/

Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 70 years ago

Published April 19, 2015\
Associated Press

FUERSTENBERG, Germany – Officials in Germany solemnly commemorated the liberation of two Nazi concentration camps 70 years ago in the closing days of World War II.

Poland’s first lady, Anna Komorowska, joined in remembrance activities Sunday at the site of the Ravensbrueck women’s camp in northern Germany. Many of the prisoners came from Poland.

Komorowska, wife of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, planted a memorial rose along with Daniela Schadt, partner of German President Joachim Gauck, and camp survivor Annette Chalut.

Elderly survivors joined black-clad Polish nuns, some of whom held red and white Polish flags. A Mass was said in Polish.

Ceremonies have been held across Germany and Poland throughout the spring marking the advance of Allied troops as Nazi Germany neared defeat. They are even more poignant this year because of the dwindling number of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jews by the racist and anti-Semitic regime of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

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Goebbels’ [last] 1945 Speech on Hitler’s 56th Birthday