[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 .)
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
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
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

[iowamark]

Sumner Welles, very close to both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, is being forced out at the State Department because of a homosexuality scandal which started in 1940. The story has become so widespread that Welles must leave.

Note that the press does not print a word of this. The facts remain hidden until 1956.

[BroJoeK]

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August 29, 1943:

• August 28: "Germany imposes martial law on Denmark and abolishes the Danish-German agreement of April 9, 1940, which prevented German molestation of Jews.

• Late August: "Forty-seven Jewish women and 50 Jewish men are executed after being discovered in the 'Aryan' section of Warsaw."

"This is a page from the scrapbook of Kurt Franz, deputy commandant of the Treblinka death camp.
After arriving there in the late summer of 1942, Franz began to keep an extensive photographic record of events in the camp.
He later wrote, 'Everywhere there were corpses.
I remember that these corpses were already bloated.'
Franz was among the Treblinka personnel tried between October 1964 and August 1965.
He was sentenced to life in prison."

"A Jewish volunteer in a coastal artillery battery holds a shell on which is inscribed in Hebrew: 'A gift for Hitler.'
Formed in 1940, these units served as part of the British force in Palestine.
As news of the death camps reached Palestine, the desire for revenge grew among Jewish troops.
Ultimately, the British agreed to form the Jewish Brigade Group."

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[RedMonqey]

Interesting....I was under the impression Nuremberg was one of the few German cities spared major Allied bombing...

Guess because the infamous Nuremberg Trials were held there in post war germany.....

[RedMonqey]

And I especially enjoy the WW2 cartoons.

As always, Thank you, Homer for providng us this “feast of daily History”

Red