[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
German Invasion of Russia – Operations, 22 June-25 August 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

[CougarGA7]

• 267th Division of the 2nd German Army reports that over the last 6 days they have lost around 1,000 men and that since the start of the war in the east they had lost a total of 2,700 men.

• Marshal-of-the-Soviet-Union G.I. Kulik's 54th Army abandons the region north of Luga and tries to infiltrate through a German encirclement to Krasnogvardeisk, but are utterly destroyed by German forces.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

GUARD AND DRAFTEES TO BE RELEASED AFTER 14 TO 18 MONTHS OF SERVICE (8/20/41)

Hey, Dad, how'd that work out for you? You say your Guard unit was Federalized for the duration?

[BroJoeK]

August 20-21

"About 4,300 Jews are sent from Paris to Drancy, a transit camp in France.
These are the first of 70,000 Jews who will be deported to Drancy and then to extermination camps, primarily Auschwitz-Birkenau."

"Aided by antisemitic Lithuanian partisans, the SS's mobile killing squads organized Aktionen (actions) against the Jews.
In Kovno, Jews were taken to various forts on the outskirts of town built during Czarist rule.
From there they were organized into groups of 500, marched to huge pits a few miles away, and executed.
Within the first months of German occupation, nearly 40,000 of Kovno's Jews were murdered."

"In August 1941 at Kamenets-Podolski in the Ukraine, members of Einsatzkommandos and local Ukrainian nationalists murdered about 25,000 Jews in huge open pits.
Victims included 5,000 local Jews as well as nearly 20,000 Jews who had been deported from Hungary."