[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.
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Advance on Moscow – Operations, 26 August-5 December 1941
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks

[fso301]

Related post

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2786655/posts

[BroJoeK]

September 29, 1941

"As a reprisal for the September 24 booby-trap deaths of German troops at the hands of Soviet soldiers in Kiev, Ukraine, 33,771 Jews are shot to death in a ravine at Babi Yar, Ukraine.
The massacre is masterminded by Sonderkommando 4a commander Paul Blobel.
In the coming months, German units shot thousands of Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war at Babi Yar. "

"The daughter of Klara and Joseph Halef-Miropolsky , Mania Halef, here shown in a 1936 photograph, was only seven years old when shot at Babi Yar.
The Nazis believed it especially important to murder children, who represented, in their minds, the future of the Jewish 'race.' "

[BroJoeK]

September 30, 1941

September - October, 1941

"SS murders of Soviet Jews escalate as German troops push east toward Moscow. 48,000 are killed at Odessa, Ukraine, and at Kiev, Ukraine.

"More than 20,000 Jews are executed in the former eastern provinces of Poland."

"The 33,771 victims of the Babi Yar massacre included Jews of all ages and from all walks of life.
The perpetrators showed no mercy for the elderly, women, or even children.
Among those murdered were Klara Halef-Miropolsky and her husband, Joseph."

[BroJoeK]

October 1941:

• "The German government prohibits further Jewish emigration from Germany

• "At the Auschwitz camp, SS officer Arthur Johann Breitwieser takes note when a comrade is rendered unconscious after accidental exposure to a disinfectant called Zyklon B.
  A gaseous variant of the compound will eventually be used to kill millions of Jews.

• "Einsatzgruppen members gather Jews of the Baltic port of Libau and machine-gun them at the local naval base.

• "Germans drown 30 Jewish children in clay pits near Okopowa Street in the Warsaw Ghetto.

• "At the Buchenwald, Germany, concentration camp, Dr. Fritz Mennecke condemns 1200 Jewish prisoners to death by "euthanasia."

• "Early October 1941: Seventy children in the Warsaw Ghetto are found frozen to death outside destroyed houses following the season's first snowfall.

October 1 - 2, 1941

"33,500 Jews are killed in Vilna, Lithuania.

"Rakhil Mikhailovna Boorakovskaya was among the thousands of women killed in the Babi Yar massacre"

[Fiji Hill]

In “The International Situation” (p.3), Rep. Martin Dies (D-Texas) and Fr. Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University objected to FDR’s statement that religious freedom is guaranteed by law in the Soviet Union. I think Dies and Walsh are right.

[CougarGA7]

• "Today begins the last great decisive battle of the year. In it we will destroy the enemy and, in so doing, England, the instigator of this whole war... We are thus lifting from Germany and Europe the danger that has hovered over the continent ever since the times of the Huns and later the Mongol invasion" - Adolf Hitler

• Army Group Centre assaults along the Viaz'ma axis.

• Bock's main force attacks along the entire front from the Western Dvina to the Desna.

• The Black Sea Fleet begins evacuating the Odessa Garrison to Sevastopol' completing the task by the 16th of October.

• The last of the encircled forces around Kiev are mopped up. Of the 452,700 men encircled, only around 15,000 had escaped. In total, the Southwestern Front suffered 700,544 casualties including 616,304 killed during the Battle for Kiev.