[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 .)
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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

[BroJoeK]

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November 17, 1941:

"Eight Warsaw, Poland, Jews, including six women, are executed for leaving the ghetto without permission.
The executioners, pressed into service, are Polish policemen.

"The gate of Theresienstadt's Small Fortress bore the Nazi slogan ARBEIT MACHT FREI ("Work Will Set You Free").
The Nazis, insisting that Jews were universally "work shy," cynically tried to create the impression that, if Jews worked hard enough, they could earn their freedom.
No Jews ever "earned" freedom, though for some continued work allowed them to survive until liberation.
More often, however, Jews were allowed to work only as long as they were needed, or until they were no longer physically capable of performing their tasks.
At that point the charade would end and the workers would be put to death."

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[CougarGA7]

• Himmler and Adolf Eichmann hold a meeting to coordinate policy on the "elimination of the Jews."

• In a rare break of discipline by German forces, the 112th Infantry Division, lacking anti-tank weapons, and facing Soviet T-34s break and flee from a Soviet counterattack.

• Mitsubishi Munitions completes a rush order for 180 modified torpedoes with specialized fins for the shallow water of Pearl Harbor at its plant in the city of Nagasaki. (An interesting piece of irony I think, the city that builds the weapon that will start the war will be the last destroyed to end it)

• The battle for Rostov begins.

[CougarGA7]