[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
Papua, New Guinea, 1942
Allied Advance Across Owen Stanley Mountains, 26 Sept.-15 Nov. 1942
Allied Reinforcement by Air and Advance to Buna, 14 Oct.-15 Nov. 1942
The Solomons: Guadalcanal and Florida, 1942
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Advance to Stalingrad, Operations, 24 July-18 November 1942
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

[BroJoeK]

October 27, 1942:

• "Three thousand Jews are deported from Opoczno, Poland, to the Treblinka death camp.
  A few who escape to forests nearby form a partisan group, the Lions.

• October 27-28: "Seven thousand Kraków, Poland, Jews are deported to Belzec; 600 are killed in Kraków."

"The Ukrainian town of Mizoch contained a relatively small ghetto of 1700 Jews.
But when the Germans attempted to liquidate the ghetto in mid-October 1942, they met a brief but determined resistance from the inhabitants.
In the end the ghetto was successfully liquidated.
Among those executed south of the nearby town of Rovno by Ukrainian and German police were these naked Jewish women, a few of whom were holding infants.
Often, babies were not shot but were buried alive with their mothers."

"Some victims of Nazi Aktionen survived the final shooting.
This photo shows one of the German policemen shooting women who were still alive after the mass execution of Jews in Mizoch, Ukraine.
It was not unusual for the perpetrators to take photos such as this one.
A German policeman named Hille, who took this photo and others, gave them to a lawyer in Czechoslovakia, where Hille had settled after the war.
In 1946 the Czech government seized the photos, which eventually became public."

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