[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
Tunisia, 1942: Situation 22 April and Operations Since 26 February 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

[Colonel_Flagg]

It’s headlines like this which should serve to remind us, and history, about what a straight-up socialist FDR really was.

Thanks for the post as always, Homer. Always a fun read.

[Excellence]

I am up to chapter 11 of David Stockman's The Great Deformation. It is, among other things, a history book. After reading what I have read so far, I think we are already doomed to repeat history no matter how much we have "learned."

[BroJoeK]

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April 9, 1943:

• April 7: "Jewish resistance led by Michael Glanz occurs at Skalat, Ukraine.

• April 8-9: "One thousand Jews are executed near Ternopol, Ukraine."

The Bermuda Conference

"Public outcry in the United States and Britain over the news that the Nazi regime was systematically murdering European Jewry provided the impetus for the Bermuda Conference of April 1943.
Although ostensibly designed to solve the refugee problem caused by Hitler's genocidal policies, the conference is regarded as the pinnacle of Allied efforts to stonewall rescue operations.

"Pre-conference negotiations limited the topics open to discussion in Bermuda, which virtually guaranteed the conference's failure.
British and American officials decided beforehand to downplay the Jewish part of the problem and insist that Jews were only one of many victimized groups during the war.
The decision demonstrated the unwillingness of Britain and the U.S. to seriously consider plans to rescue European Jews from the clutches of the Nazi regime. A myriad of additional problems doomed the entire enterprise.

"Designed to deflect an aroused public opinion, the Bermuda Conference failed completely.
In the words of Myron C. Taylor, the principal American representative at the Evian Conference of 1938, 'The Bermuda Conference was wholly ineffective...and we knew it would be.'
The British and American governments' indifference to the tragic plight of European Jewry was plain for all to see."

"Individuals from a range of professional backgrounds attended the ill-fated Bermuda Conference on refugees in April 1943.
Standing (from left to right) are George Hall, the British parliamentary undersecretary in the Admiralty; Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University; Richard K. Law, British undersecretary for foreign affairs; Sol Bloom, chairman of the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Osbert Peake, parliamentary undersecretary in the home office."

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