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
Homers posting history .)
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To: 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
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04/13/2013 4:55:19 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
April 13, 1943:
- "In the Katyn Forest in the Soviet Union, the Germans discover more than 4,000 corpses of Polish officers, some of them Jews.
The officers were killed by the Soviets."
"Bergen-Belsen, in Germany, opened in April 1943 as a transit camp.
Hence, the majority of its early inmates were non-German Jews, and conditions there were less severe than in other camps.
Nonetheless, as the war turned against Germany, and large numbers of prisoners reached the camp after death marches, conditions deteriorated.
Around 50,000 died in Bergen-Belsen, approximately 14,000 of them after the camp's liberation."
6 posted on
04/13/2013 8:36:37 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
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