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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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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
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Tunisia, 1942: Final Allied Offensive 22 April Attack, 3 May Attack, and Exploitation
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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04/29/2013 4:27:22 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
April 29, 1943:
- April 27: "Eminent American poet Ezra Pound continues his antisemitic broadcasts from Italy.
He calls the Jews "rats," "bedbugs," "vermin," "worms," "bacilli," and "parasites" who constitute an overwhelming "power of putrefaction." - April 28: "An official SS telegram instructs the administration at Auschwitz to prepare 120 women for medical experiments.
- April 29: "Near Kraków, Poland, Jewish women attack their male SS guards while being transferred from one prison to another.
Two women escape but most of the others are killed.
In Kraków proper, Jewish Resistance fighters incarcerated since December 1942 are trucked to the Plaszów, Poland, concentration camp.
Most are killed after breaking out of the truck."
"Members of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and other SS soldiers query a Hasidic Jew during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943.
The interrogator may well have desired information about Jews in hiding.
Ghetto Judenrat members and some other Warsaw Jews had hoped during 1941 and 1942 that, by developing the ghetto as a dependable source of labor, the majority of inhabitants might be saved.
By the time of the uprising, however, Jewish assumptions of Nazi rationality had evaporated.
If the soldiers seen here were determined to pry information from the assembled captives, they were likely disappointed."
"A manhole cover from the Warsaw Ghetto offers tragic testimony to the fate of thousands of Jews.
Jews engaged in resistance used sewers to escape and as avenues of transportation during the revolt.
Sewers were also important links between Jewish Resistance fighters and the Polish underground, which operated on the Aryan side of Warsaw."
"Ukrainian SS soldiers examine the bodies of Jews at the entrance to a destroyed apartment house in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Auxiliary units from the Ukraine provided crucial manpower that was necessary to implement the Nazis' genocidal campaigns.
The Ukrainian units were renowned for their brutal efficiency."
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04/29/2013 10:05:55 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
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