[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: 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

[centurion316]

Interesting that today, our current President is the one shutting down the coal industry. Roosevelt clearly understood the relationship between energy and economic activity. Not so much these days.

[Rappini]

HJS, thanks for that reminder. I actually met John L Lewis in 1947 I was 9years old. He was visiting my Uncle who was the President of UAW Local 600 in Dearborn, Michigan.

[BroJoeK]

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May 1, 1943:

• April 30: "Two thousand Jews deported from Wlodawa, Poland, to Sobibór attack the death camp's SS guards on arrival at the unloading ramp.
  All of the Jews are killed by SS machine guns and grenades.

• May 1943: "SS-Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop completes his official written chronicle of the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto: The Stroop Report.

• "Four trains carrying nearly 11,000 Jews arrive at Auschwitz from Salonika, Greece.

• "About 5,000 Sephardic Jews are sent from Occupied Tunisia to labor camps near North African battle zones.

• "In Eastern Europe, the Red Army continues its westward advance.

• "Breckinridge Long and his supporters in the U.S. State Department, including Borden Reams and Robert Alexander, delay the license to transfer Jewish funds intended to be used to allow the escape of 70,000 Jews from Romania (the Riegner Plan).
  These State Department officials worry that the Riegner Plan "might actually succeed."

• "Abrasha Blum, an organizer of armed resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and a member of the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations, is shot by Germans after enduring confinement and torture.

• May 1: "Many members of the Brody, Ukraine, Jewish community are killed at the Majdanek death camp.

• "Jewish writers and artists, inspired by the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, gather in the Vilna (Lithuania) Ghetto for an evening of poetry, with the hopeful theme "Spring in Yiddish Literature."

• "The Allies begin to push the Germans from Tunisia.

• "German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, reacting to the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto revolt, notes in his diary: 'Heavy engagements are being fought there which led even to the Jewish Supreme Command's issuing daily communiques.
  Of course, this fun won't last very long.
  But it shows what is to be expected of the Jews when they are in possession of arms.' "

"Before the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, inhabitants feverishly constructed an elaborate series of bunkers and hideouts to evade their Nazi persecutors.
Once the resistance operations began, the Nazis set fire to the ghetto in an attempt to force the Jews from their bunkers."

"A woman jumps from a balcony to escape the intense heat of the flames and avoid being burned alive."

"A Jewish man is removed from his hidden bunker during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Even after the ghetto was razed, Jews attempted to hide from the Nazis.
To counter these efforts, SS commander Jürgen Stroop ordered his soldiers to employ whatever means necessary to flush the Jews from their hiding places.
The troops used flamethrowers, gas, and grenades to achieve their goals."

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