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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Northwestern Europe, 1944: 6th and 12th Army Group Operations, 15 September-7 November 1944
Northwestern Europe, 1944: 21st Army Group Operations, 15 September-15 December 1944
Eastern Europe, 1941: Russian Balkan and Baltic Campaigns Operations, 19 August-31 December 1944
Northern Italy 1944: Allied Advance to Gothic Line, 5 June-25 August and Gains 29 August-31 December
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December
China-Burma, 1941: Third Burma Campaign Slims Offensive, June 1944-March 1945
2 posted on
09/28/2014 4:26:50 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
September 28, 1944:
- "Boys deemed too short by Auschwitz's Dr. Josef Mengele are gassed.
- "The Nazis resume deportations from the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to Auschwitz after a four-month hiatus.
Among the 2,499 prisoners deported on this day is teenager Petr Ginz, a Czech of Jewish background who was the guiding light behind Vedem (In the Lead), a secret "magazine" created and distributed throughout Theresienstadt.
More than 1,000 of these 2,499 prisoners are gassed immediately. - "Josef Bürckel, Reich commissar of Austria, and his wife commit suicide.
- "The camp at Klooga, Estonia, is liberated by the Soviets."
"The Vittel transit camp played a vital role in the murder of France's Jews.
Thousands, many of them not French citizens, passed through the camp on their way to larger French concentration camps or to Auschwitz for extermination.
The people pictured here were among the 2,087 prisoners at Vittel when it was liberated by Allied armies on September 12, 1944."
"Established near the German border by the Dutch government, Westerbork originally served as a camp for Jewish refugees.
With their occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, the Nazis turned Westerbork into a transit camp with a constantly changing population, while at the same time maintaining a core camp with a stable population of workers.
"Beginning in July 1942, Westerbork became a way station for over 100,000 Dutch Jews dispatched to the death camps of the East.
The barracks served as the last home for thousands of families, including that of Anne Frank.
Usually on Tuesdays, thousands of men and women were crowded into cattle cars for their last journey.
No one was exempt.
After watching the hellish process of deportation, Etty Hillesum, who would herself soon be sent to Auschwitz, reported that 'one more piece of our camp has been amputated.' "
9 posted on
09/28/2014 4:48:19 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective..)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
"I was in Crete," said bearded, begrimed Captain Bethune Taylor of those Red Devils. "That was a piece of cake compared to the bridgehead at Arnhem." Captain Taylor was hardly able to keep his eyes open as he talked. But his story was interspersed with interjections like: "When can we get back? We have to get back and get the rest of our chaps back."(from page 4)
10 posted on
09/28/2014 5:32:05 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(I can play the piano just as well with or without shoes.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Yep, it looks like a disaster in Arhem.
Those “jet” things seem really groovy, look ma, no propellers.
page 19 - That guy seems to make a lot of sense
11 posted on
09/28/2014 6:37:02 AM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Something tells me that p-15 article about “our” jets is being released in anticipation of a soon to be announced German weapon.
14 posted on
09/28/2014 2:50:32 PM PDT by
fso301
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