Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,uk.politics.misc Subject: Holocaust Calendar: January 20 From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Followups set] 1939 Schact is dismissed from his position as President of the Reichsbank by Adolf Hitler, probably the result of his warning to Hitler resulting from the pace of military spending. (Friedlaender, 315) 1942 The Germans meet in Berlin, at the Wannsee Conference, where Heydrich informed government representatives of their duties in the ongoing extermination of European Jewry. (Goldhagen, 157. See also http://www.nizkor.org/places/germany/wannsee for more specific detail.) 1943 Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler orders the removal of all Jews from the General Government (occupied central Poland), the other occupied eastern territories, and the west. Deportations continue to Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Sobibor. (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 20) The Polish government-in-exile in London, in a detailed official statement to Allied governments, points to "alarming evidence of an intensification of German methods of violence aimed at the physical and moral destruction of the Polish nation." The report says that "large numbers" of Poles have been imprisoned in concentration camps, that two thousand Catholic priests have been executed, that dozens of Polish citizens have been publicly hanged, and that thousands of peasants have been driven from their lands to make way for German settlers. This follows the report of December 10, 1942, by the Polish government -in-exile declaring that the Germans are carrying out the "systematic extermination" of the Jews of Poland and other European countries. (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 20) 1944 The sixty-sixth transport, with 1,155 Jews, leaves Drancy internment camp near Paris for Auschwitz, arriving on January 22; 864 Jews are gassed upon arrival. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 25) Italian anti-Jewish laws are revoked by the Allies in the liberated areas of Italy. (Ibid.) January 20-26, 1943 Two thousand Jews are deported from Terezin to Auschwitz; 1,760 of them are gassed immediately upon arrival. (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 20) Work Cited Friedlaender, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume I: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997 Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Revolt Amid the Darkness: Days of Remembrance, April 18-25, 1993. Washington, D.C.: 1993 USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April 3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994
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