Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.italian Subject: Holocaust Calendar: January 29 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] January 29 1943 In a secret circular transmitting OKH instructions, Martin Bormann provided for the enforcement of labor demands on Prisoners of War through the use of fire-arms and corporal punishment. (656-PS)(NCA-02, 903) German officials in Prague dissolve the Jewish Religious Congregation, the supreme authority for Czechoslovakia's Jewish communities. On February 8 the German authorities create a more compliant body known as the Council of Jewish Elders. (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 21) Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the SS and Police Leader for the Ostmark (incorporated Austria), is named head of the RSHA, which encompasses the Gestapo and the Security Service, as successor to the assassinated Reinhard Heydrich. (USHMM, 1993. Pg. 21) Implementing regulations by the Reich Security Main Office to Himmler's so-called "Auschwitz Directive" of December 16, 1942: "Gypsies of mixed blood, Romany Gypsies and Balkan Gypsies" are to be taken to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Gypsies from all over Europe are being deported to the "Gypsy camp" which has been established in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Ruerup, 125) 1944 The head of the Italian police orders that all Jewish communities within the RSI be dissolved by the next month. (USHMM, 1994. Pg. 27) A transport with 245 prisoners sent by the Bialystok Gestapo arrives at Stutthof concentration camp. (Ibid.) Work Cited NCA II. Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume II. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1946 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 Ruerup, Reinhard, Ed., trans. By Werner T. Angress. Topography of Terror. Berliner Festspiele GmbH, Berlin: 1987
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