Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history Subject: Holocaust Calendar: March 13 From: Ken McVayOrganization: The Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org Followup-To: alt.revisionism March 13 1933 "...forcible closing of Jewish shops was imposed by the local SA in Mannheim; in Breslau, Jewish lawyers and judges were assaulted in the court building; and in Gedern, in Hesse, the SA broke into Jewish homes and beat up the inhabitants 'with the acclaimation of a rapidly growing crowd.'"(Friedlaender, 18) 1939 General Keitel issues an secret order which allowed Mischlinge officers "to remain in the standing army by decision of the Fuehrer." Mischlinge were those Germans with mixed Jewish and non-Jewish relatives. They were considered neither Jewish nor "Aryan". (Abrams, 25,48) 1942 A Directive by the Reich Labor Ministry about the employment of Gypsies is announced. The special regulations drafted for Jews in the area of social law will now also apply to Gypsies. (Ruerup, 125) 1943 "Operation Flash," an attempt by an anti-Hitler group of Wehrmacht officers (General Friedrich Olbricht, General von Tresckow, and Fabian von Schlabrendorff) to kill the Fuehrer is unsuccessful; a bomb placed in his private plane fails to explode. (USHMM 1993, p. 27) The SS establishes Ostindustrie GmbH (Eastern Industry, Ltd.), an industrial network including ironworks, fur workshops, and peat works, to exploit Jewish laborers in the General Government (Poland) pending their eventual deportation. (Ibid.) March 13-14, 1943 German forces liquidate the two sections of the Cracow ghetto. Two thousand Jews are killed on the spot, four thousand are deported to Auschwitz, and thousands of others are sent to the nearby forced-labor and concentration camp of Plaszow within Cracow's city limits. (USHMM 1993, p. 27) 1944 Hannah Szenes, who trained with a group of Palestine underground fighters in Egypt, arrives in Bari, Italy, together with Reuben Dafni. She subsequently reaches Yugoslavia, where she works with Tito's partisans for three months. (USHMM 1994, 32) DEGESH (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Schaedlingsbekaempfung mbH), a subsidiary of the I.G. Farben chemical conglomerate, bills the Auschwitz concentration camp and killing center for the sum of 1,050 reichsmark for delivery on March 8 of 210 kilograms (462 pounds) of Zyklon B. (Zykon B was used in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.) (Ibid.) Work Cited Abrams, Alan. Special Treatment: The Untold Story of Hitler's Third Race. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1985 Friedlaender, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume I: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997 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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