Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: April 17 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] April 17 1941 SS-Untersturmfuehrer Maximilian Grabner, director of the Auschwitz Politische Abteilung, informed the Poznan Gestapo office that, in line with a ruling from SS Reichsfuehrer Himmler, urns containing the ashes of Polish political prisoners who died at Auschwitz would no longer be shipped either to the families or to cemetaries. Shipments of urns were suspended at once. (Czech et al, p. 131) 1943 Hitler, angered by the Finnish, Italian, and Hungarian governments' refusal to deport Jews from their countries, meets Hungarian regent Admiral Horthy and says Jews are "pure parasites" to be treated like "tuberculosis bacilli." Horthy continues to resist the deportation of Hungarian Jews. (USHMM 1993, p. 30) The Polish government-in-excile in London asks the International Red Cross to investigate the Katyn Massacre. The next day Moscow radio claims that the guilt lies with the Germans. (Ibid.) For more information, see http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/places/germany/nuremberg/tusa/katyn-hearing Work Cited Czech, Danuta, Stanslaw Klodzinski, Aleksander Lasik, Andrezej Strezecki, eds. "Auschwitz 1940 - 1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp, Volume V. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum: Oswiecim 2000. USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Fifty Years Ago: Revolt Amid the Darkness: Days of Remembrance, April 18-25, 1993. Washington, D.C.: 1993
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