Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: April 20 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 20 1940 Secret directives of the Supreme Command of the Army require that persons of mixed blood [Mischlinge] and husbands of Jewish wives be discharged. (Ruerup, 118) [This directive is not entirely successful, and some Mischlinge remain in the military.] 1943 Gerhart Riegner, the World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva, in a cablegram to WJC President Wise in New York, sent through State Department channels, outlines possible rescue actions for Jews in Romania and France providing that funds can be found. To keep hard currency from falling into Axis hands in violation of wartime treasury regulations, the proposal calls for borrowing local currencies in the two countries, to be guaranteed by dollars held in blocked Swiss accounts until after the war. (See February 13.) The cablegram is forwarded from Bern on instructions from Underscretary of State Sumner Welles following word from Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in New York that the Geneva WJC representative had been attempting to send an urgent message. (See February 10.) (USHMM 1993, p. 31) Work Cited Ruerup, Reinhard, Ed., trans. By Werner T. Angress. Topography of Terror. Berliner Festspiele GmbH, Berlin: 1987 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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