Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: May 19 From: Ken McVayFollowup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] 1943 ---- Propaganda Minister Goebbles declares Berlin `judenrein' (free of Jews), although there are still 18,000 Jewish men in privileged mixed marriages living in the city, as well as 2,000 - 3,000 others in hiding. (USHMM 1993, 34) 1944 ---- Joel Brand of the Hungarian Zionist Relief and Rescue Committee, accompanied by Bandi Grosz (alias Andre Gyorgy, a Gestapo agent and converted Jew), arrives in Istanbul with a German offer for the Allies: the Germans will spare 700,000 Hungarian Jews in exchange for 10,000 trucks, two million bars of soap, 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of cocoa, and 800 tons of tea. The British government concludes that the German offer is a cover for a separate peace intrigue designed to embroil Britain with the Soviet Union and thereby split the Western Allies from the Soviets. The `Manchester Guardian' of July 20, 1944, calls this plan `the depth of satanic wickedness and perverted ingenuity of the Germans.' (USHMM 1994, 43) Jewish members of a `Sonderkommando' (special labor unit) assigned to exhume and burn the bodies of victims massacred at Ponary near Vilna escape. Of the eighty escapees, only eleven survive. (Ibid.) Work Cited 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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