Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish From: Ken McVaySubject: Holocaust Calendar: August 31 Followup-To: alt.revisionism X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] August 31 1939 Early in August ... [a] plan was conceived by ... Hydrich, to stage simulated border raids by personnel of the GESTAPO and SD dressed as Poles. To add authenticity, it was planned to take certain prisoners from concentration camps, kill them by use of hypodermic injections, and leave their bodies, clad in Polish uniforms, at the various places where the incidents were planned to occur. The Chief of GESTAPO, Mueller, took a direct hand in these actions, which were staged [on this date] in Beuthen, Hindenberg, Gleiwitz, and elsewhere. (NCA II, p. 264) 1941 "The First and Third Companies of Police Battalion 322 ... seized some 700 Jews, including 74 women", in Minsk. (Browning, 16) Ordnungspolizei commander of the Ukraine Friederich Jeckeln reported to Himmler and Daluege that "the special Action Staff with Order Police Battalion 320 shot 2,200 Jews. (Davis, Douglas. Jerusalem Post, May 20, 1997. "British documents indicate 7 million died in Holocaust") 1944 Breendonck concentration camp in occupied Belgium is abandoned; earlier, prisoners had been transferred to Vught concentration camp, from where they were relocated to Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. (USHMM 1994, 57) Two thousand French collaborators are arrested and held at the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris. In 1942 the Velodrome was the assembly point for the first major roundup of Parisian Jews. (Ibid.) A transport of 3,174 Polish civilians arrested during the Warsaw uprising arrives at Stutthof concentration camp. (Ibid.) Approximately two thousand prisoners from Natzweiler concentration camp are transferred to Dachau as the evacuation of Natzweiler begins. (Ibid.) The Reich Interior Ministry orders the suspension of mandatory reporting of statistics from euthanasia sanitaria and hospitals because of the requirements for "total war." (Ibid.) Work Cited Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992 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: Darkness Before Dawn: Days of Remembrance, April 3-10, 1994. Washington, D.C.: 1994
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