Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: October 3 Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-DeathVans: http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?orgs/einsatzgruppen/ October 3 1936 Carl Schmitt's "...notorious academic conference, 'Judaism in Legal Science,'" was held on this day in Berlin. He "...opened and closed the proceedings with two major anti-Jewish speeches," citing Hitler's words: "In defending myself against the Jew...I am doing the work of the Lord." (Friedlaender, 192) 1943 An official letter protesting the threatened deportations is publicly read in every Danish church. The letter, drafted by Lutheran bishops and sent to the German minister in Copenhagen, pledges to "struggle to insure the continued guarantee to our Jewish brothers and sisters of the same freedom we ourselves treasure more than life itself." In a related action, Copenhagen University closes for one week "in view of the disasters that have overtaken our fellow citizens." (USHMM, 1993, p. 47) Stockholm reports that one thousand Danish Jews have already escaped across the Oresund Strait to Sweden. Thousands more will make the trip successfully in the coming days. (Ibid.) The Gestapo orders all Jews of Athens to register as a preliminary to deportation; three thousand flee and are given shelter by non-Jewish Greeks. (Ibid.) Work Cited 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
Home ·
Site Map ·
What's New? ·
Search
Nizkor
© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012
This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and
to combat hatred.
Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.
As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may
include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and
provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist
and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.