Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: October 6 Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] October 6 1942 "Harold Tittmann, Assistant to the U.S. President's Personal Representative at the Vatican, speculated that the Pope's disinclination to issue a public statement about Natzi `atrocities' in Poland was rooted in a fear that the German people would reproach him, just as they has accused Pope Benedict XV of pro-Allied sentiments during the First World War." (Hilberg, Perpetrators, 264) 1943 During a secret speech to government and party leaders, Himmler, frankly discussing the mass murder of Jews, observes that "the difficult decision had to be taken, to cause this Volk to disappear from the earth" and declares that this decision was implemented "without...our men or our officers suffering injury to spirit or soul." He adds that he and his colleagues must "take the secret with us to the grave." (USHMM, 1993, p. 47) 1944 The last SS raid on hospitals and mental institutions for Jewish patients in Venice results in twenty-one arrests. (USHMM, 1994, p. 62) October 6-7, 1944 Crematorium IV in Auschwitz-Birkenau is blown up during a revolt by the Sonderkommando. (USHMM, 1994, p. 63) Work Cited Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. 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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