Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Holocaust Calendar: November 1 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.no-spam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.no-spam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] November 1 1940 Referring to a decision by Reichsfuehrer SS, Security Police and Security Service Chief Heydrich ordered that 40 Poles, chosen by Himmler from four lists of names, be shot to death "in a covert way" ("unter Ausschluss der Oeffentlichkeit") in reprisal for an alleged assault on a police official in Katowice. (Czech et al, pp. 125-6) These prisoners were subsequently shot on November 22nd. 1941 The Commissioner General of White Ruthenia, having witnessed the liquidation of the Jews of Sluzk, includes the following comments in his report to the Reich Commissioner for the Eastern Territories: "Peace and order cannot be maintained in White Ruthenia with methods of that sort. To bury seriously wounded people alive who worked their way out of their graves again is such a base and filthy act that the incidents should be reported to the Fuehrer and Reichs Marshal." (1104-PS) (NCA II, 274) 1943 At the conclusion of a conference of their foreign ministers in Moscow, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union confirm that their countries would not consider any separate peace negotiations with Germany, putting the Germans on notice that they will be held responsible for crimes against humanity. The Allies also sign an agreement for the extradition of war criminals to stand trial in the country where the crimes were committed. (USHMM, 1993, p. 49) The Jewish prisoners and Soviet POWs in Sonderkommando 1005 begin digging up mass graves at the Ninth Fort outside Kovno and burn the bodies in giant pyres. (Fifty thousand Jews had been killed at this fort.) (Ibid.) 1944 The last deportation train leaves the La Risiera de San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste for Auschwitz. From October 1943 to November 1944, twenty-two such trains have made this journey. (USHMM, 1994, p. 66) Work Cited Czech, Danuta, Stanslaw Klodzinski, Aleksander Lasik, Andrezej Strezecki, eds. "Auschwitz 1940 - 1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp, Volume V. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum: Oswiecim 2000. 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: 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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