Newsgroups: soc.history,soc.culture.jewish,alt.homosexual Subject: Holocaust Calendar: December 8 Followup-To: alt.revisionism From: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Reply-To: kmcvay@nizkor.org.nospam Organization: The Nizkor Project X-Remember: http://www.nizkor.org [Follow-ups set] December 8 1938 Himmler issues a circular directive on "Combating the Gypsy Plague" (The so-called "Basic Gypsy Directive"). (Ruerup, 124) 1941 The Germans began killing Jews at Chelmno, at the first fixed gassing institution to become operational on more than an experimental basis, using gas vans. The victims were Jews from Lodz. (Goldhagen, 157) 1944 The SS physician Carl Vaernet begins his second experimental operations on seven castrated homosexual prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp; at least one prisoners dies during the experiments. (See September 16.) (USHMM, 1994, p. 69) The Russian siege of Budapest begins, with the city surrounded on three sides. (Ibid.) Work Cited Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 Ruerup, Reinhard, Ed., trans. By Werner T. Angress. Topography of Terror. Berlliner Festspiele GmbH, Berlin: 1987 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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