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Allies Denounce German Pogroms
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- Retribution Promised for Nazi "Bestial Policy" of Jewish Extermination
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- Thursday, December 17, 1942
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Allies Denounce Nazi Plan to “Exterminate” the Jews
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- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UP)—Eleven of the United Nations and the French national committee Thursday condemned Germany's "bestial policy" of Jewish extermination and resolved that those responsible for such crimes shall not escape retribution.
The statement was indorsed[sic] by the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslav governments and the Fighting French. Other United Nations are expected to subscribe to it later.
The denunciation supplements a previous pledge by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill to punish Axis officials guilty of killing hostages and other offenses.
The statement on Jewish oppression accused German authorities of "carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe." It charged that Jews are being transported from occupied countries "in conditions of appalling horror and brutality"; that Polish ghettos are being "systematically emptied"; that the able-bodied are being worked to death in labor camps, and that the infirm are left to die or are deliberately massacred.
Text of Statement.
The text of the statement, made public here and in London:
"The attention of the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslav governments and the French national committee has been drawn to numerous reports from Europe that the German authorities, not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territories over which their barbarous rule has been extended, the most elementary human rights, are now carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.
"From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalling horror and brutality to eastern Europe.
"In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughter house, the ghettos established by the invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly-skilled workers required for federal war industries. None of those taken away are ever heard of again.
"The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children.
"The above mentioned governments and the French national committee condemn in the strongest possible terms this bestial policy of cold blooded extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They reaffirm their solemn resolution to ensure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end." - History Unfolded Contributor
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Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
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