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Allies Join In Promising Retribution
- Publication Date
- Friday, December 18, 1942
- Historical Event
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Allies Denounce Nazi Plan to “Exterminate” the Jews
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- 11
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- AP
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- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (AP)—The United States and other united nations governments joined today in condemning Germany's policy of exterminating the Jews and pledged themselves to visit retribution on those responsible.
Emphasis was added to this pledge by Secretary of State Hull, who told his press conference that practical steps were being taken to identify, apprehend and punish the guilty persons.
Hull recalled that President Roosevelt and other heads of government in recent months had announced plans to discover and assemble all facts relating to inhuman acts in war areas. All pertinent facts and names were being collected, he said, with the aim of apprehending and punishing war criminals at the earliest possible opportunity—not later than the end of the war.
In announcing the joint pledge of retribution for crimes against the Jews, the state department said reports from Europe indicated the Germans have gone beyond ordinary persecution and "now are carrying into effect Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe."
In Poland, "the principal Nazi slaughterhouse," the announcement said, ghettos established the Germans when they invaded the country now are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few skilled workers valuable to the war industries, and "none of those taken away are ever heard of again." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Randall S.
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