History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: German Doctors Said to Kill Jews at Rate of 100 an Hour
Sub-Headline: 2,000,000 Slain So Far in Response to Hitler's Order To Exterminate Race by End Of Year, Apparently Authentic Report Reveals

Publication Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1942
Historical Event: Nazi Plan to Kill All Jews Confirmed
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: (The Wilmington) Evening Journal-Every Evening/(The Wilmington) Journal-Every Evening
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Page Section and Number: 5
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (AP).—Details of a campaign which Dr. Stephen S. Wise said was planned to exterminate all Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe by the end of the year are to be laid before a committee of leading Jewish organizations today in New York.

The story which Dr. Wise said was confirmed by the State Department and a personal representative of President Roosevelt—deals with how more than 2,000,000 Jews already have been slaughtered in accordance with a race extinction order by Adolf Hitler.

Before leaving for New York to address the committee this afternoon, Dr. Wise, chairman of the World Jewish Congress and president of the American Jewish Congress, said he carried official documentary proof that "Hitler has ordered the extermination of all Jews in Nazi-ruled Europe in 1942."

Half Already Dead
After a consultation with State Department officials, he announced they had termed authentic certain sources which revealed that approximately half of the estimated 4,000,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe already had been killed and that Hitler was wrathful at "failure to complete the extermination immediately."

To speed the slaughter of the other half during the remaining month before the edict's deadline, Dr. Wise said the Nazis were moving some four-fifths of the Jews in Hitler-ruled European countries to Poland. There, he said Nazi doctors were killing them at the rate of "more than 100 men an hour, per doctor," by injecting air bubbles into their veins—"the simplest and cheapest method they could find.

Dr. Wise, who heads the committee, asserted that already the Jewish population of Warsaw had been reduced from 500,000 to about 100,000.

Skilled Workers Spared
(The Polish government-in-exile reported in London yesterday that Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of one-half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been killed through September under the program. Only 40,000 Jews—skilled workers in the German war industry—are to remain in the Warsaw ghetto, the government said.)

In addition to the State Department which he said had provided the documentary proof of previous rumors and reports, the chairman said a "representative of President Roosevelt, recently returned from Europe," had confirmed other stories and told him that "the worst you thought is true."

Whether details of the gruesome campaign will be revealed publicly will be decided by the committee, Dr. Wise said, adding that any contemplated action will be announced after today's meeting.
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