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Millions Liquidated by Nazis in Europe
- Sub-Headline
- Executions, Starvation and Prison Deaths Mount to Appalling Total
- Publication Date
- Friday, May 8, 1942
- Historical Event
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Nazi Plan to Kill All Jews Confirmed
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- London, May 7—The Nazi German overlords of continental Europe, seeking to impose their will on populations that refuse to bend the knee to tyranny, have already liquidated more than 1,000,000 dissidents, a checkup disclosed today.
The figures do not include secret executions and the thousands dying of starvation in out of the way places or in concentration camps.
Here, however, is an appalling list which shows that already more than 890,000 men, women and children have felt the wrath of the Nazi sword:
Poland—82,000 executed and 37,-000 dead in concentration camps.
Norway—78 "officially" executed.
Czechoslovakia—420 Czechs executed after trial, while 800 students have mysteriously "disappeared" and 15,000 persons sent to concentration camps.
Jugoslavia—A Jugoslav refugee government memorandum to the United States, Britain and other Allied governments charged Axis troops in Jugoslavia executed more than 465,000 Serbs since occupation began.
Holland—590 Dutchmen and "Dutch Jews" slain.
Belgium—86 "official" executions, but Belgian authorities insist the number is far greater than in the last war, when 250 were killed.
France—500 "hostages shot ana 2400 others executed for carrying arms. The concentration camp death rate is almost the highest in Europe. In one camp alone 6000 persons are unaccounted for.
Greece—40,000 starved to death in Athens or Piraeus alone up to last November, while 800 Greeks have been executed on the island of Crete.
In addition, it is estimated that 500,000 persons were killed in Bulgarian punitive bombing raids on helpless Greek villages last September. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Spencer S.
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Bibliography
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.
Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler’s “Final Solution.” New York: H. Holt, 1998.
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