- Headline
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Nazi Agents Slay or Jail Europe Jews
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, June 2, 1942
- Historical Event
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Germans Kill Thousands of Jews in Mass Shooting Outside Kiev
This database includes 222 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- Joseph W. Grigg (UP)
- Article Text
- Editor's Note— Joseph W. Grrigg was manager of the United Press Berlin bureau. Together with his staff, he was interned when Germany declared war on the United States and was among American newspapermen recently exchanged in Lisbon for Axis nationals who had been in America. He now is member of the United Press London staff.)
LONDON. June 1. (U.P.)—Adolf Hitler's agents, in the most terrible persecution in modern history, have killed at least 200,000 Jews in Russia, Poland and the Baltic states, and driven millions from their homes into medieval ghettos.
Foreign correspondents in Germany were never able to get exact figures on the dead, for they were killed so indiscriminately that no records were kept. Thousands lie in unmarked graves, many in mass graves they were forced to dig before the firing squads of SS troops cut them down.
Recall Prophecy
Hitler on Jan. 30, 1939, declared that another world war would result in destruction of the Jews, and those of us who lived in Germany know that he and his agents have done everything possible to make the prophecy come true.
In Germany proper, Jews are still being sent to overcrowded ghettos in occupied countries at the rate of 20,000 a month. There apparently was an effort to create a "Jew free" Reich by April as a birthday gift for Hitler, but due to transportation and other difficulties, the schedule could not be maintained.
It is estimated that between 60,000 and 70,000 have been dumped in eastern Europe since September.
56,000 Slaughtered
One of the biggest known slaughters occurred in Latvia in the summer of 1941, when, responsible Nazi sources admitted, 56,000 men, women and children were killed by SS troops and Latvian irregulars.
This slaughter went on for days, and there was even an official German news reel of squads shooting Jews in the streets of Riga. The Nazi commentator described these scenes as the vengeance of "the infuriated Latvian populace
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(See TERROR, Page 2, Column 7) - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
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