- Headline
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Subjugated Jews
- Publication Date
- Friday, November 27, 1942
- Historical Event
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Nazi Plan to Kill All Jews Confirmed
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- Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's statement that about half the 4,000,000 Jews in Nazi subjugated territory have been slain, and that Hitler has ordered extermination of the remainder, was based, he said, on sources of information which the state department had confirmed as authentic.
The estimate may be subject to revision, but not the import of the statement. The studied, deliberate and frankly barbarian policy of the Nazis is to rid their world of Jews. Their political defense of this mass murder is the precedent set by the Russian Reds in "liquidating" 3,000,000 landed farmers, known as kulaks.
What the Nazis fail to see, however, is that this slaughter is one of the reasons why the enlightened world is determined to kill 4,000,000 Hitlerite Germans — or more — if necessary to protect all minorities from a like fate. The people of the United Nations are not only horrified by this bestial depravity. They are so fearful of the probability that a victorious Germany would try to exterminate all its opponents that they prefer death to life under Nazi rule.
The Nazi extermination of Jews encourages the United Nations war effort in another way. It proves to manful men that the Nazis are cowards. They are so afraid of a negligible minority among them that extermination is necessary to their security. The subjugated Jews thus have become the instrument of a revelation that will assure and hasten the extermination of their persecutors. Their martyrdom inspires the whole world of free men to win the war at any cost. - History Unfolded Contributor
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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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