- Headline
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United Nations Group Scores Nazi Barbarity
- Sub-Headline
- Express Horror at Extermination of Jews; Swear To Visit Retribution
- Publication Date
- Thursday, December 17, 1942
- Historical Event
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Allies Denounce Nazi Plan to “Exterminate” the Jews
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- Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 14
- Author/Byline
- UP
- Article Text
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Eleven of the United Nations and the French National Committee today condemned Germany's "bestial policy" of Jewish extermination and resolved that those responsible for such crimes shall not escape retribution.
The statement was endorsed by the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslav governments and the Fighting French. Other United Nations are expected to subscribe to it later.
The denunciation supplements a previous pledge by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill to punish Axis officials guilty of killing hostages and other offenses.
The statement on Jewish oppression accused German authorities of "carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe." It charged that Jews were being transported from occupied countries "in conditions of appalling horror and brutality;" that Polish ghettos are being "systematically emptied;" that the able bodied are being worked to death in labor camps, and that the infirm are left to die or are deliberately massacred. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Randall S.
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Feingold, Henry L. Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
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Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
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