- Headline
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U.S. Condemns Jew Slaughter
- Publication Date
- Thursday, December 17, 1942
- Historical Event
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Allies Denounce Nazi Plan to “Exterminate” the Jews
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- Newspaper
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- 2
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- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—(AP)—The United States today joined other United Nations governments in condemning Germany's "bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination" of the Jews and in pledging that those responsible "shall not escape retribution."
In announcing the move the State Department said reports from Europe indicated that German authorities passing beyond the stage of ordinary persecution, "are now carrying into effect Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe."
land as "the principal Nazi slaugh-
The announcement described Poler house," where ghettos established by the Germans now are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few skilled workers valuable to the war industries. It added:
"None of those taken away are every[sic] heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The informs are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in the many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children."
Associated with the United States in the joint action were the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet United Kindgom and Yugoslav governments and the French national (Fighting French) committee.
Attention recently was called to the German extermination campaign by Rabbiy Stephen M. Wise, who issued a statement charging that the Germans not only systematically slaughtered Jews but utilized the corpses in the manufacture of soaps, fats and other products. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Stephanie P.
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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.
Hamerow, Theodor. While We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust. New York: Norton, 2008.
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Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. New York: The New Press, 1998.
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