- Headline
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Nazis Herding Jews to Death Public Slaughter Houses
- Publication Date
- Thursday, July 6, 1944
- Historical Event
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First Public Reports on ‘Extermination Camp’ at Auschwitz
This database includes 694 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- UP
- Article Text
- London, July 6 (U.P.)—British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken charged today that the Germans are setting up public slaughterhouses" in Europe into which thousands of Jews are being herded to their deaths. "This is the biggest scandal in the history of human crime and the responsibility rests on the German people," Bracken said at a memorial luncheon held in honor of the late Brig. Gen. Herman Kisch, a Jewish officer who was killed in North Africa while serving as chief engineer for the British 8th army.
"What the Germans are doing." Bracken said, "is nothing less than setting up abbatoirs in Europe into which are shepherded thousands of Jews. . . .They are dispatched with a sort of brutal efficiency in which the Prussian delights. . . .The German people have the responsibility, also the German general staff, which could have stopped it.
"I hope that when the time comes when exemplary punishment is given the people responsible for these outrages, the German general staff will be the first to be dealt with.
"These generals talk about chivalry and traditions of the German general staff. I never thought much of these traditions, but there is now a tradition of infamy attached to them which will never die so long as there is decency in life. I hope these men will pay for the beastial cruelties they are perpetrating against the Jewish people today." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Amy P.
- Location of Research
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