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Heinrich Himmler ordered_assassination_of
Holocaust documented
“and had not met for the first time. Himmler had decreed in the fall of 1942 that all Jewish people in concentration camps within Germany's border were to be driven out, resulting in mass deportations to concentration camps at places like Au…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 9 @ 15:25
Nazi Party carried_out_attack
Holocaust book_quoted
“not the industrial and financial elite, initiated the Holocaust. But they succeeded in their program of genocide only by enlisting collaborators that were industrial and financial elites. They gave financial incentives to German business co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 5 @ 3:03
Nazi Party carried_out_attack
Holocaust book_quoted
“Perpetrators need mass mobilization to actually implement their agenda. For example, the rear spearheads of genocide in Germany, the Nazi Party, the SS, and similar groups, by themselves lacked the resources to disenfranchise and eventually…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 15:25
Gestapo carried_out_attack
Holocaust host_asserted
“of their anti-Semitic, anti-communist, and anti-union programs crucial to the stabilization of Hitler's state. For the most part, Nazis were not disappointed. The Gestapo terror was always a key aspect of Nazi activities. The police measure…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 47:07
Joseph Goebbels covered_up
Holocaust documented
“Allied bombing fed directly into Hitler's war against the Jewish people as well because it provided a propaganda program. Propaganda minister Goebbels repeatedly linked the Nazi genocide of Jewish people to Allied bombing in his broadcast s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 48:13
Otto Ohlendorf covered_up
Holocaust documented
“Otto Ohlendorf, a leading SS intellectual and ideologue, offered similar reflections during his post-war trial for the murder of 90,000 civilians under his command. Ohlendorf saw it as he saw it, the Nazi mass execution of Jewish children b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 49:14
George F. Kennan covered_up
Holocaust documented
“to fdr the public pattern of nazi crimes fell outside the realm of what these men considered criminal for them germany's forced labor seemed little more than a particularly harsh solution to a problem they ignored reports of any of the spie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 1:00:11
U.S. State Department covered_up
Holocaust documented
“defending the Lansing-Dulles status quo. The principal U.S. government experts on international law were generally staunch advocates of a cramped conception of legality that supported the Hitler government's claim that it could treat civili…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 6 @ 57:17
U.S. State Department covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“senior staffers, including Eldridge Durbrow, D-U-R-B-R-O-W. Each made his own interpretation of wartime events, of course, but taken together, these men came to the core of a faction within the U.S. government whose conception of national s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 4:06
U.S. State Department covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“In fact, the pressure was already building from Jewish organizations at home and abroad. The Foreign Office had traditionally pursued a hard line against Jewish immigration to Palestine and was terrified that this would change that. As Fran…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 7:14
U.S. State Department covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“must be defeated. But it was considerably less clear in 1942 exactly what the terms might be. Foreign office and the war office documents of this period reflect the assumption that there would probably would not be an unconditional German s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 8:12
Edward Schultz exposed
Holocaust book_quoted
“The State Department again received word of systematic use of gas facilities. German industrialist Edward Schultz had smuggled new information concerning the murders into Switzerland and arranged to have it delivered to both the US and the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 12:06
Eldridge Durbrow covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“Durbrow, and R. Borden Reams were convinced that Hitler's mistreatment of Jews was limited to forced labor and petty persecution. Schultz's message was a wild rumor, they said, and refused to transmit the intelligence to Roosevelt. They did…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 12:37
R. Borden Reams covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“Durbrow cited the fantastic nature of the allegation and the impossibility of it being true as the reason why it wasn't forwarded. R. Borden Reams was at that moment engaging in burying a second document, which was a letter from the U.S. Em…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 13:07
Anthony Eden covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“British Parliament leaders had been pushing for an open debate on this issue. Great Britain, it said, should open Palestine to the Jewish refugees. Anthony Eden was intent on heading off any consideration of these measures. He referred to t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 13:37
British War Office covered_up
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“that was being floated around in Parliament. Eden referred to recent papers by legal experts at the Foreign Office and War Office stating that however dreadful the Nazis' actions might be, they were not recognized as crimes under internatio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 18:39
Green Hackworth covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“Any suggestions of some sort of international court for the trials of war crimes should be frowned upon. The new charter stressed that it was neither necessary nor desirable to create a new body of law for war crimes. Back in Washington, th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 20:32
Leon Rosengarten exposed
Holocaust book_quoted
“The Secretary of the Jewish Aid Committee for Immigrations in Zurich, Leon Rosengarten, wrote to the Foreign Office seeking clarification from Lord Simon. Is it to be understood, he said, that cruelties and massacres of stateless persons wh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 23:44
U.S. State Department covered_up
Holocaust book_quoted
“The Secretary of the Jewish Aid Committee for Immigrations in Zurich, Leon Rosengarten, wrote to the Foreign Office seeking clarification from Lord Simon. Is it to be understood, he said, that cruelties and massacres of stateless persons wh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 23:44
Adolf Hitler carried_out_attack
Holocaust book_quoted
“that the war has been forced upon us, no array of weapons and no passage of time will bring us to defeat. And second, that if Jewry should plot another world war to exterminate the Aryan peoples of Europe, it would not be the Aryan peoples …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 25:44
West Germany carried_out_attack
Holocaust book_quoted
“Germans had given Romania until December 1943 to remove theirs. Although, as a U.S. diplomat report from London put it, quote, if the transportation go on at present rates, the Romanian government will have fulfilled those orders before the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 27:14
Poland exposed
Holocaust book_quoted
“Ambassador Winnett cabled to Washington. Meanwhile, Polish intelligence operatives working out of Switzerland provided a remarkably detailed accounting of the exterminations and the slave labor program based on their penetration of the labo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 27:45
United Kingdom exposed
Holocaust book_quoted
“Lies in the fact that for September 1942, 130,000 ration cards were printed. For October, the number issued was only 40,000. British sources in London also made public an accurate account of the deportations that specifically identified the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blonde Beast Part 7 @ 28:13
Karl Wolff covered_up
Holocaust host_asserted
“rise in his memoirs, he was delaying a judgment that for many had long since become obvious. When Wolf was later confronted with the obscenity of the Nazi leadership war crimes, he would inevitably plead ignorance, claiming he occupied such…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 43:44
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Holocaust host_asserted
“Wolf, as Himmler's top troubleshooter, frequently intervened to ensure smooth efficiency at the labor camps. During the Nuremberg trials, a highly incriminating letter written by Wolf would emerge that made it clear how important his interv…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 45:03
Karl Wolff ordered_assassination_of
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“gas chambers was temporarily halted because of germans military demand for rail cars wolf appealed to a nazi transportation official for help after the rail shortage was successfully resolved wolf sent off a heartfelt thank you to getting t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 45:31
Allen Dulles covered_up
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“Unquote. You know, nothing like an actual war. Just controlled chaos. Instead of Roosevelt's unconditional surrender in which the Nazi leadership would be held account, Dulles was not in favor of that. The pact that Dulles envisioned not on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 2 @ 52:22
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So then you had the creation of MI6, which was the creation that led to the CIA. And then Mossad was just a single operation of weaponizing the Holocaust in order to use that in order to kind of weaponize Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to…
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The two old friends who agreed that there was probably no room for the Jewish people in post-war Europe and certainly they should not return to positions of power. Dulles offered that there were some in America who felt the Jews should be r…
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He was the Reich's second most powerful man, and he dared to think that he could become number one. Himmler looked less of an icon of a master race than a, he actually looked like a bank clerk. He had been a chicken farmer and fertilizer sa…
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their plan to wipe out the Jewish people from the face of the earth. It was Himmler who had the nerve to justify this plan, standing before the SS generals in October 1943 and assuring them that they had the moral right to destroy people. H…
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He played a prominent administrative role in Hitler's assembly line. He was, as Time magazine later branded him, a bureaucrat of death. The Nuremberg trials would firmly establish the principle that administrators of murder, not just the ac…
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that named him as one of the major war criminals. With Hitler and Himmler both dead, Wolf was among the highest Nazi officials to survive the war. Determined to keep Wolf out of the defendant's dock, however, Dulles went so far as to bury i…
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as the author did. So you can decide for yourself if that is in fact true and how, because again, we're all about patterns. And you have today, because obviously all of this stuff carries through to today. This World War I, the Turkish-Arme…
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Armenian genocide of 1915 through 18 and Hitler's Holocaust of Jews, as well as the U.S. government's response to these tragedies, will be looked at in this book. And he says that genocidal societies usually go through an evolution during w…
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Perpetrators need mass mobilization to actually implement their agenda. For example, the rear spearheads of genocide in Germany, the Nazi Party, the SS, and similar groups, by themselves lacked the resources to disenfranchise and eventually…
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It violates international law to overthrow another country. So the U.S. didn't want to have anything to do with any of this. And you will see the monumental roadblocks put in place as a result of that. Okay. Then he says there were at least…
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The most basic of these concerns is that the Holocaust may be denigrated, cheapened or exploited by comparison to other events. Like this guy is going to compare it to the Armenian genocide. The second concern is that the events of the Holo…
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historians, and authors is not adequate for understanding the Holocaust. And fourth, some people are convinced on religious and philosophical grounds that the Holocaust was unique. But to claim that a study of the Holocaust must be separate…
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Only by understanding the roots of evil do we gain the possibility of shaping the future so that it won't happen again. He goes on to say the Turkish murders of Armenians and the Nazi Holocaust are more deeply linked than simply being two e…
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of the then existing structure of international law and international relations. That failure was inevitable, but it was a certain terrible sense of logic that resulted in the mass murder committed within the context of international law as…
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particularly in Germany, the U.S. and British foreign ministry strongly disagreed. And that's another reason why they hated Charles de Gaulle. Both Allied factions acknowledged that much of German's business elite had directly participated …
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major German bankers and industrialists complicit in the Nazi extermination through labor program. And just to be clear, he refers to this extermination through labor program as working them to death, that all of those companies, the major …
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The role of German business community during the rise of Hitler has been argued at length elsewhere, but more important to this discussion are the activities of the U.S. and German business elite during the Hitler years and particularly dur…
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of their anti-Semitic, anti-communist, and anti-union programs crucial to the stabilization of Hitler's state. For the most part, Nazis were not disappointed. The Gestapo terror was always a key aspect of Nazi activities. The police measure…
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who had committed crimes against citizens of more than one country, or who had directed inhumane policies in Germany itself. Pell was referring, obviously, to these death camps. Pell knew Breckenridge long well enough that it was pointless …
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Roosevelt did not place a high priority on the discussions over war crimes once the toughly worded condemnations of the Nazi atrocities had been noted. So he was all about words and nothing about deeds. Hackworth explicitly ordered Pell to …
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and basically ensured that it was him and not the U.S. that got the chairmanship. The Foreign Office regarded Hearst as a model of experience and was unlikely to make waves, but Eden seriously underestimated his appointee. Cecil Hearst join…
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on the first four months of real work that the committee did. He stated bluntly that the stirring wartime pledges from Allied leaders that justice would be done to Nazi war crimes would come to naught unless the Foreign Office changed its a…
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The U.S. had not contributed any information of war crimes at all to the commission. Hearst also pointed to the magnitude of the tasks that confronted the tiny commission. By now, it was abundantly clear that Nazi atrocities that involved t…
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Hearst was attempting to gain for the group a new authority and vigor. No longer would it be possible for the Foreign Office and State Department to use the existence to claim they were doing something while not doing anything at all. His d…
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had long since made preparations for killing Jewish people. Yet its government had generally held back from mass murder, much to the dismay of the Nazis. In March, the Germans deposed the existing regime and installed a more compliant gover…
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Within 10 days, they had deported 116,000 people to Auschwitz, many of them family and children. They shipped 250,000 more people to extermination camps before the end of June. The Nazis gassed as many of these people as they could and put …
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Worse, they formally declared in secret decisions that the perpetrators of this crime were to remain immune from prosecution for what they were doing. Lord Simon of the British War Department opposed any investigation into the Hungarian dep…
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the first true death camp to fall into Allied hands, more or less intact. Nazis had gassed to death more than a million people at this location, murdering an average of well over 15,000 people a week, half of whom were children. This was on…
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Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. The concepts of a crime against humanity or human rights violations were absent from Hackworth's text in six volumes, never mentioned. The international community might justly hold a government resp…
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and had not met for the first time. Himmler had decreed in the fall of 1942 that all Jewish people in concentration camps within Germany's border were to be driven out, resulting in mass deportations to concentration camps at places like Au…
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if not hundreds of thousands of people during this time. The murder program accelerated in the spring of 1943. German troops entered Warsaw Ghetto and killed thousands of people via street fighting. In the south, the Nazis began deporting G…
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The SS had arranged a special transport for 3,000 women and children from the Netherlands, all of them murdered. In June, Hindler formally ordered the liquidation of the ghettos in Poland and the Nazi-occupied regions of the Soviet Union. T…
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and the State Department continued to reject reports of genocide in Europe. Pell met with the Secretary of State Hall in August, but Hall seemed unable to change anything. Pell then protested directly to Roosevelt. An active war crime commi…
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was the narrowly defined version. It would conduct a study, hold a few meetings, prepare a report, and go home, not hold anybody accountable. Even though the UN War Crimes Commission had not yet met, the scope of plans for its operation gra…
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As news of Nazi genocide accumulated in the West, the press and the Jewish community and immigrant governments in London slowly pushed Britain and the U.S. government towards an aggressive war crimes commission capable of doing something ab…
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At the same time, though many other Germans and officials in the Axis satellite states were less committed to genocide, indeed, some had had second thoughts after hearing some of the dispatches of what was going on inside of Germany. U.S. i…
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Equally important, strong public action by the Wartime Commission during the war would almost certainly arouse further demands from citizens of the Allied countries for substantial action against Nazi crimes. R. Borden Rehm's fear of such a…
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The British War Cabinet again confronted the question of whether to go ahead with tough campaigns aimed at deterring Nazi atrocities in the fall of 1943. When British forces discovered a new mass grave on the Greek island of Kos, German for…
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At the next meeting of the British War Department and proposed the Big Three issue a declaration of the upcoming Allied Conference in Moscow, pledging to pursue Nazi war criminals to the end of the earth. By late 1943, the fact that the Ger…
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Quote, I attach great importance to the principles and the criminals will be taken back to be judged in the countries or even districts where their crimes have been committed. Unquote. Here again, revelations of Nazis atrocities became an i…
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not the industrial and financial elite, initiated the Holocaust. But they succeeded in their program of genocide only by enlisting collaborators that were industrial and financial elites. They gave financial incentives to German business co…
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This split between the individual and institutional behaviors became central to the elite's largely successful effort to escape culpability after the Holocaust. And that's what happened to Smith. They were all able to point to one little de…
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here only to men, but in fact, 25% of these workers were female. They made minimal effort to keep any of them alive. They oftentimes referred to them as quote-unquote guest workers. In contrast, Jewish concentration inmates and many Soviet …
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The procedure typically required between one to six months before they were dead. The police agency pursued both of these avenues as far as enforcement and selecting some inmates for death through labor while immediately killing others. Pri…
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industrial exploitation, the important element in the SS cover story for the mass murders that became Auschwitz, the relatively visible forced labor inmates provided some of the answers, however, unsatisfactory to the nagging questions conc…
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Allied bombing fed directly into Hitler's war against the Jewish people as well because it provided a propaganda program. Propaganda minister Goebbels repeatedly linked the Nazi genocide of Jewish people to Allied bombing in his broadcast s…
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the Jewish press of London and New York for instigating Britain's bloodthirsty malice against Germany. He would say that these Jewish people will pay for it with the extermination of their race. That was Goebbels' message. He clearly believ…
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Otto Ohlendorf, a leading SS intellectual and ideologue, offered similar reflections during his post-war trial for the murder of 90,000 civilians under his command. Ohlendorf saw it as he saw it, the Nazi mass execution of Jewish children b…
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The murder of Jewish children, he claimed, was a security measure because otherwise the children would have grown up and surely being the children of parents who had been killed, they would constitute a danger no smaller than that of their …
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The general public in Germany closely associated the Jewish people with the Allied bombing campaigns. At first, this took the form of popular hostility as supposed foreign spies and manipulators behind Allied governments, a view that was sy…
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present Auschwitz and other concentration camps as security measures created in a response to Allied initiatives. Later in the war, however, the reverse idea seemed to have taken hold among the German public, much to Goebbels' distress. Beg…
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that the Allied bombings was retribution for what was happening in these forced labor camps. Many Germans believed the cities and religious areas were being bombed because of what the Nazis were doing. Similarly, many Germans throughout the…
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reported that many national comrades, Nazi party members, are of the opinion that the Jewish question has been solved by us in the most clumsy way possible. They say quite openly that our cities would still be intact if we had only brought …
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the way we would have today a very effective means of threat and countermeasure at our disposal. These sentiments can also be found in letters sent by ordinary Germans to Goebbels' ministry. Such notes frequently included suggestions that J…
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The number of their dead published immediately after each air raid so that the Americans and British would be accredited with their murder. The Allies avoided bombing Jewish in German city. Wait a minute. None of these popular German myths …
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Jewish people in German cities, nor did the treatment of Jewish people in the German localities play a role in the Allied. And that's not what they were actually saying. They were actually saying that they wanted to use them so that they co…
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And John Foster Dulles himself and others in the wake of World War I obstructed efforts to confront Nazi crimes. Much of the expertise in international law in both the US and the UK was centered around their foreign ministries, which dealt …
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Blonde Beast, Chapter 7, titled No Action Required. Everybody, please repost the space. Yes, thank you, Bridget, for reminding me and everyone else. This starts off with, like George F. Kennan, state specialists discounted reports of Nazi a…
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senior staffers, including Eldridge Durbrow, D-U-R-B-R-O-W. Each made his own interpretation of wartime events, of course, but taken together, these men came to the core of a faction within the U.S. government whose conception of national s…
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issued its first public statement on the prosecution of Nazi criminals of war. This Declaration of St. James, as it became known, accused Germany of creating in occupied countries a regime of terror that was characterized as imprisonment, m…
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The State Department again received word of systematic use of gas facilities. German industrialist Edward Schultz had smuggled new information concerning the murders into Switzerland and arranged to have it delivered to both the US and the …
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Germans had given Romania until December 1943 to remove theirs. Although, as a U.S. diplomat report from London put it, quote, if the transportation go on at present rates, the Romanian government will have fulfilled those orders before the…