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Ruthless Slaughter Is Shown In Secret Police Records MERNBERG, Dec. 14 — (AP) —Six million European Jews y.e. ruthlessly slaughtered in the Nazis campaign of extermination, said German secret police estimates placed today before the interna tional military tribunal trying 21 of Hitler’s top leaders on war crimes charges. American prosecutors filed an affidavit by Dr. Wilhelm Hoettl, right hand man to defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner in the secret po lice giving the estimate. “Approximately 4,000,000 Jews had been killed in the various ex termination camps while an addi tional 2,000,000 met death in other ways, the major part of which were shot by operational squads of security police during the cam paign against Russia,” Hoetil said. Hoetil attributed his figure to Adolf Eichman, chief “Jew catch er” in the secret police. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler that Eichman’s total was too low, Hoettl's affidavit revealed. Thousands were killed when SS troops wiped out the Warsaw Ghetto in a 29-day massacre in 1943, according to records sub mitted by Major Frank Walsh of New York City, assistant DU. S. prosecutor. Details of the mass murder in Warsaw were read from the re ports of the $8 police chief of the city, who wrote that he ordered troops “to destroy the entire Jew ish residential area by setting every block on fire.” FORMER MAYOR DIES LOGAN. Dec. 14(AP)—Ken neth R. Fitzgerald, 42, Hocking-co auditor and former mayor of Logan, died early today in Gibbons hospital here.
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Fri, Dec 14, 1945
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