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Report Death Edict forHalf Poland’s JewsLONDON (UP) — HeinrichHimmler, head of the Nazi Gestapo, has ordered that one-half of the large Jewish population in occupied Poland be exterminated by the end of the year, reportsfrom the Polish underground movement to the Polish govern-mcnt-in-exile here said Tuesday.The first step in the bloody program, it was said, would be to kill 50 percent of the thousands ot Jews Hving in ghettos established by the Nazis. The remainder would be “liquidated” later. •' -jThere were 3,113,900 Jews, or 9 8 percent of the total population, in Poland according to the 1931 census, but the Germans during me: e than three years of occupation have reduced this number by killing thousands outright or permitting them to die of starvation jand disease. |Special Nazi “liquidation** battalions, commanded by members of the notorious SS elite guard, were said to be carrying out Himmler’s program. These squads were dragging Jewish victims from their homes or seizing them in streets and driving them to village and town squares in mass roundups for execution, the reports said.Jews w’ho were not executed immediately, it was reported, were packed into freight cars — 150 packed to a car that normally was large enough for 40—to be shipped to undisclosed points for liquida- * tion.The floors of the cars were covered with a thick layer of chlorate of lime sprinkled wnth water and the doors were tightly sealed. In some cases the trains reportedly remained on a siding for two days before departing, and many of theJews died of suffocation. The dead were left in the cars with the living.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Tue, Nov 24, 1942
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