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BARK BESTIALITY OF HUNSTHREE CABINET MEMBERS TELL OF M1RDERS BY THE MILLIONSOF HITLER AM) AIDES.*WASHINGTON The WarRefugee Board—three members of President Roosevelt’# cabinet— sponsored Saturday a 25,000 word detailed report of bestial cruelty and murder by the million in German extermination camps.Said the board, comprising Secretary of State Hull* Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, and Secretary of War Stimson:“The hoard has every reason to believe that thes** report# present a true picture of the frightful happenings in these* camps It is making the reports public in the firm conviction that the shouldbe read and understood by allwitness accounts of life in the Nazi camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Southwestern Poland, prepared independently but almost precisely parallel.Each included an estimate that more than a million and a half Jews from various European countries were gassed and their bodies cremated at Birkenau alone between April, 1942. and April, 1944.One, by two young Slovakian Jews who for two years had cler-track of event*, set the figure at1.765,000. The second account was by a non-Jew ixh Polish major. AllTypical of the descriptions given of the fate of individual groups arethese:“I^arge family convoys arrived from various European countries and were at once directed to the birch wood. The special squad (‘Sonderkommando’) employed for gaysing and burning worked in day and night shifts. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were gassed during this period. . . ,^^^large “re * n hall” holds people and apparently theresimilar waiting room on thej below. From there a door) few steps lead down into ^^|very long and narrow gas chamber. The gassing takes place as follows:^Continued uu ia^e 18/ |Americans.1 The ieuoxt uiu*i*U‘vl ul Iwu t) tthr'c escaped. Fo? their protection,! th#»ir names wefre withheld by theical posts in the camp through which they could keep fairly closeis a floor and aI he
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Nov 26, 1944
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