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“1,000,000 Jews Slain By Nazis, Report Says”54
NYT, September 3, 1942, p. 5:
“A European observer said the Germans planned to exterminate the
Jews not only in Europe, but throughout the world. He declared the Nazis had executed 2,000,000 Jews in the past three years.”55
NYT, December 13, 1942, p. 21:
“IQJ ‘Authenticated reports point to 2,000,000 Jews who have already been slain by all manner of satanic barbarism, and plans for the
total extermination of all Jews upon whom the Nazis can lay their
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“What is happening to the 5,000,000 Jews of German-held Europe,
all of whom face extermination IQJ.
Early in December 1942 the State Department in Washington gave
some figures showing that the number of Jewish victims deported and
perished since 1939 in Axis-controlled Europe now reached the appalling figure of 2,000,000 and that 5,000,000 were in danger of extermination.”5,
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no Jews left in Europe for representation when peace comes. The four
million left to kill are being killed, according to plan.’”56
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“London, April 19 (Reuter) – Two million Jews have been wiped out
since the Nazis began their march through Europe in 1939 and five million more are in immediate danger of execution. These figures were revealed in the sixth report on conditions in occupied territories issued by
the Inter-Allied Information Committee.”
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“Nothing illustrated the Jews’ new status more clearly than the
Senate response to the Romanian pogroms in 1870. The first news reports to reach the United States indicated that ‘thousands’ had been
killed in riots in late May. Protest rallies were held in Indianapolis,
Louisville, and a half-dozen other cities. After some furious lobbying by
Simon Wolf, the matter was brought to the Senate floor by Senator Oliver Morton of Indiana.
Morton read a statement from the Indianapolis Jewish rally and
asked for action by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The committee chairman, Massachusetts GOP leader Charles Sumner, delicately told the chamber he was ‘disposed to believe that there is at least
some gross exaggeration in the report’ of mass murder. In reply, Senator Morton assured his colleagues that his statement had come from
‘gentlemen of the highest respectability and position, and they represent a very large and numerous class of people in Indianapolis and in
Indiana.’ That was enough it seems; the Senate ordered the Foreign
Relations Committee to take up the matter with the State Department.
(Sumner turned out to be correct. The riots’ death toll had been zero.)”
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