Jewish Holocaust... public reality... Nazi atrocities...
THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 8, 1943
- Jewish Holocaust becoming reality to the public
- Nazi-occupied Austria exterminations
The top of page 6 has one column headings that include: "GERMANS WIPE OUT JEWS IN AUSTRIA" "Almost All the Original 200,000 Have Been Killed or Sent to Eastern Ghettos" "All Prisons Are Jammed" and more. (see images)
Complete with all pages, rag edition in nice condition.
Background: On November 7, 1943, reports originating from London and disseminated to international press outlets detailed the virtual eradication of Austria’s Jewish population under Nazi rule, revealing that out of approximately 185,000 to 200,000 pre-1938 Austrian Jews, fewer than 7,000 remained in the country. Drawing on Allied intelligence, Underground Polish couriers, and exile leadership bulletins, these disclosures highlighted that the official Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) had been forcibly dissolved by the Gestapo a year prior, and documented that the vast majority of Austrian Jews had either been driven into exile before late 1941 or systematically deported to ghettos and extermination camps in Occupied Poland, such as Izbica, Łódź, and Auschwitz. Published immediately following the Allied powers' November 1 Moscow Declaration on Austria, these news dispatches provided crucial public evidence of mass gassings and executions, framing Austria’s destroyed Jewish demographic as proof of the ongoing "Final Solution" and serving as an explicit warning that Nazi perpetrators would face post-war justice.