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Jewish Holocaust becomes a public reality... Nazi atrocities...
Jewish Holocaust becomes a public reality... Nazi atrocities...
Item # 724051
February 07, 1945
NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 7, 1945
* Jewish holocaust coming to an end
* Extermination of Jews collapsing
* Russians gaining ground in Germany
Page 6 has a small one column heading: "A New Nazi Pogrom Upset by Russians" (see images) Also a photo on the same page showing Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels addressing the home guard.
What better evidence to confirm of what really happened then having a 1st hand account from the day it was first reported.
Much reporting on current events during World War II. Complete with all 36 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition
AI notes: On February 6, 1945, American newspapers carried reports reflecting the rapidly changing situation in Nazi-occupied Europe as the Soviet Red Army advanced deep into eastern Germany and Poland, making clear that the systematic extermination of Jews was collapsing under military pressure, not by Nazi choice but by force of arms. These articles, often based on Moscow dispatches and Allied intelligence summaries, emphasized that major killing centers had been overrun or abandoned, most notably Auschwitz, liberated on January 27, and that German authorities were no longer able to carry out organized mass gassings as they had earlier in the war. Journalists reported that SS units were fleeing westward, destroying evidence, and forcing surviving prisoners onto deadly evacuation marches, while Soviet troops uncovered camps filled with corpses, emaciated survivors, and crematoria wrecked in hurried attempts at concealment. The tone of February 6 coverage suggested that the machinery of genocide was being physically stopped by the Soviet advance, even as atrocities continued during evacuations, marking one of the first moments when the American public could read that the Nazi extermination program was no longer fully operational and that liberation—though coming tragically late for millions—was underway.
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