Martin Antonenko
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The Allies know and do - nothing!
On December 18, 1942 (!) the following governments of Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Greece, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, USA, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the "Committee of the Free French" (under General de Gaulle) published a statement:
Auszüge:
"The attention of governments ... has been drawn to the numerous communications from Europe that the German authorities, in all areas covered by their barbaric regime, limit themselves not only to the deprivation of the most elementary human rights of persons of Jewish descent, but of Fulfill Hitler's repeatedly expressed intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe...
The governments listed above and the French National Committee most emphatically condemn this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination.
They explain that similar events can only strengthen the resolve of the freedom-loving peoples to crush Hitler's barbaric tyranny. They reaffirm their solemn commitment, together with all the United Nations, to ensure that those responsible for these crimes do not escape the vengeance they deserve and to expedite the necessary practical measures to attain the aim set. ...
Jews are being transported from all occupied countries to Eastern Europe under the most atrocious and brutal conditions...
The stronger ones are slowly destroyed by work in labor camps. The weak are left to die, starved to death, or systematically massacred in mass executions. The victims of these bloody atrocities number in the many hundreds of thousands of totally innocent men, women and children.”
This statement, read out to the House of Commons by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden the previous day, shows:
The Allied war opponents of Germany know exactly about the mass murder of the Jews in the German sphere of influence!
At the latest through the so-called "Riegner telegram" they had clear knowledge...:
The office manager of the Jewish World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, Gerhart M. Riegner...
... had sent this telegram to the US State Department on August 8, 1942; he was previously by the German industrialist Edouard Schulte...
... had been informed in detail about the "Endlösung der Judenfrage" ("Final Solution to the Jewish Question") that was decided in January 1942 as part of the "Wannsee Conference" and was just beginning in Poland...:
But the officials in the Foreign Office did not take the information seriously at first, evaluating it as a "wild rumor inspired by Jewish fears" - and not forwarding it to the White House!
It was not until August 28, 1942 that the head of the World Jewish Congress in New York, Rabbi Stephen Wise...
... was informed, who then Felix Frankfurter...
... contacted a judge on the US Supreme Court. Frankfurter ensures that the report reaches the White House.
President Franklin Roosevelt then took care of the drafting of the "Interallied Declaration".
And yet the Americans did - almost nothing!
For example, it remains an unsolved mystery of modern historiography why Great Britain and the USA, despite overwhelming air superiority, continued to concentrate their bombing raids on German inner cities instead of, for example, the railway lines (and thus the railway transport of the victims) to the death camps of Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec and Auschwitz...
... and the killing facilities there (allied aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau)...
...not destroyed.
That would not have stopped the murder of the Jews as such, but it would probably have reduced the number of victims by many people.
Significantly, neither the "Riegner Telegram" nor the "Interallied Declaration" were subjects of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal...
On December 18, 1942 (!) the following governments of Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Greece, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, USA, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the "Committee of the Free French" (under General de Gaulle) published a statement:
Auszüge:
"The attention of governments ... has been drawn to the numerous communications from Europe that the German authorities, in all areas covered by their barbaric regime, limit themselves not only to the deprivation of the most elementary human rights of persons of Jewish descent, but of Fulfill Hitler's repeatedly expressed intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe...
The governments listed above and the French National Committee most emphatically condemn this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination.
They explain that similar events can only strengthen the resolve of the freedom-loving peoples to crush Hitler's barbaric tyranny. They reaffirm their solemn commitment, together with all the United Nations, to ensure that those responsible for these crimes do not escape the vengeance they deserve and to expedite the necessary practical measures to attain the aim set. ...
Jews are being transported from all occupied countries to Eastern Europe under the most atrocious and brutal conditions...
The stronger ones are slowly destroyed by work in labor camps. The weak are left to die, starved to death, or systematically massacred in mass executions. The victims of these bloody atrocities number in the many hundreds of thousands of totally innocent men, women and children.”
This statement, read out to the House of Commons by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden the previous day, shows:
The Allied war opponents of Germany know exactly about the mass murder of the Jews in the German sphere of influence!
At the latest through the so-called "Riegner telegram" they had clear knowledge...:
The office manager of the Jewish World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, Gerhart M. Riegner...
... had sent this telegram to the US State Department on August 8, 1942; he was previously by the German industrialist Edouard Schulte...
... had been informed in detail about the "Endlösung der Judenfrage" ("Final Solution to the Jewish Question") that was decided in January 1942 as part of the "Wannsee Conference" and was just beginning in Poland...:
But the officials in the Foreign Office did not take the information seriously at first, evaluating it as a "wild rumor inspired by Jewish fears" - and not forwarding it to the White House!
It was not until August 28, 1942 that the head of the World Jewish Congress in New York, Rabbi Stephen Wise...
... was informed, who then Felix Frankfurter...
... contacted a judge on the US Supreme Court. Frankfurter ensures that the report reaches the White House.
President Franklin Roosevelt then took care of the drafting of the "Interallied Declaration".
And yet the Americans did - almost nothing!
For example, it remains an unsolved mystery of modern historiography why Great Britain and the USA, despite overwhelming air superiority, continued to concentrate their bombing raids on German inner cities instead of, for example, the railway lines (and thus the railway transport of the victims) to the death camps of Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec and Auschwitz...
... and the killing facilities there (allied aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau)...
...not destroyed.
That would not have stopped the murder of the Jews as such, but it would probably have reduced the number of victims by many people.
Significantly, neither the "Riegner Telegram" nor the "Interallied Declaration" were subjects of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal...
