Dr. Ernst Schmidt, a former Nazi doctor who appeared as a defense witness at the Belsen trial here today, was detained, pending investigation, by the British security police after he was recognized as one of the Gestapo doctors who tortured Jews in the notorious Majdanek Camp in Poland. The Nazi doctor denied the charge of… More ▸
The first public session of the International War Crimes Tribunal opened in Berlin today with the presentation by the Allied prosecutors of a 35,000-word indictment, charging twenty-four top Nazi leaders and the German High Command with various crimes against humanity and placing squarely upon them the guilt for the extermination of 5,700,000 Jews in Europe… More ▸
The Polish Government in Warsaw is drafting a law making anti-Jewish incitement a punishable offense, Dr. George Sawicki, Atterney General of Poland and chief prosecutor at the trial of the Nazis who murdered 1,500,000 Jews and others at Majdanek, revealed today at a press conference arranged by the Allied War Crimes Commission. Dr. Sawicki attributed… More ▸
A German plan to kill all Jews in Theresidenstadt in special “gas chambers” was foiled almost at the last minute, the London Times reports today in a letter from Theresienstadt. The letter reveals that “bathing establishments” for gassing the interned Jews had already been prepared, but the doors for these chambers were returned three times… More ▸
The Lublin radio today demanded the extradition to Poland of the commandant of the notorious Majdanek camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews were gassed and burned to death. The commandant, a Gestapo leader named Tumann, is now in the hands of the British. “It is imperative that prior to his execution he should face… More ▸
Adequate proof that the Germans killed as many as 2,000,000 Jews in Russia during their Occupation of Soviet territory was given here today to the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. At the same time, it was learned here that the Polish Provisional Government will issue this week a formal statement announcing that the Germans… More ▸
The Executive Office of the President through the War Refugee Board today made public two eye-witness reports of the horrible and barbarous events which occurred in the two notorious extermination camps — Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Brikenau — in Upper Silesia. The sixty-page horror story, containing details and statistics of the murders in these camps, is… More ▸
A graphic portrayal of the barbarities inflicted upon the Jews of Europe by the Nazis went on view here today as part of an exhibition organized by the United Nations Information Organization entitled “Germany The Evidence.” Included are the pictures of the first anti-Jewish riots in Germany, pictures of the Majdanek extermination camp, and photographs… More ▸
With Budapest controlled by German troops, it was reported here today from reliable Hungarian sources in Stockholm that a special division of Nazi Elite units has arrived in the Hungarian capital with orders to exterminate the remaining 300,000 Jews in the country. Another division is en route, the report stated. From Switzerland it was reported… More ▸
“Cyclone Gas,” which was used to asphyxiate Jews in the Majdamek extermination camp in Poland, was originally designed as an insecticide, according to Dr. Martin Schauf, German-Jewish refugee chemist who as associated with the Germen company producing the gas. Dr. Schauf, who heads the research department of the Atomised Food Products Co. here, said today… More ▸
