In light of continued attempts to deny the facts of the Holocaust, the World Jewish Congress reported today the publication in Germany of an important book entitled “National-Socialist Mass Killings by Way of Poison Gas: A Documentation.” According to the WJC research arm here, the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the book is the first systematic collection of documents and reports by witnesses of that gruesome chapter of Nazi policy. It was a major undertaking, the collective work of 24 authors from Germany — headed by State Attorney Dr. Axel Ruckerl — Israel, France, Poland, Austria and The Netherlands.
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