User:John Z/drafts/United Nations Declaration on Jewish Massacres
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German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race
See the Joint Declaration by members of the United Nations, issued simultaneously in Washington and in London, on December 17, 1942:
"The attention of the Belgian, Czechoslovak, Greek, Jugoslav, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norwegian, Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom and United States Governments and also of the French National Committee has been drawn to numerous reports from Europe that the German authorities, not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territories over which their barbarous rule has been extended, the most elementary human rights, are now carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.
"From all the occupied countries Jews are being transported in conditions of appalling horror and brutality to Eastern Europe. In Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaughterhouse, the ghettos established by the German invader are being systematically emptied of all Jews except a few highly skilled workers required for war industries. None of those taken away are ever heard of again. The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of exposure and starvation or are deliberately massacred in mass executions. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men, women and children.
"The above-mentioned governments and the French National Committee condemn in the strongest possible terms this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny. They reaffirm their solemn resolution to insure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribution, and to press on with the necessary practical measures to this end. "-The United Nations Review, Vol. III (1943), No. I, p. I.
http://www.preventgenocide.org/lemkin/AxisRule1944-2.htm
"The attention of the Governments of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia, and of the French National Committee has been drawn to numerous reports from Europe that the German authorities, not content with denying to persons of Jewish race in all the territories over which their barbarous rule has been extended, the most elementary human rights, are now carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.
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‘The Western Allies and the Holocaust’
DAVID WYMAN AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S RESPONSE TO THE HOLOCAUST: COUNTER- CONSIDERATIONS
FRANK W. BRECHER
New york, NY
Historians who have specialized in America's response to the Holocaust, particularly David Wyman, agree that the American reaction to the Holocaust was morally condemnable. They fault the United States government as well as American Jewry for inexcusable indifference, and worse, in not having saved, or even sought to have saved, more European Jews from genocide. However, a detailed review of their writings fails to discover the factual evidence, balanced perspective, and comprehensive analysis which alone could support the stark judgments which these writers have rendered There remains substantial scope for a more objective scholarship which develops the linkages essential to a definitive study of this subject.
http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/5/4/423
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/04-29-46.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html