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Extract from a report on the extermination camps, estimating that 1,765,000 Jews from 13 countries were gassed at Birkenau, 1942-1944

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War Refugee Board (US government, Washington DC)

Date: November 1944

Literal Title: German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Total Pages: 2

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: L-22

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 294

Document Book No: Prosecution T: Persecution of the Jews

Citation: IMT (page 1500)

HLSL Item No.: 450986

Notes:The publication date is stated in the Blue Set, vol. 37, p. 433. The text in English is followed by one in German.

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Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)

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L-22: Copy of three reports of eyewitnesses on German Extermination Camps, covering memorandum of War Refugee Board which made the reports public, and telegram dated 8 July 1944, summarizing the reports, to the Secretary of State from American Legation, Bern, which forwarded the reports to Washington

Copy of three reports of eyewitnesses on German Extermination Camps, covering memorandum of War Refugee Board which made the reports public, and telegram dated 8 July 1944 summarizing the reports to the Secretary of State from American Legation Bern which forwarded the reports to Washington

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L-22: Apr. 1944. Reports on Auschwitz and Birkenau by two Slovak Jews who escaped and by a Polish major, published in the United States by the War Refugee Board, Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Apr. 1944. Reports on Auschwitz and Birkenau by two Slovak Jews who escaped and by a Polish major, published in the United States by the War Refugee Board, Executive Office of the President of the United States.

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Extract from a report on the extermination camps, estimating that 1,765,000 Jews from 13 countries were gassed at Birkenau, 1942-1944

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