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<big><font color=red>NOTE:
THIS DECEMBER 16, 1945 REPORT WAS OF THE INITIAL REPORTING, BRFORE MORE ELABORATED EVIDENCES AND TESTIMONIES WERE BEING PUT ON RECORD</font></big>
The ''Palestine Post'', Sunday, December 16, 1945:
The ''Palestine Post'', Sunday, December 16, 1945:
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'''NAZIS ADMIT MURDERING 6 MILLION JEWS IN EUROPE.
'''NAZIS ADMIT MURDERING 6 MILLION JEWS IN EUROPE.
'''NOT ENOUGH TO SATISFY HIMMLER'''.'''
'''NOT ENOUGH TO SATISFY HIMMLER'''.'''
By ERIC BOURNE.
By ERIC BOURNE.
Reuters Special Correspondent.
The [[Nazis]] slaughtered 6,000,000 [[Jews]] in [[Europe]], including 4,000,000 in extermination institutions like [[Auschwitz]], Maj. [[Wilhelm Hoettl]], former Adjutant to the late [[SS]] Chief [[Heinrich Himmler]], told the War Crimes Tribunal yesterday.
NUREMBERG, Saturday
The [[Germans]] killed 6,000,000 [[Jews]] in the East, according to an [[S.S.]] Sturm-bann-fuehrer (Major) Dr. [[Wilhelm Hoettl]], whose affidavit was offered as evidence before the War Crimes Tribunal yesterday.
Hoettl's affidavit said that in August last year he talked in Budapest with S.S. Obersturm-bann-fuehrer (Lt.-Col.) [[Adolf Eichmann]]... who "certainly had the best record of Jews who had been murdered."
'''Eichmann told Hoettl that he reported to [[Himmler]] that approximately 4,000,000 Jews had been killed in various extermination camps, while an additional 2,000,000 met their deaths in other ways, the majority being shot by the security police.'''
Himmler was not satisfied with this report since in his opinion the number of Jews who had been killed must have been more that 6,000,000. "I have reasons to believe, however, that Eichmann's information was correct," Hoettl added.
Major Walsh, U.S. Deputy prosecutor cited evidence that 1,765,000 Jews were exterminated at the [[Auschwitz]] and [[Birkenau]] death-camps between April, 1942 and April, 1944.
According to a document from the US President's War Refugee Board file, the Jews murdered were of the following nationalities:
'''900,000 Poles; 100,000 Dutch; 45,000 Greeks; 150,000 French; 60,000 Germans; 50,000 Belgians; 50,000 Yugoslavs, Italians and Norwegian; 200,000 Latvians, 50,000 Lithuanians; 30,000 Bohemian, Moravian and Austrians; 300,000 Slovaks; and 300,000 of various nationalities taken from scattered camps in Poland.'''
'''Starving of Millions'''
Major Walsh introduced a new series of German documents and directives clearly showing the calculated plan to starve millions of Jews to death by shutting them off from all sources of supply and certain areas, and forbidding them to participate in agriculture where they might get food.
So widespread did the execution of the Jews become that...
extermination camp at [[Treblinka]] intended for mass killings of Jews by suffocating them...
'''"Their only crime consisted, in fact of belonging to a race condemned by Hitler to death."'''
Major Walsh read an extract from a British War Office stating that during an interrogation a French student deposed: "During July 1944 at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Hungarian Jews were being liquidated at the rate of 12,000 daily and the crematoria could not deal with such numbers. Many bodies were thrown on large pits and covered with quick-lime."</blockquote>
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<u>'''Overview of the article'''</u>
The [[Nazis]] slaughtered 6,000,000 [[Jews]] in [[Europe]], including 4,000,000 in extermination institutions like [[Auschwitz]], Maj. [[Wilhelm Hoettl]], former Adjutant to the late [[SS]] Chief [[Heinrich Himmler]], told the War Crimes Tribunal on December 15, 1945.
The Austrian, who is appearing for the prosecution, said that in August 1944 Eichmann told him that the Nazis had already murdered 4,000,000 Jews in the various death camps and another 2,000,000 by other means.
The Austrian, who is appearing for the prosecution, said that in August 1944 Eichmann told him that the Nazis had already murdered 4,000,000 Jews in the various death camps and another 2,000,000 by other means.
He was asked about the burning of synagogues and cultural institutions, and replied that the SS made a deliberate effort to erase all traces of Jewish existence in occupied Europe.
He was asked about the burning of synagogues and cultural institutions, and replied that the SS made a deliberate effort to erase all traces of Jewish existence in occupied Europe.