Germany's chief archivist, Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, is quoted by Bild newspaper as saying that the plans, which appear to have been made from 1941 to 1943, are "authentic certificates of a systematically planned genocide of European Jews", and "of extraordinary importance". [..]
The documents are undergoing close examination. If confirmed as genuine they would adjust the timeline of the planned Holocaust. Historians believed the start of the genocide campaign was January 20 1942 when top Nazi officials met at the lakeside resort of Wannsee, west of Berlin, and concocted the "final solution". One of the drawings has a date that precedes the conference by eight months. The rest..
Monday, November 10, 2008
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