Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On April 25, Joel Brand, a member of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest, was summoned to a meeting with Adolf Eichmann, who presented him with an offer that would be known as “Blood for Trucks.” Eichmann told Brand that the highest SS authorities had approved the terms, in which Eichmann would barter “a million Jews” for goods obtained outside of Hungary, including 10,000 trucks for civilian use, or, as an alternative, for use on the eastern front. The
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Immediately after the German army occupied Hungary on March 19, the Germans took rapid organizational action to annihilate Hungarian Jewry, the largest Jewish community in Europe that had not yet been swept away for genocide. In short order, from the first deportation on May 15 until the transports were halted on July 7, 437,000 persons were deported and a large majority of them met their deaths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, to which they were sent directly upon arrival
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On June 3, Hitler allowed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring to retreat with his forces from Rome. On June 4, American forces entered the city, and occupied it with no need to destroy it in bombardments. American General Mark Clark described the scene: “There were gay crowds in the streets, many of them waving flags, as our infantry marched through the capital. Flowers were stuck in the muzzles of the soldiers´ rifles and of guns on the tanks. Many Romans seemed
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