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6. NYT article from March 1st, "The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking".....
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 08:53 AM
Mar 2013
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

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THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.
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What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.

The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.

The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German Historical Institute in Washington.


The perpetrators of this terrible reign of terror were true monsters in every sense of the word.

We must never forget what some humans are capable of when left unchecked.

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