1,274,166 murdered in 'Operation Reinhard'
11 January 1943: A brief 'year end report' by the SS administration reveals the extent of the Holocaust during the first year of the killing centres
Although the Allies had announced to the public their knowledge of the Nazi extermination programme in late 1942, one confirmatory source of information had to remain secret. The true significance of an intercepted SS message was …
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