The Holocaust moves to the next stage
19th January 1942: The Nazis prepare for the murder of the millions living in the Polish ghettos
From the beginning of Barbarossa in June 1941 the SS had unleashed the ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ - the mass murder of the Jewish populations of the Baltic States and Soviet Russia. They had begun by forcing groups of dozens or hundreds of people to dig thei…
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