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Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
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The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
August Frank memorandum
1942 directive by Nazi German official August Frank regarding the Holocaust
The August Frank memorandum of 26 September 1942 was a directive from SS Lieutenant General August Frank of the SS concentration camp administration department (SS-WVHA). The memorandum provides a measure of the detailed planning that Frank and other Nazis put into the carrying…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)