oct 4, 1943 - Himmler gives his Poznan speech
Description:
Hitler trusted Himmler the planning and carrying out of "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." On Oct. 4th, 1943 he gave a famous speech in Poznan to a gathering of SS, in which he said, "In front of you here, I want to refer explicitly to a very serious matter….I mean here…the annihilation of the Jewish people…. Most of you will know what it means when 100 corpses lie side by side, or 500 or 1,000…. This page of glory in our history has never been written and will never be written….We had the moral right, we were obligated to our people to kill this people which wanted to kill us.”Added to timeline:
Date:
oct 4, 1943
Now
~ 81 years ago