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may 8, 1945 - "OSWIECIM KILLINGS PLACED AT 4,000,000" NY Times 1945, May 8 Report of communist Russia Hrs after the surrender of Germany First Mention of "Gas Chambers"

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NY Times 1945, May 8 OSWIECIM KILLINGS PLACED AT 4,000,000

Soviet Commission Reports Death Camp in Poland Was Founded by Himmler

MOSCOW, May 7—More than 4,000,000 persons were systematically slaughtered in a single German concentration camp—that at Oswiecim in Poland, near Cracow ...

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may 8, 1945
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