June 23, 1944, Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA) page 2, Casual Comment; Nazi Crimes,

June 23, 1944, Northern Times (Carnarvon, WA) page 2, Casual Comment; Nazi Crimes, [741 words]

....but figures just released give an indication of the purge against the Jews which is staggering. In the four years of German occupation more than five million Jews have been murdered by the Nazis, either violently or starved to death. Jewish families have been separated in order to prevent cohabitation, with the result that the Jewish population has had no natural increase worth recording. It is the greatest racial mass slaughter of history, and may be ranked possibly as Hitler's greatest crime, apart from the war itself.

Nazi Crimes

We hear so much about Nazi crimes in Europe that it is difficult to find something which can shock the numbed conscience of civilisation; but figures just released give an indication of the purge against the Jews which is staggering. In the four years of German occupation more than five million Jews have been murdered by the Nazis, either violently or starved to death. Jewish families have been separated in order to prevent cohabitation, with the result that the Jewish population has had no natural increase worth recording. It is the greatest racial mass slaughter of history, and may be ranked possibly as Hitler's greatest crime, apart from the war itself. Whilst tens of thousands of Protestants and Catholics have been massacred, the emphasis has been upon the Jews; and although at the end of last year there were still three million Jews alive iu Europe, it is debatable whether there will be half that number when it is finally liberated. And perhaps the irony of it is that Hitler's maternal grandmother was a Jewess.