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Reports on
the mass murders carried out by the Einsatzgruppen began to filter
into the United States and England very shortly after the Aktionen
themselves. As early as July 1941, the Yiddish daily press in New
York revealed that hundreds of Jewish citizens had been slaughtered
by Nazi soldiers in Minsk, Brest-Litovsk, Lvov, and elsewhere.
Additional reports arrived in subsequent months, and in late October
1941, The New York Times carried a story on its inside pages
concerning the murder of thousands of Jews in eastern Poland and the
Ukraine. In March 1942, the Jewish and the general press reported
the mammoth dimensions of the genocide for the first time.
On May 18,
The New York Times carried a report by a United Press correspondent
who had been trapped in Germany when the United States entered the
war. Reaching Lisbon with a group of American citizens who had been
exchanged for citizens of the Axis countries, the correspondent
revealed that the Germans had machine-gunned to death more than
100,000 Jews in the Baltic countries, nearly as many in Poland, and
more than twice as many in western Russia. |
