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which have been and will be put into circulation by the Ministry. Your expression of belief in
such may convince others. I am Sir, your obedient servant.
(Signed) H. Hewett, Assistant Secretary
The Ministry can enter into no correspondence of any kind with regard to this communication which
should only be disclosed to responsible persons."
Allied Wartime Diplomacy, Edward Rozek - A Pattern in Poland, York/London, 1958
DID SIX MILLION REALLY DIE?
All of us are familiar with the photographic evidence of Nazi-inspired genocide; we have seen the
pictures, the newsreels taken at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau. How can it be denied?
It is not. What is a matter of dispute, where the film and photographs are genuine, is not the cause of
the tragedy but the reasons for it.
The popular belief is that these huge mounds of skeletal corpses are proof of a deliberate policy of
genocide; caught in the act so to speak. In fact, the physical condition of the camp inmates was not
far removed from that of many of the general German population. (See. Chapter.20). There are
thousands of photographs and newsreels, admittedly not readily available for obvious reasons, that
show German civilians, women and children in a similar state of emaciation.
To understand why, one has to understand that much of Germany in the final months of the war
resembled a moonscape; the infrastructure had completely disintegrated; road and rail links were
hopelessly disrupted and food distribution non-existent. Millions of refugees were fleeing into the
Reich, millions more were displaced. Chaos was king.
Throughout war-torn Europe and especially in the displaced persons and refugee camps where large
numbers congregated, disease; cholera and typhoid were rampant and knew no physical or political
borders:
IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA:
"A typhus epidemic now rages amongst them, and they are said to be dying at the rate of 100 a day."
London Daily Mail, August 6th 1945
IN FRANCE:
"..... there is a typhoid epidemic in the camp which has already spread to the neighbouring village."
Louis Clair, The Progressive, January 14th 1946
IN GERMANY:
"By reason of heavy bombing, road communications had been destroyed and no supplies had reached
the camp; typhoid fever ensued and hundreds of prisoners had died as a consequence. The allies
arrived on the scene and found a terrible situation."
Cyril Connolly, The Golden Horizon, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London
"The German Army at Bergen had forewarned the British that a full-blown epidemic of typhus had
broken out among the prisoners in the camp."
Douglas Botting, In The Ruins of the Reich, George Allen & Unwin. London, 1985
"Disease of all kinds was rife and in a vast number of cases it was difficult to tell which disease
predominated - whether it was typhus, starvation, tubercle or a combination of all three, which was
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