A New Blog About a Very Heavy Subject
In January 1942, there were an estimated 11 million Jews in Europe. By the end of the war in Europe, six million Jews were dead, victims of a Nazi program of systematic annihilation. The Nazi leaders called the program the "Final Solution." The survivors called it the Holocaust. There were an additional estimated four million Slavs, gypsies and others of what the Nazi considered subhumans, who were dead as well. In the first few years after the entry of the United States into the Second World War, the first information about the Holocaust made its way out of Nazi Occupied Europe. The reaction in the Allied nations was one of disbelief. In his book War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk called it "the universal will not to believe." The stores coming out of eastern Europe were too fantastic to be believed by those who did not want to believe. In the last few months of the war, the Allies learned to their horror that the stories were true as the concentration camps were lib