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Here is a press release from the U.S. National Archives.

 National Archives Exhibition Observes Days of Remembrance
 To: National Desk
 Contact: National Archives Press Office, 202-501-5525

   WASHINGTON, April 5  -- To observe the Days of
Remembrance, commemorating the Holocaust, and to honor the opening
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the
National Archives will exhibit a document from the Nuremberg
War Crime Trials in the Rotunda beginning April 16.
   The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will
be on display through May 16.
   The display consists of three items: the handwritten notes,
the typed transcript and the official translation of a speech
delivered by Heinrich Himmler, chief of German police (SS), to
his generals on Oct. 4, 1943.  These items reveal the "ultra
secret" policy of the Third Reich in an extremely rare written
reference to "Ausrottung", or extermination, of Jews.
   During the 12 years of the Third Reich, government policies
incorporated Nazi concepts of racial purity.  As a result of
these policies, the Jews of Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe were
subjected to discrimination, loss of citizenship, loss of
property, exile and near extermination.
  The genocidal plan, Adolf Hitler's "final solution of the
Jewish question," required the assembly and transportation of
Jewish people from all corners of Europe to extermination sites
in occupied Poland.  Himmler was responsible for overseeing this
policy of the Third Reich.  On Oct. 4, 1943, he spoke to more
than 100 SS generals in Posen, Poland, about the progress of the
war.  One of the subjects he addressed was the "evacuation" of
Jews.  In his handwritten notes Himmler used the word
"Judenevakuierung", meaning evacuation of Jews.  The typed
transcript of the speech, showing the words he actually spoke,
defines "evacuation" as a euphemism for "Ausrottung", or
extermination.
   These documents, part of the National Archives Record Group
238, are from the extensive collection of Nuremberg Trial records
at the National Archives.  Assembled as records for the
prosecution of high-level Nazi officials in the war crimes trials
at Nuremberg, they have been used extensively to write histories
of the Holocaust.
   For additional press information about the commemorative
exhibition contact the National Archives Public Affairs staff at
202-501-5525.
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Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada    ndallen@r-node.hub.org