Nazi Drive to Kill Jews Began in ‘41, Papers Show
<i> Reuters</i>
LONDON — Nazi Germany’s systematic bid to wipe out the Jews started shortly after the June 1941 invasion of Russia and not many months later as was first believed, according to intelligence documents released Monday.
Transcripts of intercepted German police messages showed that the Allies suspected as early as September 1941 that the Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews.
About 6 million Jews are believed to have died in the Nazi Holocaust, which historians originally believed was set in motion sometime in early 1942.
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