Friday, June 18, 2021

What the Soviets knew about Auschwitz - and when - the destruction of the Hungarian Jews.

 




On 15.07.1944 the director of 1st Directorate of NKGB, the Soviet intelligence, 
Pavel Fitin wrote to Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a Central Committee secretary and the head of the Political Directorate of the Red Army and the Soviet Information Bureau:

CC AUCP(b)
to comrade Shcherbakov

We received the following information from our correspondent in Warsaw:

"In the camp Auschwitz the Germans are poisoning 10-15 thousand Hungarian Jews a day with gas and burning them on pyres. Definitely verified, react."

Head of the 1st Directorate of NKGB
USSR
(FITIN)

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