This book seeks to answer three vital questions about the
worldwide response to Hitler's "Final Solution" When did
information about the genocide first become known to Jews and
non-Jews? Through what channels was this information transmitted?
What was the reaction of those who received word of the
slaughter?
Walter Laqueur's quest focuses on the period between June 1941,
when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and December 1942, by which
time the United Nations had confirmed the news about the mass
killings in a common declaration. By the end of 1942, Chelmno,
Belzec, Auschwitz, Maidanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka were fully
operational and two and a half million Jews had already been
killed.
According to Laqueur, word started to spread soon after
extermination began. But there is no easy, straightforward answer
to the wider question of why there was a failure to read and
correctly interpret the signs in 1941; why so many individuals and
governments actually chose to deny the reality of genocide when
faced with incontrovertible evidence. A probing and disturbing
work, The Terrible Secret explores one of the most perplexing
aspects of the Holocaust, a political and psychological riddle of
general significance to the understanding of the history of our
times.
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