Jan. 25, 2017

Ahead of this year’s marking of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, new details have been revealed concerning how much Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration knew about the Nazis’ euthanasia policy.

German historian Thorsten Noack, writing in the latest issue of the scholarly journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies, describes how famed journalist William Shirer first publicly exposed the Nazis’ systematic execution of individuals with physical or mental disabilities in the pages of Life magazine and Reader’s Digest in early 1941. Shirer revealed horrifying details of the program that would serve as a prototype for the mass-murder techniques of the Holocaust.

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