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by Marnie Winston-Macauley
by Aish.com staff
Hitler’s insatiable appetite swallows up most of Europe.
Nazi plans for the Jews become increasingly murderous and barbaric.
The Nazi decision to brutally exterminate every single Jew.
Those Jews fortunate enough to escape immediate death, were subjected to back-breaking labor, morning till night.
The Nazi murder machine operated at peak efficiency.
Putting to rest the canard that Jews went “as sheep to the slaughter.”
In spite of the war effort, nothing was done to halt the transports to the camps.
Final acts of hatred preceded the long-awaited liberation.
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