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Six million? By sad but extraordinary coincidence, the American Jewish community had raised a similar outcry about a ‘holocaust’ a quarter of a century ear-lier, after World War One. In a 1919 speech the governor of New York, Martin Glynn, had claimed that ‘six million’ Jews were being extermi-nated.

Stimson learned of Morgenthau’s triumph at Quebec in a phone call from his deputy John J. McCloy that weekend. It hung like a cloud
over him for days. ‘I have yet to meet a man,’ he dictated, ‘who is not horrified with the “Carthaginian” attitude of the Treasury. It is Semitism gone wild for vengeance and, if it is ultimately carried out (I can’t believe that it will be), it as sure as fate will lay the seeds for ano

One of the conditions, said Stalin, that must be met was that ‘at least 50,000 and perhaps 100,000 of the German Commanding Staff must be physically liquidated'