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Peace And Reconciliation Studies_Peace Week Poster_Special Presentation, University Of Maine Peace And Reconciliation Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Photograph of a poster promoting a special presentation from Zev Kedem regarding his experiences as a "Schindler's List" survivor. The presentation was a part of the University of Maine's Peace and Reconciliation Studies' (formerly known as Peace Studies) Peace Week.

Secret Knowledge Of Genocide: British Failure To Disclose The Killing Of Jews In 1941, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

In the late summer and early autumn of 1941, the British military intercepted coded German radio messages that revealed that German troops were killing large numbers of Jewish civilians in German-occupied parts of the Soviet Union. The British did not make this knowledge public at that time, nor did they use their still classified records during the war crimes trials after the end of World War II.

Commentators more expert than I have addressed themselves to the question of whether the British had a legal obligation to disclose the information from the coded messages. These remarks concentrate on the possible …