Extracts from Israelitisches Wochenblatt, on reports of mass executions of Jews in Germany, Poland, and other occupied territories (2 million total)

"ISRAELITISCHES WOCHENBLATT"
No. 51, p.5. 18 December 1942
Since the ghettos were already over-populated they were emptied first. Where the former inmates got to could so far only be ascertained in a few cases.
* * * At that time the Polish Government in London gave
the number of Jews executed as 700,000. The Berlin radio declared that these reports were untrue, but admitted that in Poland Jews "had had to be executed" because they carried out acts of sabotage. Berlin did not give a figure.
[p.6.]
It was reported that Himmler was in Warsaw and appointed special annihilation commissions according to the "Times."
The Polish Government in London has handed a memorandum to all Allied Governments, quoting an instruction of the S.S. of March 1942, according to which one can reckon with about 1*4 million Jews being liquidated by the end of this year.
Up to the end of September 1942, writes the "Daily Telegraph," 2 million Jews have lost their lives in Germany and in the countries occupied by the Axis, and it is to be feared that the number of victims will be doubled by the end of the year.