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WWII THIS MONTH… SEPTEMBER 1942

AUGUST FRANK MEMORANDUM

On 26 September 1942, SS General August Frank issued a memorandum detailing how the Nazis would carry out the Holocaust. Frank operated as part of the SS-WVHA (SS Main Economic and Administrative Office), which administered the concentration camps. His memorandum included instructions on how to take anything of value from murdered Jews and to which Nazi departments they should be sent.

Frank instructed, among other

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