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. Barbara Stimler . Edith Birkin . Edith Birkin
"the cries and the screams" "you could smell these people being burnt" "and they never appeared again"
. Edith Birkin . Eugene Heimler . Morris Frenkel
"if you were old or ill looking you went the other side" "they were unwilling to deport the Jews to the Gestapo" "they considered he took most of your life away"
. Barbara Stimler
"they start shaving us everywhere"    
 
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Hitler's plan to murder all the Jews of Europe was called "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question". The order to carry out the plan seems to have come from Hitler sometime during 1941. It appears that Eichmann, originally head of Jewish Emigration, was to control the operation.

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