Deep within the depths of the National Archives lie many secrets. Some may never come out, others do, but only after years of rummaging, searching and reading. Such is the case on newly discovered documents which discuss the Third Reich and Hitler's plans as the war came to an end.
In the last days of World War II, the Nazi's had at least 1.2 million foreign POWs - 1 million Russians and nearly a quarter million Allied. What to do with them? According to uncovered interviews with Hermann Goering in May of 1945, Hitler desired to denounce the Geneva Conventions and exterminate the POWs as he had done with 13 million other souls.
He had also already murdered 3 million Russian POWs.
In a summation of Goering's interviews, the document reads, "PW (Goering) claims it was Hitler's intention to denounce the Geneva convention if the war would have lasted another three months. All Allied (prisoners of war) except those valuable to the German war economy would be exterminated."
For those who find this hard to believe, it is a fact that US POWs were transferred to concentration camps... death camps... and lost their lives there. It is also a fact, that the US denied that US POWs had ever been in death camps or perished in them and did all it could to hide the evidence. US POWs who tried to prove their claims of the horrors of the concentration camps and their compound medical problems as a result of their captivity were labled as psychiatric by the VA and ignored by the USG.
It was only through the release of liberation records by the ICRC and through the tireless efforts of researchers that the world saw the reports and photos of US POWs dying in and being liberated from Mauthausen, Berga, and Buchenwald.
The Poraymos... Holocaust... is not an Eastern European nightmare. It is one that touches everyone... even American POWs who were abandoned to its untold horror.