World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1943 June
E46 Dec 17, 2017
German and Ukrainian soldiers encircle the Lvov ghetto (eastern Poland) to prevent its inhabitants from fleeing. When Nazi units penetrate it to carry out genocide, they encounter strong resistance, so they torch buildings to flush out the inhabitants. More than three thousand Jews are killed and another seven thousand arre captured and sent to Janowska camp, where they will be killed. This action will last until the end of July. Jack Chalder, a British artilleryman captured by the Japanese in 1942 during the fall of Singapore finds himself at the prison camp in Konyu river in Thailand. He secretly draws the hard life of prisoners doing forced labor on the construction of a railway linking the country to Burma. His drawings end up having a massive impact over time. In Berlin, Heinrich Himmler receives the first reports from Professor Carl Clauberg concerning his female sterilization experiments conducted in Block 10 of the extermination camp of Auschwitz.