World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1944 January
E53 Feb 4, 2018
In Germany, Hitler, in his New Year's address to the German people, reasserts his will to keep fighting: “No matter how long the war may last, it's better to continue in it than to condemn our homeland to the humiliation of defeat, he says. In Plaszow, a suburb of Cracow (Poland), the Germans set up a new concentration camp. Its commander, the sadistic Ammon Goeth, with the collaboration of SS groups headed by Alice Orlowski, will end up murdering over 80,000 people. In Washington, Treasure Secretary Henry Morgenthau urges President Roosevelt to modify the stringent immigration laws of the State Department to counteract the Nazi plans to exterminate the Jews.