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Outrage over Holocaust conference

A number of years ago about 1978 or so I was in the Stony Brook University library and noticed a pile of materials about to be catalogued into "Special Collections" where other materials go in the very large library, once touted as one of the 20 or so largest on the east coast (there are separate libraries in Physics, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, etc., one, a student run "Science Fiction" library, in the renamed "Hendrix College" had a mysterious fire while I was there, I've donated some of my books to the Anthropology Library, Ruth Benedict, named in one of the buildings there).

Attracted to an old soft paper bound typewritten manuscript that had "Declassified" stamped on it, I read part of it. Apparently it was the last issuance of the German High Command to the rest of the leadership in Europe. It went, in English, into the slavery of workers, basically setting the hours that had to be followed. Another part of the "matter of fact" tone of it, as I recall was the admonishment that they stay out of the corn fields of Yugoslavia, apparently where Tito's partisans were inflicting heavy casualties in guerrilla warfare against the occupiers. It made no specific mention of any of the camps or practices there. It was prefaced as the "last issuance" from the "High Command" translated into English I'm sure.

At about the same time, 1978, I recall a new book about the Nuremberg trials by Airey Neave, who was blown up, March 1979, in the Palace of Westminster car park. "As a well-known war hero he was honoured with the role of reading the indictments to the Nazi leaders on trial." and "In his 1978 memoir, Airey Neave, who as a twenty-nine-year-old Oxford lawyer assisted the British prosecutorial staff at Nuremberg..." it says online.

If someone is researching this they might want to check for the document in "Special Collections" section of New York's Stony Brook University, where also, it was stated that a large collection of "underground press newspapers" published during the Vietnam "War" in the United States, are gathered.

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