NATION decoded cables shed light on history of Holocaust I/WORLD The Michigan Daily -- Monday, November 11, 1996-- 9A l Th eWashington Post WASHINGTON -The date was July *8, 1941, less than a month after Nazi Gq many's blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union. As was his custom, the German commander in the western Soviet repub- lic of Belarus provided his superiors in Berlin with a daily update of the activities oflhe men under his command. 'In yesterday's cleansing action in Slnim, carried out by Police regiment center," wrote Erich von dem Bach- Zelewski, in the dry, matter-of-fact tone the German military bureaucrat, 153 Jewish plunderers were shot." -During the course of the next four years, tens of thousands of such reports would be filed, describing the methodically planned mass extermi- nation of an entire people. But this particular report is remarkable for several reasons: .It is one of the earliest pieces of doc- unentary evidence for what later came known as the Holocaust. It is kv evidence that much of the killing was carried out by ordinary German police units, and not the elite SS. And it was intercepted and deciphered by British signals intelligence within three days of its original transmission. The report from Bach-Zelewski is just one of hundreds of intercepted German cables recently declassified by the National Security Agency and now available in the reading room of the National Archives. More than half a century after the end of World War II, information is finally becoming available to scholars that shows in detail how ordinary the United States of withholding infor- mation about the mass killings of Jews until the discovery of the concentration camps at the end of the war. "The extraordinary thing about these documents is that they contain new information both about the Holocaust itself and what the West knew about the Holocaust," said Richard Breitman, a German police; ated with elite SS brigades in carrying out A d o l f Hit Ie r's order to exterminate the Jews. The inter- cepts, which were part of the top s e c r e t British code- break ing operation and army units cooper- professor of history They contain new information both about the holocaust itself and what the West knew about the Holocaust." - Richard Breitman A... ,..... 1I 1 : :4- .:.4-I., t, .,I at American University, who filed a Freedom of Information Act request for 1.3 mil- lion pages of German intercepts handed over to the NSA by the British. The release of previously American University known as Ultra intercepts, also shed new light on the controversial question of what Western governments knew about the Holocaust. Some Holocaust researchers have accused Britain and history protessor s e c r e t G e r m a n reports on the early stages of the Holocaust follows the Russian decision last month to turn over 15,000 pages of documents covering the same period to the United States Holocaust Museum. AP PHOTO A bullock cart moves along a submerged state highway near Puttaparthy In the cyclone-devastated region of Andhra Pradesh yesterday. The storm killed more than 1,000 people and has left hundreds of thousands in need of clean water and food. Pyres burn in India ater one SAFEWALK is looking for four students to cowdinate SAFEWALK beginning Winter 97. Responsibilities include: designing and directing publicity and volunteer recruitment; interviewing, planning, and facilitating ining for volunteers; organizing work ules; trouble shooting; and volunteer education. Applications are available at the SAFEWALK, NOR2TH WALK, & SAPAC offices and are due by November 18, 1996. 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