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Events on Monday 4 October 1943 1
1943Himmler's Posen speechesHimmler speaks openly of exterminating the JewsHeinrich Himmler addressed SS officers and Nazi Party leaders in Posen. In these speeches he spoke explicitly about the extermination of the Jewish people. Recordings and transcripts of the speeches later became key evidence of the Holocaust.