ABSTRACT
Shortly after the end of the war Abbe Glasberg, a churchman of Russian-Jewish origin who had done much to save French Jews, wrote that he found it difficult to explain how during all these years the Allied intelligence services should have not known the truth about the Hitlerite extermination camps which extended over many square kilometres and in which millions of people had been incarcerated. American Jewish newspapers carried reports about the killing of Jews in certain border towns but this was probably no more than guesswork based on the behaviour of the Nazis in Poland. The Jewish population in Poland is doomed to annihilation in accordance with the maxim 'Slaughter all the Jews regardless of how the war will end'. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned of the Riegner cable and published its gist without attribution. Some thought that the news about the Jewish tragedy was exaggerated, others did not doubt the information but had different priorities and preoccupations.
