Talk:Georg Konrad Morgen/@comment-72.214.249.15-20180222031012

good precis on Morgan. There is also evidence that the 3-4 November 1943 liquidation of c. 42,000 Jews in the Lublin labor camps was a delayed reprisal for the August 1943 RAF incendiary bombing of Hamburg, during which (according to the official body-count) 42,000 German civilians perished. Shortly after the firestorm, Goebbels made a major public speech and demanded "tit for tat" reprisals against the Jews; Himmler delayed, because he (and, for a time, Goebbels) had hoped to use the Lublin province Jewish labor camps - which mostly held the creme-de-la-creme of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews - as way to revive the pre-War "Lublin Reservation" scheme for European Jewry. But, by making contact with partisans and accumulating weapons, these Jews eventually precipitated - and, via Morgen's account, then actively participated in - their own extermination.