TIMEBASE 1948

1948 April 10 Otto Ohlendorf is sentenced to death by hanging by the War Crimes Tribunal II at Nuremberg. (Secrets)

1948 May 14 The state of Israel is officially proclaimed.

1948 June 2 The seven doctors sentenced to death at the "Doctor's Trial" (Karl Brandt, Karl Gebhart, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Wolfram Sievers, Viktor Brack, and Waldemar Hoven) are all hanged at Landsberg prison in Bavaria. The sentences of the remaining defendants are reduced during the appeal process.

(Note: After Sievers conviction, Friederick Hielscher received permission to accompany Sievers to the gallows as his spiritual advisor, and it was with him that the condemned man said prayers to a mysterious cult, which was never mentioned throughout his trial. Afterwards, Hielscher returned to obscurity.) (Pauwels)

1948 August 6 A Jewish correspondent (Americanus) writing in the London "Jewish Chronicle," states, "Most of the persons who have cudgelled their wits over the problem, have neglected one of the most obvious impacts on American life Jews have made, in the mass entertainment media -- radio, films, the stage, night clubs. One might almost say that American culture as a whole has taken on certain Jewish overtones." Antisemites quickly picked up on this assertion and added it as an editor's note to a new edition of Henry Ford's "The International Jew."

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