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In January 2021, on his final full day in office, as his parting salvo, the former lame-duck US secretary of state Mike Pompeo dropped a bombshell by falsely accusing China of genocide in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Afterward, a few Western politicians, media outlets, and scholars jumped on the bandwagon to perpetuate the false accusation and unleash fiery rhetoric against China.
The plain facts on the ground and the well-settled law of genocide inevitably lead to the conclusion that it is past time to end the staggering untruth and the abuse of the G-word in Xinjiang. Those familiar with contemporary history are aware of the origin of the term genocide . The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg used the term to describe the Nazis extermination of the Jews and the commission of atrocities during World War II.
Xinjiang genocide claim a malicious lie
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The US Secret Prison that Housed Leading Nazis
Prominent Nazis were interrogated after the end of World War II in a U.S. prison codenamed “Ashcan” south of Luxembourg. From there they were sent to the war crimes trial in Nuremberg. By Heinrich Kreft, March 14, 2021
Takeaways
As of May, 1945, the Americans interrogated leading Nazi prisoners in Camp Ashcan in Bad Mondorf, Luxembourg.
Prior to the famous trial in Nuremberg, more than half (13 out of 22) of the leading Nazis accused by the Allies as major war criminals were interned and interrogated starting in May, 1945 by the Americans in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The secret prison in the spa town of Bad Mondorf was given the code name “Ashcan.”