On June 9, 1942, a speech was broadcast on the BBC that would change human history. Władysław Sikorski, Poland's prime minister exiled in London, revealed that 700,000 Jews had been systematically murdered in brutal Nazi concentration camps, quarantined and executed en-masse in ghettos, and walked to their deaths in gas chambers. This was the first time the world and the Allied forces had heard of the crimes of the Holocaust, a secret the Nazi leaders had been able to keep until now. The information, a dossier of photographs and documents, had come to London from Poland via Stockholm, thanks to a group of Swedish men who had risked their lives to tell the world about the Nazi persecution of Polish Jews
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The 'Warsaw Swedes' worked in Poland before and during WWII
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They helped the Polish resistance smuggle documents and information
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Sven Norrman smuggled the first proof of The Holocaust in May 1942
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The BBC told the world about Nazi persecution of Jews weeks later
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The Warsaw Swedes were arrested by Gestapo and sentenced to death
The documents Sven Norrman transported from Poland to London via Sweden detailing the horror of the Nazi concentration camps and the use of gas chambers were translated into @placeholder later in 1942, but banned by the then-government so as to not upset Nazi-Germany