Nazi blueprint for North American Holocaust acquired by Canada archive

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Fri 25 Jan 2019 02.00 EST

A book .. which scholars suspect was a blueprint for a Holocaust in North America, has been acquired by Canada’s national archive.

The rare book, of which only a handful of copies remain, was bought online by government librarians last year and unveiled for the first time in Ottawa on Wednesday. The acquisition, which curators say will preserve a critical piece of history, comes at a time of growing antisemitism and Holocaust denial in Canada.

Published in 1944 by the German researcher and linguist Heinz Kloss, Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada is a disturbingly thorough catalogue of Jewish residents in the two countries and reflects Nazi plans in the event they gained control over the continent ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/nazi-north-american-holocaust-book-canada-national-archive