Churchill Knew Holocaust Unfolding

Winston Churchill and other British leaders knew Nazi Germany was killing Jews from the first massacres in June 1941 to the final concentration camp gassings in 1945, according to intelligence documents released Monday.

The previously classified transcripts of German police radio messages, intercepted by British code-breakers, show senior officials knew where Jews were being killed almost from day to day.

It long has been known that Allied leaders were aware of the genocide before it became widespread public knowledge. But the hundreds of pages of documents released Monday suggest senior British wartime officials had more information about the killings than previously believed.