Thursday, January 20, 2022

Weatherday: Infamous list

Mickey Harte speaking at Kilcullen GAA (2014).

Early frost will clear to a dry day with good sunny spells. Some cloud building in the late afternoon.

Temperature high of 6deg in very light northerly breeze, becoming variable.

On this day in 1942, Nazi Adolf Eichmann presented a list of estimated numbers of Jewish people in European countries to the notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin, called to organise the so-called 'Final Solution'. Ireland was on that list with an estimate of 4,000 out of the total 11 million.

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