ross mcclellan was not the only person working peppers beginning of august 1942. [inaudible] worked for the world jewish congress in switzerland learned about the rumors of mass killings to the east and the deportation of jews. he learned they all had a purpose and there was a nazi plan to exterminate and murder all the jews of europe. this seems obvious to us now and it's hard to look back on the holocaust and not look at it with a lot of hindsight but back then they saw no precedent to this. jews had been subjected to programs before and they inevitably ended but a plan was different. he tried to send this news to the us and switzerland which had a secure commission channel to the united states and once the message got to america the state department officials blocked it from being received. it seemed to fantastic, one wrote. another thought it must just be a war rumor and i can't see why they would put this in a telegram. the news of the nazi extermination plan made it through in the press reported the story in november 1942. by that point ross mcclellan had es