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Je\ishmcnand$onrcn"rlho$rN dying million hn io llre'a\ fulg'-ranny of$arand! bigotcd dle ubrld \\hr I Jelvish blood {Lrrirg lor of clynn\ spcech. cnlitlcd'ThcCrucifixtun printed thc Must Slop,'was in Ocobcr ll, Je{s issue ol rlre'lrk1'n?r //chrc\'Muga:tu, 1919 published bylhcAnrcrican JcNish ConnDittec. Thelruthis thatsix nrillionl*vs did notdie histondn bcWorldWarI andnoscnous during lieves today llut lheydid.llutdunngwbrldw r I lhem,1h of'tix nrillionJc*i wdsrcryenolional $"rtineprrcpaganda i ecd. andefective of six Shortly afterwo d Warll. tlrcrhesis million Je\i tookonanc$ liic. Jcwish lorcis nlc Ifyouloolibackin hisrory. lcgcnds slnughter thmuhiple ofmlssJewish (rfwbrldWltl11)thar $estoryofthcHolocausr" louhearsomuchabourtodayis a vrrirtionon n
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IheTalnud rhcvcryfoundrlionol Jc$rshreliglor$teaching lells underEmperorHadnan.The 0ffourri/ln,rJ$vskillcdby thc Ronrans Nriddlwdlcoi bloodthntplunged downto thesea.caF Talmuddcscribcs rlong Bilh il, shjning lhe seaadistnnce offournrilcs larycbouldca rying out thebodics ofthc mrnyrcdJc'vsuscdlo builda tencearcundHadnintvileya.d \!ith thcbbod saredolcr liom lhe tidal\ra\€usedto taF tilizerfie8rupcsof lladridn\ rvralh.1l alsochinN 61 nrillionJewish fnnr Bcthar,w.lppcdin rcligiousscfolls,\r€reburnedaliveby childrco lourbilliolrJews?Ifyou Doyourcllly belicycthrt theRomanskill€d youmustbc d 1lolocausl denierl don't, rodrc yedanrorcdnd ron mndirattention hasb€erdcvotcd Inrcccnr denial in relalionto Jewishsuffernrg duF srpposed dangeroi l knocdust $d themedirwamaboulthegrowinginiluingWorldW r IL Polilicidns ispeds ol the Holocauslstory.]n ence oflhoscwho queslionvarioLrs including Canadx. France. Gennany andAustria.Holo' sevenl countrics. who areguiltyoflhis lhought cau$dcnirl"is rgdnsl lhe Ia$. Heretics scrvingsidc $ilh slillllnesandlongprisonsentenccs, crime a.cpunishcd withpcdophiles, npislsmd mudercIs. by-sidc Ifyou thinkthatthoscaccrsedof"d€nyingthe Holocaustareonly wilh ruisingqucslions aboulshatAdolfHitlerdid ordidnt chaBed dorotheJcNsol Eurcpeduringworld war ll. prcpareyou^elf for a shock. "Holocaust denier"meansnruchmorcthanthat. Ile factis llxttlhelenn
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Jewsslaught€red bytheSovictandRedChinese burcherrcgimes. Or.notethisi;fyoudarctopointout asdid historian EmstNolie thathowfanredGerman everwrong lhc ADcricln intcnmenl of the Japan€se follo\lir8 Pca Hlrbor, ir $as no! disofthe iews sinilar to thc Ccmln intcrnm€nt follo$irgthclitc.aldccladionoi $"r byorganizedJewryagainsr Gcnnmyin l9ll (seepage for "lhe blrrnng of 44). you a.e rcsponsiblc boundaries bchlecnfact dnd llction and althoughnol outrighl llolocrustdenial llr re, Lipstadt vtyslhalpoinling lhercsuhh thcsanrc. "hlh intolhe oul suchhislodcalfrcls |lslhcsc gny ateabchvecnourrightdenialmd relativism"andthrr "in ccnrin rcspecrs it is more nrlidiousth.n outrightdenirl becar$eil nuF 'd tureswhatLipsrrdlcllls fofrnofpseudohistorywhoscnoti\cs arcdilllculttoidenliry.' "gny Alsoincludcdin rhisdangerous area,' thoughtcrimes according o Lipstrdl.arcsLrch asrdding 1opoint out therc$€re indeedother ' "holocausls vcry.cal(bulolhc.wiseforgotien) irrhistorylhddidnt invol!'ccxcluslvely Jewish and suffe.ingor drring1onot€thxt slarvation (6drrhan erecutjon thed€alhs discase ) caused ofmost JcNs(ds$ell asmanyolhers)during
sttltctionof theEutopeanJee t putsthelolal of deaths(ftomall causes) at 5.I nillion. . Cenld ReitlinScr. authorof lrc i:tu1 the6 million Sol/rr'or.like$.ise doesnotaccepr figure. H€ estimatesthe fifurc of Jervish $animedeadmighrbc ashigha! 4.6 million, bul adnilsrhatevcnthisfigurcis nucly con Issonleone a Hololoxstd. er" ilhesd$ 4rcrctsko cwlenceold odet hrfi.nlHitler to e\tenritldteEnapz \ .J6tsI Therc\'6 a tiil \hcn thcu \tct \buld hareh.cn \.\" Ycl. notc lhis: In lhc 1961 cdition of Hilbcry'slrc Ddr?./otr al the Lnopran Jarl. hcwdc dnt thclt scrc leo 1litlerordcn for thc dcstruclion olEnropclsJcws:thc lirn givcnin thc springof 1941,lnd thc sccond shonlythcrcaffcr I{owcver. Ililbcrgldtcrdclcr mincdthatnc$lydnergirgficls no bngcrsup portedthischrrgc dndrcmolcd mentiono fany ordcrfton hisrcviscd1985cdilionofthebook. As mothcrIloloclu$hinorian, Chnnopher Browning,hds notcd. thc ncrv cdirion of
HistorianOavidlrvinolabove)dn notDre prcvailin hislibe suitagainslHolocausl l]orerDeoorah Lipsradr. Hedd. however. lo'cethesubjeclol "Foocausldenra' Inlo lhe lorelrontol oeoale Pre-v.ouslo lhe Lipstadlsaysthos€ $hobdnguplhes€rnat"more vigorousyrequasFhrsloF trial,the 'exterminalionists" tcrsarcdelvinginlo opaque icalaryunrnlslhatconfuse$€ll-meanig and Iusedto'debate"or io answeranyqueshisbncallyignoonlpeople rboullhelrmolilesl' Bevisionists. Facls tionsposedbyskeptical In other sords, Lipsladlclearlydoesnt werenotat issue.lrvinqs trialhaslorcedthe sharcthc lin ofTBR's phjlosophical nrenlor Holocaust induslry to dealwilhthelacts.In
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Buncd atthcbotomoi dsrnstc loolnorc nxnds fic,utrLn r{frrr(- .rtr.n"t"s.u,Jr rcuru .r.rntr,n,rrnrro r U rturJ-;,i.n b.forcrh. rorl .rrrm: . r,1(l \t,o. n rh. rc,r cJ ron.rL( rfol comirdictory sntcmcnt rppcrN 'tDlccisiorrs nrs " $crcnolmadc. md ordcs$ctcnotgi\cn l. rcrc Not$ilhnanding thccrplurc of bnsofccl mandocuncnts dficttheNdr.including hun- roc lng drcds oflhousdndsofdocunrents seizcd bvllt
s riLL Unhrn Jll of $h -h ll.\r bc-n in- satlle lale Dr Harry ElmerBarnes.*ho sought nq Museol shod,lrvingand lhe lonq-suflef rcrl . o c . r ' do l I r " r r r ' r/ir - c r h . r " f r \ r l r n J to brinshinory inlo rccordwilh drcfacts.By . hrslo-vwon lne oeDale.Ine |eoar .oqmenl _ J I ' n L ' . r r ' J J n l r l ) . r _ \ J . r - r r . 1 l - D . \ r d f n i . .,l, l LipstMt\ stnndards, xnyonewhodaresto bnng d Nnrlinrcexlcnninrtionordcl Dlm or nro- voc histofl into :rccordlvilh dre facts musl be gram. driyenby orher'molives.By lhrl. shemcans ' ''llnli-Scnillsm. Thc lin ofhisloricrlficts tharhr\c bccncl{nllcd by thoscso crllcd ''llolocrundcnicri |nd *hich idcrsdrenoNbcingddnrittcd b) elcDhis- ofh 1nshon,ifyou queslion anyoflhe "oflicial"historyofthc Hokrclnst or WorldWxrll (or for tharmaner,\br1d WarlFno nuttcrhov fdlseor cvenpreposl€rousyoLrare.by defrnition, an anti Scnrircon porcntirl irnll-Semile. Ihelaclsbedanmed. Thc truth is thal th€ factsaboutlhc Holocaust Lipstldti pdens nohrilhslanding io suggest thatlhetenn'Holocaust denici isnotanris lcadingsenrantic misnomer, but a sinrpiedescriplion ofan fioncstmd lic. cou..rscoL$pe$on, lbr"Tlr€Holocauslis!r cgrcg'ous MilitaryTnbu Thelieureof 6million *as ciledby thcIntcnrationdl nrlat Nurcnrberg in 1945-46. ll foundrfiarthepolicytuBucdby lhcGcrnnn golcmment'rcsuhcdin thekillilg of 6 nrillur Jcws,oi u hich[ri. ] ilrsrituresl' 4nillionwerekilledinlheextennination Hokr lfthrt lindingis inefulable.lhen se\€|alofthenon prominent dcnicrs.Forcx crusrpromolcncouldlodaybc rcgardcd as"Holocaust . Proi RaulHilbeB.aulhorofthc stand! rcfcrcncc *ork. Zr. r.
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lorimsvho hdlcbccnin thcforcfronlofathckingthc llolocrustdcniers' ln thisissue. Ncexdminc thchistoryof lhcI loloraustlion Nsidc \ d' ricryofrnglcsrnd bnngdrclqcnd of thcIlolociust i orcco \vithtir faclsThcscf{ctscaslnc* lighlonbolh thcIblocdusl andthchistoric{l ' nrcrcnrcnt k !v thdthasbcdrdccldndtobc l lokrcrustdcnidl TBR isprintingr. r"r/, zrrrl/ /rc HrLxzAl. lrrthccnd.drconin uingdetcn nxlionofncN faclsxbout \!haldldanddidnothrppcnduring ''rheI{olocauslnol onlynarkstheconclusionol lhcdcbate. butalsorhe prognmofhalcproprgnndr dcniscofx viciousrndrcrypurposcful n d. rt thcsmrcIinc, thcIriumphofhistoricallrurh. llsqurtc sinple:Thosc\vhoficc lhc l)cls aboul lhe llolocNun ds outliicd.jusr in thisissucofTBR cannotcverpcrcejrc tlrcconplcxofhcrs rcsarding WorldWr 11.includlnsGcmr ny.Hnlcr,Churchill.Roose\clr
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WrwHmEnCeunro Powsn: Expmuenou OunRennr's BY RABBI DR. MANFRED RTTFER
AlthoughJewishwritemandhistorians haveofferedmanyexplanations asto howandwhyAdolfHitlercarne to power,mostofthemhaveaddressed thetopicfroma biasedpointofview However, onerabbicieatedquitea stir in 1933whenheofferedanobjectiveanalysisasto whatledto theriseof anti-Semitism notjust in cermanybut throughoutEurope.His reflectionsarewortl considemtion asTHEBARMSREvEwbeginsthisspeciallookat the periodinvolvingwhatis loown as"theHolocaust:'
hepres€ntu9331situationofth€ G€F manJewsh th€ conclusionof an historicalproc€ss.It is a d€velopm€nt dle beginningofwhich canbetracedback 6e timeofBismarck.It hadto comethisway, the de€phistoricalimponof oneunderstands anti-Semitic movement. of whichAdolf Hider thestrongestexpon€nt-Anyonewho did not that$?saffiicledwlth bl|rdness. olr tried
of a naturaldevelopment; he will alsounderstandthat history knows no accid€nts,that everyepochis theresultofthe pr€ceding one. And hereinliesthekeyto theundentanding of he folowing is a taDslarionof thepresentsituation.ThefightagainstJewdom an rrticle by Rabbi Mrnfied hasbeenconducted in Germanyfor halfa cenReifer that appearedin the tury intensivelyandwith GermanthoroughCzernowiq Allgeneine tuitung ot ness.Scientificarti-Semitismhastakenrootin Sept.2, 1933.Czernowitswasthecap Germansoil. closeone'sey€sto the €ventsand act€daccord- ital ofthe Buclowina part oftle old All thistheCermanJewsretused to see. "wllat onedo€snot Ausfia-Hungarysd givenin dloVer- They fed themselves lo thevulgarprinciple: on falsehope,ov€rsaillesTreatyto Rumanir-RabbiRei- Iooked reality and dreamedof cosmoone does not beli€ve." That fer3 commentary cEated quite a polihnismof thetimeof Dohn,L€ssing v/ayto avoid fimdam€ntalquestions,to look and glasses. \rorldthoughrose-.olored Th€ad- contoversyat thetime,largelyb€cars€ Mendehsohn. TheuprootedJewsgavethemhis explafiationof vrtryanti-Semitism selvesfantastic ofassimilationattempted to thmw a veil ideasandnourish€d cosmofiingsandto playlib€ralism-longdead-as haderuptedin GennanyaDdbrought polilandreams. And thisexpress€d itselfin thecourse Hider to powerhardlyraied fiom dle twofoldmanner.Eitherlhey acclaimed lastcard.Theydid notund€mtand the generalliberalismor theybecamebannercarand beli€ved lhey could e\ad€ it by d€- srme explamtionsbeingput fodh !y islory themselves cermansof theMosaicfaith. Hiderb o\r1lgovemment.The Ebbit riersofsocialism. Bothfieldsof activiryfurcoftnentr about the ris€ ofanti-Jewish the existence ofa J€wish nation, by nishednewfoodto anti-Semitism. denying all threadsrhatboundthemto Jewry,by feelings in Russiaare actually quite In all goodfaith, to servethemselv€s and "Zion" prophetic, considering tlat todayout th€ word in then books humaniry, ing fte Jewsbeganto reachactivelyinto Fayer They looked nearly 80 years later-the rabbit introducing SundayService. thelife ofthe Germanpeople.With charEcterpaas, wamings are coming to ifr€ports passing phenomenon as anti-Semitism a isticpassion theythrewthems€lves uponall wouldbe eliminated throughintensive aboutrising Russirndti-S€tritism in fields of knowledge,they took hold of the press,organizedthe working masses,and throughorganization of asocietyfor the Jewishpr€ssareto b€ b€lier€d. it. Suchweretherhoughts of a greatmasrovelo influencethewholespirituallife in the Jews. And hence the disappointn€nt, dle de€p resofc€rman directionoflibemlismanddemocracy. Thisofcoursewouldn€cessarIn connectron with Hitler'svictory hencethe nameless ily causea deepreactiolton lhe pan of theirhostpeopl€.Wllenthe psycbosis ir, th€spreading thatculminatedin suicide,th€com- Jews,for instance, tookholdofthe so'calledintemational disciplines, whenever theyachieved distinctionin thefieldsofphysics,chemistry, Buth€whojudgestheeventsin Cermanyaccording to theprinciple m€dicin€,astronomy, andto a cenainextentin thefieldofphilosophy, ity will havetojudg€theNazimovem€nts astheculrnination theymightat mostcause€nly amongtheirAryancolleagues, but not
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generalhaBedof thewholenarion.Onedid not like to se€Jewsbecomeb€ar€rs ofNobel prizes, butacceptsd it silendy.Bul in lhefieldsofnational dis.iplinesthingsarequitedifrerent.Hereevery mtion stives to developits ownoriginalpowen andto tusmit to thepresent andcominggener"tionthefiuitsof thespiritual laboNof lherace.Ir is not a matterof indifference io thepcoplewho writeih Christnas articles, whocelebralc nDss, whourgegoingto church.Thepeopleofevcrynn tionwishlhatthe;youngbeeducated in theirown spirit.Butwhilcgrcrtpartsofdr€Gennan peoplc foughtfor themrinlcnrncc ofthcirkirrdrle Jews filledwithourclamorlhc strccrs ofce|maniaWc poscd aswofldrefornrers andsought ro inflLrcncc publiclif0lhirugh ourideas. Wcrangrhebellsand calledro silcntprayer.!l€ preplrcddre Lord\ suppea' rndcclcbrated resurrectn,r. \\'c plNycd s.irhlhc n]oslholypossessions o1' lhc peoplcrnd at timesnmdefunofall thatwas sacred lo lhcmtion WelrLded tolhcimpcrishablc ighlsot dcnrocrdcy andlcltorrsellcs ascqualcitr7c'rs ol lhcsrrtcwithir lh€Ccrminconnnunity. Weposedllsccnsors ofthe rno ls ofrhc|)coplc. andpourcd ourfullcLrps ofsntircLrpon drcCenDrn Michel.Wervdntcd ro be p.ophets in drcpagan
lhc Cennannxlionllistsdo thesamc,whcna Kun Eisncrappropriatcs to h imselftheprcrogarj\€s ol lhc Witlclsbachc^lWc muslleamro l{x)ktruthin thc f-accandto drxrvlnstconscqucnccs Utshould not\rrnt obe lilscp()thcts. bul l0 dodgcfactsdoesnot mcansolvingrhc problenr Whrl is occurringlodry nr cermrny will conre lomori(N in Russia.For Nll c cs Nhich wcre thcconscqucnccs olthc ConnnuJrisric slncnr. the .lewsn SovielRussiarvill hale lo suller sonre day.Wc shallha\e to pry dc y fbrthc l-!crthal Trolsky.JolTc.Si otc\lrhrd lcndirrgposrsin So\ icl Russi.. Wrs thcrcnot morcsinagrinstthedcna)cruti tbr'lni Solict Russiath.rnnr ce nany:,Whilcir G e n n a n yI l l l c r o b t a i n c di n t h e c l c c l i d rc r n l paign a rnriority. in Russir rhcrc \vasno $rch thrng.Thcrc a snull nrinority loday .rlicr 15 yearsrn org.nizalionol bNrclyibur nillrcns p r o c h i n c d t h c d i c l a l o r s h iot f t h e p r o l c r r r i l r . . . T h el c \ ! s .a l t c n r pi n t S o \i c t R u s s ixnl s ol o b c annoLrrccrs dndpronounccrs ofrhc newrb$lurc trudr.lheynri!clo rnterprclrheIlolsh€\istBiblc LEONTROTSKY a n d t o i n l l u e n c ct h e \ \ r y s o f r h i n k i r go J r h c Leaderol worldBolshevism R L $ i a np e o p l cA. p r o c e stsh a t c a l l lsb r r hs h a r p c s t r e s r n a n clen d c l c n t o d d yl c r d sr o i n l i - S e fieldsofccflndlri!rnd forgotoursclvesso irrthm rllrlrishadro draw nriticdisruplion.Whtlt$,ill brppcn$herrlhe So!icrgolcrnrnents,itl havc fallcn and dcmocracyin Russiar!ill cctcbrarcirs sotcnnrcn We madcrelolutiors,andranasercrnalcod seeke$, cadofthe r a n c c ?W i l l l h e l c \ ! sf l r e b c ( e r t h a r f l h y i n c c . r n a n y : ) W inI o rr h e masses oflhepeoplc.Wcgavelotheinlcrnational proletaridr d sccond RussirnpeoplebchnrdrheTrolskys.thc Knnrenevs.Sjnojcss.ctc. Biblc.onelhat lvasrdcqualeto thetinrcs.lnd rle rousedthc passions discolcrrheiroldJcNishnamesandlct rhcchildrcnsurcr lor thc sins ofthc drirdslale.ThcJcw Marx tion Ccrmany,declarcdwnron capol lhcir fatherslOr will it not cvcnlastlhit long.$ thatclen the t: italisn and Lxsallc [also.lewish Ed.] organizedthe mnsscsofthe thcri tum $ill comcyct:)Are lhc.c not exarrlplcsfor rhalt Did nor pcoplein Ge.nmnyitscltTfie Je$ EdudrdBcmsleinpopuldi,cd idcthousdnds ofJe$s losc their livcs in Hung ry bccauscItela Kun Is obgy. Karl Liebknccht andRosaLuxembury[alsoJelvish Ed.]cattcd Je\r [d.]crccled I Sovicrrepublicor thc soil ol Srephrnrhe Hot]:, thc Spartacisr movcmcnt to life.TheJewKuft Eisncfcrealedthc B!!aF The IlungarianJ$vs hnvcpaid\ery dearlyfor rheirprcphcldonr.. . im SovictRepublica d washer firsl,and hst. tresidenl.And against \Vrthinrhc [cornmunist]lnrenrationalc rhc Jclvs.rppcdrls the mosr tl fihc Germannalionroscup.rcbelled.Shc\r|nlcdto lorgchcrown ndical clcnrenl ccrn ns. Frcnch.Polcs.(zechs hayc. hon. rnd dcstiny.detennirethefutuE ofhcrorln childrcn andsheshouldnol lhejr iitcmationalismliycs ilsell out in Ciernrany. Ftuncc polrnd. havcbccr blamedlbr it. Czechid.Thcyar€ aulochtfionoLrs undcrhonrcright.Thnrshowsitsctl' Wharwe objecledto lirst ofall ras thc $ofld crrizenship. rhccos, in pfucticrl lile Thc Ccrnrarsln l9l4 blrrnedrherrrcd flagsir rhc nlopoliranisnr. whichhxdJcssasits lrcm lighrcrs.These uprootcdpcF Tierg:ncnar Uerlinand$crrtNith thc Dcutschlandon rhcirtips.tbnh sonsjmagued lhcy posscsscd the porver1orransplanllhe iders of to warThc Polishsoci|listDrszirskisroodin rhc Jbrclrorrofthe fighl Isriahinro rhealleysofaicnnania.and1()srormValhallawith Amos. lb.lhe resurrection o{ Polarrd nd rhc C,cch socialisrs slng wtlh cnAl tnDcsrheysucceedcd in lhal,bul lheyburythcnrseh€s andrhcJcw, lhusiasnrthcir nthem(/" l,rof,xif 14yHonreland). ishpcopleundcrthcrunrsofa worldthathnscollapsed. Onlythc.lelvs$ould hcNrIothingrbourhonrcind lc Nsoslensibtc Onc mustlooknt thc struggleofthe IIillcr rcgimefromadircrcnt prophclson thc field ol iibcrly. Karl Licbkneckl.Ros! Luxcnburg. "No Kaddoshwill ricwpoirr, and lenrnto undcrstand. llavc wc Jcwsnol rebctleddnd Kurl EisncrCusla\'LLrnddLrcr: bc spokcD. no nuss conductcdbloody wrrs rglinsr everylhingfo.cignl Whal elsc thcn wcrc thc rva$ ofthe Maccdbccs but prorcstsrgairst a tbreign.non They.lnd in lhe sanlcmcasurc.thechildrenofliberalisnr.!ltrtrose Jewishway of life? And ofwhar consisrcdrhc cr,"'nral6ghl ot thc pocls,autlrds,nisls.journ!lisrs.prepiredthcfrcserrrtilnc.noudsh prophcls? Surclyo I nothingclscthaneliminnring forcignelerncnts. thc Jcw hatre( fnrnisfiedtheg(Nnds.thc nrarcriallof thc craotNational tbreigngods.andofthe kecpingscaredtheoriginalnalure ofJewdonr. Socnlism.Thcy all surcllrdcsircdlhe ben. bur atraincdrhc opposilc. Halcwc not rebelledagainstdrcraciallyrelarcdkingsolthe houscof They\!erecuNedlvith blindncss. theysawnot theapprorchofcnhsthe IdumacenslAnd havervc not exchdedthc Slmaritansfronrour trophe..lhcyheardnolrhc lootfalloflime,thc hcrvy foortirltsofrinr.. communitybccause theypncliccdmix€dmarrixges? Why shouldnor thehealy lbotfrlls ofthe NcnicsisofHislory. ., t B R A l , l , l t ( ) l _ ( ) ( : A t r s ' tt s s t i l . : 2 0 { J 1 )
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Farfrombeingthe"deathcamps"asyouhaveheardsooften,placeslikeAuschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald werenotinthcbusiness ofextermination. Theyweroworkcamps, criticaltotheGerman war cllort.ButdidyouknowthattheJewish workers werecompcnsated fortheirlaborwithscripprinted specificallyfor thcirusein stores, cantccns andevenbrothcls? Theprisonmonetary system wasconceived in ghettos suchasLodz,carried tocamps suchasAuschwitz andDachau andstillexisted inthedisplaced personcamps thatwereestablished bytheAlliesafterWorldWarll. Hereis thestoryofthemoney thc..court historians" donotwantyouto evensuspcct existed. ilesofincinerated corpses wcrcindictingimages at Nurembcrg, usedtoproveihatlheCennan-run con centmtion canpsduringWodd WarII wereintendcd for purposes ofexterminating theJewsof Europe. I lowever. a plethora ofdocuntentary evidcnce, long supprcsscd showsthat prisoncrswererelativelywcll-lreated. compcnsated fbrdreirhardwork andallowedto purchase luxurieslowhicheventheGennanpublicdid not havcreadyaccess. Thisis not the imagcofrbiecl deprivationthat lhe Holocaust lobby$,ouldlike you to cnlerlain. Theircfutablc proofislheexistenccofameansofexchange Ibrgoodsandscrviccs:M oney.Therewcrcal leastI 34 sepamte issues, iDdifcrcnt denominationsandslyles,fo.suchnotorious placesas Auschwilz, Buchenwald,Drchau, Oranienburg, Ravensbriick. Westerborkand at lcast 15 other camps.(See Paperll4oner of fie Wo d Patl l: Modern Issire.\ol Enopa by ArnoldKcllcr,Ph.D..1956.pp. 23,25for a complerclisling.) A monclarysystenwasalsoinexistencein theghctlos, most notablyTheriesenstadt produccd and Lodz, which beautiful notes(veritableworksofart)dralmakeU.S.currcncylook dull. Therearcnumerousdcalcrs in rarecurrencyandnumismatics whospecialize in selling"concentralion campmoney"or"Holocaustmoney" it as hasbccnsonetimescalled,But theveryfact ofits existencedoesnol seem(o haveraiscdquestions as it shouldhave aboutwhatreallydid(anddid nol) happeninsidc lheso-called"dcathcanrpJ'wheretheHolocaustscripwascirculalingin thefirstplace. Thisscripwasnot negoliableoutsideofthe campfor which
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No. 11647 etterfrom Prisoner IDachau KLll on SenBlock 28'3 I IJtcmber 8, 1940to his rclalivein (Lodz): Litzmannstadt I must wrile you sornething In aboutmyself.I am very \\'e11. the canteenI buy honey.marmalade,cookies,fruit and other food. If you worry about Dre. you'llindeed becommitiinga sin. I havenrorercasonto worryabout yo|j.... (Letterslilr thcI)0o 1el: (utLa |1u|i.r1CmV Cottcsp) dcntc 1940 /9.1.5 Richard S. Ccchr)
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TheFactsAbouttheOrigins OftheConcentration Camps AndTheirAdministration BY S'rrPI|rN-{. RaPER Here'.sa fascinating look at thcconccntration campsystenrinsideGermany, devoidofthe hysteria 'lnairsfream" ji)rns oftcn associated with the subjectin Hollywood and in the mediaand academia. TBR is pleasedto presentwhatmay be the lirst-everdetailedexamination ofthe concenrrrtioncamp systenr,presentinga t'ardifferentpictureliom whatwe'vebeentold. n propagating a politicizcd vicwoI Gennan bistorynany in thcmcdiaandacademia haveaucnpted to porlraydre Gennan syslem ofimprisoDrnent in concentration camps assolncsortofprecursor to genocide, asa livinghell whereit *,asoiicial Genranpolicyto rnakelife miserableandto victirnize.beat.tol1ure,l'JpeandDmrderinnocent ol rclifrn r nf to rticaper'ru.roncr nmtl) hecJ,r.e cnr||drs sexual orientalion. view ofhistory correct:)No. the rolc of h this sensatioDal G€rman conccntrat;on caDpswasnruchdilTcreDt. andprobably b€fter in nranyways thanthcAmcricanprisonsystcmtoday.Ccrmanconccnlration canrpshada nrucbnrorcposilivcrolc10play inHillcrt nclvandprogrcssivc NalionalSocialiststatc. Thefactswill will bearoul thal theestiblishmenlhisloriins puneycda vicw ofconccnlration cirnrplifc thatcannolbe have substantiatcd. Thedaily lile in a concentralion crnrp wasnNch differcnt tlanmoslhislo.ianswill rdnil. a lbrDrerSocialistandcritic ofNaIn 1948.PaulRassinier. tionalSocialistCennanywho hadhinselfbeenintenredin the concentration campsofBuchenwald andDora,published Orrrr ingtheLine lLe Pussu!:e de /d argrc). In this r,'ork.Rassinicr claimcd that thc Gcrmanshadbccnbcnign,if nol positivc,in lheirmotivcsfor putlingcncmicsof Hitlcr\ NationalSocialisl slale in conccnlralion camps,Rassinicr claimcdthatthcconccnFalion campswcrea "gcslureof conpassionsinceinmaleshad '!rot hurt the new regimeand beenpliccd lvhcrethey could where tlreycouldbe protecledfrom thepublicanger" Notonlydid lhe concenlmtion canpsprotectanti-socirlelemenain Rassiiieri view,but theywerealsodesigned to "rehrT3R
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(iqhi)isshown A Gemanconcentration campofiicer congratulaling a llreprisonefs release lromlhecamp. Ths rarey seen ffsoner(efi)upon pholograph castsa newightuponlh€reailyoi whallheconcentnllon carnp system wasal aboutrefo.rn, nottoture andrepresslon. Thedevas' lalionn Dachau andolhercarnps calreaboulal theendollhewarasa resut nolofa mass nalonpoicybylheGermans exlerm butb€cause ol a lackollood andmedical suppies,lhespread oltyphus anda breakdown insanilalion caused bylhesaluralon bomngbytheBritshandAmercans, whichdestroyed lh€highways andrairoad.
andolher ordery worklng condilions werethenorm.Warmaterie campinmatesattheirwoftslations. Clean, Shownaboveareconcentration rnade strcn_ inlheconcentralion campsand,asa consequence, campadminlslrators prodLrcts thetemsproduced vitaltolhewarelfortwereamong inmates were to the ng wartime, the living cond tions oi camp superior wereheallhy. In manyinstances, du thatintenees uouseflottsto ensure condilionsinwhichGermancivlianswereliving.
"couldbe prov€dto haverefusedwithou!adequate reasoneDrbilitatethe strayedsheepandlo bring thembackto a healthicr ployment to them on two occasions."l ofered conceptofthe Gemun communily."'Accordirg lo Rassinicr, camps Thc tir.r nersoniarreieJa|d senlto con.cnlmrion tlle Gcmrangovemmentwashelpingthoservhomit comnitted who hadlakenpartin effoflsto undcrminethe wcrccommunists to conccntration campsbyputlingthcmin a settingsothatthey fabricofthc Gcrmanstate,Most oflhesecomnunrslsarrcstcd intomoreproductivcmembersofthe Cer€ouldberehabilitated were dcnounccdto local aulhoritiesby fellow workcrsand mancommuniry to con- neighborswho wereconcernedaboultheiraclivltres. of persons assigned Those whofcll intothecategories
condemncd fortreasonacamps included anyperson centmtion Pany omcials andanyone as well as ComDrunist bleactivities, Persons a German cilizento refusemilitaryscrvice.r whoincited oflhe ThirdReichas by theauthorities whowereconsidered Antrmalefactor werealsosenllo thecamps. beingananti-social professional habitual crimiconsisted of and socialmalefaclors to aminimum isthosepeople whohadbeensentenced nals,lhal or hardlaboronat leastthrccsepofsix monthsimprisonment inAnti-social malcfactors alsospecifically aratcoccasions. cluded beggars. prostitutes,homosexuals,drunkards, psychopaths Persons whowere"workshy"were andlunatics.r Hinmcanps.Accordingto Heinrich alsosenttoconcentration menwlro ler,theheadofthe SS,workshymeanlunemployed
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activitiesof the GermanCommunistParty (KPD). the local jails weresoonfille4 and llre NalionalSocialistgovernmen in Berlin *as forcedto decidewhcrcto housethesepersons rvhowerea clearandpresentdangcrtothecontinuation ofGeF andsovereignnation manyasan independent With thejails and prisonsfilled to capacity,local officials warehouses andfacloricsto hold bcganto takeoverabandoned Thesemakeshiftholdingfacililicshavcsince thc communists. canps"sincethcy wcrc becomcknownas"wild concentration
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spur-of-lhc mDrnenl in\cnlions. Thename"concenlralion camp"simplymeans anareawhcre dang€rous elenents areconcentratcd. Hitleronccsaidtheidca Iorconcentration carpscamefromhisstudies oftheBoerWar inSouth Africa.j During Ihatwar,theBritishbuiltcamps andconcentrdted wom€n andchildrenofDutchanccstry. Duringtheirconfinement inBritish concenlration camps, over26.000 dicdmainlyofstarmtion, sincethcBritishmadcnoeflortto fcedtheunarmed and helpless women,nordidrheyrllow themto leaveandgoback lolheirfarmsleads. Thisgcnocidal aclionoftheBritjshagdinst unamed wonrenandchildrenmainlygoesovedooked by Eshblishmenl h;ro|ans.\',hoin\leadJcLuse theCemtirn concentration campsof beingderthcampsrvhose solepurpose was hllingunarmed civiliansButthisis lar fromberngrnecase. ctrrrcel'trJrion cumpscrupin Germin) flhe firsroffrcial $icesrabl\hcdibo r l2 miles fionMunict|'nrhclo$ I I of Dachau. inciderformcrgunlowdcrtacroD.on Mxrcll 2,1933.UnlikewhitAlliedpropagandawould haveusbelieve. lheGermans rvercnotashamed ofthis camp.In fact.Heinrich Himmler heldr pre.sconlercnce to announce rt.opcning hro days beforethefirstirmalcswereschcduled to arrive.Hisannouncement wascarriedin Cerntan newspapeN,6 andthecamp $,r opened withthearrivalof200communists. Butthecamp tr?s buihto hold5,000andwasnainlyestablished to actasa dc, lenent to furlhercommunist activiry Himmler stated thatitwashispromise notto waituntilcrimes This WorldWarll-€rawoodcutsoughtloconveytheimpression rerecommitted beforearrcsting criminals, andpledged that,in campswerehardlymoreman mass order to protectthepopulace, professional criminalswhohad lhal Gemanconcentration lorture chambers. The lruth is thatthe Geman aulhorities been sentenced mainmanytimeswouldbepursucd nore ruthlessly tained strict fules against mistreatment prisoners o1 punished tlunbefore andisolatedaway and fromtheGerman people bybeing ofihe rules.Afterthewar,manv.jewswno incarcemted in concentration camps. Himmleralsoaddedlhat lhoseloundin violation thatJewishguardsinside hiscamps wercto bemodels ofcleanlincss, orderandinstruc- hadbeenheldin thecampscomptained the camps were actually far more brutal thanlhe Germansand li0n.lllvasihrough thisinstruclion thatHirnmlerhopcd tore-ed olhers who we.e stationed on periphery lhe ucate minorcrimiralsas well as communists. ot the camps. Hintmlerhad ordered strongdisciplinary measures to be employe4 butthe t€atnentinmates received wasjust,andtheylearned trades afterthebumingofthe Reichstag by a conrmunist, hc reacted ttrough theirworkandtraining.In thcconcentration camps, the swiftlyto takethemintocustody. Hitler now decided to build rnotto was:"Thereis onewayto freedom, Its milestones are: thefiNtconcentration camps. o{rdience, zeal,honesty, order,cleanliness, temperance, However, truth, instead ofbeingvindictive or outto dohalmto the sens€ of sacrifice andloveforthcFatherland."l communisls, theconcentration campatDachau wasdesigned to "model"ofsocialism, IntheSoviet Union's theGerman com- refbrmthemandmakethemintocitizens lhattheGermanscould nunists foundwhatthey werelookingfor,liberalism, urbanism, beproudof ritizens whocouldretumto Gefinansocietyat andmodemism-allofwhichrejected thetraditional Aryan- largeandliveouttheirlives aspeacefirland properGermanmen German wayoflife. Forthisreason, theGennancommunists andwomen.Instead ofbeinganinstitution aimedatpunishment, Iooked atHitlertappointment tothechancellorship bypresident IheGcrman systcm ofconcentration camps wasdesigned to rePaulvon Hindenburg asa signalforanuprising aimedatcreat- formandto re-educate enemies ofthenewGerman srare. ingaCerman sovietstate, closely modeled ontheSoviet A corespondent Union for Ii€ ly'ey,/or.[n rer wasallowedto visit and IakingitsordersliomtheComintem in MoscowButHitlcr Dachau shortlyafterit wasopened andcame awaywiththeimsaw thethrealthecommunists posedlo Cermansociety, thatthecommandant and pression ofthecamp,Theodor Eicke,and P . O B O X 1 5 3 7 7 . W A S H I N G T O NO . .C. 2oOO3
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prison.Sincesomeoftheseprisoners weremurderels, andpedophiles, theNationalSocialiststaterefusedto al themto retumto Germansocietyuntil theauthoritieswere thattheyhadabandoned theiroldways.Contraryto modempolitical m),th,Germannewspapers liequentlycardedstories the concentration campsandoftenreportedon the persons. of dangerous Manyoffie camps \aereopento inspection by foreign wntren n intemal documenr in lcl4 and circulated ar mats and even by Cerman civilians. Often the curiousperson A Sociali$ cerCestapo headquanem shled $al Nalional would travel to ihe guardsand cadps only to be met by liiendly I .|f lmany wouldnotbecompleteunlil itsopponents leamed escortedtbroughthe campson a personaltour.Ofthe tensof to supportit andidentilywith thegoalsofthe Germancommu- thousands of prisonerswho werereleaseqmostprobablytold nity at large.Thewriter of the documentrciteratedtheeduca- theirrelatives, friendsandneighbors of dleconditionspresentin tionalvalueandideologicalindoctrination thatthecampswere the camps.Overthe years,judges,lawyers,membersof the to instillin theinmates, andsuggested imbuingtheinmateswith clergy,socialworkersand repaimen wereallowedinto the tbeknowledge thatupontheirreleasetheywouldbeableto be- campsfor ofrcial business. Merchants oftenvisitedthe camp comefull membersofcerman society.e Justa shorttime later, to bring newstock ofsupplies,andlocalcivilianswereofien anotherGestapo wamedall stateauthorities document notto ha- employed in thecarnps.lfconditionsin thecampshadbeende' rassreleasedinmatesso asnot to make plorable,Cerman society would have theircompletere-inteFationintoGerman "TheGertnansthcrnsell)es leamedof it andwouldhavebeenoutsociety dimcult.ro raged.TheGermanswereand still area ofranrcfated to thcsecanps The Germansthemselves often redecentpeoplewhoseonly crimein estab 'educatiun ferredto thesecampsas "education lishingthecampswasshowingleniency as carnps.'In thc cafips."In the summerof 1942,three to personswhowantedto dothemharm. ammer S 1942,Hiw o was yea$afterWorldWarII began,Himmler ln a bookwritten on the campestab *ill eflphasizitrgthc wasstill emphasizing the re-educational lishedat Oranienburg, WemerSchafe aspects ofthe campswhenhewrotea letclaimed that some citizens in the loca ree&uotionalaspects " terto OswaldPohl. Thelanguage thathe communities askedpermission to send of thc annps." usedin this letterwasalsogivenaspart someof theirrebellingchildrento the of ofncialinstructions to guardsat the campsto learnself-discipline. Schafe camps.Himmlerinstructedeachguardto makehis behaviora alsosaidthatthereweresomeprisonerswho wereofferedrepersonalexampleto theprisoners, in orderto imbuethemwith leasewho refusedsincetheycouldnot rememberdoingwork respectfor theNationalSocialiststateandto teachthemhowto sincethebeginning oftheCreatDepression.ra Schafer listedthe This re-education behaveproperly.rz at thecampswasto shess tt?es of foodeatenby theprisonersandcomputedhow much raditionalAryanvirtues,suchashardwork,strictdiscipline,a weighttheyhadgainedduringtieir internment in thecamp.Ci! beliefin lawandorder,supportfor thecompletelamily andre- izensofNationalSocialistGermanythereforehadgoodreaso spectfor kaditionalGermansociety, aswell asencouraging to supporttheofficialswhoadministered thecamps. themto respecttheNationalSocialiststateandtheNazimoveThenafureofimprisonmentin concentration campscanbes mentm geneml, beguessed by a document signedby Hirnrnler,in whichtheprinOverthe years,t€nsof thousands of inmateswerereleased ciplesof intemment in a concentration carnpwereclarified. The ftomthecampsoncetheyhadshownthattheyhadchosen to re- document wasnotmeantfor publicdistributionandwasclassi form themselves, On manyoccasions thecornmandants of the fied"secret" beforebeingsentto seniorofficem oftheGestap campshaddetermined thatinmateshadabandoned theirold on2'7May 1942.lt reads waysandhadchosento becomeloyalmembers ofGermansocieryAs lateasOctoberl9zg, inmateswerebeingreleased and Recently, variousofficialsin thepartyandthegovemmanyof [hesewerecomrnunists whohadabandoned theirprementhavebegunthreatening to lodgecomplaints with the viousbeliefs.rr policeagainstcitizens,or to havethemimprisoned in conOfthe penonssentto the concentration camps,manywere centration camps. in orderlogivegreater forceto various sentthereby courtorderfor fixedterms.Otherpersons werearordersanddecrees, In thismamer,for instance, oneofficer restedbecause ofthe dangertheypresented to Germansociety. threatened a citizenthathe wouldbe sentto a campfor "policeinterrogation" Someprisoners, whohadbeenconvicted duringtheWeimarer4 ifhe did notproduce withinfive weresentto the concenhationcampsaftertheir releaseiiom daysa certainform,ashehadbeentoldto doby oneofthe themenrmderhis command tooktheirjob of re€ducationseriously."Theyhonestlyandsincerelybelievedthattheirtaskwas pedagogic ratherthanpunitive.. . . Theyfelt sincerelysorryfor themisguidednon-Naziswhohadnotyetfoundthetruefaith."3 Not onlyhadtheinmatesnotyetfoundfaithin theleadership of AdolfHidel buttheyalsotookpartin or supported subversive activitiesaimedat overtlrowingthestate.
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omcials.I requcstin ali seriousness thatthepaniesin_ volvedt€ instructed lo cease thispracticeimmediately, andifthis is notdoneI will takcuponmyselftodeclare publiclythat citizens arenotliablein suchinstances to ei_ therpolice invcstigation or imprisonment in a concenra_ lion camp.The most severepunishments lose their deterrent abilitywhentheyarcthrealened atevcryoppor_ \ runir). or r\henthelntprcr,ion isg,ven lhalc\eryomcral. ,neveryotnce.rsautholzedromakcuseoflt. 19' lmprisonment in a concentration camp,invotvrng asrt . doessepamtion fromonet family.isolation fromtheout_ sideworldandthclard labora\siFedto theprisoner, ts lhemostsevcre ofpunishments. Itsuseis reserveo exclus elyforlhesecrer police.in accord.rnce wirhprecrse reg, ularron. whichspeciBlhe lormofimprisonmenr and s term.lnthisntafierl haveretained formyselfalaryemeas_ Ureofauthority andexclusive discretion. Allin alliheGer_ manpeopte areuniquely fair_m inded. MostGermans obey theinstructions oftheauthorities oftheirowniieewrlland de.ire. Instructlons accompanted b) threats wiI. no$e\cr, be.recerved withdrsrespecl andr,ll beobeleu onryun_ wrttrngty. notto mention lhalthcInultiplicanon oflhrcalj ofthistypewill givea completely falseimpression. both hereandabroadr5
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Notonlydoesthisdocument illuminate thefactthatthecon_ centmuon campsystem wasnotvindictive or thereto terrorize thecivilianpopulation, butit alsoshowsthattheleaders ofthe state hadconcem forlheprisoners. Himmlerrecognized thatim_ prisonment involvedisolation andseparation fromtovedone,s andwasdetermined to allowtheGerman people to knowthatthe ontypersons lmprisoned in thecamps wereextreme cases. But more rmportantty, asthevalueofhindsighl allowsusto,thedoc_ umenl alsoallowsusto understand wheresomeofthe Allied pro-paganda cimefrom:minoromcial. r\ereeJgertorddthreats ourerrorders. t ananempr rogivethetmpression lhrrrhcy$ere morc powerful thantheyactually were.Becauseofthe actions of lhese minoromcials, theAllieshadthepropaganda to claimthat neconcentatton camps werethereto terrorize thecivilianpop_ ulatron andto forcethemto beconte subservien! to a statethat onlycaredrboutrlselfThi, qase\actlywharHimmler was atrard woutdhappen. lhatrheconcentration ccmps\rouldbe seen lo bea punitive punishment andnotthecenter ofre_educa[onthattheyreallywere.
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Thisgrotesque scltptureoflews Betng cassed'isdispayedatlheU.S. Holocaust M€moalMus€um. Although theNBCteteviston extravaoanza r/o/ocaustlfenoneorrherosr.warcled ev"rrsrr TVhrsrof_teatr_reo a scene whichimpiied lherewe.ephotographs lakenofJewsdvinainthe gaschamoels. nosuchinageshaveeve.o€Fn tound. despite thet;cllhar theGemans didphologEph execulions ol Jewsandorher anlr-cerman parlisans ontheEastern Front.WhyJewsseenlo revetn suchdistaslelul imagery €mainsa myslery io manynon,Jews whoareunaore o understandwhyJewsarenolpteased lo leamthattheextentol thetraqedies that belerllhe peop'e Jewish ounnq WordWa.t,wasnotquire as-seve,e as longbelieved. Forlhisreason, evenmanyJewish phiJosophers question placrTll-eHo'ocaJsf .r tnecentero'Jewrsh existerce.
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fortheworkofthecamp doctorand campcommandant usuallyoversawtheprisonerdivisionof dantswerealsoresponsible camp. themedical staf. Thecanpcommandants werealsorequiredto preventcrue hadfull responsibiliry for alnost lo innates.Atrainingmanualfor campguardsaskedthefol hecampcommandants "Whaiiscompletely prohibited everlthingthathappened in thecamps,exceptfbr the ingquestion: a campguard? An. Thepoliticaldepart- swer:Underallci.cumstances workofthe politicaldepartmenls. heisforbidden to slrikeprisoncn and at hisowninitiative, mentoperated in thecampasanextension of theGestapo, outside theframework ofthe disciplinar policeheaded it.Thisdepart- rcgulations." a plainclothes officerof thesecret In 1935Reinhard mentdealtwithlhereception andregistRtion ofinmates, and Heydrich wroteto thecampguards stating that"it is nolbecoming wasalsoin charge oftheirrelease. Thisdepartment: aninterrogator to insulta prisoner, de. Keptfileson eachinmatethatincludedpersonal details meanhim,orbehavc withrudeness andbrutalize ortorturehim abouttheinmate,theinmatetpictureandfingerprints; whcnthercis nonecdto doso."Heydrich wenionandwamed ' wasresponsible forfilingdeathnotices andwasresponsible thecampmcnthatifthey bealprisoners they$,ouldbecourlguardssho forpassing thisinformation onto govemment authorities; martialed.'nEickehimselfwrotein l937lhat"lhe . Corresponded prisoners. wilhlherelatives of theinmates in Lrscs bc inslructed to abstain llom mistreating - . . Evenif wheretherewasa needfor guardianship ofunderage children, a guardhaddoneno morethanslapa prisonerlface,lheslap insurance claimsandsoforth; will beconsidered anactofbrutalityandtheguardwillbepunl ' Hadtheauthority to decree special conditions of imprison- ished." TheSSaciuallypunished a number of i$ ownmenfor their . was responsible for all interrogation lhatwenton in the conduct whileserving ir theconcentration campsTwoconcen tration camp commandants, Adan Gruenwaldand Karl camps; an4 . Supervised prisoner informers, censorship, fieldsecurity, Chnielewshi, wereplaced ontrialandfoundguiltyoflhedeath andtheprevention ofrebellion. ofprisoners asa resultofbrulalityin theircamps. TheSStried Notallmembers ofthecommand haddirectanddailycontact over700 staffmembers throughout thecourse oftheThirdReich werekeptin a special withtheinmates. Theinmates compound fbrtheirconduct towardinmates. Thiswasbccausc lheSSand withinthecamps,overseen by theirowncommanding omcer theNationalSocialiststatealwaysconsidcrcd conccntratio for head camps to bere-education andhis staff.Somestaf officerswereresponsible camps firstandforcmost. counts, othcrsforworkarrangements; others actually accompaIt is truethatpersons whowcrcconsidercd to behopeles prisoners nied whentheywentoutto work,whileotherofncers cases suchashabitual offenders weresentto thecanps, bulnosl wereresponsible for eachofthe livingquarters, whichwcre prisoners always couldeamtheirrelease by conforming to trathemselves referred to asa block-Thepersonal deputyofthe ditionalAryan-German slandards of conduct.Unfortunate manyguards couldnottell theditrerenc between thehabitualcriminals andthose who rverethereto be re-educated. This problem plagued thecampadminist.atio throughout thehistoryoftheThirdReicb OswaldPohlcomplained that'Asa resultofmypersonal atlenlion tothematter and the repeated irregularilies rccentl noted.I havelearnedthal manyof the guards at thccamps arcawareonlyin the faintesl way of thc obligations inposed lfyou like whrl yo! seein ' upon thcm," Tr! BARNTS RLvirwhisrorical Buthistorians musttakeintoconside nagazine.yotrwiu loveourwebsite a(ionthcfactlhatlensoflhousands ofiltlocaredarwwwbarnesrevieworg. Th$e you wiu find inrcresling dividualsservedin the camps.If 700 anicles,artwork.ndlinkslo othcr committed crinesandwerepunished for Revisionist sitesrlt.r canhelp ir, it onlyhighlights thefactthattheother youon yourquc$(o oucovcr tensofthousands of Germans servingin lhe suppressed truthaboulour thecamps tooktheirresponsibilities seriously.Mosl campmenunderstood that theirpersonal wasa wayofenbehavior
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andproudcitizens nginmatesto aspireto beupstanding Germany. Accordingto an SSbooklet:"The prisonermust thattheguardrepresents a philosophysuperiorto his,an political ished approachanda highermoml level,and prisoner exampleaspartof his musttaketheseasa personal to correcthimselfsothathemayonceagainbea loyalcitinhiscommunity."rq
diedwhilein custody. h 1936,thequestionwasmisedfor tie fust time asto who wouldtakecareofthe childrenwhenbolhparenlswereprisoneN carnps. Insteadoftakhg thechildrenawayftom in concentration parents theirloving asis nowdonein suchcountriessuchasthe in GerU.S.andGreatBritain,theNationalSocialistauthorities manydecidedit wouldbe betterfor thechildrenifthe parents werereleased on a rotatingmonthlybasissoat leastoneparcnt his 50thbirthday. To wouldalwaysbethereto carefor theirneeds.This rolatingreApril I 939,Adolf Hitlercelebrated for good-'?4 this occasion,plansweredlawnup for a pardon leasecontinueduntil oneofthe parentswasreleased celebmte Needless to say,thisprogmmdid posea slightsecurityriskto thousand in thecamDs. Theinstructions lor several Drisonem but Hitler apparently wasmoreconcemed aboutthe who\r€sto befieedandwhowouldremainas Germany, determined inmaterevealthedifferentkindsofprisonersin thecampsas welfareofyoung Germanchildrenthanhe waswitl an)'thing Hitlert generosity andgoodwill. Theintention else. asrevealing EventhoughAlliedwartimepropaganda conceming theGerpardonwasto fieeinmateswhowerebroughtto thecarnps paints pictue man camps a bleak with ritual muryears concentration 1933, six before. period donot releasing repeatoffend- der,mpe,assaultandothercrimes,thefactsofthe It wasdetermined to at leastconsider nlhowerean€stedin theyears1933to 1934for shortsen- supportthisview to rchabilitate Th€eforts oftheNationalSocialistauthorities andwhohadat leastserveda yearin thecamps;political incarcemted criminals and communists showa had convicted on minor ofand re-educate white-collar offendeNwho been of60 dedicationanda firm beliefin theirconvictionsthatin comparandwho hadservedat leastsix months:Drisoners witnesses whosefaith ison,the UnitedStatesandCreatBritainaresorelylackingin noreyearsofage,includingJehovah's tensofthoutheirownprisonadministrations. ThoseGermans, notallowthemto sw€arloyaltyto theCermanshte;f$trelasands olpatriotic citizens, who served in the camps asdoctors, who had not been convicted of sexual homosexuals guards, past and weremuchmabeen nulses,cooks,clerk, bookkeepeN withminors;aswell asprisonemwhohadin the lignedandviciouslyattackedby Allied authoritiesin postwar ofthe Nazi Party.lo ., in Cermany. wereclassified inlofourgroups. Thenin l94l thecamps ofthe discioline and conditions of with theseveritv who f,NDNOTES: Thoseprisoners imposed uponfie inmates. 1l1e I Se PieneHofslerer,lntr.ductionto Pall R6stnie\ Dehunkihg Genocide beenimprisonedfor minorofensesandwhomtheSScon- Mrtt: A Stu.lrofl|te Nui Carcottntion CanpsondtheAll.CedEflentiholion of E!mp?d,./a? ( 1973,Tordcq Califomia),p. x. hadtheconditionsoftheir to bepossibleto re-educate p. ( eased,
in 1938.On Thewo*daysin the campswereformalized the inmates workedftom 0730to 1200andftom lo 1700,for a totalofnine houNa day.On Satudayswo* Not from0730-1200,fora totalol fourandone-halfhou$. aftemoons ftee,butChristianiimateshadall rcrc Saturday to attendtheirowll serviceswithin the campandto Sunday for theirimprisonment.':l thereasons by sex,but in thecamp,thebarracksweresegregated prisonets wereallowed to marryevento other manycases prisoners. R€gistrationin suchcaseswascarriedoutby SS "The heirsofanyprisoner whodiedwhilebeingheld lite rnsurance. wereeligibleto collecttheir oneofthecamps policieswould expireifthepremrums thelife insumnce andwithout notDaid.andthe inmateswereincarcerated with income.the SScameuD a solutionthat substantial historians will notsivethemcreditfor TheSS ishment premiumsofprisoners upits ownfilnd to paytheinsurance thedayrheydied.?rIn this way.the lovedonesolincar-
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Despitea growingnationwidepushfor "Holocausteducation,"a veteranAmericaneducatorhas concludedthat Holocausteducationin the public schoolsis destructivesocialprogrammingofthe worstsort,is injuriousto students,andhasno placein Americansociery
ublicschoolchildrenarebeingrequired biased Holoby lawto studyreligiously of Illinois,Calcaust material in thestates ifomiaandFlorida.Mostotherstateshavebeen targeted for theimposition of similarinstructo theJewish Educational laws relating tion. genocideor Holocaust-are beingobtruded underlhesponsorintopublicschoolsystems andadvocacy organishipofJewishlegislators zations, into Suchreligiouslyweighedincursions publicschooleducation areunprecedented in theUnitedStates andreflectanabnormaltrend to theJewishmitowardprovidingfavoritism norityat thecostof forcingan inappropriate burdenonschoolchildren. to represent an TheHolocaust lawsappear impositiononsocietyby a highlymotivatedreperhaps fivepercentTheseare nol JewishHolocauslviclims.ThsyareCh slianandl\,4uslim ligiousgroup,comprising Paleslin whichisintenttohavea senseianArabsbutchered ofthepopulation, theknowledgean by lsraeli-backed Lebanese Falangistswilh to pubabouttheHolocaust taught of speciality complicityofthe lsraeliDeiense Forcesat the SabraandChalillarefugoecampsin politicalgain. for its own lic schoolchildren 16-18,1982.lsraolanditsadvocales tryto dislractwoddatLebanon on Seplember of Theeasewith whichJewishadvocates tentionlrom lsrael'smisdeedsby constantlylalkingaboul"lhe Holocausl"andlhe sut thenorsuchlawshavebeenableto overcome feringoflhe Jewishpeople. malpropensity of societyto preventreligion from mixing with publiceducationappearsto effectin counleringoppositionto Jewishinterests. bedueprimarilyto theability of suchgroupsto "trade"on the devastating guiltandshameingrained in societyasa resultofthe Jewish Whatis distincllywrongwith teachingHolocauststudiesin could genocide. ofnon-Jewish legis- thepublicschoolsistheimplicationthatanotherHolocaust Thereisalsothegreatreluctance Certainlyin the latorsandothersin publicofficeto risk theirpositionsandrep- occuratall, andin particularin theUnitedStates. There Jewishinterests andtherebyincurringtheir viewofmostcitizens,Americais notlikeNaziGermany. utationsby opposing "anti-Semites." public the implication that childrcn in our schools need to be Termssuch fore ire andtherisk of beingbrandedas "instructed"in howto conductthemselves "Holocaust "anti-Semitism" by the infusionof a and denial"havebeenusedwith as 18
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HowDoesScience Dxplain Memory'? False'Holocaust n A\gtxt 13,2cf,0,ne ,yashitSto,Tiner publishedthe foloi,ing iten creditedto thescdppsHovi€rdNewsServ"masshysteria"but ice.It dealswith $,lEthasbeencalled illness." shich is tuw clinicallytermed'lnasspsychogenic parallels betw€el what will find amazing C€r€firl,objectiver€ad€rs wlrcreinnumerous is described in thisarticleandthephenomenon events Wo d Wa! II coNenhationcampsurvivoNhavedescribed andtiings thattheycoul&1 haveseen, lhat simplyneverhappened andyetfirmly believein tlrcir ownmindslhat theydid indeedi{itress. Revisionistresearchenar€nowjust beginningto examinethe illnessmayindeedbeanexplanalikelihoodlhatmasspsychogenic quite stories toldby survivoN.Thenews hysterical tion for theoft€n itemfollows: TIE Grchenoti6 a EAstFlikc od6 in hcrclasnm od dmlops a had&h!, raus.€.slorhN ofbEath md diziness.Sftcl studmBin lhe mon hm sinild rynlt 6. As thcyM into thehall*ay,iating ahout'loien g$l' olhd st!.lenls pe_ fal ill. Fre a]am s@d lo ei{c@L $e sh@l, fEfisl e6 ud enEqeocf'ts sDel nlm tue€ countid@ tlulrd
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beenthwartedby bureaucraticintervention.As noted numberofstudieshavebeenmade above.a considemble ftomHolocaust survivolsto othel ofthe efectsconveyed th€ members of theirfamilieswhodid not experience transmitHolocaust directly,butsuchaffectsor disorders tedto schoolchildrenhavenotbeenwidelyaccepted. thatoutsideconsultants be It is stronglyrecommended to allowedto intervi€wchildrenwhohavebeensubjected what effect it Holocausteducationin orderto determine thal hashadontheiryormgminds.If it canbeasceflained to viewinggraphicdetailsof strongemotionalrcsponse hascreatedunnecessar thedeathcampsandcrematories psyches ofthe children,this shouldbe suftraumain the the programs.Parents ficientgroundsfor discontinuing andhavea shouldbeadvisedoftheir childrcn'sreactions voicein whetherornottheprogamsshouldbeterminated or Underno circumstances shouldschoolpsychologists peopleassociated be allowedto with the schoolsystems in sucha situation. havethefinaldetermination TheJewishcommunityhasstrivenin everywayposandtheirr€lision sibleto makecriticismofthemselves "anti-Semitism" and"Holocaustdeanathema by using To accordself-servingrenial" asdefense mechanisms, ligiousgroupsthe right to conditionpublic schoo with Holocaust education or to allowsimilar students projectsin theschools portends anunfortunate subversion of oftraditionalrightsthatwill leadto thesuppression * fieedomandtherightoffree speech. ENDNOTf,S: I Bcl8ndn, Manin S.& Milton E. )Eary, Gehennion!olihe Holopp.86,94. .d6,, BasicB@ks,Inc,,Ns Yolk.1932,
of Cen@idqxs 5 Laub,Dondd Nlncnc C. Aucdahn, Rcverh€Elions dd llnconsciousol Posl-Hol@alsr GcncnE{nc$ion i. fic Conscious Slcvc.A.Luclald rl.onslin P!!.hoanab'ti. Refdiors oarrr t'rr.zri PaulMarcus,eds.Hol@auslAqrenc$ lnsitutc, Ccnlcrfor JudaicSludies, Unicnny of D.nwr andKT V Publishin8gousc,Inc.,NcwYork.1984,tp. t62l6l,
PHrLrpE GuDDEtt.Ph.D..i. a gBdule of BowdoinCollege dd BoslonUnive$ily.Hehasmrked in neldgeologyin Canada md theUnit€dStales,andtaughlgmlogy,geogEphydd €lated subj€cts for sixyea$in publicschoolsed coll€ge.His int€rcsiin cme when,in hiscurenl hone thesubjeclofholGaut education staeof Florida,presm ftomJwish grcupsr€sultedin rhenate passing tn the hgislationEquiing th€sludyof theHolocausl state3plblic schooh.Cliddenfil€d suit in the Leon County, lhe Floridastate FloddaCircuitCourtin Julyof 199?againsl comissioner of €ducationand two memb€6of the comssiotrer!'task forceon holocausteducation"in d efort lo Duta stopto theplan.In bisbookImdira a Guib:Hol@a6t E.lu.atbn in theP blicSch@ts ftomwhichthisarticleisqerDted Gliddendes.rib€shisefons md ealrzes theimpactofHolocaust educationdd its mifications forAmencansociety.
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The questionis often askedof by thenaive: Revisionists areyoubothered by 'the Holo' whichis ancienthistory?You bealittlecrazytodoubtit;doyou believetheworldis flat?Are youa anti-Semite to doubtalltheeyeErerybodyin their right accepts it. Let peopleIike Mel inhavetheirholocaust ifthey it. what'sthediference?" Thecommonperceptionof "the 'is whatisimponant, notthe perception, not ionof it because the in trrde ofall salesh stock , publicrelalions proadvertisers, ionals,politicalcampaignmana"Holocausf'promotersandother isers.Peoplein themassare by theirperceptionof thetruih, deepandprofoundpsychological and by authority,not by the itself,whichisnormally unknown
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Ame c6n soldleB are shown vlervlngcorpses al lhe Dachaucampal lhe end ol the war.Thousandsol U.S,vel€ranswer€showntho "gaschambe/'at DachauwhereJews weresuppos€dlytass€d." At tho Nuremberg lrialsFlanzBlahaprovided"eyewitness tes'many pdsonerc"ai Dachau,However,onAug,19, 1960histolimonl/ aboutgasslngsoJ rian Dr l\raiin Broszal,witing in Hamburg'sDie Zeit,revealedlhal "Neilherin Dachau nor in Berg€n-Belsen nor in BuchenwaldwereJewsor otherprisonercgass€d.The gas chamb* in Dachauwas nevsrenlir€lyfinishedor put inlo operalion,Hundredsol lhousandsof prisonerswho psrishedin Dachauand olher concenlralioncampsjn the Old Reichwerevictims,abov€all,ol lh6 calaslrophichygaenic andprovisioningconditions.. , tem. ." Ev€n"Nazihunte/ SimonWiosenthaladmitledin a letterin the Jan. 24, '199:ledition themoralsensibility and Exploiting of the Europeansditionol Slarcandg/,beq that:'li is truethatlherewereno exlerminaofguiltwhichisalways close feeling lion campson Germansoil, . , .' He claimedthat ? gas chamberwas in the processol Americans beingbuiltal Dachau,but il wasnevercompleted." lle surfacein Chdstians, Similarly, in its 1995booklel,Ihe remindedthatIsraelrose changingShapeol HobcaustMemory,the AmetlcanJewishCommilteeacknowledged constantly the ashesof 'the Holocaust'" lhat There wereno killingcenlercper se jn Gemany . . . landthat]as horrifyingas the andthatit is theirmomlresponsi- conditions weroal Dachau, ils gaschamber wasneverused.. , ,"
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vival."Ismel,weareassure4is"Americat 1948, whenlsraelwas established asa closestally" and"theonlydemocracy in through1991.Directcosts, including the MiddleEast."Theresultis thatthe dardgmnts,loans,refnancingof to shellout American taxpayers continue debtsto the U.S..freeuseof U.S. billionseachyearasifbuyingmodem-day agaiBt Libcrfy Lobby-was astourded!o patents, concessionary tarill indulgences. elc., were an astounding tolal of $61. le3mthatwhenDeborah Lip$adtwroteabout literally and without exaggerabillion. t]tr,clseinhet1993bookDenrkgtheHolG Quite tion, "the Holocaust" is a religion.The darrrt,shefail€dtomention thatMemelstein's Indirectcostsof theU.S.-lsraeli faithfulvigorouslyrejectanyandall facts cas€hadb€enthrownoutof countwoyears tionshipincludingaid to Egypt(to b onSept.19,1991. perceived as contraryto theirfaith and earlier Egwtt friendship withlsrael),lossto lnst€a4LipstadtledreadeBtob€lievethe U.S.economy theiruglydogmahastheintemalconsisbecause ofAmboilb tencyonlyofa revelat'on takenby faith, cise\rssstill in litigation.In hisIntEduction andlosslo theU-S.economybecause of notalogicalstorybased oncommonly ac- to rerl ,r{h€rs,a facnralhistoryofthe case, raeli interference in UnitedStates-A l.atrecomnented onLipstadttuffeliab'lity: cepted facts,notwhathistoryis supposed commerceand more, is an even I tobe.Thealleged factsof"theHolocausf' Extrapolating thi $ I 07,356,000,000. Sinceit isapparent thatlls. Lipst?dt priests its high arecontradictory; cannot cannot betnrsted to rE@unt wifl anydethroughI 993andincluding therecent $I greeofaccrracythefactswhichcomagreeon the detailsevenamongthembillionloanguarantee by a compli nassed prisearecentjudicial proce€djng heldin whichis whytheyfrantically selves, disantCongress duringthewaningdaysof tle UnitedSlates, forwhichtlereexisrs couragedebateand know nothingelse BushI administration, thefigure a lqbatim transcript *tich comprix€s an otherlhanto try to ignoreor smearthose around3200billion.Sincethenwe ha unqu€stioned rEcord of whattradrpir€d, l,antingto confrontthem. beengivingIsraelat least$3.3billion it is cle3rlhatshecamotbefustedto "TheHolocaust" yeat so addat least$53.8billion,up to is a triggerconcept pres€nt lhetruthaboutdledispuEd dethatproduces a Pavlovian response. By 2009. tailssurmunding er€nts whichoccur€d callingupanimageimplanted in theminds Butwait,there's more.Thesumso far morcthanhalfacentury agqtlouxands ofthetargeted subjects it induces a pliable does not include tax revenue lostonprivate ofmilesftomhere,for whichno ceniattitudeenablingthe professionals who gilts (largely tax-deductible fromAmeri6edrecordb aldlable. haveimplanted the imageto manipulate canJews)whichbenefitlsraelandwhich Wlen MichaelCollinsPiper,theauthor havebeenestimated thesubjects. at $20billion.Nor of Best Ilitness, conftoniedLipstadl in Thatthetermhasin realitylittle meandoesit includethecostofdeployment ol Washingon, DC. on July 14, 1994,he ingwhichcorresponds to thefactsis imU.S. forces in the Middle pro' East for the handedher th€ book, saying,'This book material; it isthereligious attitude ofguilt, provesyoule a liar."Minuteslaler,Liberry tectionoflsrael includingtheso-calle worshipfulhorrorand fearthat counts. Iabby founderwillis C..io calledLipshdt DesertStormoperation-acostofsome This syndrome,which preciselyfits a'lisl'b€fore som€200Lipsiadtfallsgath- $340billion.rSothetotaldirectcostof ls. Hitlertfamous definition ofthe"Big Lie" e.edattheNatioDal raeltothetaxpayeN oftheUnitcdStates is Archivesin DC. in hisMeinKampf,hascostAmericansfar over$550billion. morethanmeremoneyandthecostinThe abovedoesnot includeat lea$ creases daily. paidby German $135billionin reparations taxpayers to Israe "TheHolocaust" "Holocaust" isaliveandgrowing, notdeadandfading. andto individual Jewish survivors sincetheendof It aflectseveryAmerican everyhourofthe dayandmoreso WorldWarIL yesterday. todaythan lt impactson everyfinancialdecision NahumGoldmann, formerpresidenl of theWorldJewis madeby thegovernment madeby pri andon mostdecisions Congress andchairman oftheclaimsconference whichwasfol vateparties. lowingthewarto workoutthereparations agreement describe Likeit or not,"theHolocaust" mustbefacedandquestions theresults ofGerman reparations to Israel.Hewrote: mustbeasked. Continued acceptance ofthe imageby theunthinking,or manipulation by thecorruptandorcowardly, is no WithouttheCermanreparations thestateoflsmelwould longeracceptable to conscientious anddecent Americans, innothavehalfof itspresentinlrastructure; everytrainin IscludingJews. melis German, theshipsareGerman, aswellastheelecriciry a largepartoftheindustry . . . withoutmentioning paidrolhesunivonincenrinyea DOLLAFCOSTOF'THEHOLOCAUST' therndiriduaI pen.rons FormerUndersecretary ofstateGeorge Ballhascalculated theamountofmoneyreceived by IsmelfromGermany ex'tpecialrelationboththedirectandindirect costoftheso-called ceedslherolalamountof moneycollected iiom intemaship"between theUnitedStates andIsraelduringtheperiod tionalJewry twoorthreetimesasmuch.l
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AIIoflhesecoststo the Anrericanandcerfor thenrai enanceoflslael,as if nanlaxpayer flowingfron an inlinite cornucopia.have ofcofruptionto everyperson bmug}tmounlains iDvolved. illustrating 0ndinstirution thc ironclad law lhat corruptioninevilablyfollo\\,s bistorical Doney. andthe Droremoney.the morecorruplion.In lhis case.the corruptionis tacitly cndorsed by ihe likes of Billy Graham. Pat Robertson anda lirtual amryof"Chrisliin" lsnelres. Andin spileof. orperlupsbecause ofthe Nvofmoney.Israelitselfis in thethroesol rlanche moral andeconomicdecline.Israeli t?umatic journalist BarfyCbamish.writigi'rThe Fallol /sroelis one of rnanyjoumalistsand q,fiteru qbohasdocumenledmassivecorruptionand that runsrampantfrom top to nismanageDreDt bottom oflsraelsgovernment. busincss andsociery-asrateofaffairsleavingthcrulirrgclitcto rlifeofCrocsuswhilc thc hugcmajorityofthc hraelipeoplclivcsin a pcrpclualstatc offinandespair and rrslability.' cial BUSINESS SHOAH
Asparloflhe nrediacanpaigntoprcmotethe "Holocaust' ilnrge.r'irtualthenrepalks. desired style.areDowthe I'?lge. Therehave Disneyland tobedozensof Holocaust"musernns andnrcmoriakin the U.S. and onc is schcdulcdfor Bedin.Evenour own Mcl Mennclstcinhashis own"Holocausl"muscum.thc cxpcnscs"of $lich are of coursclax-dcductiblc.irrcluding tipstoIsraclandclscwhcrcfor thcdislinguished cunot TleAmencanlaxpayecsLrbsidized Holocaust Museumii wasbington.DC. literMemorial allya stone'sthrow frorr the groundsof the Monunrentand convenientlyloWashington nexldoorto the nation.sculrencyfactory. cated trcU.S.BureauofEngravingandPrinting(has
NaziGermanyto the RedCross: 'PleaseHelpSavethe Jews' Ithough theHolocausl enthusiasts mightnotliketoadmitir,theIntemational Committee ofthe RedCrossreportedthat"in thechaotic condition of Germany afterthelAllied]invasion duringthefinal months ofthewar,the[concentmtion] camps received nofoodsupplies at all,andstarvation claimed anincreasing number victims. of Itselfalarmed govemment by thissituation, theGerman at lastinformedtheICRCon February I, 1945." At thatjuncture theNazisaskedfor theassistance oftheRedCrossin saving thestarving inmates in thecamps:"Reliefcould henceforth bedistributedby theICRC,andonedelegate wasauthorized to stayin each camp,"notedtheRedCrossreportonthematter. What'smore,althoughfewtodayknowii, duriry thetwoyearspriorto thewar\ en4 theICRChadbeendistributing foodandpharmaceutical to thecamps-something supplies theNaziswouldnothavepermitted if theywereintentondestroying theJ€ws. Nor wouldtheyhavepermittedtheRedCrossto enterthecamps(asthe RedCrosscenainly did)ifthecamps weretheextermination factories that wehavebe€ntoldbytheEstablishment historybooks. permitted DuringthewartheNaziauthorities theInternational Red Crossto visitlheconcentration campsand supplyfoodreliefandotherassistance to thoseveryJewishintemees that 'or so"history"tellsus the Nazisweredelermined to exte.minate! A reportissued by lheRedCrossafte.thewarreported that'As many as9,000parcels werepacked daily.Fromtheauturnn of 1943untilMay 1945,about1,112,000 parcels witha totalweightof4,500tonsweresent of to theconcenlration camps. . . . The[RedCross]wasin a positionto tmnsfer anddistribule in theformofreliefsupplies over20millionSwiss lrancscollected by Jewish wellareorganizations throughout theworl4in particular bytheAmerican JointDistribution Commiftee ofNewYork." TheRedCrosscomplained thatit wastheAlliedblockade of Europe thatwaslargelyresponsible for obstructing theRedCrossreliefefforts. TheRedCrossnecessarily tumedto Rumania,HungaryandSlovakiafor foodDurchases notKansas. Nebraska andIowa,
for a tunnel?) aryone checked istheprimaryexamplc. Muchlo thedismayofthe museumtdcdicators, including rvhodcpartcd BillClinton. fromhisprcpared rcnra(sto assail "deLiberty Lobby(\r,hich hadorganizcdthc dcmonstration ) as pnveddnd insen.are. scvcral hundrcd cngryAnrcricJn nrpJjengathered oulsidcthcbuildingonApril 22. I 993.whenthe museum opcncd\r'aving signsandprolestiigtbewasteoftheir pointirgoultlMtlhenruseum uxdollars, hadnoplaceonAmerhansoilin anycase. Among thoseleading lheprotest \\,asNewYork-based rcviproduced JackWyckoffwho highlyefectivesignsihataf siollist TBB
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have andothermtities service organizations ations, unions, with the Museumandnotnecessarily madeto theHolocaust sentoftheirmembers. includedfrom As ofApril 22, 1993,suchcontributions unions.arefor exampleTheAFL-CIq AmericanFederation ofAmerica,Hotel Teachers, CommunicationsWorken Union,AmericanPostal eesandRestaunntEmployees of ElectricalWorkers. Union,IntemationalBrotberhood Centerhasa"M theSimonWiesenthal In LosAngeles, ofTolerance"whichis perhapsevenmoreintolemntthan collectsan U.S.HolocaustMenorial Museum.Wiesenthal nualfeeof $75,000for theuseolhis namebuttheprofitsdo "MuseumofTolerance"is theulti endthere-Wiesenthal's high-techandplaysdailyto eagercustomen h Holl)-\@od JudithMiller: "You are led by computer-synchronized light, color of tableausthat takeyou back soundthrcugha succession time.Youarein Europebeforeandduringthe Holocaust. heartheactualwordsolthe victims,th€victimizers,thehe comeson bystanders. . . . As a searchlight andtheapathetic areat arcplicaofthe gatesofAuschwitz-and youhear ' ofthe victims-thosewhosurvivedandthosewhodid not." arconlya smallpart suchasdescnbed museums However. "Shoah (The Business." whatsomehavescoffinglycalled "Shoah"is theHebrewwordfor'tatastrophe.")Television, "news"storiesin the tionpictures,booksandalmostdaily "the helppromote Holocaust:'It hasbecomea majorand itableindustry. COST THEMOSTEXPENSIVE
Thedollars-and-cents Driceof'the Holocaust"to to bearbut taxpayers andcitizensby itselfis tooexpensive utagedby lhe qDrldwidefimr overDr.AnhurButzt boolq monevis notthemostintolerable /^ cost. &eofrcialpo6l' I ln" Aoot o7rl, lUtt Ceodly,whichdiss€cted Imaginethelikelyshapeof ourworldtodaywithoutthis qrargoDaganda c-ommitallegedly about\lbrld warIl alrociti€s \-/ withreality.lt is by itscontrast andyouwillbe startled Da{idowiczsutrmedup Holocaust'€xperf'Lucy trdb theG€rnats5 "Buts. . . wasc-onvinced dlatall dleJews thattheimageof"the Holocausf'hasradicallydistortedAmer Buts! fndiqs asfollows: way. t, pmve icain everysignificant ssidb hsi€b€ennurderedwErc$ill ,li\€, andheundertook "th€Holocaust"imagetherewouldbenostateof Without orwhathewlote.In fact,hel€is it . . ." Thatis oot$rist BuEbelieved whowouldbe from*tat mel nor its burdenonAmericantaxpayers Buts\osn summffyofhisfndings("tich a.Equiteditrercnt half a rillion dollarsricher Evenmoreimportantly,theUni said): Davridowicz involvedin atrairsofthe States wouldnotb€inextricably Tb t4s of ENF sftEd dthg thcw tt b€iig dcFrl.d to de E 4 us, nor would Moslems not concem East which do b hnidg hd m.h ofd*n F.!€ny co!6s{&d e4 're it'pdrodv, bvstf_ he us. hate Casablanca to Zamboanga in li! ciErnstu€ @didg cnn@v! d.ft{|Ilq'Mv eiDgdlt 6!nlodroilliddad.-.ftndaMsi6IlFFEto'btin&Fltt.dv Withoutthealienandmaliciousinfluenceoflsmel tlhatn@l@ut@oiFrupdhi!MEsldibiltyl'EEytodyta*it uponCongress andtheWlite Houseandeveryoneof the535 Tlcdirybsf BNi8dadloiju oulloEliiS ei6ldts lis edFs affairscouldbe con tunv t43' a]_ members ofcongress,domestic sitting Bi@tzgn{[6 oflh! SD. . . d* Ens4nppenms luE snot "n4/'nd 1000,25,00 d lm'000 ttous! * donolh@ tid$ not ofAmerica. towardanalienna_ ductedtowardtheinterests wouldconcer andthecognoscenti tion.Americannewspapem mediasuflnari€sof\r'bal iDfsct,aretheEstablishment Howrcliabl€, problems, insolublelor' not American with soluble tlemselves "Holocaust $i4 ifev@ Lucy denieF"har€strplosedly dtesacaled etsn ones. can'tprwidean historian, Das/i&wicaosteffiblyale3di[gHolocaust with 'the Holocausf'asthepivota Ourcontrivedobsession sayi!8? s ar€ actualy ofsiat bei oppone arcuntc$nnary inlib' anddefininghistoricalmomentofall timehaspermeated 24
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picketedtheU S.Holocaust years,blackAmericans haveoccasionally Memorial Overthepastseveral "The signsthatdeclared, manyvisitorsto themuseum by displaying Museumin Washin$onandsurprised Holocaustis Boring."Now,PeterNovick,anAmericanJewishscholaradmitsthatpeopleof all races, aboutthecontinuingfocusby Jewishgroupsandthe cre€dsandcolorsarcbeginningto raisequestions "the in Americanlife. Holocausf'andaskingwhethertheHolocausthasanyrealsignificance mediaon
bookontheHolocaustlThat! terestsin Americaandaroundtheworld. h no!Notanother EvenElieWiesel(whomaywellbe themostwidely of many likely to bethe(quitenatuml)response "must moted"Holocaust survivof'in history)saysthateventua peoplewhenhearing thereis yetanolher "lt's enough. . . we cannottakeit people many may say, that subject. This larest in lhe read bookon arenot equippedto answe series ofbooks.movies. doc- day,'. . . andthatJewsthemselves seemingly endless essays-younameit isUniversityofchicagopro- "wlat doyouanswerto that?"rasksWiesel. umentaries, ofall mces, creeds and In short,people manypeople fessorPeterNovick'sfre Holocaustin AnericanLife. are tired ofhearins abou iglored €ither by in the United States and elsewhere However,Novick'sbookshouldnot be or by thosewhoare boredwith th€subjectofthe Holocaust in thelorerelativeto thedebateoverwhat thosewhoaresteeped did or didn't--{o to 6 million(orwasit 7 million theGermans or evenmore?)Jewsduringworld war IL Novickt bookis tull "official" historyof theHolocaus of manysurpnses,indeed,andopensup newvistasin under- Novick6rmlybelievesin the andin themedia,hebelievesthatJewduringtheHolocaust-Jonftary thatprevailsin academia standingwhatreallyhappened devotetoomuchtimeandenergytryingto sup to whatwe havebeentold by whathasbeencalled"the Holo- ishorganizations theofficialline. caustindustry"-and howit is beingusedasa politicalandso- pressthosewhodispute Yet,Novickhimselfgives fuelto thefiresofthe so-calle cialengineering tool in Americatoday. whenhedissects a morerecentclaimby thatJewishleaders wouldreadily "Holocaust deniers" Allhoughitt notsomething "Nazi-hunter"SimonWiesenthalthat not only did admitto thepublic,Novick'sbookrevealsdnt withintheJewish self-styled some5 million butperhaps leadership-intheAmerican Jewishcommunityinparticular-theNaziskillat least6 millionJews, grand for a minimum totalofI I millionvictims. thereis a recoglitionthatthereis a growingpopularboredom others th€ toward ln thatregar4Novickrevealssonethingquiteinteresting, with an4 iftruth be told,an increasingintolerance ofwhich(w€reit sponsored by a "Holocaust denief') continuedharpingon the Holocaustby theJewishcomrnunity publication wouldprobably bedescribed as"Holocaust denial": andthemedia. areespecially Accordingto Novick,manyJewishleaders politicalpower)of TheI I millionfigure----or, rather,thenotionof5 million worriedaboutthegroMh(andincreasing "othervictims"ofNazism,addedto 6 millionJewsin theUnitedStateswho Hispanic,blackandAsianpopulations makesnohistoricalsense. Fivemillion is eithermuchtoo havenoguilt (andlittle concem)abouttheeventsin Europedw(for groups low civilianskilledby theThirdReich) all non-Jewish ing WorldWar ILr Jewishleadersperceivethatthese groupstargete4Iike Jewishperpetuation ofHolocaust or muchtoo high(for non-Jewish tendto lookaskance atendless Jews.for murder). victimlrcodandthatthismaybea growingdangerto JewishinTBR ALL-HOLOCAUST ISSUE 2O09
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That s Not What He Said. . . publicrhetoricabouttheHolocaust, In discussing ProfessorPeterNovicknotesthat:'No textliom theHolocaust is moreonenquoted lhanMartinNiemoller's confessionofhis moraltailureduring the1930s": I \l?snora CoimuFirstlheycainclb!theCommunisK.bur nisl solsaidiothins.The.theycanelor lheSocialDedocrars,blt I Ms notr SocialDenocnr soI didnorhingThen came thelmdeunionists, butI wasnola lndelniorist.Andlxen theycaneforlheJess. bulINasrol a]ew soI didlilde.Then whentheyca'ncformc,tlErcvasnooncIcft*hocouldstand
However, Novickalsoreveals thatpopular renditions of "quotation" thisfamous arenotquiteonthemark.In lre Holocaust andA teticanLrl Novickreveals horvthequotationhasb€enruthl€ssly exploitedi 7i,remaguine,ViccPEsidcnt Al Core.anda speaker at rhc 1992Republican Convenrion lollowrheexode of Z,c E '4doplia olhe flolacod i\ ndiry Jovsliomld toli6t pla(r "Fi6t they.ane lor theJewsl ?j,( Goc andtheRepublic&speakd onitedConnuiislsandSocialDemocmlsi Coreomitled lnde All threeadded Cllholks(nolonNiemouert original lisl). Catholics ae llso added lo lhe!€6ionoflhequotation inscribed on theHolocastmqnonalin Boslon, a hmvilyCatltoliccity.TheU.S. pre*neslhelistando!dc!in|lclexcepl Holocaust Mnseum fo! prudcntly omrning ConrnunBts. Orhnvcmions tncludc honosxualsonNienolle!\lisl.
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Books and newspaperarticlesabout the Holocaust-includingeventhe fronlcoverof theArii-Delamation League'sanli-revisionist wotk,Hiler's Aqogists-fuequenttyteaturea pholographot a iiightenedyoungJewish floy wearinga cap,his armsraisedabovehis headas a Geman soldiorholdshimat gunpoint,He is toutedas "oneof manynam€lessviclims ot ihe concentralion camps,gassedby ths Nazis."Thefactis ihat the liflleghelto boyhadbeenar€sted for slealingandwas laier rel€as6d,unhamed,to his parenls,Hesurvivedth€ war to be_ come a wealthyLondondoctor-lsrael Rondel,But here'sthe carch:Rondeland yet anolherself-proclaimed "HolocaustsuMvoi lought overthe "hono/ of b€inglhe widetypiclur€d,iinlegh€ttoboygass€dby the Nazis." Dr.TsviC Nussbaum,a NewYorkear,noseandlhroatspecialist,alsoclaimedthal he wasihs boy in the
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A- LeonKubowilzki, headofthe Rescue Department of theWorldJewish Congress, toAssistant Secretary ofwar JohnJ. Mccloy,passing on,withoutendorsement, a requestfiom a member oftheCzechoslovak StateCouncil thatAuschwitz bebombed. Nolondisplay isKubowitzki3 letterwrittena monthearlier,in whichhecategorically opposedbombing thecamps that]"thefirst [onthegrounds victimswouldbetheJews." "Nor,"addsNovick,"is therea displayoftheminutes ofthe Jewish AgencyExecutive, chaired by [futureIsraeliPrime MinisterDavidlBen-Gurion, whichhadconsidered theideain June andconcluded that'it oughtnotbeproposed to theAlliestobomb placcs wheretherearcJews."'rSo,in lightofNovick'sinffammatoryrevelation, thequestion thatpeople mightaskis simply this:whatotherfalsehoods abouttheHolocaust arebeingperpetrated at theU.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum andelsewhere? 2IJ
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A hhoughNovicl'paysthcrequircdhomageloHolocau$suF .a1r r\orsandemphasizes thatheseesa conrinurng rmpunanc 'n a completcrecordofthe talesthatthcy haveto tell,he treads on dangerous ground(andsoundsvery muchlike oneofthose "Holocaust denieN")whenhe €isesqueslions aboutthe"memories"ofHolocaustsurvivors.Novickwrites:
In fact,thosememories arenota veryusefulhistorical source.Or,rather,somemaybe,butwedon'tknowwhich ones.A few yearsagothedirectorof [theYadVashem Holocaust archive in lsraelltolda repo(erthatmostofthc ,,Many 20,000 testimonies it hadcollected wereunreliable: wereneverin theplaceswheretheyclaimto havewi! nessed atrocities, whileothers reliedonsecondhand informationgiventhemby friends orpassing strangers."
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of survivoFwitnesses," hasdescribed ofthemostrenowned phenomenon thusly: The greaterpart ofthe wilnesses, , , havccver more blurredand stylizednemories,often, unbeknownstto lhem,influencedby informationgainedfrom laterreadingsor the storiesofothers. . . . A memoryevokedtoo in the form of a slory,tendsto bcoften,and expressed comefixed in a siereotype- . - crystallize4perfecte4 adomcd,installingilselfin the placeoffie mw memory andgrowingal its expense.6
Deborah Lipstadt, Novickeventakesa pokeatmuch-touted promotion industrywhohasbeto! figurein theHolocaust almostan icon ofthc Holocaustherselfasa consequence
shcreceives. Accordingto thefawningmediatreatmcnt "when evidence emerged that one Holocaust memoir, ick: for itsauthenticity, mighthavcbeencompletely ighlypraised Lipstadt, whousedthememoirin herteachiNrntedDeborah thatifthis rumedoutto bc ingoftheHolocaust. acknowledged 'might matters somewhat,' but insisted fiecase, it complicate 'powerful'as a novel."r 6atit wouldstillbe hasactually become big Novickadmitsthat'lhe Holocaust" so asfarasJewishcommunity find-raisingisconcem€4 business so that tmditional charities focusing on education, support luch for programs homesfor theaged---
'Ihe Holocaust' Wasnt 'BigNews'in1945 heIibemtion oftheconcentration camps at theend ofworld WarIl wasnota "majornewsstory"atthe time.eventhoughmodem-day historybook atrdthe mediateat thesubjecttodayaslhoughit wasa majornews eventat thetme. Wlile todaythemedialeadsAmericans to believethat the storiesout of the concentration campswere"major news"oftheday,whentheconcentration campswerelibeF atedbyAlliedforces,Universityof ChicagohistorianPeter Novickasks:"Howclearlydidit standoutfiom all $e other dramaticnewsoftlat spring?"andanswers thatquestion, pointingoutthat: . FDRdiedthedayaftertheliberationofBuchenwald; ' Mussoliniwasexecuted thedaybelorethe liberation ofDachau,andHitlerdiedthedayafterward; ' Mauthausen wasliberatedonMay6, andthenextday surendered. Germany As Novicknotes:"The impactof the ghastlyphotoandBuchenwald wasrealandsubstanFaphsfromDachau tial, albeitnot, for most,highlighting specialJewish victinization.Butby singlingoutthatencourter,ignoring all theotllerheadlilesthatofte'tovershadowed it, itsenduringirnpactis easilyexaggerated."
response by thosewhodeclaimed Io dly against Steven Spielbery\ Schindlets List.Manypeoplewhoaretiredofthe lalesof theHolocaust boycotted thefilm,sayingtheyhadno desireto in fact,Spielberg seedepictions of"Jewsbeinggassed.'when, neveroncedepicted sucha thing. Actually, thatfilm is perhaps mostnotable in thatSpielberg gassed. neveroncedepictsJewsbeing Instea4hefeatureda dramaticscene inwhichJewish internees freelyandopenly discuss among themselves oneprimaryreason whytheGermans would neverexterminate theJews,concluding essentially that:"They needusfor labor." THE BARNES RI]\JIEW
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research into failureto translalc Revisionist The.esultins newinsightsintothe In anycase,Novick'sbookprovides revisi is a genuine tragedy. Holocaust The Iiticalconsequence Holocaustlegendthathavemadea lot of peopleuneasy. " communicate thciradmittedly itassemblesso mustleamto ellectively ifonlybecause reading, bookisquiteinteresting to a wideraudience. aboutthepublicpro- versial"findings little-knownanecdotes manyfascinating, maneuThosewho promotethemythsabouttheHolocausthave asa resultofbehind'the-scenes motionoftheHolocaust ofHolocaustR in such resources at theircommand.The resources dissected veringthathasneverbeforebeensothoroughly piddling in must relyalmostso sionists are comparison:they a criticalfashion. They face a hostile ofNovick'sbookin twodistinctly on theirownwit andinventiveness. Thetitlesofthe reviews "Jewish"magazinesTheNe$,Repuhlic (Jttly19126,1999), an4honestly, a publicthatcareshardlya whitaboulthcHol notwilhstandi themediatinfatuation withthesubi€ct in caustanl TheNation(Iuly 12,1999)- arebothquiterevealing "Thc phenomenon we might referto as As far as the of what is Morbid Reprdlrc review entitled themselves. ?"re.ryew "Holocaust Novick explains Creationism" stopHolocaust"in the mediais concerned. Trtth."me Nation\rcviewisentitled "canard" "Holocaust those whosayit isa Revision- bluntlyinawaythatmightupset (an obviousplay on much-discussed theAmericanmedia.Novickcandidlyadmits byNovick Jewsdominate called(including ism" ot asit hasbeenerroneously himself)"Holocaust denial."Clearly,Novick'sbookhasleft animponanland inffuenlial rolein Holly... Jewsplay lt isnotjustlhe"Holocaust feelinguncomfortablemanypeople industry, and the newspaper, magawood,thetelevision whoarerockingthe boat. deniers" "Holocausl worlds.Anyoncwho would zineandbookpublishing deniers"haveexamThetruthis thattheso-called in theHolocaust hasrcceived explain the massive attention we have have determined that what inedthedetailsof historyand years without reference to that fact is media in recent is notso. [thc] beentoldabouttheHolocaustjust beingnaiveor disingenuous." havegenerated avasta.ray Revisionists Yet,whileHolocaust andcomplex, often manyoftheirefortsarelengthy ofwritings, in Americaloday Andxlthoughdll goodpoliticrans thanthe andhistorical background requiring farmorescientiGc great efforts lo mention the Holocaust at every opportuni haswithinhisgrasp. Theresultisthatoneoften average layman praiseby politici conments with sharp sarcasm that Novick cannot seetheforestfor thetrees. is really"ventri for Israel(andrhetoricabouttbeHolocaust)
Tool HolocaustPropaganda of 199?.theauthorof thisarT0 tbesummer ticle. Michael CollinsPiper.wasirvitedto I about Ispeak ata Califomiacolleges€minar contends that hisbo.*, nnal Judgnent,vtbich played theMossad, Ismel!inhllig€nceagency, theCIA in theJFK a front-linemlealongside assssi0ationcons?imcy.Almost instantaneouslyPiperwashit by a mediabarageoF lrague(ADL)of B'naiB'rith, chestrated bytheAnti-Defamation a lobbyfor Israel. deni€f'and, TheADL toldthepr€ssPip€rwas'h Holocaust hisbookwhich forthatreason, heshouldnotb€allotrd to discuss th€ andwhichneveroncemenhons isaboutdleJFKassassination Holocausl toshiftlhelocusawayftom Evidently theADLwasdetermined they dehrmined thebestway so \dat thebookrcallydoesaddrcss, "a denief' histhesiswasto $nearPiperas Holocaust todiscr€dit pefiapsthemostexplosilechaqeftat canb€madeagainst anyone of opposettingoff a 6r€s1orm mday. TheADIStacticsucceede4 wasca&ele4illustratingonepointmost sitionandtlle seminar propaganda toolfor hasbecrmeapowerful clerdy:TheHolocaust thestateoflsrael.
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Holocaust lgroredin the1950s Duringthe 1950s, fewin theAncricln Jewishcomm|rnity cotrsider€d thetrolocaustto havebeenf, majorevcntin Jewishhistorycontrrry to whatwe'vebeentold today.
fearfirlthatJewswouldbe ) ofB'naiB'rithwasverymuch byAmericans forthewar Immediately afterPearlHarthedirectoroftheADL wamedthat,"Therewill behundreds diousands of bereaved families.a subslantial Dartofwhom beenconditioned to thebeliefthatthis is a Jewish war."rr
ccordingto PetetNovicb theconceptof'1theHolocausf'asa majoreventin theJewishexperience wss hardlythat,at leastiflhe rccordofthe Fostwar period wellintothe1950s, is concemed. In the1950s, Novickpoi s out,dr€rewerenomonuments or Holocaust nemorialsbeing Novick revealsthat Leo Rosten a Jewishwriter who mrstructe4except forahandirlofcommemomt € plaques on theOmceofWar lnformation's specialanti-Cerman slnagogue walls. divisionknownasthe"Natureofthe Enemy"deFopaganda In his 1957book,lraencanJalaisra,whichNovickdeonNazi !€rtmenlwasfearfulofputtingtoo muchernphasis scrib€s astheonlyscholady suneyofJewsinthe1950s, theauaiocities against Jews. .,hadhad thor,NathanGlazetcommented lhattheHolocaust Rosten andtheJcwishleadership perceived thattherewasso rema*ablyslightefrects ontheinnerlife ofAmerican Je!vry.', Duch anti-Semilism in theranksofthe U.S.Armythattheresult In addition,anunpublished scholarbstudyoftlE postwar srould bethatU.S.soldiersmightbes),mpathetic to theGermans. American Jewishr€sponse to tlle Holocaust, prepar€d by Leo (lt wasfor thatreason, amongothers, thatimmediately after Bogarlthenastudent attle University ofchicago,asked ahunC€rmany's unconditional surrender, General Eisenhower issued dredJewsinChicago to comment in response toanopen-ended "nonfiaternization" bisfamous order,punishing GIswhoesquestionnairc. Bogartfoundthat(withttleexception oft\Norepersonal bblished contact withCermans.) spondents whohadbeenin themilitaryin Europe attheendof Accordingto Rosten:"The impression ontheaverage Amerthewal),'lhe extermination ofEuropetJewshadnorealemoicanismuchstronger ifthe question Hirlerand the [offighting tionalefectuponthewritersofthestatements, orthatit hasinNazislis notexclusively Jewish."r{ Wirhrhatin min4according fluenced theirbasicoutlook." toNovick,U.S.propagandists weredirected to showthatthe Wlat'smore,in 1957fte,Venl^e4delmnaseries ofessays "everyone's Nazis were enemy, to broaden ratherthannarrow to see what was going on in the minds olAmericans whohad r tlemngeofNazivictims." graduated college sincethebombing atHiroshina.At Ieasttllo "the In short,comingfull circle.thephrase Judeo-Christian thidsofthercspondents wereJewisbbutnotoneofthemmentadition" wasnomorethanwartimepropaganda. Theconcept tioned'lhe Holocausf' iraftaudthathasnothing whatsoever todowithanytheological Clearly,basedon this interesring assembly of disparate popular teaching, modern-day perception notwithslanding. "mainstrearn" This .llle studies citedbyNovick, Holocaust" wasnot casts a newlightona much-abused tumofphrase thatis pmcthegeatlastingtaumainthemindsolsornanyas&r arerooay lically obligalory in allpublicprcnouncemenG thatdarctotouch ledto believe. ontheotherwise verboten subject ofreligion. Soit is thatalthough theAmerican Jewishcommunity has played a majorrolein fighringtradirional scares manyAmerjcan American displays of Jewswhothinkthat..ltcanhappen here.,' "thc Eligious devolion. po inter lheinvented In concept thcearlyI 970s,saysNoyick,TheWashington of Judeo-Christian lradition" hasstillbeena usefulpropaganda toolinperpetuating viewedprominent Jewishfiguresaskingthemt..Doyouthink te storyoftheHolocaust. Holocaust] couldhappen hcre?"Theresponses lanother were, Yet,despite all thepublicremonstrations onthepartofnon- "lfyou knowhistory atall,youhavetopresume notthatitcould Jews aboutthetragediesofthe Holocaust, Novicksuspectsthat, happen, bulthatit probably wiil;'or "tt'snota materofif; it's 'TormostAmericans deploring theHolocaust is a ratherritual- a matterofwhen."rs istic, albeitundoubtedly well-meant, gesture Thus,American towardJewswho Jewsarepresumably gearing upto prevent 0skthemto do so-a cost-free avowalthat,asdecentpeople, "anotherHolocaust." At the sametime-inexplicably they $eyaremovedby themurderof Europcan seemto bereveling Jewry"r6 in thetragedies ofthepast. Perhaps a goodexample ofthisphenomenon Evidently, thereisa ce(ainthread isrnecommcnt of thinkingthat,by virtue by Novick)oftelevision penonaliry OprahWinfreywho oftheir"victimhoo4'modem-day {cited Jewsin theUnitedStates and "1'ma better once solemnly intoned: person thcworldandin Israelin particulat asa resultofseeing around havea certain status, khindlets List:'tl Pethaps MissWinfreyreallymeantthal.per- evidenced by lhe comment by DavidSingerofthe Arnerican haps perhaps shedidn't.That shedidn'treallymeanir is what JewishCommittee whosaysthatso-called Holocaust deniers P.O.BOX 15377 . WASHTNGTON,
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The bsue of "anti€emitism" long precededHltlerand wasaddrsssed in thisdouble-€dged carloonentitled'The ChosenPeople' Puck(circa1880).A Jewishpedlarcarryinghiswaresol poetrymusic,stalesmanship, whichappearedin the Brilishsatkicaljoumal palriolism-and promissory (wilhscepter)andAmerican noles-thumbshisnoseat GermanChancellor Bismarck science,literaiure, "l havelhrivenon holelkeepers, Hilton(left)andCorbin(right),whohadbarredJewsfromlheirhotels,tellinghisgentilelormento.s: persecution helpsde pizness[i.e.business]." thissod ol thingfor eighleencenluries-Goon,gentlemen, seekto "rob the Jewishpeopleandthc Stateof Israeloftheir moralcapital."r" ln essence, victirnhoodhasgivenJcwsandIs"moralcapital." raelspecialstatus,or, in Singert words, "now often[seen1] rlmosl Jewstoday.accordingto Novick, proudofthe Holocaust,"ro gloryingin the tragedies. emectively "Thereis a sensein which However,Novickconchrdes, lJewish philosopherlEmil Fackenheim lvasrightlo saythatforJewslo 'posthuDrous vrcforgetHitler'svictimswouldbeto granthim a "itwould greaterposthutory'But,"Novickcautions, beaneven mousvictoryfor Hitlerwerewe to tacitlyendorsehisdefinition ofoursclvcsas despisedpariahsby makingthe Holocaustthe emblcmaticJcwishcxperience.":l what a contmstto thatpcriod,duringtheposhvarera. when, "Jews as Ir? N.rti.rrt reviewofNovickt book pointsoul. unlo be onegroupamongmanythatsuffcrcd derstoodthemselves immenseaDdheartbreaking losses,"Iincludingthc thousands farnilies who lost sonsin the military fightinglo ofAmerican rescuelhe JewsofEurope. Novick.in a sense,accordinglo nre Nrl| R?prDlic,bclicvcs that"we.emember toonuch . . . [andthat.aslrc ltheHolocaust] puts itl American Nex'Reprrlic J€wshaveswomfealtyto a death "Novickhasmadebiscase: cult.":rAndthen,asD,eNato,rputsit: is notgoodfor the ThepresentsiateofHolocaustconsciousness wayfor Jewsto defin€lhenseh€sas Je'"vs. It provides a negative wayfor Jewslo relateto othersl':' a peopleanda destructive 1 ' BR A L L . H O L O C A U S T I S S U E : ] O O 9
Novickpoinlsoutthatsomeleadcrsin thlrJewishwodd have a positiveoutlookanddon'twantto dwcllonthethoughtthatlhe restofthe planetis out to unleash"anotherHolocaust"oDthe Jews.Althoughonewagoncecomnentedthat,"Jewishnewspaperslodayarenothingmorethana chronicleofwhoD theJews haternd who the Jewsthink hatesthem,"not all Jewswant to focusexclusivelyon the worldwidelist oftheir enemies.both real and perceivedAccordiDgto Novick, rvhentheDlsraeli PriDleMinister YitzhakRabinurgedJewsto talk moreabouttheirfriendsthan theirenemies theJewisheditorof fre Nelr andA.M. Rosenthal, yo,* /ireJ. loudlyobjectedto Rabin'spositiveoullook. Henry Siegman-lheheadoflhe AmericaniewishCongrcssandhim"Holocauslsurvivor" actuallyresponded selfa self-dcscribed thatRabin'sconmcnlswcrc"absolutclylibcrrting."rj
qo thcrcis sornehope.llen.lor thosesho sr.h t,' sel,n'tte JJcrvs lnrolhc mri slrcrn).r herrhxnlo $alchtherncongrowing linuc to nrarginalizc thcnrselves throughr seenringly "circlethewagons"approacb towardlheperceived lhrealsfiom lhe non-Jewish world. Nonetheless. Novickconments:"ln recentyearsit hasbecone notjustpermissible but in somecircleslaudable forAmcricanJewsto assetthepimacyofJewishoverAmericanloyalry," "WeareJervsfirs citingRabbi Haskel Lookstein.whohassaidr SAFNESREVIEW.COM
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andwhalcverelsesecond."r" In fact.ir the en4 mostAmericansrcallybearno guih over theHolocarst thcy bearno shamc.They spendno restless nrghts lvorryingaboulthesix Drillionorthe sevenmillionorthe "iDvented" eleven nrillion(SimonWiesenlhal.s figure)or even lhefortylllillion figurethatwasonccbaDdied about. Theya.e simplynot botheredby wharJewishwriter Silvia Tennenbaum hasrcfenedto as a "psychicdisturbance"rr that hasseeDred to ovcrcontethoscwho are.in hcr$,ords.norvtcndingto "wallow in vicariousfanlasies"rt aboutth€ Holocrust something thrt anotherJcwishw.iter.BcntardWassersleii, has caustically described asa "necrophilicobsession.'r! Many olher JervishwriteN fecl tbe sameway. Dr Alfrcd Lilienthal. a pioneerAmcricanJervishcritic oflsracl, hassaid tlal thc Ilolocaust is "a cult.andlhe reigningcull"r,,among lhoseobsessed with Israel.JewishdjssentetLcon Wieselticr, lhesonof Holocaustsurvivors,hasalsosaidas much,frankly declaring thalthecentralityofthe HolocaustforAmericanJews "amounts virluallyto a cujt ofdeath."rr Wieselticrdaresto wonderhowmanyAntericanJews.,knovr anlthingaboutthcJewishmcdievalpocts.the$callhofthc culture.thc Jewishphilosophcrs?"r: Righcthinkingpeoplcofallpcrsuasions agreewith wharthe lateIsraeliPrimeM inisler,YitzhakRabin,saidir lg95 rvhcnhe reJected calls for an investigalion into long-suppressed Israeli warcnDesagainstChristianand Muslim palestinian political "Thereisnopurposc prisoners: in raisingeventsoflhepast not onour sideandnot on theirs." Rabinwasright.His wordscanalsobe appliedto lhc subject olthe Holoeaus'To rcncit.-lherc i. no nurpo,cin rarrrn[ events ofthe past not on ouasideandnot on lheirs," We\,ehearda// we needto hearfronrthe Holocaustpromo! er".andwc know$h. rhc)hare ro,r). I helrntej\agc is.o pcr_ vading.so everpresent in books, nervspapers. television. rddio-that it hasbeenvirtuallyimpossiblc to escapcthe Holo_ caustin Americanlife. As a resultoftbe work ofhoncstresearchers-lhe so-called "Holocaust denicrs"whoha\,ebroughtforthnewfactsard swept asidclhe nil4hsofthe past rvccanmovcfonvardintothc 2lst centuryby rvipinglhe tlolocaustfromthc slaleofbistoricalde_ bateandbeginane\,. TheHolocaustis over No moreHolocaust. Enough. * INDIOTES: \ . ( \ " ' . 1 . / / , 4 . r , .1 . . , , r r , a , . , /. l i , \ $ 1 u , .
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I Thebarin PrussianumberedI 1.814al I a an'ail,lewish b$nuz sucha criticalrolein iniuencingrheattithe momentlhe "Nazi revolutionoctudeon thepartofthe Gernangovemin Germwtf | curredUt thrstotal.J.)l) werepeBonsI ment toward its domestic Jewish or race.orone-third ofJewishpersucsion being: population; suchfactors I grcup onlyone I whichconshtutes a . Thethen-continuing (ardescalating) Jewish eco- ofthewhole.In othe(words. worldwide ol percent hadin thecouBeoftherevolution ofthepopulation republic. ofthenewGerman nomicboycott I . Theliteral lal8.andsrncerhen.placedirselfinpossessionofl by teaders of Germany of \ aragainst declaration I I in earlylgl] tmorethansix lpercentolthelawpracliceinthe.taleofPrussia communiry Jewish lhe\ orldwide I questron maybeaskedIn$hal lhe circumstances. Lnderlhe yearsbeloretheacrualoutbreakofworldWarllrnlglg):and I I . Thesubqequenr ele- JcountryunderlhesunwouldsuchaslateofalTairsbe Jeraish otlhewarilcetfwilh outbreak I or eventhoughtreasonable? mentswithin Germanyfunctioningasa domesticoppositionto | judgesandanomeys whowereappoinled oradmtfled Jewish ofcernany. lhegovernmenr I I in llolhebarbeforelherclolulionoflql8harenotbeendisI exrsring oflhesiluarion rsanoverview li shon,rhisessay themwasconsidgovemment priortothetimethat theNational Socialist Germany I norhasthercbeena hmewhento dislodge I ereo itspower consolidated I (norcould Thisleadsto thecruxin thesituation: doesnotby anymeansjustiry Thiscommenlary at tookoverthegovemment WhentheNationalSocialists suferinganddevthesubsequent theauthors haveforektown) bytheJewsofEurope alongwiththerest lBerlin.theofficeholders.CentileandJewalike,weretum experienced astation ofEurope--inthe lasisdoneinothercounlmesafterpoliticalupheavals. suffering ofthepeoples ofthenow-forgotten a greatdealofomcial Socialisrshaddiscemed TheNational thisessay doesexplain.arleastIn I yeaisthatfollowed. However, ;art, why-right or wrong-thevastmajorityof theGermanlcorruption,andhadpromisedthepeopleofcermanyrelie politicalmeasures to curtail ]this.Menofacertaintypewillseizeagovernmentforthee ieoplefelttheneedto takedrastic mentofpower;amuchgreatergroupwill dothisforthepurpose Jewishinfluence. . . ofgain ln a countrythathadformerlybeentheverymodelfor followsr Thecommentary thatwasno longerthecase. I probityandabilityin govemm€nt, 36
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rhalthelorergn correspondenrs in Berlin.$ho I Il isdeplorable found so much newspaper spdce for rhe recenlcropof..arrocif lies. could nol include in rheir accounts thenames andcnmes I oflhousands olAryan Cermans now in rhe loils ofrhe law I Hadl) passed ada) in Germany wilhout numbers ofGenrile I andolherradicalCommunisr members ofthe former I Socialsr The fsct that Jewscolabonted with the NazisdurrEpublican regime. goinB ro for the idil n taw ful con\ crsion] of [u itrg World W.r II is somethingthat th€ Holocaustlobby I fundsenrrusred to lhemb) a publicraxed lo rheIjmit,fir5l would much prefer b€ Lept under wraps, I public forrevenuc pxl-ps5s5. andagainby reason ofan rndustflal de| heIsmelicaptureofaccusedNaziwarcriminalAdolf lpressron. Itis not racial a and persecution, religious Eichman4andhis trial andexecutionin Israerr.rclhen, that has been I sel up in Germany, ashas beenclaime4 membercd buta shake-up in public todayasa "rnajor"evertin theHolocausr I legend). no matterwhoor what opened upsomesoresthalUnivenityofchicago I afrairsthat wouldhavebeenneccssary otherparty had passed govemmenr. in the historian control PeterNovick of the hasdaredrc reopenonceagain I inhis Thcre is involved here also question thc book, The ;fself-government. Holocaust in American Llfe. I butwonder\ hara Jcwi\h Novickpointsout thatJewishhistorianHannahArendt, communrty woulddo,b) | Onecannor and large. it il found rhal irs public govemmenral in her affair.. bookon theEichmannaffai4 daredto mendontha! and I economic, passed had into the hands European ofa GentilegrouppresiJewshadactuallycollaborated widr theNazisin I dent amongit.Tohearsome theroundingupof Jewsfor theconcentotioncampsandin ofthemostarticulale leaders in this ,grtalron. onecouldassume lhallheJcw\.or dn) olhergroup thesubsequenr adminishation of *rcsecamps. Thebigprob. iorlharmatler.$ouldtolerate a Germrnsupremacy lem with Miss pro_ Areodl! ol the wdring-in rheey;sot theJewish prtionsa Jewish supremacy wastolemted community according in Cermanyon an to Novich $"s that,.shehadrrriften average, 35percent population by a ratiooflessthanoneper_ ofthesematteNbeforca largegentileaudience.,, cent.Germany aloneactuallytolerated TheJewishcollaborations beinggoverned by a with the Nazis,accordinqto "v"rsrthardlt group thatmadecornmon causein a peopletdespoliation Novick. ur*nown-Jenainly by a not lo $o;faseries ofgovernments animated by onlyonepur?ose:to feather miliat with lhediaryandmemoirlireraturclofthe period].. 0lenestofits members andfriends, . ." But accordingto Novick'sanalysis,..discussion regardless ofwhatthecost ofthe migbt be10a sorelytriedandconstantly phenomenon p{:opre. harasscu wasconinedto Jews"with thesingleexcepToomuchemphasis cannor tionofananiclein Zt, magazine beplaced onrhefacrtharrhecoronDecember l l, 1950. reational measures takenweredirected In short,this wasa deepdarksecretnot to be revealed entirely against theCommunist andotherradicalelemcnts outsidethe Jewishcommunity.But Novick reaos new andaffectin nowisethe IM-abiding citizens groundby exposingthisfact thathasbeenlost in themodofGermany, gentileor Jew Toafordaninsightintoconditions astheywere,tnelrcases em-dayHolocaustshuffe. &elreated herewithsomeregard to details.
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fortheresentment against Jewryin I Themostdirectincentive had its origin in thc days ofinflation anddeffation, lGermany Lithuanian, Galician, Russianand Rumanian l$llenalienPolish, poured Jews across the open Cerman borders to take lorthodox of the distress ofthe people. German Thc absolute ladvantage to sustain lifewerebeyond price.AnAmerican dollar lr€cessities worth a million marks, a loaf ofbread oran egg, millions. lnEs rnonerary slandard hadbeendesroyedrnd robuy lTl]eGerman pcople and mrlk. had lo 5ell rheirheirlooms andhomcs. lbread purchasers were largely aliens who with foreignmoney llle up thebirthrights of theyouthoflhe counryanoconibollght &nnedthento a hopeless existence. Minister ofthelnrerior Heine,aJeq in lglS-lglg opened up deborders ofPrussia to theJewsdrivenoutofpolandandother contiguous states to affordthemasylum, andnothingwasdone bytheSocialDemocratic regime to stoptheinfux ofmoreJews TBF
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whenthemarkhaddepreciated to sucha lowebbthattheequivaleotof atwo-cent stampcost3,000marks. Whenitwasall;ver, thesealienguests hadskimmed thecreamoffthemilkandleft thecanempty.Millionsandmillionsworthof propertyhad changed hands. Theprofiteers hadreduced therant andfileof theGerman people to beggaryleaving a heritage ofhatein the soulsofthedisinherited generation, whofindthemselves in the street,staringwith frowningeyesat windowsofhomesonce thejrparents'homes nowtenanted by people ofanalienrace. TherecentJewish crisisin Germany wastreated in thepress with thebackground entirelyovcriooked_ So werethe reasons whysomething hadto bedoneto stemtheever_dsing tideof Jewryin theGerman republic. WithJewishinfluence a mrghry factorin theworldpress, it wouldhavebeenexpecnng roomuch to havepublicopiniongaintheGerman ratherthantheJewish angleonthesituation. Whatde "Hitlei' movement against theJewsin Germany THI' BARNES REVI[\4'
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thatgrewnutofthis' in the United ticalapplication to hasneverbeenfully understood amounted "SocialDemocratic" "anti-Semitic" ..Hitlerism" ..Hirlerism" DemocralicPaft].l Party, founder lounder of the o[ lhe Cerman German_Social ficThe is one ofthe otlhe force asan anli-semilic Stat€s. Slates. | tionsofourday. lLaSalle.alsowa"alewlormanyyearslhis-lhom-in-th undertheconlrolofl rhalHirleraqrheleaderofI ofthe poliricallife otCermanyremained Alongwithmanyothercondltrons ' ,.young andraceevermuhiplying of thalpersuasion of thepo.r-bel- I ews.withleaders wasIherc.enrmenr tennany inherired I rhal inall Je\rish conrrol agarn(t in Cermany lumge-nerations LBylhelrmelhe_lndependenlParty-SocialDemocn the\rar lheleaders_otth shodl)belore whenfinall)themomenrI guise.\aslounded goes-ro maleupthemodemslare. a paniallistoflhenl thatmo- | groupwerealmoslen(irebJewi.h.3s house. robemaster in rheirown iameforrheCennans Brlferding. Cohn.Davidsohn Hasse, Kausky. whatduring shows:Bemstein, ofrecapturing It wasa question mentwasseized. Wolfstern. andLeviI im. Eisner Prager, Wolfhe Rosenfel4 had been Simon, since then, in I 9 I 8I 9, and in Germany therevolution fiomI pary emerged olcermany when laler lhe Communisl losl. I .lepped to leaders rwo noldble Jewish body. by means ofpolit- | themarnSocialisl in Cermany SincetheJe$qroseto po\Ler I l$oolhe'l Luxemburg rebknechland Rosa should begivenI rheheadofil:Karll ofmanysorl..somcanen[on icalradicalism oftheI itz-becamethefounders andSeyde\r Jews Rosenfeld theminthatrole. workcrs Pan} socralisl {er- l a powerin politicsin CentralEurope TheJewbecame l Jewsoccupred happened, By thattimethere\olutiontdd ndinginroI firstabour1848. manyandthenAusnia-Hungary In placesol andespecrally in alllhego\emmenlotices inilialed and places movement prominence onthebackofa popular lalue.Theycontrolled_f. gr€attacticalandstrategic workerclasses of andindustrial bytheAryanpeasani supported 9T.h]l tes"ge. gening long ridofrhe fu.p. to,it" prrpo."offinally lpressbureaus.managedlhepolilicalpanyprc.\.and offeudalism'Iolhermeansga|nedmanySeatslntnesevera||eg|s|a Oneofthemen$ho morelhananyolhersawhisoppoau-ltheReich\tag.Theyweremoitactiveinlhelegislrtive most.oftheac inlheUnrled Slales.much.ifnol wasKarl\4arx,whose (ees.where.as olrh;sagiralron niryin lhebackwash | is done tualhw-making the author arxbecame ai llery I. N4 I ewishnamewasMordech I l Pany here.ln rheSocial Democrrtic It w.rsmuchbenerelse\L wrilings.andbeforelong I ofDa( Kaptdl andsimilarsocidli\t I LH.WDieu.rheli{ofaulhorsinlq2Tc polilicalphilosophy rhar I publi.hinghouseol thefounderofa hadmadehrmself w a s t o s p r e a doavl lc r h e$ o r l d\.L r r lhe w si r sd p o s r laens d l r i e d 4 8 J e w s o u r o f a t o t a l o f q b . O f l b l e a c h c I s i n ml " to givethe l ing,l3wereJewsinoneinstance.NolcounlingtheJe thatwerenecessary themasses composing Gentiles of I Partyofcermany.andtheStatePrrty,members alwaysin I Communist andforce.Directionremained movement substance in the Democmtic Party ofprac- lthatraceformed12percentofthesocral thehandsofMarxt racefellowsasdidtheinstances I
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Reichstag w?sanAryanSocialDemocrat didnotmeanthat poiiticalparty didnothavea Jewish boss. Amonglhe Je$s$ho reachedlhc vcry lop in lhe revotulton-
govemment were:Haase,Kautsky,Cohn,Herzfel4BernProuss, Cohen. Whatthesituation reallywasat thetimeis bestunderstood it is considered thateventheFederal Conference ofNo25, 1918,occurringin themidstofthe debacle, was by Jews,asfollows: . Prussia: Hirsch,Haase, Hetzfeld ' Bavaria: Eisner ' Saxony: Lipinsky, Gradnauer . Wuentemberg: Heimann . Baden: Haas TheReichstag courtof inquiryinvestigating thecaseofthe
. Rosenfel4 minister ofjustice; . Simon,minister offinance; . Hirsh,minister ofinterior; . Gerlach, minister ofeducation; . Nathan andEutran, in charge ofthePress Bureau; . Wurn,chiefofFood Ministry;and . Seeling, chiefintheDepartment ofEducation. Thebioodyradicalrevolutionin BavariawasentirelyJewmade. Theleaderin themovement, KurtEisnetroseto bethe premierof the country.Jaffe,anotherJeq wasministerof finance, andFechenbach, minister ofeducation. Amongleading Jewsin theReich\govemment wereDr Davi4Dr Hilferding andLandsberg. Americans whowill compare thefactsherecitedwiththe conditions in thiscountryshouldhaveno difficultyofunderstanding whysomanyGermans, especially theyouthofthe lan4 whosedoorofopportunity seemed closedfor goodby therapacityoftheJews, passed moreandmoreundertheimpression thatonlya majoropemtion wouldhelpwheremoreconciliatory measures hadfailed.
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Jews: Cohn,Katzensrein andSinzheimer. Thegovemmenl ofPrussia, whichupto theworldwarhadalbeenessentially Aryan,hasin recentyearsbeenvery lyJewish, thisbeingone ofthespoilsoftherace madedu.andsincetherevolution.Afewofthe highergovemment of-
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longbeforedrebeginningofthe war,Novickpoints dlattheimageofJewsin Americaandin Palestine working to savethebco-religionisrs fromtheclutches ofHitler ly a historicalm,,th.Novicksays: As far as overallZionist prioritieswereconcerno4in theUnitedStatesasin Palestine, it is clear thatworkingfor thecreationof a Jewishstatetook precedence overworking to saveEurcpe'sJews. Even[Zionistleaderandlaterl$aeli PrimeMmrsterl DavidBen-Gurion3 syrnpathetic biographer acknowledges that Ben-curiondid nothingpradical for rescue, devoting his energiesto postwar Hedelegated rescueworktoYitzhakCruFospectsenbaum, whoinsistedthat"Zionismis aboveeverything." NovickpointsoutthatBen-Curionb lieutena obiecledwhen proposedthat moneyfor the purchaseofArab landin
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As theJewincreased in numbers, hisnecessities increased correspondingly. Choiceor forcenajeure causedthe Jewin oldentimesto taketocertain pursuits, withhisunquestioned geniusandinduslryservingusuallyto maj(eeventhemostinsignificantendeavor worthwhilein theend.Butbeforesuccess could beachieved by theJeq hisAryanfellow-men hadto buywhat
Palestine bedivertedto therescueofBuropeanJews,thatGru"Let themsaywhattheywant. enbaumresponded: I will notdemandthat the JewishAgencyallocatea sum . . . to help European Je$Ty. And I thinkthatwho€verdemands suchthings is perfomingananti-Zionistact." "Krlstdlnacrf' (which Ard evenallerthenow-infamous has takenon a m,thosall its ownin modem-day mediamemorializationsof'lthe Holocaust')wheneventheBritishgovernment suggested taansferdng thousands of Jewishchildrenfrom Germanyto Englan4Ben-Gurionhimselfsai4 "lf I wereto know thatit w?spossibleto saveall ofthe Uewishlchildrenofcermanyby sendingthemto Englandandonlyhalfby transferring themto Palestine, I wouldstill choosethelatter.Because before us is not only a responsibility to thosechildren,but a historical responsibility to theJewishpeople." Ben-Gurionwasguidedby whathis biographercalled"his philosophyofthe beneficialdisaster," andBen-cudonsai4 ,,It is in ourintercstto useHitler. . . for thebuildingofour country . . . theharsher theafriction,thegreaterthestrength ofzionism.',
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he madeor tradedin. Therew"s so muchof this thatanyJew whois inclinedto befair at all mustadmitthatasa rulehefared wellindeedat thehandsofthepeoples withwhomhecameto passed. dwellastheyears,decades andcenturies It is unfortunate thatsince1800thepopulations of Europe haveincreased verympidly,oflensofastthattheeconomicresoucesofthecontinent werefaroutstripped. TheJewhasmade his owncontributionto that. population AboutI 800theJewish of theworldwasestimated atabouttwomillions.By 1930it hadincreased to 15millions. TheAryanracein Europehadin thesameperiodincreased ftom 187millionsto 602millions,withtheJewmultiplying twiceas fastastheAryans.Oftheworld3Jewishpopulation, Germany had564,379 whena census wastakenin 1925 notquiteone percentof thetolal,thoughprobably a wholeonepercentif Christianized Jewsandpersons of mixedGerman andJewish parentage wereinclude4not countingthosewho in Germany arewithoutreligious affiliation for amultitude good of reasons andbad. Thetendency ofJewshadbeento gravitatetow?rdthelarger cities.In 1800thenumberofjews livingin Berlin,London, Paris.Vienna.New York. Warsawand Moscowwas about 15,000. Todaythese citieshaveatleast3,000,000 Jewish inhabitants,or 20percentofthe world3Jewishpopulation. Comparcd Thisphotographof a blackAtricanbananavendof freely withthenon-Semitic residents ofthesecenters, theJewsform 14 in lhe streetsof Berlinduringlhe Nazieta layswasteto the mlth percent ofthe whole.In 1800onlyfivepercent ofthe Jewsin lhatsomehow all 'non-Aryans" werediscriminated againstor oth. Germany livedin citiesof5,000inhabitants or morc.By 1925 eMiseroundedup andpul in concentration campslor extermina Jewsto thenumber of32percent olthewholelivedin 14ofthe tionbylhe Hillerregime. Thevendoris pointing to a signlhatread largestGermanycities.TheJewsin Berlin in 1780numbered "German Cameroonian bananas." 3,400-By 1870theyhadincreased to 30,000,andby 1925to 173.000, or about200.000if the converted and otherwise AryanizedJewsareincluded. twoofitsoldestandmostfamous universitiesBreslau. locate To showwhatthe mannerof makinga living of theJewsin in theeastempartofthe country,andCoftingenin thecentrxl Germanyhasbeenin recentdecades, TableI [seepage41, Littleby littlethelegalmachinery showingpercentagel will servebetterthanextended discussions. of Germany wasfalling ThesefiguresshowthattheJewsin Germany maderapid intothehandsofan elementwhichalreadywasin full controlof gainsin eighteen yearsin all theleadingandmostprofitable thoseavenues ofindustryandcommerce in whichtheregulatory efect Iaw fieldsof humanendeavor, of is needed most.Whattheseconditions at thesametimeabandoning more wereis andmoreoccupations in whichhardphysical laborandclose shownby thefollowingchartlseeTable3, page4l], compile applicationfor longhoursin a factoryarenecessary ofGerman Thetable in lq28bylheAssociation Academicians. couldbetreated herein detail.butthisisleftto thereader Thesameenumeration to exshowed thatJewswerempidlydisercisehismindon.Thestatement theAryanCermans profession. shouldbemade.however. that placing in themedical Withthe thetableshows element in thecountrylessthanonepercentofthe by means oldashes to whatextent thetwocen- Jewish entire population, thephysicians suses diferedin categories. in Berlinwere52percent Jewish. ln By I 9I 0 Jewsin Germany's highereducation had| 77profes- a smallercity likeWormstheyformed30percentofthe professionalseatsin theacademic departments, whenon a propor- sion,whilein Beuthen theycomprised 36percent ofthewhole tionalbasistheyshouldhavehad13.By 1914thenumberof whiletheMesbaden resortalmostthelowestwith20percen Jewsamong3,140professors was937,or 30percent, sorantheassertion, foreigners in a pop- because, takingthecureat that ulationofwhichtheentireJewish notto betreated mcein Germany is lessthan placepreferred by Jewishmedical men. percent. The one Jewsin thefacultyofmedicine Jewin Germanfinancewouldfill a largetome.In adoftheBerlinUniditionto havingsomeoftheir moneyinvestcd versitycomprised 45percentofthe wholein thesameyear in nearlyall Table2 (page4l ) showswhatconditionsin Germanywereat thebanks,the GermanJewishfinanciersownoutrightthe T B R A I , L . H O L O C A U S TI S S U E 2 I J U 9
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greatbanks: ' Discontogesellschan; . Commerzbar*; . Dresdener Bank; . Damstaedter BaDk; . Berliner Handelsgesellschaft ; . Bleichroeder Bark; ' Mendelsohn Bank; . Andothers. Tloseinterested in interlocking and iq business" directoriesarereferredto theGermanJewishelementhasaclishedin thisrespect from 1913to . The namesof directorsgivenin 4 standoppositethe numberof theyserved onin 19l3and1928: Ofthemenwhocontrolor manag€ the in exchanges, 31 are Germans and 16Jews, outofa totalof 147-thisin a ionofwhich lessthanonepercentare Members ofthe sameraciaistrain Germany's department stor€busiwith an annualtumoverof about marks.Thechainstoresof ,000,000 y count arein the samehands.The alsocontrolthewholesalebusiness; of Berlin'sreal estate,groundand theyown or conholmorethan f, with muchof thisacquireddurtheworldwarandthesubsequent inflaanddeflationperiods,whentheJews Germany couldgetmoneyfromabroad their[ethnic andpolitical] connecwhileAryanCermanscouldnot, $e postrevolutionary Uewish-domSocialDemocntic administmtions hussiafavoringtheprocess. Thereis not muchtheJewshaveoverin theirhasteto befterthemselves, mafterat whosecost,Therewasa time the Germanwas supremein the business. TheJewsnowcontrol percent ofthe totalrestaurants andcofhousebusiness of thecountryThey an evengreaterpercentage of the ingpicturehouses,duealsoto favors ivedfrom politicalmachines which andtheirpoliticalentrepreneurs cresupported who repaid and and kindshownin thismamer Thesituationis nobetterin thetheatriP.O.AOX 15A77. WASHTNGTON,
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calbusiness. Outof234theatenin 1931, JewsownedandopemtedI 18,or 50.4percent;non-Jews 39.3percent,andracenot ascertainable, 24 cases. In Berlin,conditionswereevenworse.Ol its 29 theaters, 23 werein thehandsolJewswiththreequartersof all theFoducedplayswdtten by Jewishplaryrights.ThefollowingJews weremembem oftheboardoftheAssociationof GermanTheatrical Critics[and therebyinfluencedthe industryl:Faktor; Engel;Ihering;Jacobs; Falk;Heilbom. Jewishiniuencein film [production]is almostabsoluteio Cermany,accodingto joumalpublishedon Februa responsible ary 3, 1929.Twelveprominentproducers conholledat thattimethesix leadingstudios,with virtuallythewholeleadingactingpemonnel Jewish also. It maynot beoutofplacehereto state thatan inquiry into the subjectofJewish controlofthe theatrical andmoviebusinessin theUnitedStateswoulddisclosea situation similarto thatofwhichhadexistedin Germany, but is nowhappilyoverthrown.The dominationof thesegreat industriesby theJewsin our countryhad resultedin a loweringofthe standards of artandmoralityandtheexploitation of sex andcrimeasthechiefleatureandleading motiveofthe generalrun ofHollywood productrons. It mustbeeasyto counterthefactshere enumerated with the assertion that the Germans in objecting to thecontinuation ofthis stateof afairs areswayedby mere envy.In questions ofthissortall depends upontheviewpointofthe critic. Thefact is that the Germanstolerated for manyyearsa stateof afairs that no othercommunitywouldhavetolerated. That the Germansweremorefair to the GermanJew,andJewsgenerally, is shown by theprominence Jewshadattainedeven underthe secondempire,when they achieved allalongthelineaposition anda stateof materialwelfa.eentirelyout of keepingwiththeirplacenumericallyin the population. Thetroublewith theJewsin Germany todayisthattheywill notliveupto theold ruleof"to liveandlet live."Thereis not THE BARNES REVIEW
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theleastdoubtthatundertheinfluenceof [WorldWarI] and disastrous aftermaththeCermanJew,aidedby his co-mcials foreigncountries, setout to makehaywhilethe sun brightlyenoughfor him,but with a wifiering heatfor the manofAryanrace!rhowasuniversally blamed forthewar whofor thisreasonwasgiventheroleofpenitentnotonlyby lateenemies in rhecounrries rhalfinallycombined to su him, but alsoby the radicalJewishelementwithin the in whomthe tormentorsof Germanyfoundan ally andlii forpurposes of theirown. All in all,thecaseis oneofthewormfinallytumtng. Anotherconsidemtion thatmustnotbeoverlooked andwhi will explainthe growthof anti-Semitic feelingunder [Weimerrepublic]is the following:Duringthe worldwar it i unfonunatelytruethatthe expatrialed Jewsin lhe counlnes
VISITORS to the US. HolocaustMemorial Museumin Washington, DC. areshownthis castofa doorthattheyare told wasa doorto oneofthe infamousNazi"gaschambers" at the 'Majdanekkilling centerin Poland."This castis also illustratedin a book aboutthe museumentitledfre F/o/d M st Know,a vollumeby museumofficial MichaelBerenbaum.In his book,Berenbaum saysthat "ftom the outside, SSguardscouldobserve thekilling througha srnallpeephole." Here'sthecatch:evenHolocausthistorianJean-Claude Pressacadmitsin his 1989bookAuschwiE:Technique andOperationof theGasChonbersthatthisdoorwasa doorto a gas chamberusedfor non-homicidalpurposes;that is, it wasa doorona gaschamber usedto delous€ clothing€tc.TheHolocaustmuseumalsofeaturesa photograph oftle insideofthis gaschamberandthousands ofpeoplego awaybelievingthat this is wherethousands died.Yet,visitomto themuseumare notbeingtoldthewholestoryIftherc is indeedsomuch'tvidence"to provethattheNazisusedgaschambers for homicidal pwposeswhy is this particulardoor-which actually prol'esnothing--$eingusedasthe'!roof'?
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the Ententewith a fewnotableexceDtions. w€re alimedwiththebitterest enemies oftheirfatherland. The papeBlheycontrolled \aererhemoslacrivein printingandci culatingthebasest slanders against theImperialG andits armedforces.Ifl ltheUnitedStates]Ire lvar yor& ownedby a GermanJewnamedOchs,ar'dTheNev,york ownedby a HungarianJewnamedPulitzer,weretheleadersi thisvilecampaign ofcalumnyandmisrepresentation. lgnoringthe kindnessand fiiendship withwhichmanyol leadingGermanJewshadbeenhonoredby theemperor, of whomhehadennoble4thenewspapers of theexpatriated Jewsw€reconspicuous in all thecapilalsoftheAllied powerslor shameless vilification oftheGerman Kaiserandhisfamily. people TheGerman wouldnotbehumanif in thehourofnationalresurgence theydidnotremember thisrecordofdisloyalty andthe bitterhumiliationstheyexperienced lrom the IntemationalJewsthroughout theworld.Theyoungergeneration of Germans lostpatience ultirnatelywiththeconditionstheirelden hadtolerated largelybecause the SocialistsandConrmunists begandoingtheirthinkingfor themwherethe old imperial regimeleft of. In whatconcerns thefutureofthe Jewin Germany, his case cannotbe statedbetterthanthathewill haveto takepot Iuck withalltheothers fromnowon whichis all hisco-racials got in othercountries areentitled to at anytime. Thisgreathubbubresembles nothingsomuchasneighbors beingshocked because in theendsomebody didcalla spade a spacle, As YoungGermanyseesit, it hashadenoughto supportthe economicshort-comings dueto imperfections within thebody politic,butquitefoolishto elevate to a position of impregnabl people immunitya whoareJewishfor on€purposeandnot all Jewishwhenit comesto another. Themottooftheseis: Fairplayto all andspecial privilege tonone.Apeople percent ofonly I camothopeto maintain itpowerilthe other99percent selfinalmostabsolute finallytire ofit. + B A R NE SR E VI E W . C O M
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Hitlergovemnentandtheleaders ofthe Zionist movenrent lvho hopedthatthetensionbehveen theGermans andtheJcwswould leadto massiveJewishemigEtionto Palesline. In short,thc rc, sultwasa tacticalrlliancebetweenthe Nazisandthc founde$ ofthe nrodem-day stateof Israel-a factthatmanytoday$,o[ld prefer be forgotten. (althoughincorrectly To thisday.ii is generally ) believedthal whenAdolfHitler rvasappointcdCcrmanchancellor in Jan ary ol lgJJ.rharIheCcnnango\cmmcnl bcgJnpolicies l.riupprc* the JervsofGennany,includingroundingup Jervsand putting themin concentmtion campsandlaunchingcampargns oltefror population. and violencc against the domestic Jewish Fewpeople knowlhelaclsaboul lhesingular event Whilc thereweresporadic eruptionsof violenceagainstJcws lhalhelped sparkwhalultirnalely became known as in GermanyaftcrHiller cameto power.this rvasnorofljciallyWorldWarll-lhe intenationa Jewish declaralion oi sanctioncd orencoumged. And thetruthis thatanti-Jervish senwaron Gefinany shorly atterAdollHillercameto (or timents in Ceffrany elsewhere in Europe) rverc actually power govemment andwellbelorc anyoilicial Gerrnan nothingnew As all Jewishhistoriansattestwith much fcrvor, sanclions or reprisals againsl Jewswerecarried oul anti-Semitic upisingsofvariousdegrees hadbccncver-presen Thei,4arch 24,1S33 issueol lhe Day ExptessdLonin Europeanhistory don(shownabove)d€scribedhowJewishleaders,incombinalion wilh powIn any case,in early 19J3,Hitler was not the undisputed erfuLnt€nalionalJewishinancal inlercsls,had auncheda boycotlol leader of GerDrany. nor did he havefullcommandofthe armed purpose prccaloLsecolGenrdrylorlheerp€ss ol c'ipplngherakeady omyinlhehopeofbringngdownthenewHitlerregim€. ll wasonlylhenthat forces-Hitlerwasa majorfigurein a coalitiongovemnlent. b t Gennanv slruckbackn resoonse. Thus.ifl.ulhbelold.I wasthewordwide he wasfar fiom beingthegovemmcnt himself.Thatwasthe reJewishleadershlDnollhe ThndRech-lhal efleclivev fted lhe lirsl shotin sultofa processofconsolidation whichevolvedlaler lhe secondworldwar.Prominenl NewYorkalorneySamuelUnlemyer EvenGermany'sJcwishCentralAssociation, known as the "Verein"(club).conlested (righl)wasoneol lhe leadingagitalorsinlhe waragainslGennany,desff b(madebysome thesuggestion Jewish inglheJewshcampaign asnolhing lessthana"holywar' leadersoutsideGennany)thalthcnewgovemnenlwasdeliber.1-l
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provokinganti-Jewish uprisings. weapons to fight outits ageold battleagainstits peNecutors:' TheVereinissueda statement sayingthat "the responsible This truly couldbe describedas"the first shotfired in lhe aulhorities areunaware of Second WorldWar:' [i.e.theHitlerregirne] lhreatening situation,"saying,"we do not believeour GerIn a similarvein,theJewishnewspaper, lvarrcraRetsci, feilowcitizenswill let themselves be carriedawavinto excesses theJews." against this.Jewishleaders in theUnitedStates DesDite andBritain ThewaragainstCermanywill bew?gedby all Jewish inedon theirownthatit wasnecessarv to launcha war communities, conferences, congresses , . , by everyindiinsttheHitlergovemment. vidualJew.TherebythewaragainstGermanywill ideo0n March12, 1933the AmericanJewishCongress anlogicallyenlivenand promoteour interests, which a massive Drotest at MadisonSouare Gardenfor March requirethatGermanybewhollydestroyed. .At thattime thecomrnander in chiefof theJewishWarVel Thedangerfor usJ€wsliesin thewholeGermanpeople,in Germany calledlor anAmerican bovconofGermansoods asa wholeaswell asindividually. lt h themeantime. onMarch23.20.000 JewsDrotested atNew mustberendered harmless for all time.. . . In th$ warwe t CityHallasrallieswerestaged outside theNorthCerJewshaveto participate, andthiswith all thestrength LloydandHamburg-American shippinglinesandboycotts andmightwe haveat our disposal. mounted againstGermangoodsthroughout shopsand inesses in NewYorkCiry However, notewellthattheZionistAssociationof Germany Accordingto TheDaily Etpressof Londonof March24, put out a telegmmon the26thof Marchrejectingmanyof the iheJewshadalreadylaunched their allegations madeagainsttheNationalSo"mendacious" againstGermanyandherelected "Tlnwholc cialistsas "propaganda," of laual tlnwglma "Judea "sensational." Theheadline read Deand tlrc uord is uriting ta ddryc at waronGermanyJewsofAllthe In fact,theZionistfactionhadevery Unite Boycottof GermanGooals emrcmicadfiwuialwq reason to ensure thepermanence ofNaon Demonstrations." Thearticledetional Socialist ideology in Germany. Gemwy nle rynbolofAu "holy wai'and a forthcoming KlausPolkehn,writing in lheJoumalof Suastihaasthcsybol of tho onto imploreJewseverywhere to PalestineStudies,claimsthatthemoderGermangoodsand engagein nao Gennoq, hasrwioed the ateattitudeoftheZionistswasdueto their demonstrations againstGermanecovested interestin seeingthe final victory oA uu sytribolofidas;" interests. Accordingto theErpler's: ofNationalSocialism to forceimmigra("TheSecretContacts: tion to Palestine Thewholeoflsmel throughout theworldisunitingto ZionismandNaziGermany"1933-1941")Thislittle-known dealare aneconomicandfinancialwaronCermany. The factorwouldultimatelycometo play a pivotalpartin therelaofthe Swastika asthesymbolofthe new tionshipbetween appearance NaziGermanyandtheJews. hasrevivedtheoldwarsrrnbolofJudasto new Germany In themeantime, though, German Foreign MinisterKonstan"vilification millionJewsscattered life.Fourteen overtheentireworld tin vonNeurathcomplained ofthe campaign"and aretightto eachotherasifone man,in orderto declare sald: ru againstthe Cermanpersecutors of theirfellow belFvers. As concems Jews,I canonly saythattheirpropaganquithishouse, TheJewish wholesalerwill thebanker distsabroadarerendering theirco-religionists in Gerhisstockexchange, themerchant hisbusiness, andthe manyno service public,though by givingtheGerman his hurnblehut, in orderto join the holy war beggar fieir distortedanduntruthfulnewsaboutpersecution and against Hitler'speople. torhireof Jews,the impression thattheyactuailyhalt at nothing,notevenat liesandcalumny, to fightthepresent "now govemment, &pre.rssaidthatGermanywas confronted with an German ionalboycottof its trade,its finances, andits industry.. [,ondon. NewYork.ParisandWarsaw. Jewishbusnessmen ThefledglingHitler government itself wasclearlytrying to uniledto go on aneconomiccrusade:' containthegrowingtension-bothwithinGermany andwithout. articlesaid"worldwidepreparations arebeingmadeto In theUnitedStates, evenSecretary of StateCordellHull wired protestdemonstrations," andreportedthat"theoldand RabbiStephen Wis€oftheAmericanJewishCongress andurged nationoflsraelsetsin fomationwith newandmodem
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ing themin the concentration campsto beginwith? Contrary to popularm),th, the Jewsre"fiee" insideGermany mained albeitsubjectto lawswhich did restrictcertainoftheir privileges-priorto theouibreakof WorldWarIL Yet, the other little-known fact is thatjust beforethe war began,the leadership of the world JewishcommunityforCHAIMWEIZMANN mally declaredwar on Germany aboveandbeyondtheongoingsix-yearlongeconomic boycottlaunchedby theworldwideJewishcornmunitywhen theNaziPartycameto powerin 1933. Asaconsequence ofthe formaldeclaration ofwar,theCerman authoritiesthus deemedJewsto be potentialenemy agents, rheslorybehindthestor':ChaimWeizmann. Here's pres. "Jewish identof boththeintemational Agency"andofthe WorldZionistO€aniation (andlaterIsraelt 6rstpresident), toldBritishPrimeMinisterNevilleChambedain in a letter p\blishedin TheLondonTineson September 6, I 939that: I wishto con6rm,in themostexplicitmanner, thedeclantions whichI andmycolleagues have madeduringthelastmonth,andespecially in the lastw€ek,thattheJewsstandby GreatBritainand will fight on tie sideofthe democracies. O$ urgenrdesirei5 ro giveeffecrto thesedeclantions lagainstGermany]. Wewishto do so in a wayentirelyconsonant with the gereralscheme of Britishaction,and therefore wouldplaceouselves,in matteNbigand small,underthe coordinating directionof His Majesty'sGovemment. The JewishAgencyis readyto enterinto immediatearrangements for utilizingJewishmanpower, technical ability,resources erc.
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Whereasthercwas for a shorttimc consideaable physicalmistreatnrcnl ofjelvs, thisphascnraybeconsider€dvirtuallytcminated.. . .A stabilization appears to havebccnrcachedin the fieldofpcrsonalnistrcarment.. . . I lcel hopefirlthat drc situalionrvhichhas causedsuchwidespread conccrnthroughout thiscountry will soonrcvertto Donnal. Despitc all oflhis.theleaders ofthc JcwishcoDr refuscdto.clent.ODMafch27 thcrcwercsinnrltancous prG tcstralliesrt MadisonSquarcGardcn.in Chicago.Boslo[ Philadelphi.r. Bahinorc.ClcvchDdand 70 odrcrlocarions. Thc Ncw Yorkrally wasbroadcasl$'ol1dwidc. Thc botlon linc is lhit theNewCcmtany $asdeclared ro bc ancncmy ofje\lish iDtefests andthusnccdedlo beccononticrllyslranglcd.This*,asr.,lr? Hitlcrdccidede boycotrJcwisbloodr. It wasin directrcsponse to thisthatthc GcnnangovernmentanDounccd a onc-daybovcottofJclvishbusuesses tn Gelmanyon April L Cerman propagandanrinister.Dr JosephGoebbclsannounced that i1.aftcrlhc one-dayboycott.therewcrc no furlherattackson Gcnnany.theboycon *'ould be stoppcd.Hitler hinsclf rcsponded to the Jewish boycottandthethrcils ir a spccchon Marjh 2lJ ibur days rfrerlhcorierrDl Jc\ iJr dc(hrllion ut \.u ri)r'ts Now tbatlhe dontcsticcnemiesofthe nationhavc bccnelimiftred by thc Volk ilsell what$€ havclong bcenwaitingfor willnot conreto pass. The Communist andMa|xistciminalsandlbeir Jewish-intcllcctual iisligato$, x4ro.havingnrde off with theircapilalslocksacrcssthe bordcrilr lhe nick oftime, are norvunfoldingan unscrupulous. lreasonouscanrpaign oI agilntioD.rgainstthc GcnnanVolkas a $,llolcf-ronrlhere.. . . Licsandslanderofpositi!elyhair-misiDg perveNily arr bcinSlaunchedaboutGcnnany.Horrcr storiesof diyncmbcrcdJe\\,ishcorpscs.gougedout eyesand hackcdoffh.rndsarecirculatcdfor lhe puryoseot dc fanringlhe GenranVolk in thc wofld for lhe sccond lrmc,justastheyhadsuccccdcd in doingoDccbcfol! i r rI 9 1 4 .
Thus.theiact oncconveniently left outofncilfly.rllhistory on dresubjcct is thrl HitlerlsMarch28. 1933bryco! orderuas in directrcsponse to thedeclamtion ofrvaron ceF n ny by the$,orld$idcJewishleadershjpJusl lbur daysearlier Today.Hitlcr\ boycottorderis dcscribcd.rs a nakedacr ofaggression.ycl the full circuntstanccs lc.rdingup to his ofderarescldomdescribed in clcn lhc ntostponderous and delailedhistoriesof the Holocaust." NotevcnSrulFriedlander in hisolhcrwisecomprehcnsivc policy, overviewofGcmran Nu:i Gcrnrun.tdttl the Jers. BARNESREVIEW.COM 1.A77773 9077 OFDEF NG
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againstGermany, makingthe flat-outallegationthat Germany wasengaged in a planto "exterminate lheJews."He said(in part):
Thesimplefacl is that rr wasorganiTed Jewryasa polltical
. . . Germany[has]beenconvened liom a nationofcultureintoa veritablehell ofcruel andsavage beasts. Weoweit not only to our persecuted brethrenbut to theentireworldto nowstrikein self-defense a blowthat ermanytresponse wasa defensive-notanoffensivewill freehumanityfroma repetitionofthis incredible measure. Wercthat fact widelyknowntoday,it would outrage... castnewlightonthesubsequent events thatultimately Nowor nevermustall thenationsof theearthmake totheworldwideconflagration thatfollowed. commoncauseagainstthe . . . slaughtetstarvationand Tounderstand Hitlert reaction to theJewishdeclamtion of annihilation. . . fiendishtorture,crueltyanopflsecuuon it isvilal to undentand thecriticalstateof theCermaneconthatarebeinginiicteddayby dayupontheserrren,women atthetime.In I 933,theGerman economy wasin a shamandchildren.... Some3 millionGermans wereonpublicassistance witha Whenthetaleis told . . . theworldwill confronta pjcof6 millionunemployed. H)?er-iniationhaddesrroyed the tureso fearirl in its barbarous crueltythatthehell ofwff ic vitality of rheCemannation. andtheallegedBelgianatrocitieswill the anti-Cerman propapaleintoinsignificance ascompared to pouringout of the globalpress taish sclwlusadr. asMuin this devilishly,deliberately, coldBlae. hanercportd ilut, in theresolveofcermanyt enbloodedly plannedand aheadyparespeciallythe Polesand their tially executedcampaignfor the ,espotl6Pb du bof@tt,Gn&rr militaryhighcornmand. extermination ofa prouqgentle,loyal, qporb uervcltt bf 10pervnf, TheJewishleaders werenotbiumng. law-abidingpeople.... Mdtha nwrt wre abrrwtding boycottwasanactof warnotsolelyin TheJewsarethearistocmtsofthe : it w€sa means,wellcrafte4to world. tfu seiure {Gemu dsrrlt Fromtime immemorial they Germany asapolirical, socialand persecuted have been and have seen infoftign mnbias." ic entity.The long term purpose theirpersecutors comeandgo-They lheJewishboycottagainstGermany alonebavesurvived. Andsowill histobankruptherwith respectto therepamtion pa),rnents imtory repeatitself,but thatfumishes no reasonwhy we onGermanyafterWorldWarI andto keepGermanydeshouldpermitthisreversion ola oncegreatnationto the ied andwlnerable. DarkAgesor fail to rescue these600,000humansouls Theboycott,in fact,wasquitecrippl'ngto Germany. Jewish liom thetorturesofhell. . . . suchasEdwinBlackhavereportedthat,in response to . . . wllat we areproposingandhavealreadygonefar boycott,Germanexportswerecut by l0 percent,andthat towarddoing,is to prosecute apurelydelensrve economic weredemanding the seizureof Germanassetsin foreign boycottthatwill mderminetheHitlerregimeandbdng ies (EdwinBlack,?re ?l€nsferAgee ent Thellntold theCermanpeopleto theirsenses by destroying theirexof the Secret Pact Befi^eenthe Third Reich and Jewish porttradeonwhichtheirveryexistence depends. me,NewYork,I 984). . . . Weproposeto andareorganizingwor)dopinionto Theattacks onGermanydidnotcease. TheworldwideJewish express itselfintheonlywayGermanycanbemadeto unip becameeverthe morebelligerentandworkeditself derstand. ... a frenzy.An IntemationalJewishBoycottConference was inAmsredam rocoordinale rheongoing boycotr campaign. Untermyer thenproceeded to providehis listeners with a heldunderthe auspices of the self-styledWorldJewish whollyftaudulent historyofthe circumstances ofthe German ic Federation, ofwhich famousNewYorkciry attomey boycottandhowit originated.He alsoproclaimedlhattheGerlongtimepolitical powerbroker,SamuelUntermyer,was manswerebenton a planto "exterminate theJews,,i presloent, Uponreruming to theUnitedSrates In lhewakeoftheconTheHitler regimeoriginatedandarefiendishlyproseUntermyer delivereda speech overWABCRadio(New cutingiheirboycottto exterminate theJewsby placarding a transcdptof whichw"s pinted,in ne NewYotknhes Jewishshops,wamingGermans againstdealingwith August 7, 1933. them,by imprisoningJewishshopkeepers andparading Untermyertiniammatoryomtorycalledfor a "sacredwar" themthroughthe streetsby thehundreds underguad of not €venthe GermanJewishcommunitype,.s?actually initiated thefirstshotin thewarwithGermany.
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mans,hadlittle s).rnpathy with theZionistcauseof theingathering ofworld Jewryto Palestine. ButtheZionists lhatonlydreanti-SeniticHitlerwaslikelyto pushtheanti istGerman JewsintothearmsofZionism. Forall the modem-day wailingby worldwidesupporters Israel(notto mentiontheIsmelisthemselves) about"the caust,"theyneglectto mentionthatmakingthesituationin manvasuncomfortable for theJewsasDossible-n withGerman National Socialismwaspanoftheplan. Thiswasthegenesis of theso-called TransferAgreement, thr agreement between ZionistJewsandtheNationalSocialistgov. ernmentto transferGermanJewrvto Palestirc. concluded his laryely fantastic and hysterical adAccordingto JewishhistorianWalterLaqueurandmany Untermyer "Christian iiiends," ers,GermanJewswerefar ftom convincedthatinrmigmtion dressby declaringthatwith the supportof that've will ddvethelastnailin thecoffinofbigotryandfanati- Palestine wastheanswerFurthermore, althoughthemajority German Jewsrefused to consider theZionistsastheirpolitica cism.. . ." with Thathisallegations againstCermanyweremadelongbefore leaders,it is clearthatHitlerprotectedandcooperated todayclaimtherewereanygaschambers Zionistsfor thepurlosesof implementing thefinalsolution: evenJewishhistorians masstransfer or evena planto "exterminate"theJews,displaythenatureof ofJewsto theMiddleEast. the propagandacampaignconftonting EdwinBlack,in hismassive tomefie (Macmillan, Transfer Germany. Agreement 1984) "Tlu uderstading was ta However,during this sameperiod statesthat althoughmostJewsdid not Zionism antld have to qh thercweresomeunusualdevelopments at wantto fleeto Palestine at all, dueto the workrThespringof 1933alsowitnessed ibev urirhNdimal Socialisnt ZionistmovementtinfluencewithinNazi thebeginningofa periodofprivatecoop- n thd theGermm gooenmat Germany,a Jew'sbestchanceof getting govemment erationbetweentheGerman out of Germanywas by emigratingh wuld rct impeilcthc and the Zionist movementin Germany Palestine. ln otherwords,theTransfe (andactuallyworldwide)to olJeut th wpihl andPalestine Agreement itselfmandated thatJewish tlaut go increase the flow of GermanJewishimcapital could only to Palestine. out of Germary" migrants andcapitalto Palestine. Thus,accordingto theZionists,a Jew couldieaveCermany onlyifhe wentto hemodem-day supporteN ofzionist Israelandmanyhis- theLevant. (or even torians havesucceed in keeping thisNazi-Zionistpacta Theprimarydifficully with theTransferAgreement geneml public secretto the for decades andwhrlemost theideaofsuchanagreemenq wasthattheEnglishweredefunericarshaveno conceptof the possibilitythattherecould manding, asa condition ofimmigration, thateachimmigran havebeenoutrightcollabomtionbetweentheNazi leadership pay I,000pounds sterlinguponarrivalin Haifaor elsewher andtheformdersolwhat became thestateoflsrael.thetruthhas Thedifliculb,w"sthatsuchhardcurrencywasnearlyimpossibl begunto emerge. to comeby in a cash-strapped andradicallyinffationary GerDissidentJewishwriterLer|r'iBremar\ ZionismI theAge many. Thisiswasthemainideabehind thefinalTmnsferAgre of theDictators,plublished by a smallpressandnot giventhe ment.Lacquer writes: publicityit deserves by the so-called"mainstream" media (whichis otherwiseobsessed with the Holocaustem)waspeF A largeGerman bankwouldfreezefundspaidin by hapsthefirst majorendeavor in thisrealmimmigrants in blockedaccounts for Germanexporters, In response to Brennarandothers,theZionistreactionhas whileabankin Palestine wouldcontrolthesaleofcerman goodsto Palestine, usuallyconsisted of declarations thattheircollaboration with providing thereby theimmigrants with NaziGemanywasmdenakensolelyto savetheiivesofJews. thenecessary foreigncunencyon thespot.SamCohen, Butthecollabonlionwasall themoreremarkable it because co-o$,ner of Hanoaiah Ltd. andinitiatorofthetransferentookplaceat a time whenmanyJewsandJewishorganizations deavors, washowever subjected to longlastingobjections demanded a boycottofCermany. fromhis ownpeopleandfinallyhadto concede thatsuch TotheZionistleaders, Hitlertassumption ofpowerheld out a tmnsferagreement couldonly beconcludedon a much thepossibilityof a flow of immigrantsto Palestine. Previously, higherlevelwith a banl of its ownratherthanthat of a themajorifyofcerman Jews,whoidentifiedthemselves privatecompany. a GerTherenowned Anglo-Palestine Bankin Nazi hoopsfor thesolecrimeofbeing Jews,by ejecting themftom theleamedprofessions in whichmanyof them hadattainedeminence, by excludingtheirchil&en from the schools, theirmenftom the laborunions,closing againstthemeveryavenueof livelihoodlockingthemin vile concentration campsandstarvingandtorturingthem without causeandresortingto everyotherconceivable until suicide formoftortule,inhumanbeyondconception, theironlymeansofescape,andall solelybehasbecome were,Jews,and causetheyare,or iheir remoteancestors them. all wilh tle avowedobjectofexterminating
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ll wasonethingfor theZioniststo subverttheanti-Nazi boycott. Zionismneededto transferoutthecapitalofcermanJews,and merchandise was the only available medium. ButsoonZionistleaders understood thatthesuccess ofthe futureJewishPalestinian economy wouldbe inextricably boundupwiththesurvival oftheNazleconooty.SotheZionistleadership wascompelledto go furlherTheGermaneconomywouldhaveto besafeguarded, stabilize4 andin necessary reinforced. Hence, theNazi PartyandtheZionistoryanization shareda commonstake intherecoveryofcermany.
fhis llew Yo* Daily Newslront-page head ne haitedthe masprotestraltyhetdin Madison siveanti-German Squarecardenon March27,1933.Despile elforlsbythecermangovernment to a[eThusoneseesa radicalfissure in worldJewryaround1933 viale tensionsand preventthe escalalionol name-calting and beyond. TherewasfiNt,thenon-Zionist Jews(specifically lhrealsbytheinternational Jewishleadership, thetalywashetdas vorldJewishCongress founded Similarrallies in 1933),who,on rneone schoduledandproiestmarches werealsobeingheld in olherciliesduringthesametimeframe.Theintensity demandedthe boycott and eventualdestructionof GeroJtheJewishcampaign Black notesthat manyof thesepeoplewerenorJusrln against Germanywas suchthattheHi €rgovernment YorkandAnslerdam,buta majorsourcefor thisalsocame vowedthatil lhecampaign didnotstop,lhercwoutdbe a oneday boycotlin GemanyofJewish-owned Palestine proper stores_ Despite this,thehate continued,'orcing cormanylo lakedetensive Ontheotherhand,onecanseethejudicious measures useofsuchfeel- campaign that created a situation wherein the by theZionistsfor thesakeof eventual Jews ol Germanv oecame In. resettlement in crcasingly marginalized. Thetruthaboulthe Jewishwaron ceF ine.Inotherwords,it canbesaid(andBlackdoeshintat marytas beensuppressed by moslhistories thatZionismbelievedthat, o, theperiod. sinceJews wouldbemovine to
Le!"nr.capiElflighl\aouldbenecessary foranyneweconto frmction. atthesametimedemanding nodemtion solhattheNational So_ Theresultwastheunderstanding thatZionismwouldhaveto cialistgovemrnent wouldremainstable, financially andpolitiitselfwithNationalSocialism, sothattheGerman eov€m- cally.ThusZionismboycoftedtheboycott. wouldnot impedetheflowofJewishcapitaloutolthe Forail intents andpury,oses, theNationalSocialist govemmentwasthebestthingto happen to Zionismin itshistoryfor It served theZionistinterests atthetimethatJewsbeloudin it "proved"to manyJewsthatEuropeans wereirredeemably anti_ ir denunciations ofcermanpmctices againstthelewsto scare Jewish andthatPalestine wastheonlyanswer:Zionism cameto intotheLevant,but,olltheotherhan4Laqueurstatesthat represent theoverwhelming majorityofJewssolelyby trickery Zionists becamemotivat€dnot to jeopardize the German andcooperation withAdolfHitler 00my orcurrency." In otherwords, lheZionistleadenhip FortheZionists, of boththedenunciations of German policies JewishDiaspomw?soneofsubterfugeandunderhanded- towards Jews(tokeepJewsfrightened), plusthereinvigoration withonlytheadventofGermanhostilitytowardJewry oftheGerman economy (forthesakeoffinalresettlem;nt) was incingtheworld'sJewsthatimmigration wastheonlyes- imperative for the Zionistmovement. lronically,todaythe Zionistleaders oflsraelcomplainbitterlyaboutthehorrific 'lhe factis thattheultimateestablishment oflhe stateoflsmel andinhuman regimeofthe NationalSocialists. Solhe fraud basedon fraud.TheZionistsdid not represent anything continues. + thana smallminorityofcermanJewsin 1933. Ontheonehan4theZionistfathersoflsmelwantedlouddeSeemoreftom Dr, M. tu}|lADL JoHNsoN at\lw.rujoumatjom. iations ofcermanyt"cruelties" to tie world3Jewswhile BOX 15377 ' WASHINGTON,
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helorld cantfiankoneRafaelLemkin.a PolishJe\ for oneof claimsthattheThildReichwasex' fte firslwidelypublicized lheJewsof Europe. terminating Ir rd! bea'\umedandhonedrhattheflnalfrglteol ln his 1943book,,fiir nr/b in Orc piedEurcpe,Lemkinnotor.ly I I ' l o s ' e s o l r h e J e s i ( h n e o n l e s i l l b e e ! e ' r l o l v e r rI h coinedtheterm genocide"-nowa commonpartofthe Englishlan I lgurc.Bur(ld-ificaroni\rece\sar!.whichi\\hyani| guage bul alsomadetheclaimthalNaziGermanyhaddestroyed I vesrigJrion Narion' comm ineesl'ould I asmanyas6 million. byJ'pec,alUnrred byftattime-millionsofjewsandperhaps I preposleious rernbly rhe rrurh. w\rch i' importJrr lorrhe received widespread circulation, bul it was e.tab,ish so Thisclaim I prcsenrand forrhe tutule oflheHolocaust conlend thaltheNazis onitsface:Evenlhedevotees I unlil I 942-just didnI kgin thenallegedpolicyofmassexternrination lhere\vrsno'uchL \ i ive'rigarion. Thu:.r\eque'tron remain: Ifl ayearbetoreLemkin'sbookwentto theprinlerYe1,Lemkinb6 million "fact." 6 m:llion sharhapnenI NaTiCemdly didnorexteminare lews.then figuretookona life ofils ownandaflerthewarbecame whoseemto remain for?TleI In a similarvein, although hehasgained muchfameandinfluence to alloftheJewsof Europe unaccounled providrdby \ofl hwr,rernL r.vcr,i5 Pro beensuccincrly baseduponhis reputationasa "Nazi-hunter." claimsmadeaboutthe I answerl"rs I Holocaust by Simonwiesenthalhavebeenrefuiedagam andagain.In his 1946bookKZ Ma thaulefi,fot exam'conle' plr.\\iesenrhalcire' rhesuppo'ed dedlhbed commandet FrankZiereis, to sion"ofthe Mauthausen "four "gassed" tie efectthat million"were to deathwith wercEastEuropean-notCerman 1| I exterminated monoxide Harlheim satellite camp. or We.'f L'roneanJews rharrcirson carbon al thenearby rrudy =r. fl .For (rali\l:cshxsbccn Thissame confession, citedbyWiesenthal, alsoalleged vianonulJrion l/a ollheproblem rhattheGermans killedanother"l0million"in Poland, Lilhuania andLatvia.Obviously, notevenlhemostdedicatedHolocaust historians acceplthesefigures,yel Wiesenlhalis stillheldupbythemedia asan"aulhority" However, theGermans wereonlyoneof sevontheHolocausl. eralpanies involved in nroving Jewsaround. The Kurt Gerstein. a Germananti-Naziactivistwhosaid viluallyallol theJewsofeasr Soviets deponed drathehad"infiltrdred" rheSS.claimed in early1945rhat emPolardtotheirinleriorin I940.Aflerthewar helne$ no le'srhan40millionJe$rhddbeenerre.miwith PolishandotherJewspoLrring out ofthe Dared bytheNazis. OnAp.il26,1945Gerstein r€duced eastinlooccupied WestCermany. lheZionists thatfi$re to 25 millionJe$'s. Thenon May4, i945.he mov€dlargenunberslo Palestire, and the decided the6gxrewas8 millionwhenhewastoldthat UniledStates andolhcrcountries abso$ed many lherelvereonly16.5millionJewsin lheworldpriorlo WorldW ll. Jews.in mostcases underconditions nkkingimpossible Eventhehisrorians whosaythercwercmanymillionsofJewish vica numerical accounling. Moreover, lhe Polishborders limsoftheHolocaust cannot senle onprEciselyhow manydied.Profes\r€rcchanged dmslicallyat theendof thewar thecormtry sorRaulHilberg, aurhor of r/ e Destt Ltttion oftheExnrpean Je\s.says waslitemllymovcdwes1. 5.I nillion died.GemldReitlinger, author of rre F ralSolrrr'ol,. says lhatthefiguremightbeashighas4.6million,butheisuncertain In addition. about nolelhatit hasbeensaidthfllroughly790.000 Jews rhalestimare. lsneli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauersummarized the survived theHolocausl. Eyenlhesemi-ofncial JerlishJointDistribu "Thelarger quit€wellinI989whenhedeclared: plucedthe 'survivol'6gurcat 1,559.600. figurcs lionCommiltee contradictions Yet.morc whodied in lhe ha\€ than concentntion camps] been dismissed 3,900.000Jews showed up to apply for reparations ftonr theGcr[ofvictims loryean.erceprrharir hasntreached rl"epublicyer. mangovemment by 1952. These numbeE cenainly casta newlighton ,ajder ,Va.,[fl.te, newspaper On June13,1946tberespecled of boththe"omcial"figures ofsunivo|s andon thenumber olrhosc published Basel, thalnot whoactlallydidor didnotdie. Swilzerland anarticlein whichitconcluded (of all morethanl-5 millionEuropean Jewscouldhaveperished ln thcen4 thereareveryrealdoublsthat"six millionJewsdied WorldWarl1.Thenewspaper causes)during commentedl duringtheHolocaust." butthosewhohavedaredto raisethosedoubls aredet-anred as"Holocausl deniers," thefacisnotwithsranding. The Onethingisalready certain today: Theclaimlhatthis bottomlineis thatlhe'tix million"figureis reasonably subjectlo frgure deadlruns upro5 or6million... t nor * lotJeursh
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Althoughthe"evidence"thatentergedduringtheNurembergWarCrimesTrials(andin otherpostwartribunals)is saidto be thefoundationof,,proof" regardinga Nazipolicyof,,ex_ termination,"manyofthose who participatedin the trials spokeout afterwardand revealed how this "evidence"wasactuallyobtained.There'smuchmoreto thestoryofthe war crimes trialsthanis reponedin lheofliciaihistories. hc prinafy sou.cefor thc nory that the Auschwitzconcent.ation campwasa Nazi exterDrnatton centefwasthe campt com-
nander, RudolfHoess. His "confession" ofApril !vr.submitreJ 5.1q46 b) thcU.S.froseculor. rr Nurembergrvirrcrimestmals.Ho$e\cr.ye!rs
derthewar,a Britishmilitaryintelligence office1 Bemard Clarkc,admittedthathe andfiveother British soldiers hadtorturcd Hoess to gettheconftssion. Hoesshimselfsaid"Certainly, I signed a 'hrl I krlled datemenr ruorniid halfmrllion Jews.
obtaincdlioD rncnwho hadfirstbecnkeptin solitaryconfinemcntfor thrcc, four and five months....Theinvestigators wo ld puta black hoodoverthe accused'.s hcadandthcnpunch him in lhe facewith bnss knuckles.kick hirrr andbcathim rvithrubberhoses. ... Allbuttwo olthc Cermans,in the 139casesu,c iDvestigate4lradbeenkickedin the tesiiclcsbeyond repairThis wasslandardopefaiingprocedurc wjth ourAmcricaninvcstigators.
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CharlesF WeDnerstnm, an lowaSupremc CoLrn justicewhoseNedasthepresiding judgcin thernal InHoes,.eonlessron nealsodc.c bedanother ofGennangenerals. told 7heChitogt l)ibuneon "ex(ermination camp"knownas"Wolzek."The Februa.y23. l94lt. "lf I had known scvcl WILLIAM O,DOUGLAS is this:No suchcampcverexistedand Condemned Nuremberg t ats. nronthsago what I know today.I would ncver suchacanp is no longermeniioned in literature havccomehcre.The high idealsannounccd as &eHolocaust. themotivesfor crcatil]gthcsctribunalshavenot beenevidcnt." EdwardL. van Roden,an Americanwho wasone ofthree Accordrngto thejudge:
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Elen RobertJackson. thechiefU.S.prosccutoral thcNurcmbergWarCrimesTlibunal.toldPresidcnt I lalryTrumanin a lcl tef datedOctober12. 19,15 lhrl: [TheAllies] havedoneor aredorig someoflhe vcry thingsrvearcpfosectingthe(;emraDs for TheFrench t in theneatmeDl oi so riolatingthe Geneva Convenlion prisoners $,ar that coDnnand is takirg an] of ouf [Gcr backprisoncrsseniio theln lfbr fbrcedlaborir Fmnce]. wc Jrcpro'ccur'rg plLrnde_ il cId ourJllie.dreprircricing war is a crinreandoneofourallies asWc sayaggrcssive scrtssovcrcigntyovcr thc Baltic staiesbasedon no tille exccptconqucst. JosephHalorv\!ho wirsa U.S.Arnry court reportcrat thc 1947Dachau$ar crinrcslrials.hasrcvealed that:
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Thervilnesses in the concentmtioncanrpcaseswerevinually all of lhc sort we courl reporters lermcd"prof-essional wihesses.' lhose whospenintonlhsin Dachau. teslifying againstoncor rDothcrof themany accuscd.. . . lt was to lhircconomicadvanlage to lestii/. andnranvofthcnrmadea goodIi!ing doing so. As oDeDight \r'cll jnagiDe. thc motiveofthc professionalwitncsscs\';rs also one of sprleandrcvcnge.. . , lr manvinslances thcll veDgeancc iltcluded Flatingcxaggeraledaccountsof whatlhcyhad\\itnesscd.ll alsoincludedoulright1ying. Thereis alsoevidcncclhtt theAnrcrinvcsligatorduringtbeDrchaulvrr trialswefe sontewhirt biascdard lheirorvnagcndi. Thelegaladvisorto thecourtwasCol. H- Rosenfeld. The chicfol lhe War inesCommittee\ras Lt. Col. Bufion
is.Hisassistants wercRaphael Shu. RobcrlE. Bymes.WilliamPerl. isEllowilz.HarryThonrDdr Mr. um. Of thescindividuals. all thccxceptionofByrnes.havcidcnJe\rishDantcs. wonder No lhat thc rforementioncd
ArgustWcnncrslrun. presidcnl of oflbe\\,arcrinrcs lribuDals. rcsigned disgust andlatcrchargedthatdrcpros"instcad oflrying to fornulare reacha nervgLridinglegalprinciple. movedonly by pe$onalanrbilion revenge. . . land that most of dre pe.sonncll consisledofbiasedpeF rvho,crihcron polilicalor.acial f[fthered lhc proscculion's EarlCarroll.aDAmcricanattomeyon Nurenrberg tribunal.\rcntso farasto thxt60 perccntoflhe prosecutor's were GennanJcws rvho had lcfl
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Himmlerto SS:'Don'tkt theJewsDie' n December 28,1942 thehead of lheSSconccnbntion campadrninisrative ofice senladirecl$e to Auschlvitzand olhef camps crilicizingthehighdeathmteanongprison€rs dueto (Thhdnective disease. waspanof lheexhibi$al the Nuremberg warcrimestrials.It {"s Nur€mberg documen!PS-2171. Annex2.nc& A redseries, Vol.4,pp 833-834.) Thedirecdye order€d lhat'tamp physicians must useall m€ans al dreirdisposal to significantly reduce thedealh ratcin thevarious canps.. . :' andthal... . . thecampdocrors areto seelo it thatrhemrking con, ditionsat th€va.ious laborplaces areimproved as nuchaspossible:'The ord€r noted lharSSchi€fHein.ichHimmlef"hasorder€d thallhedeathmreabsolutely mustbcreduc€d." Ironically' No.b€rt Masur, anofficialofthe Swedishbnnchof$c WorldJewish Congress. metwi$ Himmler onAprit21.1945. Masur,s ac..Durjns countof themeeting. published in lheDecember 1985issue ofMo enr.revealed: anexlended convertrar.on. Hrmmlercomplained otlhensingcharge(ofgenocide bcingtevelledagainst cermanyandpointedour,'tn orderto contajnrheepidenics, \rc wercforced to buildccmatodawh€re$c couldbumrle corpses of countless p€opte whopass€d away " because of$esediseases. Andnow,lh€y\l1nl lo putanoosearoundournecks.' w}laithecrcmatodums rcre usedforwassavinglheEuropean Jewsfiomrhesprcad of tiom $e disease-ridden bodi€sofq?husvictimsin rle camps. tphus Thccrematoriums had absolutelyno$ring todowithanyprogmmof,.mass murdet'by theNazis oftheJews ofEu_ ropeandafcnotevidence of anysuchpmgom. "historians" Somecrcative Holocaust haveconrended thatiftheNazisdidnor!a. manv Jevslorhllrhemoumghr rhrough orherclc\ermeans,. $eycenarnS ,trddetrber,rcty ,rarve them!o deaih.HowevetDr RussellBanon.who spentonemon0iattl€ Belsen campasamedical studentafferihewar,r€ponedrhat:..t lltrs suF prisedb fnd records latthecarnp]goingbackfor twoor rhreeyears,of largequantitiesof food cooked dailyfor distribution. At thalrimeI becaneconvmced contrary topopular opinion,that herehadnevcrb€ena policyof delib€mte slarvation.Thiswasconfirm€d by$€ laryenurnbeB ofwell-fed inmars-" Whythenweresomanypeople sutrering frcmDalnurririon? Rcponed Banon:Themajor reasons . . . $€rediseasc. grossov€rcrowding by c€ntralauthority, lackof lawandord€rwi$in th€ hllls.andinadequare supplies of foo4warerand drugsl'And this,accoding lo Barton, onlyhaF penedduringthefnal monthsof lhewar,when Alliedbombing shulo$supplies lo theconcentralioncamps. Soil is,rhen. thalit mayhavebeen iheAllieswhowcreatleastindirectlyresponsible A lormercampprsonerreceives a formanyofthosestacks ofd€adbodies disro!€red posl-liberation meal. upon$e liberation ofthecamps. {.
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6re fiom Revisionistresearchers who havecontende4for a vadetyofreasons,thatit is not whatit is purportedto beand that othershad input in the writing ofthe document-long afterMissFrank'sdemise.But onJlme8, 1989nre Nen lolk Tines cameto the rescueof the famousdiary and reported that-at last an "authenticated version"ofthe diaryhad beenproducedby the NetherlandsStateInstitute lor War Documentation. In otherwords,thepreviousversion(or versions,asthe casemaybe) werenot, in fact, "authenticated" afterall, andthe diarythat hasbeenprhted in dozensoflanguagesand broughtto the stag€and screenmay not have be€ngenuine. Thenewspaper failedto mention,however,that in I 959a Swedishjoumal, Fna Ord, repofied that Jewishnovelist MeyerLevinhadsuedOtto Frank,the fatherofArrne Frank, in the New York SupremeCoult. Frank had agreedto pay Levin $50,000to write the dialoguethat appearedin the "diary'' andthenbrokethe conhact.A jury orderedFrankto payLevinthehononrium,but lhejudge settie awardaside. TBR ALL.HOLOCAUST ISSUE 2OO9
F/arl. continuesto be hailedasa "must rcad" (it is required readingat all academic levels)Universityofchicagohistorian PeterNovicknotesthefact that,at thetime thediarywas release4madeinto a stag€play,and later adaptedfor the screen,the movie vercion-all ofthe hooplanotwithstanding-was nota hit attheboxoffice.r Novick revealssomelittle-knownaspectsofthe diary that havesomehowevenbeenmissedby thosewho havespent muchtime andenergyattemptingto denigratethe work and its validity.In fact,therewasactuallya greatdealofdismay in certainquartersaboutthe diary (modem-daymythology on the part ofboth the diary'sbelieveNand the diary3 detractorsnotwithstanding). LawrenceLanger,describedas a specialistin Holocaust litemture,hascomplaineqaccordingto Novich aboutAme3 "failure to practiceJewishrituals,the lack ofa mention of Passover in thetwo yearscoveredby herdiary,andin general, her 'limited concemwiih Jewishissues.'"'? Langer,evidently, perceivesthatperhapstheAfie Frankdiarymay not constiBAFNESAEVTEW.COM 1 - 3 7 7 - 7 7 3 - 9 0 70 7F D E B t N G
DInHetsFnerqx'CourEss'? l\4any hlstorians arcfondofquotini.r Hans Frank.drc wcniDreCcrntrn governofof Poland. $1rostid A $oLrs.tnd pass. vcan\r,i11 andthisguihofcennanvwill nolbcefttsed." Ho$cvcr Fmnk hinself lcslified at Nurcmbcrg lhrt hehadhcrd onlyftrnorsand foreign rcpofs ofmasskillingsol Je\r,sand lhathc h.rdaskcdotheroflicials.including H A N SF B A N K Hitlcrrbou hcrcpofisandlhrthe \\'asrcpetedlvassured thcy\\erciakc. \Vhen.at Nurenbcrg.hc $?$askcdifhe hadrakcnparr..in any$Ny nrdrcannihilatiot) ofJc\vi thatman]Njhcsses haddc, $nbedhesaid I s i, ics. andthercason $hy l savvesisbccaLrsc ... l conot ms\rerto ntyconscrencc to shilithcrcsponsibility fur L\isonthcsclo$le\cl pcoplc.Incvcrbuiha Jcwish extennlnalron canrp or hclpedto bringoneinrocr.istencc. BurifAdolf Hirler peFonall) shiftedthistcrriblcrcsponsibiliry onrohisruopro. rnen ilahoapplies to nrc.. . . And thcrcfore I havcthcdutylo ansl!'er yowqucstion r),/r/:!.rcn \t,drrl ir /]ir . rrl(,'\l\l irh)es lcnt usjs addedl. Thatls\\'hathcrcrllysaidalbeirthcomcialhisrorybooksrc ponlhecontrary.
futean Inrpoi Dt" flolocnusttcxl a lact lhat rvill surprise tuny diary devotees. ln additioi. the 'popular''play and ntovievel.sionsofthc diaryarcnot. iDfacl.loyalto what thc publicrodaynlight bc lierewcrethis youngJeu,ishlrid'.sactltala itlrdcslorvardhcl heritaqc and drc cventstaking placcaroundher Accoding to Novick: "Whilc in sonlerespcctsadditions Nnd dcletidrsin lhe play ntadcAnnc andhef tamily lessJc\ish.in otherrcspcctsrhc play nradcthcnrDroreJcwish.sonrelhing Je\!ish reviercrs notcd at the tjnre but latef mnnnentators haveignolecl. "Thedrcalc. reviewcrsfbr hro ZioDisrmagaziDes. J.il.r:V, Fto tiet ai(l llil.'itt1]qut.poinrcdout that while in rhc diarf, Annehadrcfered to [lhe Je$,ishholiday]Ilrnukkah oncein passrng. imnediarcly addingtharlrhe Chisti.rn holiday].St. Nicholas Dry \1?snruchrnolc fun. rhc play dNclls dt lelrgth onthcIhnukkah celetrmtionand ignolesSr. NicholasDay. All oflhis is good public rclarionsfor rhe .tc!," s. rradirionaI observaDces.' rcntarkeddrc rcvieucr in rLlirlrl/?rrn..but il is notrvbalAnDe Frank\\,r'otcir her.diary."J Anneevidcntlyrl,asnol very muchofan ardentZionisteilherID the diary.Annc rcl'erredto her sistcrwantinglo becomea midwife in Palcsline.rcfe.riDgto lhat as a.ltalTow cranpedexislerce'r whereasAnnervantcdto go to pflrisand Londorand "see beautifirldrcssesaDdintercstingpeopic.'. She rvaDted lo "beconrcDulch"j (Anne\ wo s)aftcrthewar P O 9 0 X 1 5 3 7 7. W A S H N G r O N D C 2 0 0 0 3
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Planning for'Genocide'-Not! n August27, 1945thePiusburghpt"ss .anied a. UniledPress stor)headlinedNa7iplantoerrerminateall Jewsin Europerevealed.,' The storyreportedthatoneMajorHansGeorgMayer,a GermanSS offccr,captured by theAllies,had"calmlytoldAmerican authorities howtheNazishadplanned to exterminate all of Europe!Jews." Thereportstated:"Mayertold inlerrogalingomcersyesterday thattheplantookrootat a Berlinconference in 1940 whichwasattended by Adolf Hitler,HeinrichHimmler, Joseph Goebbels, ReinlardHeydrich andEmstKaltenbrunner" However. il wasnote4"Mayerwasnotattheneeting. Hewasnotbigenough for that." SinceMayerfirsttoldhis storythefinal,.,official"story hasbeenthatthemassextermination oftheJewslvasplanned "Wannsee atthenow-infamous Conference,'. heldin I 942_ "Berlinconference.,' twoyearsafterMayer's No onetoday claimsthatHitlerwasatWannsee. IsraelihistorianYehudaBauerhas laid wasteto the Wannsee legend. According to Bauer.quoted intheCanadian Jewish NewsofJan.30,l992,"Thepublicstillrepeats, time aftertime, thesillystorythatatWannsec theextermination of theJewswasarrivcdat."According to Bauer, Wannsee was "hardlya conference" "little and ofwhatwassaidthercwas execuled in detail."
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Zionislleadersin Palestine andelsewhere acluallydid lillleto helprescuelhe Jewsof Europe.Allerthe war,BenGuronhimsell ented on the survivors,say ng that many of lhem were people who would not have survivedif lhey had nol been what they
-hard, evilandseltishpeope,andwhallheyunderwenl thereserved1odestroywhalgoodqualiliestheyhadletl." 'mystcryrcligion,'wilh su.vivorshavingprivileged(pricstly) authorityto intcrprcl the nrystery."s Novick pointsout lhat eventhe educationdirectorat Is, raclt Yad VashemHoloca st memorial has commcntcd "wilh some irritation"'' according to Novick that "lhe Novicksaysthat thcscpcrccplions.howcvcrncgalive, survivorhasbecomea priest.Becauscof his sto.y,he is with !imc, but thc facl is that thcsewcre the percep- holy"t' s at thc timc and not somcthingthal wc hearnluch There is somequestionas to horv rcally bad offthe surtoday. vivors were. Novick describcshow onc personwho comToday, thcsurvivors arc,according lo Leonwieseltier. the nreDtedin the immediatcaftcrmalhof the war on what he "ThcAncricanJewisheq ivalentofsaints perceivedto be not thc dcvastation, ofa survivor, bul instea4the vitality,of "any relics."''And Elie Wieselsaysthat survivorhas the Jervishsurvivors,wascriticizedby fellow Jewishleaders (rvhowereintcrcstcdin usingthe wartiDretmgediesfbr lirndto saylhanall the histo anscombinedaboutwhathap."r Novick comnents that wiesel seensto "haveperraisingpurposcs)for"underminingthe appeal"rL by suggestnany Je*,sto treatthe Holocaustas somelhingofa ingthatthesurvivorswereanythinglessthanabsolutevictims. . DavidBeD-Gurion,lhe fbundingfatheroflsrael, himself thalthe s rvivors included"peopIewho would not have ivedifthey had not beenrvhatthey were hard.evjl and shpeople,and what they undenventthereservedto dc rvhatgood qualitiesthey had lcti."j
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Novickalsoopensup anareathatthemodern-day Holocaust€nthusiasts wouldpref€rto beforgotten-thefactthat thereweremanymorewartimesurvivors whowerenotJews andwhoweresuflering.He writes: ln the immediate aftemathof V-E Day therewere personsin Cermany morethanten million displaced andAustria,ofwhom onlya tiny fractionwereJewish campsurvivors. Beforetheendof 1945thegreatmajority hadbeenrepatriate4 nearly2 butthereremained persons]. million [displaced They includedformer POWSandforcedlabor€rs whopreferred notto return to theirhomesin theEast,Volksdeutsch whohadbeen expell€dfrom EasternEurope,Baltic andUkrainian Germanauxiliaries andtheirfamilies,andvariousotherswho,for whateverreason,preferreda precarious lif€ in theDP campsofcermanyto whatever awalted themat home,r: Furthermore,ii appearsthat the ideathat the Zionist "dream"ofestablishing a Jewishhomcland in Palestine was not foremostin themindsofall ofthe Jewishsurvivors. As Novickpointsout, althoughabouttwo-thirdsofthe Jewish survivorswho left Europewentto Palestine, onethirdwent to the UnitedStates,despitemultiplepressures uponthem to migrateto Israel.LrThe UnitedSlates, theydecidedin the altemative, reallywasthelandof milk andhoney.
This'Sulivo/ IsWrong About Budrenwald reneKirkland (nowdeceased) wasthe wife of the late LaneKi*lan4 longtimeheadofthe AFL-CIO,thepowertullabormion. As a youngJewishgirl, Mrs.Ki*land \l?s deportedftom Czechoslovakia by the Germans during WorldWartl andwasintemedattheBuchen*"ldconcentration camDin Gerrnanv Accordingto Mrs. Ki*lan( in an interviewwith I,e Washington PostonNoydnber18, 1979,Buchenwald was '\there theyweredoinglheexterminating:' There'soneproblemwith her story Evenaccordingto famedself-styled'Nazi hunter"SimonWiesenthal, there wereno "exteminationcamps"on Germansoil.According to Mes€nthal,theextermination campswerein Poland. Likewise,oiherprcminentbelievemin theHolocaust,including SimonWiesenthal,concul:therewasno "exterminating" beingcaried on in drcGermancamps-includingBuchen$"14 whereM$. Kirklandsaidwas'Vheretheyweredoing theexterminatins."
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Contraryto mylh, Auschwilzwas a workcamp,nol a "death camp."lt waslhus not by accidentlhatthe legendoverthe entranceto Auschwitz{shownahane\rcad"ArbeitMachtFre/-thal is, "WorkShallftrakeYouFree-"
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Polandhascut its estimate ofthe numberof. people killedbytheNazisin theAuschwitz death just from4 millionto camp overI million....The newstudycouldrekindlethecontroversy overthe scale ofHitler's"finalsolution." ... Piper,directorofthehistoricalcornFranciszek mifteeoftheAuschwitz-Birkenau Museum, said yesterday to recentresearch, that,according at least1.3million peopleweredeportedto the camp, of whomaboul223,000 survived. TheL I millionvictimsincluded960,000Jews, 70,000 and75,000 Poles, nearlyallofthe benveen 23,000 G)?siessentto thecampand15,000 Sovietprisonersof war headofresearch atIsmelt ShmuelK-rakowsky, YadVashem memorial for Jewishvictimsofthe Holocaust, saidthenewPolishfigureswerecorItct:"The4 millionfigurewaslet slipby Capt. thedeathcamp3Nazicommander RudolfHoess, haveboughril. buril $asexaggerared.'. .. Some the miliion commemorating deaths of4 lP]laques victimswereremoved fromtheAuschwitzmn seum earlierthismonth, delailofhistorywas inhiguhg,since, after all, historybookshadsaidfor a generation thatofthe6millionJews whodiedduringthe a vastmajorityofthemdiedatAuschwitz Thus,if the newfactswerecor.ect,the actual victimshadto number ofJewishHolocaust iderablv lessthanthemuch{alked-about fieureof6 milmath anda controversial indeed. Simple conclusion Astherealtruthaboutthecorrectnumbersofthosewhoacdiedat Auschwitz-andwhotheyreallywere-fnally to leakout,thereweresomeinventive explanations asto lheinitialnumbers weresowrong. TheAmcricanJewishCommittee, in its 1995rcport.The FaceofHoloc1ust Menol:I,, explainedawaythesegi-
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Thefigureof4 millionwasaswrongasit wasround, ofthe campcommandantl frived at by a combination exaggerations, Poles'perceptions of self-aggrandizing ardtheSoviet occupiers' desire to creale theirgreatlosses, martyrs. socialist Note.firstofall. thattheAJCneverblamesJewishsowcesfor incorrect fisures.Creditthisto obviousbias.ButtheAJC madehis failsto pointout thattheAuschwitzcommandant
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Shown here are severalseriesol multipleposephotog€phs takenofAuschwilz inmatesbvtheGerrnanauthorilies. Sincethe existenceof suchpholoqraphs raisesquestionsas to why th€ Germanswouldregislerandpholographinmalesattheso-ca .deathcamp"ai Auschwitz, whichis saidlo havebeenthe top "murderlaclory"duringlheHolocaust,lhepromotercoJthe Holocauslinduslrynishlo assurethe skeplrcalhal mostJewswere promptly gasseduponafrivalandlhalno photogEphswere ever lakenol them.
"self-aggrandizing" statements underduress undertortureto bepreose. orerecently, WalterReich,formerdirector oftheU.S. jumped Holocaust MemorialMuseumin Washington, intothedebate overAuschwitz. On September8, 1998,lie WashingtonPostptblished^n aF ticle by Reichin which he addressed Jewishoutrageovera group ofelderly Polishnunsuho $anredlo placecrossesin memory to ofChdstianswho diedatAuschwitz.Reichwasrespondina
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Whom DoYoulrust? Eventhe"official" numbers of thosewhodiedatAuschwitz have fluctuated-and spiraled downward-byliguresin themillions. Yet, thosewhohavedaredto pointthisout havobeenaccusedot 'denyingthe Holocaust.'This documented chartillustrates thevastvariancein the officialfiguresof the Auschwitzdead,pointingout that evenHolocaust"experts"havorovjsedlheir ownfiguresdownward.
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TheFinalCowrl*examines Auschv)itz: the"new"reports in themainstream media(outlined above) andprovides essential 3 whatReichhadto sayin hisessay: additionalfactsthatmustbeconsidered in orderfor thcfull story Auschwitz-Birkenau asthedeath ofAuschwitzto finallybetold.This 109-page bookis a comThePoJtidentified "where (supplemented pendium with commentary) of fourcomplete, camp 3 millionJewsandmillionsofotherswere previously published scholarship by a Polish worksrelating toAuschwitz andtheHolomurdered by theNazis."Recent caust, historian hasputthenumberofdeathsthereconservatively ranging 10about Thebookexplores the little-known but thoroughly docuataboutI . I million,withotherestimates percent phenomenon were nented in which the numbers of the official Ausch90 ofthe dead 1.5million.Approximalely witz"deathtoll" haveplummeted ftoma "high"of9,000,000 Jews. deadto a rockbottomof73,137(ofwhom38,031 wereJews). ThePosl\ numbersmayhavebeenderivedin partfiom Andreaders will notethatofthe 26widelyvaryingfigurescite4 estimateoriginallyof Sovietoriginandentheinflated and mainstream by Polishaulhoriticsafterthewar-ofabout 4 milall comeftom a varietyof "responsible" doNed No figurecitedcomesftom any sourceaccused sources. of liondead. "denyingthe Holocaust," whatever thatmeans. Thisnumber, andothernunbersof similarmagnitude, Anddonotethatwheninmates diedattheAuschwrtz concenwre repeatedso oftenthattheycameto beacceptcdby though historians in Poland and elsetration camp, the German authorities recorded each ofthose manyastrue,even deaihsoncertificates thatwerethenboundtogetherin deathregwherehaverevisedthisnumberdom considembly. istryvolumes. Thc ceriificates notonlyincludedthepersont people Reich's call(intheessay) namc,profession, religion, dateandplaceofbirth,homeaddress findnoprcblemwith Honest
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(priorto resettlement atAuschwitz)andparents'names, but thetimeandcause ofdeath. TheSoviet forcesthatcapturedAuschwitz tookthese' books"intocustody andtheywereheldin theSoviet archives the Kremlinin MoscowHowever, in I thesevolumes wcrereleased to scholars. partiallycovering aresome46 volumes, years1941,1942and1943. Volumes fo.the tircycarsof 1944and1945aremissing. location is unknown atthistime. Whatis mostintriguing aboutthese mentsis that the volumeslhat arc availa
n March30, 1988fie Nelr lort ?irrerdescribed as a claim "so $otesque"the statementby Swedish HolocaustRevisionistDitlieb Feldererthat at the AuschwiEconcentration pool, camptherewere"a swirnrning dancehall andconcertauditoriumfor its inmates." In fact,suchfacilitiesdid existat thecamp.Somehistorians,whohaveadmittedtlat tiesefacilitiesdid indeedexist, haveattempted to suggest thattlpsefacilitieswerestrictlyfor Oeuseofthe campguardsandtheirfamilies. However,theret ftore, One Holocaustsuvivor, Marc Klein,a prcfessorin themedicalschoolat theUniversityof Strasbougwhowasaninmateat Auschwitz,revealed this: On Sundayaftemoon,tlere weresoccer,basketball andwaterpolornatches to theardentcheemofthespectators;peopleneededvery little to dishactthemftom the dangeNthatthreatened them!TheSSadministration allowedregularamusements for theprisoneN, even onv/€ekdays. A movietheatershow€dNazinewsre€ls andsentimental fillns,anda verypopularcabarctgave presentations, often attendedby lhe SS authorities. Finally,therewasa verycreditableorchesua, madeup orighally only of Polishmusiciansandreplacedlater by a neq high-qualitygroupmadeup ofmusiciansof all natioialities,mostlyJews. (fakentromKlein'sarticlepubtshedin thejollmalttuder gemaniques[No. 3, 1946],1948,3l.)
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record thedeaths of 69,000 Auschwitz inmates (lncludedamongthosedeathsarc not only thosewhodiedofnaturalcauses, butalsoit. mateswhowereexecutcd for criminalactivi duringincarccration.) Manyofthc dealhs recorded werethos€of elderlyindividuals whowereclearlytooillt0 workin thclaborcamps beingrunby theGer. manaulhorities. Yet,we havebeenrepeated toldthalAuschwitz wasnothingmorethana murderfactorywherethesickandinnrm-not to mentronlhc healthyandable wereperemptorily gassed uponarnval.
If thcpopularhistoryofAuschwitzis correct-whichthe factssuggest it isnot thenthese individuals whose deaths weE socarefully rccorded wouldhavebeenpromptlyshuttled ojTto thegaschamber andno recordoflheirdcaths wouldhaveever appeared. And despitethe widespreadclaims of "gassingsat Auschwitz," evenJewish Holocaust historianAmo Mayer, writ ||i'g;n Wh]Did theHearcnsNc,rDarten?hasconclude(based on his own research, that"ffom 1942to 1945,certainlyat Auschwitz, butprobably overall, moreJewswerekillcdby socalled'natural' causes as starvation, disease, clc.]thanby [such 'unnatuml' gassing, ones[presumably shooling, torture, etc.]." "eficient" Thevery factlhatthe Germans wentto greal len$hs roformally record ine\rensre derail.lhc circumslanc of the deaths(Irot to mentionthe livcs) of some69,000 Auschwitz inmates noneofwhom,incidcntally, werehaving "gasscd" beenrecorded ashavingbeen suggests indeedthat thereis muchmorclo thestoryofwhatreallywasgoingonat Auschwitz thanwehavebecntold. thenumberofpeople Cleady, whodiedatAuschwitz iscentralto understanding whatdidhappenthere.Butthefigureskeep changing-and diminishing. * ..llr|tn itz: Thel:i'dl Corntby EnglishhislonanVN'^N8,RD,thcaurhorof this anicle, canbeordcrcd ftomthcTBRBoo(CLUU for$13ninu l0%forTBR$rb scnbe6.(soflcocr,109pags,d57.)Sendpalne.t roTBR,PO.Box15877, wslr iigloi,D.C.20001.Call l-877-771 9077rocbdge.
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INTRODUCTION he first majorfigureto raisequestions about thelegendofAuschwiEasthecenterpiece of Germanytallegedprogramto exterminate the JewsofEuropewasno lessthanformer who fighterPaulRassinier, antiNaziFrenchresistance spentthelasttwo yeamofworld WarII confinedin two camps,Dom andBuchenwald. An Naziconcentration life is overviewofRassinier'sremarkable andcareer the subjectofTBR's "Profilein RevisionistHistory,"which appeanon page82. Thefollowingarticlewrittenby Rassinier in hisnative Frcnch,waspublishedin tnnslatedformin theGermanjoumalRerl:ldral in its January17,19C"4 language edition.TothebestofTBR'slarcwledge, thisisthefiNt-ever of thisadicle. Englishlanguagepublication Rassinier's articleis notonlyhighlyrcpresentative of in the field ofuncoveringthe hispioneeringendeavors factsaboutwhatdid anddid not happenat Auschwits, butalsoprcvidesa fascinatingoverviewofthe birth of lheAuschwitzlegen4particularlyin regardto thematter ofthenumbersofthosewhopurportedlydiedthere,and howthosenumbers(howeverinaccumte)evolved-The articlewasoriginallytitled"Questions FacingtheAuschProblemsof DecisiveImDorvitz Trial: Unanswered l!trceto Contemporary History."
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heAuschwitzconcentration campwasestablished in 1940.Thefirsttransports arrivedthereon June14, 1940;theyconsisted of Polishprisoners of war Auschwitzwasat thattimeintendedto bea prisonerof-warcamp,andremained so for a verylongtime. RudolfHoesswascampcornrnandant fiom thebeginning (153), December I, 1943. He states in his autobiography until Himmlervisited thecampin March,l94l anddethatHeinrich thatit "wasto be reconstructed cidedon thatoccasion asa plant,in which100,000 prisoners mightyarmament ofwar wouldbeassigned to work."TheSpecial Construction Adminisralion (Sondetbauleiturg) wasthereuponcommissioned on l, 1941,by theEconomic Divisionof theCentrai September ReichSecurityOfnce(ltlrlrchaftsabteilungdesReichsicheF heilshauplamles\ to .onstructa POWcampin Birkenau(thee kilometers fromAuschwitz), capable ofreceiving not 100,000 prisoners. butasmanyas200,000 A furthercommission, bearingthedateofDecember 16,194i,contained all necessary details.Thewarbudgel of theThirdReichindicates thatthetunds for lheconstruction oftheseenormous installations wereapproved onJanuary 9, 1942. Thecontention of Zionist-inspircd literature thatAuschwitz hadbeenintended asacampfortheextermination ofJewsliom theverybeginning thusbelongs to therealmoffantasy: If it ever wasa deathcamp,suchwasat anyratedefinitely notthecase priorto January 9, 1942. Not untilJanuary 20, 1942wastheprisoner of warcamp trans[ormed inloaconcennarion crmp.thi\concennarion camp beingintended in thefirstinstance for thereception of Jews. Thismeasure waslakenin execution ofthedecisions oftheso "Wannsee tendentiously interpreted Thesituation Conference." at thistimeisbrieflyoutlined asfollows: Theoutbreak theSovietUnion(June22, ofthewaragainst l94l ) hadeliminated thelasthopethatit wouldbepossible to forcetheJewsintoa more-or-less legalmigrationfiom Germany I'HE BARN[S REVIEW
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ratherthanperhaps in France? Whyin theeastandnol rn west? simply because, within theGerman areaof Quite thattime,theoverwhclming majorityoftheJewswerealready A lthoughGitlaSerenyis oneofthe leadingpromorers catedin theeast,in Poland andintheSoviet Ukraine. which lore.shehasbeenforthrighrin con1L\ ofHolocaust to a largeextentoccupied by Germany. It wassimplerto l. Idemning someofher colleagues whohaveplayed thefewhundredthousand WestEuropean Jewsto theeastthanl fastandloosewith fhetluth. In theNovember2, 1979edito 4 millioneastem Jewsto thewest.Auschwitz seemed toh tionof 7heNewStatesman Sereny revealed something mther precisely therightplaceat whichto collectthem-Auschwi "Holocaust interEsting about suwivoi' MartinGrayt muchandcertain othersitesin theregion, to bedetermined later,suc publicized memoir,Forl/rore1zow4 whichincludeda draas Belzec. Maidanek. Sobibor. Chelmno and Treblinka. maticaccountofcray's "escapeftomTreblinka:' Fromthebeginning ofMarch,transports ofJewsarrived reB In a discussionwith Grayt ghost$Titer,Max Gallo, ularlyatAuschwitz, withwhichwearcmainlyconcemed inthe "had Sereney toldGallothatGrdy manifestlyneverbeento, presentconnection. Thesefactsarcnolongerquestioned by any norescaped fromTrebiinka"'and thatGallo.in response, polemics body. Iflhe nevertheless still continue, they are co0 '$nally aske4despairingly, 'But doesit mattere"' centmtedon the matlerof the numberofjews internedthere ircnically,reflectingupontheapparSerenycommented thenumber whotherebccame victinsofmassmurder, ifany,ar "Wasn'tthe ort thing meaning ent of Callot cornments: (suchas,allegedly, gaschambers) wellasthemeans usedfor tlEt Treblinladi,y'happen,lhat it shouldbe writtenabout, theirextermination, andthatsomeJewsshouldbeshownto havebeenheroic?" At theNuremberg trialonApril 15,1946,Kaltenbrunne ln otlrcruords,Callowassaying:"Well,Gmymaynothave defense counsel, Dr KurtKaufman, askedHoesslhe followin beenat Treblinka,but his lies areall right, since,aflerall, "ls ittrue,that question: Eichmann saidto youthatove [Adolf] we do haveto tell aboutwhathappened duringthe Holo2 millionJewshadbeenexterminated in thecampat Ausch caust---€ven if Cmv'sstorvisn't [ue." Sothere! witz?"Hoess's reply:"Yes,thatis true."
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OnMayJ0,I 96| , atthetrialin Jerusalem, psy theAmerican chologist, Custave Gilbert,a LongIslandprofessor whobad andtheterritories occupied by Cermany. It wasthusnecessary served ascourtpsychologist at thcNuremberg trial,declare "conferto finda newsolutionfor thisproblem. Theso-called thatHoess hadsaidto himin May 1946(thatis,ata timewhe "Twotrainsbrough ence"wassummoned byHeydrich, whohadalready beencom- Hoesswasconfined in acellatNuremberg): missioned for thispurpose by Gdringon July31, 1941.The 3,000persons cveryday,andthiscontinued for27monlhs. The "conf-erence" wasoriginally scheduledto meelonDecember9, resultis a tolalfigureofnearly2.5millionpeople." 1941,butwasthenpostponed to January 20, 1942,because of ln hisbookDeathDealet:TheAlenois ol theSSCotntnu theevents of PeadHarbottheJapanese entryintothewarand da t at Ausch]/|itz edition,I62ofthecer\p.238oftheFrench theresulting stateofwarbehveen Germany andAmcrica. man;English title listed here), Hoess writes in thisconnectio "theexpulsion (Zrri.*d,a,rg,rtg) At thisconference ofthe people"wasdecided In earlier interrogations is irdicatedthe Jewsfromthelivingspace oftheGerman numberofJews "that delivered to Auschwitz for extermination upon,andit wasfurtherdetermined theJewswouldbeput as2.5million. Thisfigurecomes fiornLichrnann. uhogarcit to mysuto workunderappropriate administration andin a suitable manperior, Groupleader Richard nerin lheeastwithinthescope ofthe'FinalSolution."' Glucks, whenhe[Eichmann]
WouldYouConsiderHim a ReliableSource? aulHilbeB,authorof fre Dertruction oI the EurcpeanJe s,haslongbeenconsidered $e "deanofHolocaust historians." However. in | 985,Hilberg!credibilitycaneintoquestion. Hilb€rgadmi[edunderoaththathehadquotedselectively ftomoneofhjsmajorsources "confession'by purported formerNaziSSomc€rKurtGelsiein. WhileHilbergrelieduponCeFteintclaimsaboutpuponeduseofgas chambers toexlerminate Je*s,HilbergdidnottelldlerEade$ $at Centeinhadalsoclaimed $at 25millon Jews\lEregassed in t\rosmallconcenfationcamps. Hilberyadmilted thathe*Duldmt chamct€rize Ge6teinas"lolallymtional"but$at hehadrelieduponfte claimsceGteinnade plsusibl€. thatHilbergbelieved seemed Hilberysaidit uresi €llectually soundto quotesos€lectively. Theproblem, asRevisionist hislorians bave out, is that Se foundation ofHilbergt famous $ork relies heavilyonCeBteinasa keysource for'tvidence"or'!roof' tlat lheCermans lointed exterminsted Jewsusingpoisotrgas.
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I no longerremember thefiguresfor thesmalleracin comparison lnns.Thcywerc.howcver. inrrgnrficant withtheabovefigures. I consider thetotalof2.5 million tobenuchtoohigh. incontrovertible lhalifactuallyno morethan thatthedefendant It is,however, Hoess: persons weretransported to Auschwitz a trcmen30,000 . . . [W]asfoundto be an accomplice in the couldhavebeen number thenno nlorethanI,130,000 (a) murderof: approximalely 300,000campininAuschwitz. \rho mrlcs. had been dclivered lo thccampaspristhat indicates that the actual number of Andthereis much oners and were carried in the camp lists;(b)fu.ther thefigurecited delivered atAuschwitz doesnotexceed persons, the exact number ofwhom is hardto defiguresquotedabove,brokendownby countries, arethe terninebutamounts to at least2,500,000, consist lbr theverintberationale fglr€s whichwereincorporaled ing mainly of Jews ftom vaious European rationale intheJerusalem trial.PointI l1 oftheaforesaid of countries, who werebroughtin railwaycarsto verdict citesthefigureofonly 52,000for France andadds Auschwitz to be exterminated thereimmediately, thefieureof52.000reDresents thcnumber ofFrenchJews andwho for this reasonwerenot carriedin the to delivertoAuschwitz. ichit wasdesired priscampIists;(c)at least12,000 Soviet-Russian considerable contradiclions betwccn thc various Thereare violation provisions oners, in ofthe ofintcmahonal published Auschwitz since1946by the conceming lawconcerning thetreatment ofprisoners, for exJewishDocumentation in the Centerfor ConternDorarv ampleby suffocation in gaschambers, by burning material aswellasinthepublications ofthose ofstatistical injections, alive, by shooting, by fatal by medical the auspices ofthe World Center, atorsactiveunder experiments, by starvation and by the creation of ftomeyewitnesses. claimto havelheirinformation special conceniration camp living conditions which ofthe PolishSupreme Firstofall lhereis a deathsentence resulted in deathfor all concerned. ofApril 2, 1947,whichisjustifiedwith thecontention BOX 15377 . WASHTNGTON,
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WhyWaslhere a Hospital For Inmatesat the Ausdrwitz'DeathCamp'? t'angelittlefactsabouttheHolocaust continueto emerge even within thewdtingsofthosewhobelievethatNaziGermany policyofexterminating carriedouta deliberate theJews.For example,JewishHolocausthistorianAmo Mayer,writing in lt4,y Did theHeavensNot Dalker? stateson page365ofhis bookthat "Birkenau wasthesiteofAuschwitztmainmedicalfacilityand quarantine center."Theverypresence of sucha hospitalfor inmates people question to theofficialstoriesofthe Holoshouldalonecause caustthatwehavebeentaughtfor thelasthalfcenhly. pri\de landlord, What!more,inWashington, DC. today,thelargest rentingpropertyto thefedemigovemment, is Dr LaszloTauber,a Hungarian-bom Holocaust survivorwhouasthechiefsurgeon at the inmates'hospitalatAuschwitz. HOSPITALIZEO
In addition,arcportdatedApril 5, 1944on"securifymeasuesin Auschwitz"by Os\r"ldPohl,headof theGermanagencyrcsponsible for theconcenhation carnpsystem,reportedthata largenurnberof theinmatesatAuschwit werehospitalized ordisabledandunableto Althoughpopularhistorysuggests that 'thoseunableto work" werepromptlymarchedotrto dlegaschambers to beexterminate4 whywouldanofficialCermanreportindicatethata substantial numberofthoseunableto workhadbeenhospitalized? In fact,thisevidence-alongwiti muchothers-pointsto theinescapable facl TheAuschwitz-Birkenau complex(asopposed to the mainAuschwitzindustrial facility)wasestablished primarilyasa campfor prisonerswhowereunableto work includingthesickand elderly,aswellasfor olhemtemporarilyawaitingassignment to other camps, Thus,manyof thosewho actuallydid "die at Auschwitz"died thereonlybecause theyhappened to be there.Hadtheynotbeen probablydied then-resident in Auschwitztheywouldhaveotherwise in theirowll bomes. questions In lightofalloflhis,lhese arise: . IfindeedGermanyintendedthedestruction ofEuropeanJewry, whywouldtheymaintainamedicalfacilityatthecampto keepailing Jewsalive? ' Wly wouldihe Nazismaintaina quarantine centerto prevent the spreadof contagiousdiseases that if run rampant,obviously, wouldhelpfitther their purportedaim of eliminatingthe Jewsof Euope? Are thesequestionsreallyso outlandish,or is theremoreto the storyofthe so-called"extermination" campsthanmeetstheeye?
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howcvcr,the lnstituteofJewishAfairs ofthe JcwishCongress felttheneedofclariryingthismat ter andpublisheda 60-pagebrochureentitlcdtrcir. nannk Con/bdcntes attcltheThndReithHietattb, in whichil is statedon pageI 8: 'Auschwitz(withi$ auxiliary canrps,of rvhichBirkenauwas thc be$ known)southofand not far from Cracow,whereaF prcxt:lr.ately 900,000 Jews lvcrc pul lo death.' ernphasis-Ed.] IRassinier'.s In the sameyearof 196l a certainRaulHilbeq, professor of economics a1theUniversityof Vermon! publisheda monogmpbon tbe sanresubjecrentilled TheDeerudiotl af rc EurzpcaaJeun,which indicatesthat "l million Jews" were exlerminated in Auschwitz. It cannotbe de|ied that lhe aforernentioned fig. urcsarcsubslantially easiertorcconcilervithHocss's judgdcclaralion uncontradicted in the Jcrusalcm nrcnt thata tolalof 1.110,000 Jelvswercrful1r",?d to thiscrnrp.This doesnot ofcourseprovcthatthe figureslaslcitedwerecorrect.ForRaulHilbcrg'sestinales are likewisebasedon lhc nunrberofpeoph who m st havebeenin Auschwilz,andaretherefore nothingmorethanputativcdata. There also exist much morc cxaggerated estrmates.suchas for instanccthatofthejournaln?r/e d Hisbite de lu Se@tde Guen" I,londiab. Herc.a certainHcnry Michel declaresthat "Birkenauwas lhe mostinlcmalionalaDdrnostwestenofalldcath factorics."and 'thatits eath rvasfefiilizcdwith the rshcsof,l rrril/r"a..,r7',r.. IRar.rrer\ erphJ.ir
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Figuresofthis kind arcstillto bc rcadrcpcalcdly in the entire\Yorldprcss. lD his pleadingat Nurernbcrgon Novenber21, I945,JusticeJacksonexprcsscd hinselfas followsl "Oflhe 9.6 million Jews\r'holivcd in NatioDalSocialisfruledEuropc.60 pcrccntperishedaccording to ollic ale.trrnlcr.Thcnunrbcr ofJeq. rri.srngn thecouniries whcrcthcyformerlylivedis 5.7million. Over4.5millionoflbesecasescanbeexplaine therby normalmorlalitynor emigralion. nor arcthcy amongthc displacedpersotls;'\lntehvtionul it4ilikun n ibu al,Vol.2'7ll, 140.) Thc chargelhusinvoh,eda tolalof4,500,000,for all ofEuropeandfor the entiredurationofthc war The obviousconclusionis thatall ofthc European Jewsmissingin 1946,with thecxception of500,000, wereexterminated in Auschwitz. Who canprovethis? *
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"has AnAmerican Jewish academic hascharged inacontroversial bookthatexploitation oftheHolocaust proven tobeanindispensible ideological weapon" usedbythe state ollsraeland theAmerican Jewish commu"immunity nityto advance theirpolitical interests andtoachieve fiomcriticism, howeverjustified." n eye-opening book, Tre HolocausthdustD,, by NotmanFinkelstein, asserts that exploitingthe Holocaust, "oneoftheworldlmostformidamilitarypowers.with a horrendous rightsrecor4hascastitselfasa
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Finkelstein in status." saysexploitaof theHolocaust hasbecome a powpoliticaltool in theworldlodayand it is no lessthan"theexploitalion of ishsuffering." Finkelstein, a professor at HuntcrColin NewYork,andthcsonof parents wer(}intcmcdat theAuschwitz and camps in Poland and whose entirefanily (withdre idenek ionofhis parenls) was,in his words,"externrinated by Nazis"{an hardlybecalleda "Holocaust denier." Inhisbook.Finkelstein dmwsa distinction between \rhathe "theNaziholocaust," whiclrhesaysrefers to actualhistor-
The HolocaustIndustrywasrockedwhenoneoi ils toplgures wasexposedas a lraudin a lenglhyslory(shownabove)in the June22, 2000edilionof Ihe BallmoreSun.Deli Strummer, a 78-yeaf-old Baltimore womanhadbeena famedspeakeron the Holocaust survivorleclurecircuit,hadpublished a book,\aasieaandwidelylouledfor her dramatic eventsand"lheHolocaust"whichhesays"isanideological turedin two docum€ntaries memories. However, whenhistorians ion" that,"like mostideologies. . . bearsa connec- Holocaust startedlooking "shelves inlo Strummels slories, they lound wasn'l iflenuous,with reality."He saysthat she tellinglhe t.uth. uponshelves Amongotherlhings,she claimedlo havespentninemonthsin schlock"relatirgto "the Holocaust"line librariesandbook"most Alschwilz,Infact,shewastherelor probablyno morelhaneiqht andthat ofthe outDutis worthless. a tributenot to days.Strummeralso describedbeingnext in linefor the "gas ishsuffering butto Jewish aggrandizement." Notingthe growthof the Holocausl industryFinkelstein chambel'whenAmericansoldiersarrivediusl in limeto rescue "as that therenderingofthe Holocaust assumed ever her.Bul evenJewishhislorianssaythlsstoryjusl doesn'twash. "with ol absurd forms,"hismotherlikedto quote intentional ThelistoJSlrummelslalesis similarlomanyotheriantasies " thenotedanti-Semitic manyotherHolocausl tale-lellers-some notyetexposed, industrialist HenryFord,whois
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purported to havesaid:"Historyis moreor lessbunk."Accord"Thetalesof'Holocaust ingto Finkelstein: survivors'-allconcentration campinmates, all heroes ofthe resistancewerea specialsource ofwry amusement in my homc,Longago,"he "John adds. Stuart Mill recognized thattruthsnotsubject to con'cease tinualchallenge cvenlually to havethcefTect oftruthby " beingexaggerated intofalsehood.' "the Finkelstein saysthal Holocaust" hasbccone a lucrative, self:serving industryall its orvnandthatit nol onlydoesdisservice to thememory ofthosewhosuffered d ringWorldWar II butthatit deliberately distorts historyandthreatens io selthe stagcfor a politicalandsocialbacklash agairstthoseprofiting fromitspromotion. Nolingthat"ny parents oftenwondered whyI wouldgrowso indignant at thefalsificalion andexploitation oftheNazigenocide,"Finkelstein comments that"tltenostobvious answer islhat il hasbeenusedtojustii, policies criminal oftheIsraelistate and
Anti-ArabPropaganda propA s partofits intemational aganda ofensive, the lsraeli ;\ I llobby hasput forth the m''th thatsomehovr' theleadersofPalestinian nationalismplayeda part in "the Holocaust." ThePalestinians, whoarc victimsofa very genuineHolocaust, suddenlybecamepart and parcelof the newly energizedand growing focuson"theHolocaust" aspartofthe effort to ad\,ace the causeoflsmel. A NE!HUSSENI ThePalestinians, w€ werctol4 hada HAJ Tt Granduft handin "the Holocaust."Yet, asHolocaustauthorityProf.PeterNovickrevealedin his book,ZreIlolocaustih AmericanLife: Theassertion thatPal€stinians werecomplicitin the Holocaustwasmostlybasedonthecaseofthe mufti of Jerusaelm, a pre-WorldWar II Palestiniannationalist leaderwbo, to escapeimprisonmentby the British, soughtrefugeduringthewar in Germany. . . butpostwar claimsthat he playedany significantpart in the Holocausthaveneverbeensustained. This did not preventthe editorsof the four-volurne Encyclopedia ofthe Holoca&rtfrom givinghim a starring role.Thearticleonthemufti is morcthantwiceas longasthearticlesonGoebbels andciiring, longerthan thearliclesonHimmlerandHeydrichcombined, longer thanthe articleon Eichmann----of atl the biographical articles,it is exceeded in length,butonlyslightly,by the entryfor Hitler
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U.S.supportfor thesepolicics." He adds.howcver, thatthereisa pcrsonal motivc:hecaresaboutthcmenlo.y ofhisownfamily\suftering. Flowever. Finkelstcin avers,"the currenlcampaign ofthe Holocaust rndustry to exto( moncyfron Europeinthenameof'nccdyHolocaust victims'has shrunk themoralstature of theirDrartydom to thatof a Montc Carlocasino."In addition,he says "thatit is thatheremains convinced NoBMAN FlNKELsrEl impo(ant ropreservetofightfor theintegrify ofthehistorical rccord." Finkelstein rej€cts lhethcmethatJ€wishsuffering hasbeen "ouC'(i.e unique andtlratto makeoutmoraldistinctions bctweeD "thcirs"iswharhecalls"a moralaav€sty Jewish) sulTeringand Pointing outlhatin I 986famed American novelist GoreVidal accused NormanPodhorelz, then-editor of Crnnerl.r]. maga zinc,ofbeingun-Americanforaftaching lessimpofiancetolh AmericanCivilWarthan toJewishconcems, Firkelsteinwryl comments tbat,in reality,Podhorelz was"perhaps moreAmer icanlhanhisaccuser" in that"by thenit wasthe'WarAgai$t tlreJews.'not the'WarBetween thcStates,"' thatligurcdasmoE cenlral loAmerican culturdl poinls Iifc.Finkelslern oul: Mostcollegeprofessors cantestifyrhatconrpared lo theCivilWarnranymoreundergraduates arcableto place lhe Holocaust in therightcenturyandgcnemllycitethe number killed.In fact,theNaziholocaust isjustaboutthe only historicalreference thal resonatcs in a university classroom today,Pollsshowthatmanynore Americans canidentilytheHolocaustthan Pearl Harbororrneatomtc bombing ofJapan.
Echoing University ofChicagoprofessor PeterNovick,authotof TheHobcaustitl,!r?e,i.?,ai&, Finkelstcin poiils out 'barelyfigtlratuntilfairlyrecently, thesubjcct oflheHolocaust uredin American life" andthatnotonlyAmericans in genenl butalsoAmcrican Jews,includingJewishintellectuals.p attention to thesubject. Finkelsleir citestheJune1967Arabjsraeliwaras theturningpointthatbrought thcl-lolocaust itsstatus asa "fixlure"in American Jewish life: Afierthe1967rvar,Israel'.s militarycl|n couldbecele braledbecause its gunspointedin thcrightdirectionagaiistAmerica's cnemies. Itsmarlialprowess nightcven eanctunts facilrlale enlry.ntolhernner ofAmeican porver. Previously Jewish elitescouldonlyoffera fewlistsofJewishsubversivcs; noq theycouldposeasthenatumlinterlocutorslor America's newest stmtegic asset.Frombit players, theycouldadvance to topbillingin theColdWar B A B N E S F E V T ECWO M
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ThusforAmericanJewry drama. aswcllaslheU.S.,Israel a strategrc o€came asset. "thellolocaust However, notcsFinkelstein, industry didnot center stage"untilafterit became apparent thatlsraelwas iltgsetbacks followingtheOctober1973war Thus,"to inhrael'snegotiating leveragc, theHolocaust industryinproduction quotas," comments Finkelstein. Soit was,he "another s,that"lheHolocaust" became invaluable chip powergamel' ahigh-stakes NotinglhatAmerican Jewshaverisento unparalleled sucanJareanylhing burlhevrcrims lheynowproclalm thentFinkelstein pointsout ihat:
Percapila Jewishincome is almost doublethatofnonJews, sixteen ofthe40weallhiestAmericans areJews;40 percent ofAmerican NobelPrizewinnersin scicnce and economics areJewish, asare20percent ofprofessors at majoruniversities; and40percent ofpartners in theleadinglawfin11s in NewYorkandWashington. Thclistgoes on,Farfromconstituting anobstacle to success, Jewish idenlity hasbecome lhecrownofthatsuccess. Finkelstein charges thatJewish groupssuchastheAnti-DeJbma,,anti-SemiLeague have'tontriv€dhysleria"overso,called
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In the wake of Israelt appallingattacksagainst Lebanon in I 996,climaxing in thcmassacrc of morethan ahundred civilians atQana, F/dd/et:columnistAt-i Shavit "we observed thatIsraelcouldactwithimpunitybecause havetheAnti-Defamation Leaguc. . . and[thelsraelj Holocaust memoriala(]YadVashem andtheholocaust Museum Washinglon, DC.]." lir
Nazi Concentration Campson StatenIsland? JackGlenn.direclorof t-hepopular t940snewsTn 1981. rcel seies. Manh ofTinc died ar age 76. His obiruary. | I disriburedby theAssociared Press(andpublished in the BergeqNewJersey S,//rdal.Recorl on February15,l98l ) Ietslipall amazingrevelation. Accordingto theobituary: As seniotdircctorfor the popularmoviehouse newsreel, heoftencreated worldevents withactonano moviesets.Onesuchnewsfeaturefilm, Irur'deNazi Germany, madem 1918,iicludedfootageof a .toncentration camp"thatuasfilned onStatenIslandwith scoresof NewYorkCity actors.Muchof the fillnt footagewasshotwirhintheborders oftheThirdReich by a free-lance camemman. butllouisl Rochemonr fehftat thefilm hadbeencensoreo lclenn! producer] by Germanauthorities andorderedGlennto rcenacr widelyreported Nazicampatrocities. Soit \\,"sthatthemediaitself wasalready.treating" a Holocaustbeforethe so-calledatrocitieshad allegedly startedhappening. AJd millionsofAmericanswatchingthe newsreels in their localtheateNuere convincedthatthev wereseeing'thereallhing.' Howmanysuchimagesof-reality" thatweseeonaregularbasisareactuallythecreation ofmoviemasicians?
Offi"gr"rrs, Finkclslein commenls thatthis..hoax cutout ofwholecloth- . . isnevertheless thearchet)?al Holocaust memoir It is setfirstin theconcentration camps. whereeveryguard isa craze{sadistic monster.joytully cracking theskullsofJewAsfarasthemuseum inWashington isconceme4 HowevetFinkelstein Finkelstein ishnewborns." citesAuschlvitz survivor lhatthemuseum!presence onthemall"isparticularly who hassaidthat..therewercfew in- Dr Ella Lingens'Reiner yet,asFinkelstein in theabsence ofa museuncommcmoating crimes sadistsnotmorelhanfiveor tenpercent." "ubiquitous lle course ofAmerican notcs, history. InaginethewailingaccusaCerman sadism prominenlly figures in Holoofhypocrisyherewerc Gerntanyto build a natlonalmucaustliterature." in Berlin to commemofatenot the Nazi genocidebut Amazingly, however, asFinkelstein andothershavenoted icanslaveryor theextcrmination oftheNativeAmericans." eventherevelation thatWilkomirskiwasa liar hasstill not Finkelstein hasa fascinating the enthusiasm chapterin his bookentitled dampened of the Holocaustindustryfor Huckstersand History"in whichhedissects book.Fintelstein suchno, Wilkomirski's citesIsmelGutman, a director Holocaust hoaxcs asJerzyKosinski's purportedly whosaysthatWilkomirskil..painisauthentic,,' biog- ofYadVashen, fh Paiqtel Ritd whichwasurr.lated inro nurr(rur.i evenilthe bookisn't. rnd requircdrecdrng Finkelstein in highschools alsodelvesintotheworkofDanielGoldhagen's rnd coll(ges. Fi"g,,,€nlJ, the morerecenl(andwidelyhailed)concoction Hitleri lltllitlg Erccutioner.s whichwaswidelypromotedupon "Holocaust self-styled survivor" Binjamin Goldhagen's Wilkomirski, themeis thattheGerman who, its release. peopre coF irms out,is not evenJewishandwasneverin anyconcenrra- lec(ively weredrivenbypathological hatred andenthusiastically participated campwhalsoever. Hisbook,too,wasa fmud. intheextennination oftheJews. WhenGoldhagen's a o x 1 5 a 7 7 . w A S H i N G T O ND, C . 2 o O O 3
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Who Is Really Payingthe Bills? ln MemorialMuseum isitorsto theU.S.Holocausl aresolemnlytoldthatthemuseumwas Washinglon largelyfrom the built with privatecontributions Theinfer_ cornmunities. Jewish andworldwide American by pdvatedona' is solelyfinanced enceis thatthemuscum asa whole laxpayers American to the at no cost tionsand withpride' beaming the museum ManyJewishvisitorsleave "webuilt thisall onourown thinkingthat, lo muchmoreto thestoryaccording there's However, outthat 6, l992 Pointing TheNewyotlinnesofDecember were ofthe museum theactualfundsfor theconstruction however' Timer notes, the raisedfromprivatecontributions, thesite. . . govemment donated that,"TheUnitedStates HoloStates ofthe United costs the operating witlpay and lhe museum:'ln will run which Council, caustMemoriat \La'in itsinVemorialCouncil \Lhen theHotocdusl 1q80, of thecouncllto limiledthebudget soberly fancy,Congress million. 52.5 prcssure' Jewish to insistent in response Later,however, Accordmore $33million wentonto appropriaie Congress Re.o,dofJune16,1992'pp.H ingto theCdng,€srrbrdl votedanadditional $18.3millionin Congress 4742-4?.14, Councilforfis_ Holocaust for the taxpayer fimds American wasofMuseum year Holocaust thatthe calyear199J the Budgel ficiallyopenedto thepublic.TheCongressional thatfor fiscalyears1994to 2000,the Officeeslimated (adarmually I 5.4nilliontaxdollars Councilwouldreceive museDm the bill for jusledfor inflation).Thus, thelaxpayer period wassome$l l0 millionovera seven-year thatofeventhe budget exceeds operating ThemuseumS museum most visited Museum,lhe Space NationalAirand cost in theworl4 andis seventimestheoperating ofthe Monuandwashington memorials LincolnandJefferson mentcombined.
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"rnro nts to lilllc nlorethanr book $tich Finkclsteinsays compcndiur ofsrdistic violcnce lvasiillsl rclcascd.Finkel' steinrnd a co-authorRuth llcttiir Binr. \\'mle Lldclailedand deushling critiqucofthe bookthatcrcatcdqurlcan uproar is lhatMs. Binr lvasDoless Wbrl nrakestlrisnrostinlercstirrg tlraDtbc chicfbislorianofthc WarCrincs andCrincs Agam$ ofJrrsliceMs HumanilySectionofthe CanadianDepNrtnrent q'ar crimilralsher Bim. \!ho hls madcthe pfoscculionofNazi "Nazl sympa litelsNork. $rs h,rrdlya Holocaustdenica or JcwishCongrcss;lctu' thizei bur nonetbclcss theCanadian perpctralor mcc bccause allysmedcdherasa ntcnrberolthc (icnnarr-bom. shcwas deri.rl is con' As faf aslhc subjectof so-c.rllcd'Holocaust ccnied FiDkclst,'inpoinlcdly connrrenlsthrl: All drc hype nol$ithstanding.lhere is no evidcnccthat llolocaustdcnien excrtanyDrorcinfiuenccin theUnitcdStateslhanthellat-Lanh churncdoul dlily by theHol$ socictydoes.Civcnthenonscnsc ' causlindushy.thc lvonderis thrt thercare ro /in skeplics lhal $ere il not for the likcsof[Deb$ contends Firrkelstein rahl Lipstadl."authoroflhc widely loutcdDrlrr irg /rr 11010' ofdre$o* probablyhavc ncverheard cau.r/.nrostpeoplc\','ould Lipshdt s ou$our Sunnndrizing Rcvisionisls. Ilolocrust ofthc wntcs: ings.Finkclstein lhc role leslinlony.lodcnounce r survivor'.s To qucstioD tblt CcrmaDssuffcred to sLrqgcst ofJc\vishcollaborators. duirg thc bomblig of Dresdcnor that any slateexccpt Ge nan! connnillcdcriDresin $brld w.rr ll this is all cvidencc.accordilrgto Lipstadl.ofHolocttlsl dcnial. finkelsteincvcnIindsvalucrDthc $ork ofllolocausl Rc\i_ sionists.notingthateren llolocrusl historianR.rLrlHilbcrghas srid ifthesepcoplc\';rnlto sperk.lct dreD It only lcadsthose ofus who do rcscarchto rc cxalrnle\fhat \re nlgnl nale considcrcdas oblioLrs.And th.l\ usel'ulfor us Finkclslcirrlso 'Not Lrllrcvisionistlilcranne ho$clcr scur_ drrcs 1osa),thal ofits praclilioners is lot!lly dlouslhc politicsor nroli\'ations
Dcb'ingDebonhLipshdlandolhersilr lhc Hobcaustlrdus_ iry Fiikclsteinnolcsthat Bccauscsufvivorsarc noN rc\'cred as secuhrsaints.oncdocs l darcqueslionthcnl.PrcpostcloLls passwitho lcomnreDt.llc !lso poinlsoutthll in re_ stateDrcnls yeilrs lhc term I lolocaustsur\'ivof hilsnowcvenbccnrc_ ccnt dclinedlo dcsignalenol o|lv lllosc\\ho endurcdbut alsothosc Nho mrncgcdlo e\tdc thc Nazis c\'cn includingmorethan 100.000PolishJe$swho foundrclirgcin thc SoviclUniondurIngthe\\'at Holocausl sunrron lhcnlunberofliving IIc alsochargcsth.rl b.rsbccnsubjcctto inll lionaryrcrision bccauseilisdifficuh ifonly a halrdfirlof to prcssnrassilcnewchins for reparOlions cl.limsaboutfte dilTcdng arc illi\'c. Cilrng sur'ti\oIs Holocausl saidlo be eli_ laborers who arc nunrbcrofHolocausl-enslavc B A R N E S F E V E W . CO M
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for repamtions. Finkelstein saidlhal. In fact.ro belie\e Holocaust industry, moreformerJewishslavelaborers are todaythana halfcentury ago."According to Finkelstein: Injugglingthese numbers theHolocaust industry, howwhitewashes Nazism. RaulHilberg, everunintentionally, putsthefigure dleleading authority ontheNaziholocaust, murdered at 5.1 million. Yet, if 135,000 former forJews must Jewish slavelaborers arealivetoday,some600,000 havesurvivedthewar That'sat leasta half-millon more tlanstandard estimates. Onewouldthenhaveto deduct $ishalf-million iiomthe5.I millionfigureofthosekilled. Notonlydoes the"6 million"figlrebecome moreuntenablebutthenumbers oftheHolocaust industry arerapidly approaching thoseoftheHolocaust deniers. Considerthat populaNazileader Heinrich Himmlerput thetotalcamp tionin January 1945ata littlemore700,000 andthat,acto [authorSaul]Friedlander, aboutone-third this cording only lumberwaskilledotrbyMay.Yetifjewsconstituted ofthe survivingcamppopulation an4 asthe 20percent industryimplies, 600,000 Jewishinmates surHolocaust in totalmust vivedthewal thenfully 3 millioninmates industry's reckoning, havesurvived.By the Holocaust havebeenharsh concentration campconditions couldn't at highfertility all;in fact,onemustsuppose a rernarkably mteandremarkablylow mortalityrate. Thestandard claimis thatthe FinalSolutionwasa uniquely efficient, assembly-line industrial extermination. Butii astheHolocaustindustrysuggests, manyhundreds ofJewssurvive4 theFinalSolution couldn't ofthousands havebeensoemcientafterall. It musthavebeena haphazardafair rxactly whatHolocaustdeniersargue.
Interesting letters . . . I wasin lhe 862EngineeringBrigde whenI wasin Cermanyin 1946asa Pfc.I wastold by oneofthe men in lhe brigadethat he had beenin Dachauandthat he andotherGIs wereorderedto fix up a rcom to makeit appearlike a largeshowerroomwheretheNazisgassed Jews. I alsosawmanyofthe Jewswhohadbeenin German concentotioncamps.Theyall appearcd healthyandwell fed.This wasbeforetheywercshippedout to Israeland the US. The Jewswere carcfully separatedfrom the otherdisolacedDersons. -CLrDI G.Rf,YNor,Ds For€st Crove,Oregon It's a small world. I rememberbeing told by Bill Curry, a Nebraskafarmer, in the presenceof othels, aboutl5 yearsago,lhat he visitedDachaushortlyafter the war as a tourist and during lhe tour his group was shor*'na large"showerroom" with showersprinklers. Theguidetold themthat theseonly lookedlike shower spra)s;actually,they emittedgasto kill manyJewsat the sametime, who thoughtthey were only taking a showerBill relat€dhow he had reachedup andpulled theshowerheadout from thewall. whereit wasembedded in plalier, it wasunconnected to an]'thing.Shortly aftenrar4theDachaustorybeganchangingandin 1993 even Simon Wiesenthalsaid that there were no gas chambersin Germany,they werein Polan4etc.
-WILL$A, CaRro Thematterofreparations hasbecome thesubject ofmuch PLtsLBIs&TBR andmanipulation by thoseprofitingfromtheHolocaust whichFinkelstein savs"hasbecome anoutriqhtextorracket," withprincipals in thereparalions subdivision ofthe eracompensation. makingvastsumsof money andnotjustAmencan $3,500in Holocaust In his book. Finkelstein examines in somedetailthemucharcln me game. ballyhooed campaign against the Swiss banksandtheSwiss Finkelstein citesformerSen.AI D'Amato(RForexample, spearheaded by billionaireEdgarBronfmanandthe for six monthsof workmediating government Y) whomade$103,000 WorldJewish Congress and aidedbywhatFinkelstein calls"an Former lawsuits againstCerman andAustrian banks. press infinitely compliant and give credulous ready to banner himselfeams of StateLawrence Eagleburger ananheadlines to Holocausfrelated preposterous:' any story however salary of$300,000 aschairoftheIntemational CommNsron Although underpressure-the Swissbanksfinallyagreed Holocausl-Era Insurance Claims, "dean" pay grand to the $l.25 billion, tolal ofreparations andcompenIn thesamerealm,RabbiMarvinHier, oftheSimon paid monies sation out by various enlities and now underthe Cenlerin LosAngeles, hashiswifeandsononthe WJC is control ofthe roughly billion, according to Finkel$7 payroll. Together theytookhome$520,000 in I 995.One sur\ivors. involvedin a Holocaust-era reparations casedemanded srein,Burrhemoneyis nolgoingto Holocaust powerful The fact is that Jewish organizations areanglingto ftomoneclientfor readingthebook,VaziGoldaspanof divide up the loot. By the time the money is finally dividedup, research "needyHolocaust most ofthe survivors" in whose names the Ontheotherhan4Fin-kelstein notes,hisownmotherreceived B O X 1 5 4 7 7. W A S H I N G T O N ,
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Jcwsworlh yet another$10 billion. llc alsorllegedthar"nfty pcrccnlofAnrerica'.s totalaft is loolcdJewishafi." Finkehtein sunnnarjzes it all quite$cll: "Thc llolocausti ustryhasclcay goncbcruerk." Finkelsteir!closing$ordsarequiteanominous\'"aming for thosewho hale bccncxploiling The Holocaust." Ilc wriles: Thechallenge lodayis to reslorctheNaziholocausl as a rutionalsubjcctofilrquiry ODlythencanwc rcallylcdrn frnrnrr.Ih( Jbnornr.rlir! ul rhe\rr holo(Ju\l(pr.r'{, ul lioln thc clcnt ilselfbul fioln thc cxploitilc indnstrythal hasgrownup aroundit.TheHolocaust industryhas.rhvays becnbankrupl. WhalreDuinsistoopcnlydcclareit so.The tinrcis lonqprsl to pul it oul ofbusincss. gesTbeDoblesr Iurcfor thoseshu pen.hedr\ ro prcscr\clhcif rc ror). lcrm lronrrll
ThefactrsthatmosrAmcricans(actuallyDrostpeoplcon lhe faceoftheplanet)areas Rcvcrcnd Jesse Jackson onccdcscribed himself'sickandtiredof hcaringiboul lheHolocaust."and some honcstintellectuals iI thc Jcwishconnnunily(suchas Finkelstein)recognize lhis.AmcricansaresayiDgEnoughalrcady.' Wecancertainlyundcrstand why Finkelstcinhassaidlbal"l sometinres think that AnrericaDJe\\'ry'discovcriig tbe Nazi holocaustwas\\,orscthanits havingbccnforgouen. J.
Hollywood Half-Truths n StevenSpielbergtHolllvood extava9anza, SchitldlLt! List,the chiefvillainisconcentration campcommanderAmon Goeth. who is sholvn brutalizing inmates. In Spielberg'sfilm, coeth!hanging is depicted butiheaudience is nevertoldthatit was,in fact,theGermanswhoexecutcd oneoftheirownforhismisdeeds against theJews. Thisisjust another of thoseoddities abouttheHolocaust-and thc presented imageoftheHolocaust quesby Hollfvood thatmakesone tionwhatreallydidhappen duringlhattragicem. Whatis notknorm to lhemillionsofpeople whosawScrinl/e,.s Zirristhatin September of 1944Goethwasarrested andimprisoned for corruptionandthemurderof concentration (andthenhanged) campinmales by theSSHdrpAmtceticht,thecentra'l omceofthe SSJudiciaryGoethtarrestcame afteraninvestigation by theGerman militaryJudgeKonradMorgen andomcers of Bureau FiveoftheReichSecurity MainOmce.In fact, theSSmaintainedan policeforce,whose intemalsecurity missionwas theprosecution ofcermancamppersonnel (suchasGoeth)involvedin corruption orbrutality. Shown above isa selection ofmemombiliain"list" purports cludingwhat to bethereal ofJewssavedby Schindler alongwidlphotographs of thereai-life heroofSpielberg's epic.
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fnwsu SoepMmHScnunnEn . GittySereny, authorofrr/olrdrd,k ?e$,whostared that: "Theuniversally accepted storythatthecorpses *€re uscdto makesoapandfertilizeris finallyrefuted by thegenerally very reliableLudwigsburg CenlralAulhorityfor Investigation into ilarlegend aboutGennan brutalitygainednotoriclyduring NaziCrimes," an4 . EvenDeborah afterthefirst worldwar.but it wassoolrexposcdasa hoax, Lipstadt, althorof De ting rcHolo&ust, , by theendofworldWarIl, thetimewasripefora re- admifted in a May 16,198| interview in ThcLosAtlgelesTimes ofthis hackncyed war propaganda. that:"Thefactis drattheNazisneverusedthebodies ofJews, In fact.thestorybecame sowidespread andbelieved by so or for thaimatter, anyone else.fortheproduction ofsoap." thatduringtheofficialNurembery WarCrimesTrials, fol, Somuchforanother Holocaust legend although thisIegend ingWorldWarll. thechicfBritishprosecutor, Sir Ha(lcy maywellbetheoneihalpeople remember mosl.Unfortunately, ross!rcpeated therumor ln thefiDaljudgment atNurem- however, mostpeoplc whohaveheard thestoryhavenoideathat hry,thejurisls evenconcludcd lhat"attempts weremadelo uli- evenJewish historians havenowformallyrepudiated it. + lizethefat fromthebodiesofthe victimsin thecommercial ERHApS THElrosr AsToNtsHr\cand cnduringlegend ofthe Holocaustis lhal tiredandwom story(taughlas trulh to our schoolchildren ) thatNaziGermanymanufacturcdsoapout of the bodicsofnnrrderedJcws.A
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Soil wasthatthe"humansoap"rumorgained a formofofialsanction andwasutilizedin postwarpropaganda to the Forexamplc, aninfluential public Jewish relations orion,theAnti-Defamation (ADL)ofB'naiB'rith, League d in a booklet,TheA ato ry of Nazism,thal: "The process of brutalization did not endwith the massmurders bemselves. Largequantities ofsoapweremanufactured from {E corpses ofthosemurdered." .Journalist WilliamL. Shircr, in hiswide\ rcadlie Rrieaad fallo[theThidReich,rcpcated thestoryaswell.Perbaps milIions ofpeoplesawthesoapstoryas"fact"in Shirer's writings. 'ln a swomdeposition in l98l, "bestlvitness" MelMermeltteindcclared thatit was"established fact"thatthesoapheused ean rniute ln a concentratlon campwasnade fromJewish
corpses. . Barsofwhatwaspurponed to be"Jewishsoap"weredisplayed asHolocaust relicsin suchplaces astheHolocaust Muin Philadelphia 6eum andat theJewishHistorical lnstitutein Warsaw andin Israel. . Postwar"Nazi huntei' SimonWiesenthal wrorean anlcle
foranAustrian Jewish newspaper in rvhichheclaimed thatfrom April1942until May 1943some900,000 Jcwswereusedas nw materiallor theproductionofsoapat a facloryin Poland. IDMITTEDMYIH
Despite theselies,thcfactisthatthesoap sloryisa m)1hand Nlleast threeprominenl devotees oftheHolocaust haveadmitted ilisa myth: ' WalterLaqueur,in his I 980book,TheTenibleSe.rct,\\l1o
WhyWouldAnyoneInflatethe Numberof Holocaust Victims? hosewhowantto believethat"Six million Jewswere exterminated by NaziGemany"sometimes challenge thosewhodoubttheclaimby asking:"why wouldthe Jewishpeopleever make up such a gigantic lie?" professor Paul Rassinier,a Frcnchsocialistand resistancefighter who endedup intemed i[ the Buchenwald concenkation camp and who later challengedthe legendsofthe Holocaust,had an explanation: It issimplyaqu€stion ofjuslirying byapmponionate nunb€rof corpses rheenomous whchCermany subsidies hasbeen paying annuallysince drc€ndoft]lewr lo lhesrate ofhnel by\myofr€paj"tionforinjwieswhichmoreover, shecamotb€h€ldrohalrcaused her€i&ermonlly0rl€gally, sincetherevasnostar€ of Israelarrhe trnetl€ alleged de€&tookplac€; tlusit isapurEly andcontemptibly prcblem. material Pedups I maybeallowed to rEcallhererlat drc srale oflsraelwasonlyfounded in May1948andrhattfu Jevswer€ nanonals ofallslal€s wih n.lle exceDtion ofl$'ael.inodertoundedine lhedinensions of afraudwlichdefesdescription in anylanguage; onlheonehandCermany pqstolsrEel suns\rhjchar€cdculaled on sixmilliondea4andontheother, sinc€arl€astfour-fifths ofdrcse 6 millionwEledecid€dly aliv€aitle endofdEr€r, sheispaying suu slantral sunsbywayofrepantion lo6e victinsofHitl€rtcemany lo tfus€\lhoareslillalivein counties all overthe\loddotherilan Israel alldrothedghtfulclaimanrs ofdDsewhohave sinc€ oeceas€o, lrtich melnrlhatforlh€lbnner(i.e.dl€6million), of inother ',ordr, torthevastnajoriry,sfteh paying nvice.
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'Doubting TheHolocaust's Thomas' T Is No stv,,tll,tRoNythatProfessor PaulRassinier the onehistorianwholaidthegroundwork for whatis known as"Holocaust denial"today w€shimselfa survivorof theNaziconcentration camps. A lifelongsocialist in his nativeFrance. Rassinier aneducator bv orofession-was anested by theGestapo in October of I943for hisactiverolein theFrenchanti-NaziResistance movement andfor helpingto smuggle Jewish refugees intoSwitzerland. Forhislabors, Rassinierwas thendeported to theconcentration campat Buchenwald andthenwastransferred to thecamp at Domuntil thewarcameto anend. However, thetwoyea$of intemment broughta hea\Ttoll on Rassinier whoreturned to France asa virual invalidAlthough elected to theFrenchnational party assembly on theSocialist ticket,hishealthwasbrokenandheserved onlyoneyearin office.UDonhisretirement. herrasawa-dedthe Medaille dela Resistance ar'dtheReconnaissdrc? fian.? 2, thehighesthonorsof lheFrenchgovemmeni for hiswartimeservicein theResistance. In hisyearsof retirement, however, Rassinier began hearing lhestories ofwartimeatrocities in theconcentration campsmassgassings, executions andtalesofmanymillionskilledby theNazisaspartof a deliberale attempt to exterminate theJews ofEurope. Yet,based onh'sownexperiences, Rassinierknew for certain thatmanyofthestories weresimplynottrue. lnitially,Rassinie. thattheremayhavebeensome accepted validityto thestories ofthegaschambers, butashebegan to investigate published onhisown,analyzing thestories of survivors, information andotherdala.hesoonemersed asa determined
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ftomwhathadhappened elsewhere in otherconcentmtion andthat.in thecaseofAuschwitz. thecentemiece ofthe "there rminationstoryastold by the Holocaust industry, r wereanygaschambers, noranyexterminations by that atAuschwitz-Birkenau." By theendofhis career, Rassinier concluded that,at most, Above,a camplheaterwhereplayscouldbe pErlormedby inIessthan1,600,000 Jewshadactually diedduringthetwelve maleaclofs.8elow,a playbilllotDie Fbdemauspeiomedby of Nazidominance in Europe-a far cry llom thefamous lheinmates, of"Six Million"(ormore). ln a letterdatedMay8, 1965,Rassinierexplained hismotives to bringhistoryintoaccord seeking withthefacts: It is myintention to wringliom publicopiniontheadnissionthat,in thewarof 1939-1945, Englishmen, Russians,Frenchmen andAmericans conmittedcrimesjustas horribleandinjust asgreatanumberasthoseattdbuted to verymuch theGermans-whoserealcrimesare,however, thatit is inopento dispute.I alsowishto haveit conceded merelyGerman warcriminals, espemoralto investigate of theirbchavior hasbeen ciallywhenthecriminalnature beenthecase. exaggerated, ashasindeed I believethat,aftera war,thereshouldbea geneml thisistheonlywayto forallcombatants because amnesty thenalions. ofpeacebetween bringxboutrn almosphere andto avoidfuturcwars.. . .Thatis ny pointof viewI it detheadvantage finesmyintentions. Andit has,furthennore, truth.. ona search forhistoric ofbeingbased revisionist thedistinguished American In theUnitedStates, philosophical mentorofTHE historian Dr HarryElmerBames, Rassinicrtwritingsandhelped RE\,rEw, discovered BARNES to oneacintoEnglish. According for theirtranslation anange made40photocopies oftheO?ewritten count,Bamespersonally themto profesofRassinertworkanddistributcd lranslations sional associates. youngageof6l onJuly29, diedat therelatively Rassinier survived by hiswifeandonlyson. 1967 athishomenearParis, widow,WillisA. ofRassinier's In 1978,withtheimprimatur publisher TH E B^RNES REvlEw-uti who isnow the of Carto publish thefirstcomPress to lizedthevenueofthe Noontide prehensive Englishlanguage collectionof Rassinier\most seminalworksunderthe tille Debu king lhe GenocideMyth. pione€nng workremains a standard Rassinier\ andcourageous
86lorv,up to 16 camp banclgandorchestrashad everyconcsivabl€ instrument available.
Cempan & aculplure classes(letl)wer€conductedfor inlerested, talentedinmalesby prcfessionalsculptors. Acinemalhealer-where cultunlandmostlynonpolilicallilmswereshown lor lhs b€nolitof lh6 prisongrs-was alsopanol theAuschwiEcompl6x.
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hemediatrumpetedthedefeatofhistorianDavidlrving by HolocaustindustryfigureDeborahLipstadtin thesamemediaremained silent cout in London.Yet, irt l99l whenanothermajor"holocausttrial" resulted "Holocaustsurvivor" Mel in thepummelingof self-promoting Mermelstein. Withthesupportofthe same"LipstadtLobby" had thatralliedbehindits heroinein London,Mermelstein wageda ten-yearlonglitigationcampaignto silencetheforces defeat. ofhistoricalRevisionism, onlyto bedealta shmning InMermelstein firstfiledsuitagainstthe Califomia-based stitutefor HistoricalReview(lHR) in l98l in LosAngeles, claiming thehistorical institute wasguiltyolbreach ofcontmct give for failingto him a $50,000rewardin retumlor providing MEL IIITEBIIITELSTEIN aEsrM Ess forcnsicevidence thatJewshadbeengassed at Auschwitz. Not the witness. best RespecledRassinier'swolk Mermelstein couldn'tprcvideanyscientific evidence butstill pay,Mermelinsisted WhentheIHRrefusedto onthereward. steinfiledsuit. crowedthatthis was"a greatvictory overhistoricalRevisior Mermelstein alsonamedLibertyLobby,theWashington, ism."lt wasno morethanthesettlement ofthe contractdispute. asa co-defendant, ButMermelstein\ Dc.-basedpublisher ofThe SPOTLICHT, backers weren'tfinished. Withintheyear, to do with the Mermelsteincamebackandfiled anothersuit againstthet\ ! altioughLibertyLobbyhadnothingwhatsoever wasthattheIHR'Sfounder, Willis institutions, prosecution, case. Theonlyconnection charging malicious libel,intentiona Carto,wasalsothefounderofliberty Lobbt andlheforcesbe- inflictionof emotionaldistress and"coDspiracy." weretargetingCarto. hindMermelstein Thebig mediaalsocameto Mermelstein's supportin the In theen4 LibertyLobbyandtheIHR determined theirown months leading upto thesecond trial,scheduled for Septembe intereslswouldbestbeservedto settlethecaseoutof courtby t9 9 1 . payingMermelstein ratherthanriska potentially largerjudgTrumpeting whatwasactually a successful moneygrabina mentifthe casewentto trialandMermelstein $on.Themedia contmctdisputeasa "victoryoverRevisionism," thefilm N?vel
Ihe Mythof iln 6 illillion E amininglhGilad Erbrnl|ralionPlot heWhof thesixMi ion wastheftst bookever | \r,rittenwhichrE3llvtriedto di! into the factsof 'lhe holocaust"Dr. D;vid L. uogft4 m auhor ot theboolqlearingacademic retribrtio[ wasunwilling to publishthebook$rithhisnaneattachedThusfte first editionwaspublishedbackin 1969udderthe name'1{nonymous:'NowHoggancanbe giventhe I
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WasAuschwitz a 'deathcamp'ol a trecreation camp'? Art in Auschwitz1940-1945 The Auschwitzcampcommandant provideda studioand art supplies.Inmates producedthousandsol paintingsand sketches.The AuschwitzMuseurnhas 1,470painiings, butnones displayed,lor obvious reasons. Al efi are a fewworks of artdoneby rnmates.
RecreationalFacilities pooluse,Auschwilz Besides theswimming alsoleatured wakwayswithcomlortable benches to relaxuponintheshade oJlargekees,andsportsfacililies. Theseincluded a soccerfied (belowleft),handball areas.fencinqclassesandother exercise facilities including a sauna(belowright).Thesefacilities wereavailable to theDrisoners.
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bolitionist literature isstillreadable anduseful, butnotas scholarly historyWasSimonLegree atypicalplantation ove6eer? WasAmericanslaverya per@sively sadistic institution? Weareall welcome to suchbeliefsif we choose, buthistoryasa serious intellectual discipline doesnotsupportthem.Ifwe insistupongoingintothemattermoredeeply, then mostcertainly it isnottoprovideamonldefense ofslaveryitself,let alonedenythatit existedonAnericansoilfor approximately two centuries. No, we aresedouslyinterested in its historyandthat means respect for widence,highstandards of argument andproof, andskepticism pastevents aboutourownabilityto understand as theywerein factexperienced. Abolitionistliterature hasthusbeen consigned mainlyto therealmof propaganda. Thisis wherettte "holocausf'exterminationist literatuewill eventually go. Therearereallynoshortcutsin theprocess by whichhistorical hlowl€dge isacquircdnosubstitute forcloseandcarefulreading"/rge, andre-reading in manyinstances. phmse Thereisa German \tie gednckt" lyir'g,asif in print.Anda Rus'Nobodylieslikeane1e(translated)t siansaying witness."Thesearetwo dangersdominantin muchhistorical writing,andespecially in thevhtuallyoceanic perorations of our advercaries. Againstthis, wer€visionists areintheposition ol defending hisloryitselfftombeingentirelyinundatedbutto do sowehaveto readcloselyand carefully. It isn'teasy. Thecrucialvolumealhand perusal, is notfor casual Butasthecentraltext lor holocaust revisionhm produced upto now,it asedi"g theHoloautt-2tu| Etlih@-Tlis is rhesLlndrd bl repays therequisite effortmanytim€sover NhichaUothe.rcrb on dresrbjecrarcjudged,the mosr compehensire \ork ler ro appe&dealilgNitbl])e$bjrd, Especially amongliteratepeoplewhohave rhe p, odmr of l0 #219,sofrcover, 620 )eaEol inlestigadon. paidlittlespecificattention to tlleentiresubject, pagcs,8.5"x I I " fomal' SJOtf,fi, Cemar Rudolf. thereis apalpable consensus thattheexternina(andcommemoration) tionistliterature does€ngage inexaggemtion. propagandistic? Towhatexlenthaseveryemhad Butunderstandably, it is widelyheld.Thepem€cution ofjews did historynecessarily its own form ofholocaust mlthology-together withits taboos place-much and take suffering anddeathensued. Wly argue thematter censorship? Yet permitting thisdebas€ment ofthestandards without furtler? is analogous to givingupondueprocess in the Foronething,because historyitsellisat stake. Towhatextentis protestorresistance 82
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fbr of hw. Historynccdsdueprocess,loo. Testimorry, adjudication to an equivalent cross-examination. fiample,shouldbe subjeclcd (Howmuchofthe holocausl suNivors'tcslimony hasbeentrealed withanyskepticisnat all'l)Andifr trialinvolvcsa capitaloffcnse (inthis lhemonheinorN systenralic murderin hisinslanc€ allegedly scrutinyofthc allegcdmurdcr hry),doesn'tthisrequiretheclosest wapon(s)?Whereis tbecol2ra d"/i.ri'l Thisbookcanandshouldhavea shockeffectoDthoserelders for lhe 6rsttinre. andpondcring theevid€nce seiously$,eighing of canon-in nearlytrvodozenessays Hereis thebasicrevisionisl pages quitc lhirty each,manJofthcm tcchnical andallofthem Dearly 0erdrng "tud).ReadrIN bookand)oL will knowuhcrcre\jsioni5m And lheshockis thdtrevisionismhasdoncawaywilh theexi! today. Thatis thejuslification for thcbookt litle.a deleminationist case. allackon libemte allusionto DeborahLipstadt!exterminationist D?,o,r)rg rre Holacatst:The Goxi|gAssarlton fiuth nvisionism. mustcone Brltholocaust relisionismis something eachperson propaganda, rle are lo in his or herown way.As wc areskepticalof to betheobjects of it wearccontrarians andnoteasily disinclined prosel),tized. limefor theessays represcntcd in lhiscompendium to It'"villtake wilh lhenr.Farfromhav' sinlin.Mindsyetunbornwill beconcemed revisionisn is todayrt lheoutsetofils ingrunils course. holocaust {orv.Ouradvcrsaries havecreatedtheholocaustastbecentnl preocoflhe timeforhistoryitsellTtis factalonelvillbe ofhigh cupalion andmyhology lltercstin futurelimes.Howcouldsuchpropaganda ilselfinpeacetinre somassivcly andwithsuchfeebleresistinpose constantly boasting of freedom ofexmcefromwithina prof€ssion prcssion? Bul our adversaries havealso madcceriainthat the will notonlycontinue bulbecentrallo thcinlcllecfilal dig$istance itsellThisdignilyhasahvays founditsdefcnse iityofthediscipliDe to.onrc. inpa5l cm' ofpcrrecurion. It \\rl' firdIhen iparnrnlin)cs assunred a pseuAsfortheeditorofthebook.GennarRudolf(he der donimfof lcgalreasonswheniIs forctvone\ G ndldgen kit("Fundamentals gerc,tic,l?re of History"),beganils tumultuous publication hislory in Germanymorc lhan 15 yearsago)rvordsof world-wide prahe wouldbegratuitous. Hehasassumcdthc lead€F elTort,andpersccuted andpursued as $ip ofthe entirerevisionist berohm. The treatment accorded him nlst by his heis,thisconstitutes (adisgrace to thatgreatname) mlleagucs atthcMax-Planckjnstirut and no$ by the Cermangoreme rhenby lhcGermdn Judrcrarl. lvill nrosl repre.entati\e someddy beseena* o.leo-rl'e nenrilrclf. paya price ofourlimc.Thosewhomakehistorygenerally scandals fordoingso whichlalercrasthentendto ignoreor forget.Weare ltry fotunateto havehimin ourmidst. other Andthoughunderfanaticatlack.hc is himselfever',thing proof Historical is r dimcull matter and any spccific Sanfanatical. pliti.alagerda r. rnrmical to rl. lhe dJkcof Wcllingron onLcrc
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TwoMoreRnisionistBoohs DetailingHolcsin thcHolaccn$ The Rldtr Repot Ry CenJJ'^r Rudolf.A follorv-upto Tldkiatkt R4,orhabout allegedgaschambersat Auschwitzplus additional corections and clarifications. The author,a scientist and putr lisher,is injail in Cermanyand th€ book is ill€galin Eurcpeand Canada. Softcover, 455 pages, #378,softcover$rr. Thclzu.htor Rcpoft: TheCas ChanberStudbsThltt Chaged ,Elirrrr).T heHolocaustis often characterized as the greatest crime in rhe history of man' kind- Yet for 44 years after WorldWarII not a singlefor€nsic investigation into this alleged"crimeagainsthumanity" as everundertaken,This changedin 1988whenFredA. teuchter,the world's r,rasasted foremostexp€rton executrontechnologres, to investigate the "gassing" faciliti€sof Adolf Hider. L€uchterchang€dthe cours€of historywhenhe concludedin hh reports:'Therewereno executiongas chambersat anyof theselocations."Publishedby scientist GermarRudolf,thisbookbringstogeder and put> lishesALL the LeuchterReportsin one volum€and subjects Lruchter'sfindingsto intensescrutiny. What this critique revealsis even more shockingthan the LeuchterReportsthemselves! Softcover, 227 pages, #43t,$22.
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ONnTEecHEn's IouRNEY DENrn/ To'HoLocAUST How Doll oNTco rRoMBEr,Err.icthe world is flat to acceptingthat it is reallyrorlnd?How doesone "gospel' and developan entirely oppositeworldviervlAnd how castoffdecadesof what is assumedto be with dreacceptance and espor.sing ofa very doesa lq,rnanresistand overcomethe calumnyassociated Afterall,manyhonestacademics andothersharelosttheirjobsand differentand unpopularviewpoint? "holocaust of theJews"story had their livelihoodsruined becausetheydaredto openlyquestionthe "beyond question"and "beyonddeUnlikeall ofier historicalevents,thisis one that hasbeendeemed bate."who hasdeemeditso andwhy?Thatiswhatyouneedto know,thatyoumightundenlandjustivhy this subjectis so sacredand unapproachableby honestresearch.
acceptedat facevalue.Comeon, folks.Thh is not an indiridual,butanentire nation,tlmthasbeenchargedand conlicted of massmurder and h:s neverbeenallowedto defendi6elf. he following accountis an attemptby one $'ho Put yoursell,asan indiridual,in that position:You knowyou dared to be like Doro$I of Xansasand decided to "Oz" and to are iDDocent.Everypiece ol forensic,scientificand demosqmie dle fearofa boomingvoiceof pLrll back the curtain-and reveal that the gmphic eridenceexonel?tesyou, but )'ou are Dotallow€d1o treneDdo svoiceand godlikeimagethathad all useit. You are alreadyjudgedas guilty belbre the tlial even not a god at all, but a liule old Nhite- slarts.That remindssomeofus Texansofold.ludgeRoI Bean, he peoplein lear \t'a,s "Are Nhen askedby a capturedsuspect, hairedman with a megrphone. ),ougonnagi\€ |lle a fair trial?"Beanallegedl)replied,'Yeah,we'll gile you a fair Thiswriterpresenlsthispape\ fiNt{ritter in lg9l andj st [ial, then $'e'rcgonnahangvou." recentllupdated,in hopesthat our lalmen rvill take up the Asyou readthisarticle,l hopeyou\!ill think ofand askthe causefor truth and 1oshowthat one doesDothare to be a man oflettersora'scholai'to discoverwhatturnsout to be a sim- questiolsofy,ouraccrrserthat wolrldbe askedif )'ou1!ereon trial fol sr.rch a heinouscrime.Anddo not acceptirnlthingbut plemrth. The enemyknoNstheycaDprettymuch cortrol the is lay people starta legitimate aNwer in retum-no er"asi\eness, no emotional and dreir voices;whatthel fear the scholars Ereryone of&e peoplewho allege ingto questiontheir pronouncemena,cspecialllin numbers. outburstsor name'calling. thiscime ofgenocideshouldbe foned to backit up, and ldo Hopefullythe persolalexperiencecitedhereint\'illbe a help .am younelf' not mean$'idrmislabeledaDdphonyphotographsand statetul guide and somedringNith which l'ou may "trom a frieDdofa friendrvhosebrother-inlawsaid...." cosd,v menti for future questioningofthe purveyorsofa despicable, Thosewho showa tattooednumberasproofof extemination andcoN"dly mydr. urge you to appry it lo haveonll shorr,nl'ou a lattoo drat pro\€s one thing-drat drey Borrorving an acrontm-FEAR-l extemination campaign $aged hale a laltoo.In ollrerwords,folks,hold theseplairtilli to the ofthe supposed anlaccount "False Evidence samejudicial standardsas )'ou rvould any other accuser.The against$eJews by National SocialistGemanl "eye- burdenofproofis on them,and ah€yhavenot gi\€n one shred AppearingReal" (FEAR)is the hallmark of all the talesof "survivors"ir of legitimateprooi excepdngthat expressedin the abor€ the holocaustindustry For too dtnesses"and and libel haregoneunchallengedand acron),rn-FE AR. long,theseaccusations Br PRoF.RAvGooDwtrl
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Auschwitz Plaque Beflects ilewInformation-But FewTakellotice The plaqueshownon ths lett eboveis an old plaquelromihe Auschwits-Birkenau WWllprisoncamp.ll feads:"Fourmillionpeopte sulferedanddiedal lho handsol theNazimurder€rs between thevears 1940andi945.'Bealizing thatmainlaining th€4 million number wasbecomingunlenabls, theAuschwilz aulhoities changed theplaque lo th€ "Foreverletthis oneshown abovo, onlherighl.lt reads: placeb€acry oldespairand a waninglo humanity whoretheNazismurdered aboul oneanda halfmillion men,women andchildren, mainlyJews, ircmvaF
iouscounlries of Europ€. Auschwits-Bi*6nau, 1940-1945." Atthough changein intomalionshouldhavebeenhelaldedaroundthowor1d, coming lhe impelus lor correcling lhehistorical recordin rogard to holocaust intextbooks, museums, colleg€ classes elc,noone(bul visionisls)seemodto care.ln lact,th€ holocaustlobbvin an actol believable chuEpa,beganloulingtheligurcol 9-11mittionkilled Geman-run WWllwork campsdungtheirmediabtitsagainst lhose atlendance at lhekanHolocausl Conference, December 2006.
Theysho\,ra pirturc ol a knile ard sal " lhis knile killed21 pr()rounccmc b fr1)) thc nrcdil, rl. s aDdpulpit aboutdrc "holTiblc peoplc."RerDember-allthet,harcshownanyoneis a picrure cxtcrninationcalllpirigrl"condLrcrcd ag:dns1.Jc\{\ by ol a knifc.Thcirrolds mrrstbcpnrred to be tr-ue---{rncrr11se, Hitler'sGcnrantl \\'lal spurcd me 1(lqucsli(nlrhe dclaihof all thcir hufiDg and pLrllingis ncrclv loLrd,emprvralk. (lle, thisunspcakable crime-iArrsver fea.lingr papcf rirk.l.Drr?.lir sirles.knivcsdont kill peoplc.Pcoplekillpeople.) lltillint RruL\Dir?,nt work expeficDcci a chemicalptirnt anrl thc ltandlineof hlclrogenctanidc:and rcr.ling thc ac, .lrut aboutanylarqrr-rvo.rhhis sahroukl teaf lhcr apafl in irnl lcgitimatecoLrrtloont.rvherewirnesses arc drh sr\'orn coLrnts ol "sluli\'ofs"fforn rhe posr\vafrrialsr\'hichcsscrrtiallv i i rn I I l . u cl u r ,e ( lr or \ r . ,I r i ' I l r l | l l l \1.h e p f o l , l , r l u r r l x , . , csublishedthe le{c|d of masse\ tcrntirlirlir)n that ca lc ro be o t , F r i r i n qr , , q h ' l , i ' \ r u n Bi st i r ' l i ' r g , h ,Ir,g' i r r r n l rcc, , , r r G tel]llcd the "holocaust.' room. One doesnot ha\e much ol a chancc\fhcD rhe.judqc lhe lil.sllhing I did ar r scckcrol l|trlh r\it\ ro ccr a defiis part ol the prosccLrtion ard kroNs his carccris olef il hc rritionol "holociusl,"rlhich rrasand is r.cadi\,arailablc in daresallowaDhoDcstpu$uit oljustice. , o r r r r r l eI n* n k , u rrrl r e . r r l : i eI, L' . , r ' lt' i r i r i o ' , ' , ,, t , r i r ." d , e Usethe infornrationhereinro hold lbcir ieetto the Iircplarre.l and a(tintecl exlcmriDarionol rrrc|rbcrsol rhe Jc\. ' and thal iDchrdcsthe millionsol dupcd "average.Joes rho ishl.:tce,nurlbcringsomc6 D)illi(D,b) NalioDalSocialisr ccf have bought irrto this exleD)inarioDislrhesis.This is Dor manr pdnrarih ftrough lhc useol Zyklor B (a comDrercial mefell a dcbrtc oler histo[,, pcoplc ftis is r wq and rn(h p r e p , r n t i o, o r r r , r i n i r r q l l \ , l i , , g ( r xr ,l t,l,, r \ i f i , t N r : , L 1 . hnsbeenthc biglosersofar.Thc fcsulhnr tlrDnoilaDdsrflcrduins\4brld \\hf IL" \^rirhrhisrle{iDiriorfolllring rhc sL,idc ingdo nor bodc rvelllbr the vcrycxisrenceol Drankii(I. 1ires,I bcganmvquest. Thosc$ho hale chrllcngedrhc cnablisbmenryic\\poinr THESEAFCH BEGINS are krro\vn:$"Revisio|isrs," aDdlhcif posilionon thc suuect I bcganrnr questioning anclscarchibr tlLlh rcgarlingtJre is: (hcreNasno atlcnrptbv NalionalSocialisr (;eDrarlr ro exmrch bal$hooed"holocault"il 1974.Likc ncirrhcreq,\merr . , r r u n . ' r e r n . r l ,t ,s, rr u , r p . r x h r , r l r J F \ . i " . r , i , ,r, ri ,* u. ican. I accepteda1lacc valuc the clains of "runivors,"Lrhe did 6 million die. nol rcre an)jo$ subjerredro horni(idal viclcosand photosshorvnon tele\isim aDd rhc \cry regxlar gassing.
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Thusthe problemthat had beeninvolvedin deciding whetheror not to ry the defendantsfor massmurder,unlike t gaschambers(much less"gasovens,"whatevertha( theusualmurd€rcase,wastherewaslegitimateandverysolid werenon-existent.' doubtthatthedeedhadbeencommitted arall. ) for homicidalpurposes, 'This maysur?r;seth€ readerwhoregardsthe raleofJewThoseNho accepttheconventionalviewastrue are d€sig"exrerminationi5B' ishextermination as by Re\isionisL!. asa nearcertainty; suchis simplynot the Whatjumpedout at this researcher immediately upon case.Therearemanyconsiderations supportingthisview,and examinadono[ the storieso[exterminationwere rhe somearesosimplethat theymaysurprisethereaderevenfurcredibleargumentsagainstsucha program,asad\anced ther.The simplestvalidreasonfor beingskepticalaboutthe Revisioniss. The rechnicaland phy.iral imposribiliries of exterminationclaimisalsothesimplestconceiEblereasoniat theendofthe wartheywerestillthere."(Butz,page10) claims of alleged gassingsand cremationsas espousedby itnesses" at the oosnrartrialsimmediateh'flvin the face Addingcredenceto theclaimsmadebyButzisa 1983put} licationbyWalterN. Sanningenitled.ThzDi:nlutionof Ea:ten1 scieltific fact. Unfonunately, such claimswere not allowed hno|eanJarry. This det^ileddemographicstudyoffersevibe questioned by the defense,nor were tlose witnessesalto be cross+xamined. Beforean anal)6is ofsuchclaims, dencethatthe\tst majorityof tle "exterminated'Jews did inprimarilyinto theSovietUnion, chronological backgroundon the originsof'denial" is nec- deedsurvive,beingabsorbed ard tle UnitedStates. Professor for a proper undentandingof Revisionist contentrons. Palestine Sanning challenges theexterminationist schoolof though!"Thepurpose In l96l , Prof. Paul Rassinierof Francebecam€the first auof this anallds\as not to investiptethecontentof truth in the 'holo to r€fute the accuracyof claimsof genocidein print. publishedin 1948,did cast causfstorybutto oudinetheextentandthedirectionof the is P Yock€y's1r?a?&?,?, Revisionh6agr€ethat manydeathsoccurred'inthe camps to disease, starvationand the horrid conditionsof wat
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Jewish population movement before, and after World War IL 'Thisdaailedfumographir during "lfthe t and memberofthe Frenchresistdevelopments astracedhere , had been capturedand inremed sndy offasnidencethat thz are in conflict with the taboosof conthe prison\.'orkcampsof Buchentemporaryhistorians,ir is l/rir (empha|ast najuri.gof thc and Dora-Mittelbau. Liberatedin sis added) task ro reconsideran un"actuminatzd. " s d.i.d. tenableposition." , he returnedto Franceasan inJet) id andwasshordyverypuzzled, then In his booklet, TheHalocau:t-L20 "genoride' indcednniu4 beingabsorbed qustions and An$uen,DL CharlesE. \{e. ar the claimsof primfib into thr USSB ber doesa masterfuljob of provoking gaschambers,particular\ reprd' " thought rvhile keeping his approach the two campswhere he had been a Palcstinzarul theU.5. simpleand plainspoken. This l983put! He had seen no evjdenceof any lication addressesa qriad of issuesrec€rtainlyhad lated to the holocaustleg€ndand remindsthe readerfrom activjtiesasan inmatethere (andRassinier lovefor the Germans).His initialr,r'orkon the ext€rmina- the outret that the funding aiailable to thosewho disseminare ot th" Jews, T1*L( ol U)$a, follo$edin 1964bvhi\ 7tu materialfrom the exterminationhtvieNpointfar outweighs oIlht Euttlzanleus,calledinto queshonthe 'holocaust" the minute resourcesavailableto the Revisionist(page8). This is, of coume,a major factor in the relativeobscurityof researchand scientificconclusions Theyear1976featuredtheappearance ofa thoroughand Revisionist on the rssue, most umentedRevisionht treatise bvDr ArthurR.Buu of One of the definitivebook on the conductof"war tem Universitl ?/pltoar aIlhe2AhCtnlw) dissected crime" rriah, TheA6ckuirz ^\th, by Dr \Iilhelm Staeglich, givesone insightintothe showtrial and politicalnatureofAlextermination claimsfrom pre$ar and postlvarpopulation liedcourlroomprocedues.This 1986publicationstresses tie htics; the crucial role plaled by the Allied trials and their importancein implantingthe legendwerealsoadabsenceof properjudicialstandards and the appallingrmyin by Buu: ". . . []t is a fact ftat without the evidence which the searchfor rrurh wasimpeded rather rhan furtlered by the court. Not many are awarethat "eyewitnesses" $'ere not neEted at thesetrials.there would be no sisnificanteviallowed to be crossrxamined by the defense,nor were they tiat the progmm ofkillingJewserer existedat all. . . . e\€r subjectedto enforcementof the pe{uryoath. Additionfte uialshadnot beenheld.aper:onclaimingfie exi\len.e ally,Staeglichsap \r'itnesses"traveledfrom court to court an exterminationprogramcould not, ifchallenged,pre maling the sameunchallengedclaims,sayingtheyhad been any evidencefor this savea few boolc . . . whoseclaims justasunsupported at eachcamp, ashisonginalclaim."
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By Octoberof 1990,the Revisionist ae saulton the legendhad comefull circle with the admission by England\leading historianandauthorityon Worldwar II, DavidIrving,that he$asnorvconvincedof the fraudulentnatureof the entire exter'minationthesis(BdrizJripAu:druila498.9) andilould includea statement to $is effect in nerveditionsofhispreliously published book.
maryattention willnowbedevoted to maincampsin Poland,rvhichlvould MddanekandAusch$'itz-Birkenau. nent to this,ho$€ve! is the confession garding the CermaDcamp of Belsen.
Twoof thepillarsuponrvhichrest claimsof the exteDninationisr hisrori and the "sunivors"and "eyewirnessef the conlessions of Kurt Gersteirand dolf Hoess.Gerstein,one-time dant of Bergen-Belsen,states in confessionthat 700 to 800 people into eachofthe foursmallchambers time the gassings took place.The size each room \"ariesslighdy,bu lorked
TECHNICALASPECTS Accordingto Revisionist in\€stigation, none oI the alleg€d"gaschambers"had ventilationor exhar$tsystemscapableof handling the gassingof inmates. The squarefootage in all of the 'chambetx" in termsof occupantper square would allow for a h)?othetical tolal of (approximately a square3 fect by 3 I 23,976gassings in all the yean of the sup and according to those "eyewirnesses posed"genocide" program (7lv lan hl$ R?thoserooms\lould hav€had a minimun PBOFESSOR RAYGOODWIN 14). ln September of 1989, the polilical of30 to a maxirlum of40 individualsin Trulhover coneclness. W, Russiansreleased the Ausch$'itzdeath eachsquaremeter'(Felderer,170).I asl book (the Germansrveremeticlrlor[ record keepen).They you,dearreadetto dra$,ol1dregrounda squareof3 feetby3 showeda deadrtoll of 74,000at thatcampfrom all causes(ln feet.Then imaginejusthorvrnanypeopleyoucouldcraDrinto ing, 500). Confessions from Germans,obtaiDedby torlure, that square.Thirq? Forty?I don't think so.Ret'isionisr Didieb "eyewitness" "In testimonyandexterminationist historiansput dre Feldererconcludes, spiteofall rhe absurdiries, impossibilnumber ga^ssed at Auschleioaloneat 4 million. This massive ities, erroneou aDdcoDtradicror) figxres, the 'Gelstein Slatecontmdictiondeserves further examinationin dre interestof ment cortiDuesto maiDtainitssupremacy in exteminadonhl historical !xth. This fi$rre has norv been reviseddownward, lore.Perhapsthisisjusl aswell,from a qnical Rerisionistrien tojust overa million, thank to dr€ fearof Revhionistdiscov- point,for fen'thingscouldbeu€rilluslate the mlhical nature eriesand publishings.Notably,howevetthat reducriondid of dre 'holocar$l'than thisveryitem."(Felderer,1?2) nothing regardingtle claimof6 million dead. RlrdolfHoess,one ofthree successile commandingoffrOn Augrst 19, 1960,tie directorofthe presrigiorNInsri- cersat Auschwitz,lras the only one to leavea confession. His ruteforContemponry Historyin Munich,Dr Manin Broszat, descfiptionof the actualgassiDgproccduresis reDrarkably announcedto his anazedcountrymenthat therehad ne\€r sho[ and \ague,just as all other "eyetvirness" accouDtsare "gas been a chamber"in the entiretyofthe GermanReich, \ague,brief and full ofcontmdictionson manypoiD15. As de. but only a fervin other places,namell in occupiedPoland scribedby Floess:one-hall hourafrer haviDgreleased the gas, (Rober! Faurrison, Th?l\lillln oI llE CasCharn,eff,107-108). the Germanswouldopen the doorand ruD on a fan and imThis alnouncernent fle$,in the face of those$'ho sivor€to mediatelybeginto reDrovethe bodies.Hoessaddedrharrhe masskillingsin Geman camps,but that $'asne\€r brought creNin chargewould remo\€ rhe 2,000ll bodiesaDdbegin up, ofcouNe. transportingdreD to the cremaroryo\€ns whilc earingand Broszathas neverprovidedan explanationfor this consmoking.(Quotedin Farfisson,'lheMe&aniq24) tention. ProfessorRobert FaurrisonofFEDce ask: 1. How This confession impliesdrat it is possibleto enreran area doesDr Broszatkno$' that the "gaschambers";n the Old satumt€d$'ith h)drogenq"nide (HCN, ZyklonB) rvhilerakReichwerefraudsl2. \Vhydid he saydratdre "gaschambers" ing no precautionsfor sellprotection and bare-trandedly in Polandare genuine?3. Wly do dre proofsand cerrainties gmsp2,000cadalersconlaminatedwirh a ledul doseofthe and eyewitnessaccountlconcemingthe concentrationcamps gas.The air pocketrbeh{eenlhe bodiesheapedon top ofone in the ivestsuddenlyha\€ no value,$'hilethesesamecrireria anotherwouldhavebeenfilled with HCN. still remaintme for the campsin Poland(108)? This "confession"lacks plausibiliryand even common Think about drosequestions. s€nse(many"suNivoN'and "el€witiesses" sivote to the same As the exterminationists dremselves havesinceabandoned impossibiliryincour0, and is in accord$'irhRevisionisr claims the r laimsofthr rrseof ga' charnbfl- in C,rrman)pruper,prithat it is a fabricationextncred bv rorrure.Yet,tesdmon,v by TBR ALL.HOLOCAUS'T ISSLE 2UI,9
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Above,inmatesare giventhe imporlanltask ot makingilles lorthe Gemanwaretlortal the Oachauprisonlaborcamp-One or woodworking. usedlorthislaskwouldhavepiorjob expe encewithfaclorywork,ioundrywork wo!ldexpectthattheprisoneG producing, (Auschwilz iorinstance, synihetic anddandelion rubber,medicine and As differenlcampsproduced dillerentproducts puttoworkwherc particuld lhehskillswere bestsuiled. Recalcilrant workers, habitual have been inmateswith skillswould ams), in 19213, Heinrich Himmlerhimselfor' wouldhavebeendealtwilhslenly.However, andotheriroublemakers ciminals,murderers deaih. dercdthatno guardcouldstike a prisonlaborcampinmatewithouilearof severcpunishmentandthisincluded
theseclaimantsrt Nurcrnbergand odrer posnrartriah tras into thc record,notallo$edtobe challengcd readilyaccepted "gospcl"by Alliedjudgesanxiousto do andlas belieredas "humal1itri And couDdess Germanmiiitaryper dreirduq Ibr sonnel,not guilt) of an,vsuchcrinc. $'ereexecuteclon the "suni!ors"that$ere not allor{edto be basis oftheseclaimsby or cross€xamined. questioned It $asthisparticularpartof my readingthatdrewm€ to examineand challengethoseclaims.I rlitsan enrplo!'eeol E.l. DuPontar that time and worked ilr a huge chenticalplant, havingexpeiencervorkingaroundHCN.Allowmc (o citethe DuPorrConpany MaterialSaletyDataSheet(MSDS)on hydrogencyanide(the prirnaryconstituentof Z,vklonB). asof "HCN is describedasunstablewiftheatand January14,1991. flammable.11is a frl'stactingpoisonand coukl be extreDrely ol absolbeddrroughthe sk.in."(Rehlal if inhaled,$vallowed. "eyel'itness"accoturtsol SSmen "smokingand memberthe eating,'rvear-ingr.'o protecti\e equipment,while dragging out by the hair). gxsed.fervs The MSDS adds that in most casesc,lanidepoisoning healthypink to red skin color ard that causes a deceptivel,v P . O . B O X 1 s 3 7 7 . W A S H I N G T O N ,O . C 2 0 0 0 3
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the accused, feelaboutyourdefenseattomeysbeingso by the National Socialistgovernm€nthas everbeen found (F^nissot, ThzMechanirs,29). Remembertoo, that passes icappedrvithvout life on the line? The tourist atuactions shown to lhe public as "ga5 wor d not have b€en granted to Germansin the camps,nor b€rs" in all the camDs€xamined bv kuchter haveno fteir families allowed to visit; prisonerswho had s€rv€dtheir doorsorwindows, andveryfew havev€nts;the inside\adls sentenceswould not havebeen releasedor allowed to r€tum *exterminationprogram" thestructure\ar€ notsealedto preventleakage respective countries, or the or a to their would havebeen revealedto the whole world. Th€ fact is. ofthe gas,soahatah€exposed, porousbrickandmortar (o humansfor accumulate HCN and be danserous there war nothing sinister to revealat all. years.The fact that theseroomsidentifiedas.gas Faurissonconcludeshis anicle with what he regardsasthe fahe regarding the gas chamben. He are locatedright next to the crcmatoriesalsowould criteria of evidence thema pdmesourcefor explosion andfire.Verypoorpla$ aversthat all of th€ statements,a,svague and inconsistent as for reningbythosesuper€mcient Germankillen,indeed. theymaybe,agreeon one thing: the crewresponsible "immediatell' or l,euchter found that Ikema I hasfloor drains connected moving the bodiesenteredthe siteeither "a few moments" after the deatlrs of the victims. Calling this to the main sewerof the camp. This rvould allow the heavier"I than-air deadly HCN to get into everybuilding at the facility, a physicalimpossibility,he states: contend that this point resulting in the deathsof the glards and commandant. The alone constitutesthe comerstoneof the falseevidence,be"gas causethisis a phFical impossibility. Ifyou encounterape$on chambels" here, asin all the camps,are too small to colts 'gas who believesin the existenceofthe tain the numbersclaimed.The doolr "Ianhter chambers,'askhim how,in his opinion. to th€se rooms all op€n inward (an statesthat the thousandsofcadaverswere removed other poor design considerationby nany compliratdfnbbns to make room for the next batch (Ir? thosesuppos€dlyso eflicient in mass rmst beconsidcred i.ntfu d* Mechanics,30) ." slaughter;itwould be quite difiicult to Perhapsthe most severeblow to the push such a door open againstthe pile3 signof an exzcutirn. ge.s of bodiesafter a gassing). Also, enough exlermination thesiswas deliveredin chamben A tnistakemay,and leakageof the deadlygaswould have 1988witl fie publication of Thzlarchter pobabl, ui\ cau.se dcathor occurredin all of the gaschambersto Rqo : ThcEnd oI a M)t/L The author's have killed the administeringtechni' treatis€is a report on the technicalasinju:ryto anyoncutsifu tfu cians(Leuchter,9). pectsof the alleg€dexecutionchamben chambsr" Leuchter'sstronges!forensic eviat Auschwitz,Birkenau and Majdanek, Poland,usingcomparisonswith Am€ridenceis the sampl€sofbrick, monar, can prisongaschamberdesignsand operations. concreteand sedimenttakenbyhis teamfrom the threePol ish camps.HCN and ;ls compoundsare very residual-LhE In stateslhat uselethalgasfor capitalpunishment,strinl-€uchtertook 3l samplcsat the al" gentrulesand proceduresmustbem€t.A1llightrngandelec- hangaroundfor decades. trical hardr€re mustbe explosion-proof(none ofthe rooms legedgaschambers,and acontrol samplewastakenfrom dedesiFated as "gaschambers"had (hisfeature).Ifyou com€ iousingfaciliryNo. I at Birkenau.The control sample,frorn home in the eveningandopenyour homeand smellgas,th€ the delousingchamberNhereclothingwastreatedto rid it of ore dling you knownot to do is flip a light switch.The spark diseare{ausing lice, showeda veryhealTqnnide contentof 1,050milligramsper kilogramofbrick. This is consistentwith cancausean explosion. The chamberisoperatedunder a vacuumso thatanyleak the useof ZyklonB asa delousingagentin tlat chamber. rvouldbe inrard. Al eminentauthorityon capitalexecutions, However,of the other 31 samples,from the supposedg:-s kuchter statesdratmanycomplicated problemsmustbe con chambe6,17hadno measurable traceofHCN, and the other sideredin the designofan executiongaschamberA mistake 14 rvereall under 8 milligrams.--
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of the exrerminaLiun rhesis. Inlestigationo[rhe cremationsofrhe allcgedgassing!ictimsc\inces thc samc drgree of impossib\ and contradrction. I took a lour of a moderl cr.ematorl near rny home city, mten'l$vedthe expcrieDccdtechnicianand learnedrvhatit trkesto disposcoi onc body.l:rsliednoronlv horvmucnrme, howmuch iircl, what tempclittureand how nruch residueis lell,hur rhe nusil'ilin ot Inulriplci rer,r ror\ in ,,nc u\en. Rarelyconsideredis the licr thar rhe o\en nnrt undcrgo a cooUrrgdown peiod hcfore the ashesand bil\ of bon; rcmalung may be removed.'l'hose renmanb llll a normalsize shoebox. WharI lcarnedfr.()nthisperxonalresearrhwasthar nooe of rhe descripriollsin the accrrsations macleby ,.srrr, iil,or\" ol rhe holocausl$aselcn remotelypossible_€xcept, perhaps,in rheir oNll Dinds. Four million shoeboxes ofashesrvouklhavemadequite a moundatAL$chwiD. \4herc isit?Thc 60 poundsofcoal/coke usedbI the (hrmaDslo.renrareonc bodvalsolea\cresidue_ andil onc InDlriplic. rLarrioporrn.ts h) re \ ppo\cd4 r,rillioll budie- \nref, did Glnrrarnger rhc zd0 rnitiiolpourrLls or coal,and horvdid thcyget ir ro Auschwitz? As to the lime requiredto cremareaI thosebodies(folu horrrsfor each)-l,euchter says(p. l0) rhar lhc capabiiiryof all the o\,€Dsar rhc enriretyot Auschuitzcould rialisricilly crenate 207bodicsin 2,1hous. Iftherc were4 milion, and the 69 crematoriatherc ilorked aroulrd rhe clock $,irh no shutdownlime lbrcleaning (an impossibilil)J,the cerDaDs $ould havestill been crcmaLingbodicsunril somerhinglike Juneol I972. Pler-sc. Mr "Sunivor,"Mr "El€wirnc$,,'cxplainrhis.Oh_ yousat thar rhc bodiesNerenass{rlmaled. in thatnelkirecl Scfoot long, lo-foor dcep pir the aB'fulcermaDsdug. Facrs: Auschwjtz wasbuilt on swamFlikeland;rhc r\.arerrabterhere is fouf fcet decp. Thar'srighr---{nceyou reach thar dcpth, rrdlerbcgrllr-r-orep inro fic hotc \orr rfc digqirg. Ie .tuol Additionalh-what lirel did thcy usein rharpit?trrloesn\ matler-a high-enooghtemperatureto cremarea ltuman bodvcannorhr r€r,hed in an npcn prr.Orne agrin-yorraccusels.-explainthis. \4lbcrearc dr€ rons of jncomplerell burnt "cremains"? I distinc remember$archinganolhef of rhe mlriad of 'specids"on)' rhe"holocarNr" madein l985,drlcd,41%,&/R& ,rind"xThis tr"i airedon the DiscorrryChannelotrrol Hous ton,.andincludeddle standardclairnsol .gassillgs'madeby lhc inrenic$ed'sunilor\. tr \as.l.drl) suled on rhe prG grdmrher279.000bodre.pcr rnorrrlrrovcr9.0n0per rlavr wer€berngcremated[arAuschwiu]ir a conrinuous,round_ rhe{lo' k operdrion. Thesel,holy rrirner.es \ere Drin8 ro makedre rumbell fi( rhesrory Remember-German milihry and concentrarioncamp personnelwereexecuredon rhe basisofsuch unquestioned P . O . B O X 1 5 3 7 7 . W A S H T N G T O ND, C 2 o o o 3
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and unchallengedtestimony.Leuchter'sown conclusion tbrced to bear the guilt and pay this extortion for all about his forensic examination there: "After reviewing all of decadesjustmight be a litde upsetor'erwhat hasbeen the material and inspectingall the sitesat Auschwitz,Birkenau to them, and Majdanek,yourauthorfindsthe evidenceovenvhelming: Israelwasestablished in 1948due in largepart ro There were no execution gascharnben at any of theselocaoverwhelming sl'rnpathy g€nerated bytheseridiculous tions.Itis the bestengineeringopinion ofthis authorthat the sationsofgenocide.The Zionislsweregiventhe land of allegedgaschambersat the inspectedsitescould not have Palestinians by the Britishasahomelandfor the.|ewish been,or norvbe, utilizedor serious\ consideredto function The Palestinians thus becameasvictimizedas the asexecution gaschambers." by this massivelie, as they havebeen a homeless, Imaginewhat such t€stimony,had it b€en allowedat rhe people sincethen. They are indecd the real victimsof just show trials after the war, would have done to thesewitnesses the represrive Zionists. but an uninformedand misi for hir€ who traveled from court to coufl to spout the same fbrmed world that doesnot want to hear of their grief and lies.They knew,ofcourse, that challengingtheir lies would suffering-a world nith little sympathytoward righting a not be allowed, nor would any cross€xamination by the dedecades-old injustice. fense.They knorv ahistoday,aswell, and still makethoseclaims As the U.S.go\€rnment and all facesof the mediaplayed beforeAmericansin schoolrooms and elsewhere, the keyrole in establishing fie legendofgenocide,thisiswhy Consideration must be given to the numbers gameplayed both institutionstum their backsupon Revisionist findings. by $e exterminationisb andJersaswell.In brief-according And it is also $'hy they ignore attack rpon Revisionistsand to the study by Prof. Sanning as well as Palestiniansalike. Both alsocontinue an infomation from the ,lnqdopazdia Biever-increasingeffort to propagare the 'If Rnisilni:ts on iwlaed extermination dresis,Se\€ralstatesha\€ lannia, tl\e tor?'lnumber ofJews that were ever under tle control of the Germade"holocausteducation" mandatorl man military was4 million. Today,you in their schools;U.S.taxpayerfundsare have at least 3.7 million dmwing repaIaLaedto fund "holocaust"museumsand eficrminationistsand thz "sun'ivon'and "victims." tionsas Pleaie, other tributes. No political lobby in the I may not be a madr major,but somehow United Statesplaysa more influenrial Jars an holdingall thc Ijust cannotget6 million d€adJews out rol€ in electingor defeatingpolitical aus----ofuhat that of that,nor evena half a million. candidates asdoJewishpoliticalaction on thq afrait?" commlttees, THEHOLOCAUST INDUSTBY Theseare all factoNin maintaining Why the paradoxicalreaction ofJe$s the .holocaust"legendand explaining to R€r'isionistcon€n tions thatJewswere not the victims of exLhesilrnceofpoliticianson rhc subje,r.Jer\'ishorganiarions t€rmination, but suflived the war?One $'ould think that deare constantlypressuringall levelsofgovernment to adopr legbunkingof the mythswouldelicitajoful response, especially islationthat makesquestioDingor doubting the holocausta from those who have believedfor decadesthat their people crime punishableby hea\.Tfine and imprisonmenr.Their ef werethe victimsofgenocide.Considerthesethreeprobable fortshavebeensuccessful in manyforeigncounrriesand are reasons:( 1) the holocaustis a huge financial businesswith ol> makingheadway herein fie UnitedStates, despireoursacred sceneprofits and enormousamounc ofgullible sympady; (2) Constitutionand the absoluteprolecrionoffree speechand the Palestinianissue;and (3) tie immenseporverand influfree thoughtit shouldprovideus. ence exercisedby Zionistsand otherJeusupon the govemWhy rvouldkeymembersof the U.S.govemrDenthaveparmens and media of the world, especiallyupon American ticipatedfor somanyyeanin perpetuating andsupporringrhe foreign and domestic policy. legend?BesidesselFaggrandizement, of coune,obliterationby MostAmericansare unawareofthe billions paid to individcontmtis th€ likelyreason.Witlout rhegenocideclaimto use uauews asrvell as to Ismel, a nation that did not even exist at againstG€rmany.severalaspectsof the initiation and conducr the time ofthe alleg€dgenocide.The amountpaid yearlyto of the war by the Rooseveltadministration $'ould have come 'Vctims"is all thes€ basedupon the nowlegendary'6million" under scrutinyand could havecausedwid€spr-ead popular unfigure and, as these reparations are still ongoing, any reducrest in ahiscountry The dubious story of the "surprise" attack tron in that numberwouldbe intolerableto rhe recipienbof on PearlHarbor, the cover-upof the Sovietmassacreof the Pol, suchlargess, ish officer cor?s at (aqn (and fie blaming of it on rle cerIn essence, shor d Revisionist findingsb€ accurateand ac- mans),Operation lcelhaul,5 the barbaricsaturationbombings ceprcdassuch,the goosethat la) thesegolden eggsforJewish of non-military targets,and the orgy of rape and pillage encoffers would disappearAnd those folks who have been gaged in by the Soviets,the W€stern Allies and resisrance
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whichimmediatelybeginsto collectinterestin U.S.banls, Aid to otherlandsisdisbursedin quarterlyinstallmens. Second,Israelisnot requiredto accountfor the money. Mostcountriesreceiveaid for veryspecificpurposesand ccordingto the funencanlsmeli Cooperative mustaccountfor howit is spent.krael is allowedto place eliminatinganydir" Enrerprise. Irom 1949to 2001fre generous U.s.aidinto i15generalftmd,etrectively Therefore, tinctions betraeen types ofaid, U.S.taxpayenare American taxpayer gave lsrael a total of That wouldbe over$100bil- helping to fund an illegal occupation,the expansionof $94,966,300,000. about lion during 19492002,or $2billion per year;but by coloniaketdementprojects,ard grosshumanrightJviolarhePalesrinian civiliarpopuJatior nowit is up to about$5 billion a 'ear, for a totalofat least rjonsagainsr A [hird difierenceis the sheeramountof aid ihe U.S. $130billion sofar Not widelyknownis thatmostof thisaid gives awayto Israel,unparalleledin the historyof U.S.forviolatesthe law.Forexample,theArmsExportContJolAct "legiteign policy.Israelusuallyrakesin roughlyone-thirdof the w€apons beus€donlyfor stipulates thatU.S.aupplied or entireforeignaid budget,despitethe lact that hrael comnot for bombingh€lplessPalestinian imateselfdefense," and not to destabiljze theen0reregron prisesles than0.1%of theworld'spopulationandalready Lrbanese civilians and the world.Also,taxpayeraid to Israelis differentfiom hasoneof theworld'shigherper capitaincomes.IfU.s. t2xpayersknewthisandbecameawarethat ihe holocaustrr3 that to anyother countrl in threewa)E: Fint, sinc€1982,U.S.aid to hrael hasb€ent-ansf€ITed themostlucmtivelie in historywouldtheysowillinglyhand + in one hugelump sumat the beginningofeachfiscalyear, overtheir hard€arnedcashto Israel?
'\ra| crines." forccs,cor d mostjustifiablibe labclccl Bur \!irh the genocide(laim irgainstthe Germars,all of rheseactions,:LsrvellrL!the decisionbt FDR,Churchill and Shlin beforethc end ol lhe \ar to cane Gennan)'andEurope "justilied."After all, any ation that up lor rhe Soricts.are desenes l\ould conduct gcnocirle,especiallyagainst.Jctrs, pullishllellt it got. e\€n forrr ofdcstlrclion and claimsm.r1onl,vbe propctll The \eracir) of RcvisioDist erahratedil thcl reccirca healing-Butsucha hearilg isrocifrlld their lackeltir gd'emmenrrrrd erorslvopposedb,vJeNs mcdia.Their oDlyansNerto our rcseafchis personalatta(ks. inchdiDg brutil beadrgs(Faurhson),destmlinglilelihoods (Lcrchtef aDd others)al1dimprisonment(Rrdolll Zuendel are irdeed aDdothels). One has1o$ ondcr-jt RevisioDists "0ar-Ear{r"fools,and theJerlsand extcnninalioDisLs areholdiDg,rllthe rccs-ol \,hat thell ale thel irfnicl?
I e\'enlearncdin m) researchthatthissameclainofgenocide and ofmillions deadwasIloatedby th€ ZioDhtsifier \4brld \4hr l, bur it wasimmediatellrecognizedfor the lie that it\l?s, arrdgilen shortshrifi. I am alsoangryaboutthe personalattitck upon lesumate scholarsrvhoquesdonthis histor-ical nonr\cnt, the beatings, clestrrctionof properry and the impllnity $ith rvhichsuch thugsoperatein mr cor.rntryThe ko\vtolvingbl politicians. mediapeople,clergyard academiato thesearrog-ant fi-audsis a disgrace.I, lbr one, ha\€ put my foot dow[ No morc ulr'sun'ilors, aslong as I am able to challengedfain talesb) speakou1, If),ourcommuriryis like mine,it isvisitedon occasionb,v "holocaustsur'\'ivors," rvho one or anotherof ahemillionsol sperk in our churchesaDdoul sc]roolsaborrtthe suffeling theyenduredat thc haDdsof thoseevil (lerDrans,r,r'hilethe rolldstood bl rnd did nothing.l do no( knoh'aboutyou,but I am ray pastbeingtiled oftheir tolalh baleless whining,lies PEFSONAL CONCLUSIONS jssue, and exto on. as angry about this thal If ilis alrrhorcomesacross Ce :rinllianumberofJeilsdidsuffcrthedepredatioDsof isbecarNe I an certainl)angr-irAli€r examiningthc issue6oDr rnorerhanoneside,secingthe forensicandscientificelidcnce rvar-but no more so than variousother peoplcs.Thoseregrlingthem a hear_ sponsiblelbr the executionsand extortion paymcntsin the offeredby the Relisionhts.and in essenc€ posnvar courts,I ezsily forn ofrepantions shouldbe madeto facethe musicofpering thatNasDotallo(€d at the sharneful "holocaust"is nothing jury tdals,at dre r€r_1 milimum. \4hen theycrl that theylost camcto the conclusionthat this$'hole "holo-hoax,"anddcscraes thcir endrefamill-rvell, rrrarypeoplelosttheirentirefamilies to be exposedforrvhat morc thana ithas beenall along-an extortioncrimcol thervo$tdegree. in that("r, andJewsdeserveno more (aDdno les) spnpathy BOX I5A77 . WASN NGTON
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THEHrsrorucAily Dunrous 'WeunsEE CoNFERENCE PRorocor' SINCEl9{5, a soralled'keydocument regarding thefinalsolutionof t_heJewish quesfion" hasbeenmuch 'Protocol toutedworldu'ide byWWI holocaust promoten. The of theWannsee Conference" hasbeenusedto proveGermans vantedtoexterminate everyJew in Europe. Honest historians should feelcompelled toscrutinize this"document,' $'hichisaforgeryasUdoWalendy, acelebrated Gennan Revisionisr whospentyears researching thismatter, clearly shows. TBRisusinghispastresearch findings for thisarricle. It is also inrerestjng tharrhe '\ hnnsee material, evenif it rvere genuine, wouldconstitute unambiguous documentary evidence thatlheC,erman policyrastoforciblyre-locate $eJevstotheeast. C,ontrary towhatthecounhistorians wantyoutobelieve, it gives noshred ofproofofa "finalsolution' involving genocide. BYUDoWAI,ENDY "Waimsee romthebeginning, theso-called Protocol" wassuspect. Suspicious faclors included: thelimjng ofthe publication, theanonymityofthe "discovere/' andtheplaceof"discovery"aswell astheintroduction intothetrial withoutverificationby theJewishAmericanprosecutorRobertKempner,formerly a German citizen,whowasinterested in anykindoflies againstGemany. Kempneris known to haveusedsometimesextortionate means to inducetheaccused andthewihessesto givefiaudulent andlyingstatements. He hada historyof tryingthisin other cases.r He alsowelcomed falsifieddocuments for his accusations.Felix Haendescribedh theSalzburgerNachrichtenol August12,1950theattitude ofDr. Kempner: It ishisdoingthatlhethesisofthecollectiveguill oftie Germanpeoplen"s somehow prove4inassurreptitiously muchheaccused oneaftertheotherall theleadercol the people: German TheWilhelmstrasse Trial,theGenemls' Trial,lheIndusfialists'Trial andthePhysicians'Trial-after theNationalSocialistleaderswereconvicledin theMain WarCrimesTrial.Thathewasnotalwaysfastidiousin his choiceof methodsfor the preparation of the evidenceis shownin the caseof theformercounselorof theForeisn Office.Dr FriedrichCauss.whomhemadecomplaisant Ly threatening to handhin overto lheRussians. P . O . B O X 1 5 3 7 7 . W A S H t N G T O ND,. C . 2 o O O 3
Chaltlngaboveare BeinhsrdHeydrtch(teft)andhis asslstant, Karl-Hemann Frank.Hoydrich wasgivencontrot ot theReicht\,tain Secudty Ofiice(RSHA), whichcombin€d lheSD,cestapo,Crimjnal Policeandforeignintelligence se.vice. According to togsnd, onJuty 31,1941,on Hiller'sorde6,ReichMarchat Hermann co€ringa[egedlyissuedan order10Heydrich instructing himlo pr€pare a generalplanol the administative, matefialand financialrneasures necessary lor carrying outlhe desiredtinatsotulionot theJewish queslion. As a resull,on January 20, 1942,Heyddch convened the alleged Wannsee Conlersnce in Beiin,Minutesolthatmssting wefe allegedlytaksnbyAdottEichmann, andar6ca edtheWannseeprotocol.udo Walendyhasshownit is a lorgsry T'HE BARNf,S REVI f,W
Afterexaminingtheorigin,form,contents, factualmistakes themareunfit to work anyway."He subsequently q "memomnda-notes"Eichmann: andstylisticmisses, theentireso-called "Wlat is thissupposed mustbedeclared unequivocally asa postwar forgeryNo proof to mean?" existsfor thehistorian that.whether or in whichmannerAdolf Theaccused answered withthewords: "Thatmeans Eichmann,accused andimprisonedin Jerusalem, hasadmitted thattheymustbekilled." "memomndum." to betheauthorofthe It is alleged thathehas HowcouldEichmann knowthis? Hewasnotasked admittedit. But thatis differentflom whetherhehasdoneit. anddid notneedtojustiryit. It wasknown,according to Wehaveexamined a number of books: course ofthetrialin Jerusalem. thatEichmann didnothave I, AdolfEichilann,Leon| I 980,545pages,allegedlynotes knowledge roenable himloassoc iatedeponations wrti kilh writtenby Eichmannasa freemanin Argentina., Althoughthe Thehintsevenin thisbookabouttheWannsee Con gavelectures bookdescribes thatEichmann continuously since aresparce anddonotrevealanything lo historians. 1935 "occasionally beforeGenemlStafofficers,districtleaders Otherbooks aboutEichmann alsodonotenlighten usa speeches for Heydrich"that hadto be thisquestion. prevails. A peculiar silence [etc]"and prepared workedovertwiceorthreetimes"(445),onefmdsnothingabout Thisresulthasbeenaffirmed:No protocolwasconoucted theWannsee Conference andnothingabouthisbeingtheauthor theWannsee Conference. No participants knewabouta proto "protocol." of theso-called col.Obviously, no documents regarding theconference werc lhe nameofhis co'author, RolfGuenther, is notmen- discovered in thefilesofthe Reichadministration. No partici tionedin the entirebook.exceDtthat thenarneis listedin the panthasev€rseenan expos€aboutthe conference duringthe index;butit cannotbefoundelsewhere in termofhisservice, thetext.Intentional deceitofthe reader in Thattheforgersof this"documenP "Noffiqluos connection withthepreviously circulated werenotableto express theirintention wtd:u*d h versionolthe "wamseeProtocol"? destroy is understandable. When this athe Wonxe Cw{ererw. "protocol"was "introduced"into the In Dov B. Schmorak,TheEichmann Nopaticipa* hzut ahout f,,r',4/, Vienna,Stuttgart-Basel, 1964:the Wilhemstmsse Trial, the formerparticiWannsee Conference andtheallegedau@ptob@LNo docafiwr.B pantsweresupposed to be confronted "protocol" thorship oftheso-called is not publicly. with it Hence, a formulationhad tquditrgtle w{rew wre mentroned. to bechosen whichcouldnotbeeasily dimdinilufles ofthc H mahArcndt, Eichmann in Jerusaandunanimouslyrefutedimmediately. Boi& admhisafrian-" len: A ReportAboutlheBanaliryof Evil, Thepoliticalagenda wouldhavebeenenMunich1965:HeretheWannsee Conferdange.ed. enceis mentionedbut, asidefrom a few Thusthevoluminous, hardlyplausi"Protocol"remarks,onereadsonlythattheconference lastedI bleclich6swereformulatedtogetherwith a seemingly trustworto I 1/2hoursandthatStateSecretary Dr.WilhelmShckartwas thy list of discussions writtenby a "fabricatorof black knownasthepersonwho"wasveryhesitantandreluctantcon- propaganda" who identifiedhimselfas suchby his meager cemingthe'radical'partyplans."(148-9)NothingaboutEich- knowledge oftheGerman language andthelackofcomprehenmann3allegedauthorship ofthe "protocol"or detailsaboutit or sionofthematterin question. Thelanermusthaveworkedungenoclde. derpressure in orderto introducethedocumentin time for the JochenvonLang,"TheEichmannProtocol TapeRecord- trial.In addition, (Sefton because ofthe secrecy Delmer:"The giren.noyeargiven publicdoesnot knowaboutthis.")5the forgercouldnot getiningsoftheIsraeli Hearings.'no location (yearofpublicationestimated to be about1984),Severin & formationfiom experts.Theflawsofthe "protocol"did not a! "onlya SiedleC:The summation whichincludes fiactionofthe tractattentionduringthe hecticyearsof continuous trials, Protocols"is. for thehistorian.insufficientandurueliablefor a especially presssupported whena sympathetic theaccusers clarificationofhistoricalfacts.Wlo canbringproofina process whiletheaccused withtheentirepopulace, wereputin thepiljudgment provide that doesnot for unbiased andwhereEich- loryofworldopinionandcondemned to far-reaching silence. mann-hehimself(?) muchtooobviously testifies according Thehistorian's responsibility compels himto rectirythecirto the viewpointof his accusers, alsoaboutoccunences on whichhecouldnotpassjudgment andhedidnotneedtoprove. It is important to note:TheAIliesdid notequate themass pertinent (84): A exampie transportation ofjews in EastemEurope,startedonOctoberI 5, TheIsraeliprosecutor Lessrelerredto thestatement in Dr 1941,withanextermination plan,butonlylater,because ofa Buhlert testimonyaboutthe"Wannsee Protocol"whereit says conference ofsubordinate statesecretaries undertheleadership that"Jewshaveto beremovedasquicklyaspossibleftom the ofHeydrich whosaidtheconference wasnotonlyfor deportaterritoryofthe Govemment General and- . . themajorityof tion,butalsoanextermination plan.Bothhavebeenprovento T B R A L L H O L O C A U S T I S 5 U[ 2 O O 9
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,,, Sulprises Some Auschwitz . A complainls olliceexisted whereinmatescouldregistercomplaints or make suggestions. Camp CommanderHoesshad a standingorder lhat any inmale to couldapproachhim personally registeracomplainlaboulotherinmatessuchas 'Kapos"and even Germanguards.At leastone German camp guatd was convicted and executedfor brutalityto prisoners(above).
. Anin-camp courlandjail-sincethecampwasa couldbe arrested, large,openlacility,transgressors lried and jailed righl in Auschwitz. (Thisjail was oppositethe gynecoF ogicallacility.)
. Thecampkilchen-oneorthe largestservicebuildingsin Auschcooking wilz, it had state-of-lhe-art had12 chimlacilities. Thebuilding neysand can slill be visitedloday. The caloriccontentof the diet was carefullymonitored by campandRedCrossdelegates. in Auschwitzand othercampstoll only deteriorated andlhe wardtheendollhewarwhenGermanraikoads aerial underconstant entirelransportsystemcollapsed (See photo lower left.) bombardment. . Slrict disciplinelor all-Asystem of strictdiscipline for guards(andalsofor inmates),handedoul severe punishments againslthoseloundguilty-evenlor slappingan inmate.
Ot)e&nionol Ihc Gts Churrbers,1989:)nJ Les Lttntuklite\ falsetcslinrony!vilhonrissionsandfalsificalions. toaccreditthe d Atsclrrit:. La nt dtitt(ric du nte tkd? nt/lr;s'!,1993]'.and For cxample.to kccp the testinonyofGcrstein.Poliakol to lhe Mosco\r (fioor) ofan cspcciallysince1995.theycarofnryfirst access area anongothcrthiDgs.hrd falsifiedihe suface ofnranycounallegedgaschanrberin Belzcc.which waslo contain700-800 rrchivcsandaseiesof studytoulsin lhc archives peoplc.wriliDg 91" squ.lrcrnctcrsirxteadof 25." In a subse- lricsin EastcrnEuropeiDtheconpanyof JucrgenGl'ltl:my doclhe Gersleiidossier.Po- unentationhasbcengrcatlyendchcd. quentafliclc ( 196,1). whicb prcscnted i o lhc issucofcrcnration I begana scicntificinvesligation liakov rcpcalcdthc tbryery.lorgclling1o makethe lic at all $tich I have colleclcdcxlcnsi!'cdocr subjccton the vohrne of thc atAuschlvirz. crlculations. By his inragiDary bclie\ablc. My sludy7I( Au\dlrit: Ctcnntari :AHisttriel space.45cubictltclcrs.uould makclhc gaschaDrbei4Sccn_ umentarioD. yearsagornd bric0y rmpossibiliiy lll.9inchcs) high aDabsurd tinrctcrs(of I nless. ttrlTeduticdl Studt^lrcadyannounced Rudolfls Di.\:t1rti,rg 1r. in dre work of Ccrnrar summarized ofcourse,you arcgirssingrcry shortdrvtrvcs.-Ed.l. (Theses (thcsccondbook & Disseflalions Prcss.Chicago.2003iilso Hoi{,(.rrr/ CcraldReiilinger.in his L4cFi,?.1&r/r/1ftrr ol AxsLh'].it: otLI Bitkeltuu,3'73-112).|1as ol Th( Auiutut Oretr feconstnrcled thc hislory the holocausl). had tlut I rcadon ) grcat in beingpublishcd. not lcastbecause experienccd diliiculty theallegcdAusch$,ilzgaschanrbcrandextmctingq otcsfrom of its size:il conlcirrsover500pagesoflcxt rnd ovcr600 docasa wholc.\crc considered larioustestinonicslhal. however. Ho$crer.it showslhenralcrialinabilThe apex of unrenlsrnd photographs. mut ally conlradictory. indi!iduallyrnrcliablcand ity ol the ovensil] lbc crcmatoriaofAuschwilz-liirkcnauto wasachicvcdby RaulHilbergir his thclallacyofthc holocaust dreimpossibiliiyofa andconsequently handletheDrassivejob. fanrous$ork Th! Desttudi.rt ol Eutop.'dn2rs. which I cxgassing ofJe\vs or anyonc clsc. mass poscdill 2008. enlitled,4Isdt\ it.: Ot)enAL lILi ct?tiuls lDanotherstudy. Al the begi riDgil hada recordstill ralhcrsmall(abo t a (Tbcscs Ihave also Prcss.Chicago.2005). lo & Disserlations vras dircctcd mainly and my atterrliorr thousanddocuments) Another ilnpossibility of a nrass-air crcmation. denonstratcd the ofl$o booksby Aftcr lhc publicatioD the sludyofevidence. iDportantissucis what. to paraphriscthc famoussloganof Pressac on A usch\\i\z\AltlLl^rit:: Tcdlltittucdttl Jean-Claudc
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lafergassings?And howmuchtimedid youinvest ingthematerislfor thisbook? MATTOGNO:lmuslslaleattheoubelthar/$crwirzl Fnt GasstngRunorandRealiryla*ailable liomTBR is just oneof my threer€centbooksthatwerepublished Englishby Gerrnar Rudolfbefore hisarrest. SincethenI writtenmanyotherRevisioniststudies. As for thechoiceofthetheme,lromthebeginningI theimportance ofan organicstudyofthe historyof gaschambers atAuschwitz,soI established a research TBR: Whatsurprises did youturn up in the process of that I later followedoverthe years.Organicstudymeanslo yourresearch? examinethegenesis ofthat story its birthascrudepropagaffh MATTOGNO:Thebiggestsurprise wastheincredible vas! attheendof I 941andhowit developed throughvariousliterdry ness(over 88,000pages)and the meticulousness of the layers,untilthefinal venioneventuate4 thecurrentlydominad Al.lschwitz ZentalbauleitungthatI examinedin Moscow,doc- version. umentingever,'thing,eventhemostinsignificanlthings,butnot In thisftameworkthereis alsothefilst "murderby gassingl' theconstruction gaschambers. andoperation ofhomicidal Accoriding to Holocaustian historiognphy, it wouldbethestartiq point Themateriafin RobertJanvanPelt\ bookTheCasefor oftheallegedmassextermination thatwouldleadiaterlo the "gaschambers"of Birkenau Auscht"'itz: Eyidence the hlingTrial murderous ftom (2002)doesnothaveanyprobativevalue. passing throughintermediate stages oftle "crirninaltraces"afugdl1 "criminal "gas chambers" Thc The traces"allegedlyfound of the crematorium I "bunkei'in werereferringto normalprojectswithout Stammlager and the so-called found,wererefaring tn nornal anythingsuspicious, oftenunrealize4reBirkenau. N ectswi,thqutan)thing latedto theactualneedsofthe mom€nt According to thisperspective, it isthe srtpiiious, relatod, to theach&l birthofhomicidalgas andconcentrated chronologically during chambers, andthe the constructionof thecrematoria. They ruedsoJtlw nwrwnt and cqncerl- introduction would mark the first disappear completelyftom thedocumen- tratadcbvnolngical$during tho 'bfficial"useofZyklon-Bto kill people tationfromthebegindngofMay 1943, in the historyof Auschwitz.It also cu\tr'uetianofthaffernatqria." whenthenewprojectof"specialmeasrepresents the archeqpeof the alleged "selections" ureswaslaunched to improvehygienefaof prisoners registered for cilities" (Sondernassnahnenfrir die yetbesserukgder "gaschambers" ofthefieldhospitals. "gas hrgienischen Eintichtungen) at Birkenau, whichalsoaffected Sincetheseearlystages of thehistoryof holocaust thecrematona. chambers" arelogically concatenated andchronological. it was Thisexplainswhyfor aslongasthecrematoria of Birkenau necessary to examinethemcriticallybeforeaddressing theissue playedtheirallegedactivities of extermination, fiom March ofalleged gaschambers in thecrematoria ofBirkenau. 1943to October1944,thereis [not]evena "criminaltrace."In In twootherstudiesspecifically:Auschv,itz: CtenatotiunI a bookof 700pagesthatwill appear in ltaly,entitledTle gdr and theAIIegedHonicidal Ga$irg (Theses& Dissertations chambers al Ausch\jilz.Hisloricalandtechnicalstudy ofJean- Press,Chicago, 2005)and TheBunkersofAuschwitz. Black yercusHistoty(Theses ClaudePressac s "criminaltraces"awl RobertJa rati Pe[ts Prctpaganda & Dissenations Press, "convetEeceofeidence," have I setouta completecritique,a Chicago,2004), I workedin t\Lostages. Theconclusion resulting detriledandradicalviewolthesetwoauthorsonAuschwitz. ftomthesestudies is thaton thesethreepreliminary stages of An archiveof theZentralra,/ellrngshowsthatthe efforts thehistoryofAuschwitz gaschambers, notonlyis therenoevoftheSSwere(surprisingly) in theopposite direction to thatof idence,butnotevena "crminal fdce"; theyarebasedsolelyon extermination, asshownfor example by theimposingdocumen- unreliable andcontradictory evidence andarecontradicted by project, tationofa partiallyrealize4ofa hospital for prisoners existing documenls. in thefieldofBIII Birkenau. I haveprovided a critiqueof thehistoryof the"gaschambers"ofAuschwitz in about1,500pages. TBR:Whydoyou,in yourlatestboolqfocusonthefirst Thiscriticismis complemented by studies Tie,4 schrrz gassingatAuschwitz?Howwasit differentfrom the talesol Crenatoria,whichI haveaheadymentione4"TheMorguesof
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dleCremaloria atBirkenau in theLightolDocuments" (in: fre l?eyriiorr'r /, vol. 2, Numbet3, Augvst2004,2'7| -94),Special nea enth Auschwitz:Otigin andMaanitlgofa Tern(Theses & DissertatioDs Press, Chicago, 2004),TheCentqlCoilsttuction Ollice ofthe lltal[e -SSand PoliceAuschwitz(Theses& Dissertations Press, Chicago, 2005),fromanother study,still unpublishe4 of thehealthcareaDd"selections" ofprisoners registered at Auschwitz, andthenby a seriesof articleson importani aspects oftlre historyofAuschwitz. Overallin this areaI havedevoted about3,500pages. TheFitstGassing. Runot'arrlR"d/ityisa rervorking ollhe rcporlI presenledto fteNlnthhttenational Revisionist Cofererrreof 1989,whichappeared thesameyearin TheJou.nalof Histoti&l Rerie$,(vol.9 no.2, 193-222) withrhetirlefre F s/ GassiryatAschi'it.:Gerssrs o/d M],/r.TheItaliantexlofthe book.whichcamcout in I 992with theIitleAu:thritz; la prina gasazione (Edizion;.Jtk, Padova) wasreadyil] I 99I , bu1arthe projccts sametimcI workedon seveml to study. Therefore the prepamtion required certainly lessthana year,a fewmonths to complete upgmdes rhararefoundin lheEnglish. TBR: In a nutshell,whatarethe pmblemswith regard fo the establishmenttales about the first gsssingat Auschwitz? MATTOGNO:Thefundamental problem isthatthehistory of thc "first gassing"is bascdexclusively on incredibly conlradictory testimony points,i.e.,Iocation, on all essential date,preparations madc,performers ofthe gassing, technique, duration ofthesuffering ofthevictims,numberand identityof victims,whoevacuated thecorpses, beginning andduration of theevacualion, thenumberof deadbodies. Theonlypointon whichlhc witnesses arein agreement, the"blue"coloroflhe corpses, is false.Fromthismosaicofcontrasting teslimonies DanutaCzechcomposcs a coherentand Iogicalnarrative through anarduous cxantinalion ofthesourccr. Thedocuments ontheonehandshowthalthefomerSoviet prisoners of war whowereamongthealleged victimsofthe "firstgassing" arrivedatAuschwilz morethana monthlater, in earlyOctoberof 1941,whilc thegassing wascarriedout between Septenber3 and5. It doesnotquiteconfirmthedeath of lhealleged victimsamongdetainees (Bunkerbuc registercd h, Lei&enha||ebch e Sterbebiicher).
Want to hnow wbd.t 'Iloloca*st dznier' ac*ally deny?And. wbot theybeline (t why?
II oI ocaast Rep,i.sio nisno: TheArgurnents ByjuergenGmf& Bruno Montoriol Introduction by Mario Consoli e'e n r bool ro rct rhehisloricrlrecordsiriighlin regrrdlo thc holocausr. Ch.tptrricover:dre baiic chmsofrheholocausr believers;the tunctionofth< holocaustin the vorld since1945;a basichistoryofthe Revisionhtmovemenr; thc incredible claimsof pro,holocausr hisrodans;physicalproofofrheholocaust;documentaryproof ofthe holocaust;eyewirn€ss€s ro rhe gassingsi the Auschwitz legend;"crime scene"studiesat Auschwirz;other "exrerminarion" camps;thc gasvansand marsshootingqsix million "rniracles";wheredid rheyril go); th€ invisible"elephant in the roon"; the modem-day"NestusshirC';more.Softcov€r, 237 prges,#518,t2, minusl0% for TBR subscribers. See form on pageI 12 to order
to suchinformation.In fact,manyrejectedit out of hand. Did youfind the samereactionin ltaly?What wasthe response to yourearlyarticlesthat tookissuewith thelegend ofmassgassings? Whatkind ofpersonalderisionor attackdid yousuffer for lettingyourviewsandresearch beknown,at fhestart? MATTOGNO:In privateI bavenothadsuchexpcriences. because I wasalwaysvery cautiousin naking friendsand acquaintances involved withmystudiesI donotconsiderit my task to convincesomeone of the meritsof my argumcnl, although I gladlyprovide clarification tothosewho aresincerely interested. Fromthepublicattheoutset, thegeneral reaction to my firstwritingswassilence, because theiroutreach wasvery limitedin thebeginning.
TBR: We feelcertainyou havebeencalledan ,.antiSemite."What doesthatlabelmeanto you,andhowdo you feelaboutbeingreferredto in thatmanner? MATTOGNO:Whenthesupporters ofthe rcalityofthe "holocaust" wereforcedto dealwithme,because mywritings, TBR: Whenwehercat TBR became awareofcontradic- especially through theWeb,began to havea widerdistribution, tory evid€nce regarding thetalesof theholocausf andbegan the accusalion of "anti-Semitism" hasbecometheir main our ownrEsearEh, wefelt drivenaolet fellowAmericansknow criticism.In this context,it hasbecomean instrument of aboutthisastounding information.We naivelythoughtthat demonization on a personalleveland "refutation"on that theywouldbeasfascinated andinterested aswererve.Over methodology. It is clainedthattheRevisionist is "really"an "anti-Semite," time,however, we finallyrealizedthat not everyone is open thatheintended onlytherehabilitation ofNazisrn.
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anddoesso with sophistries andlies,so this activityis not myoriginalthesis, buthashelpedto complete and historical, puapose but ideological. Theessential is clearlyto it. In pmctice,in myworkI havedeveloped thethemesthat "ll mih discourage tie readingofRevisionistworks. already contained ina summary ofmy firstwritings, Outsideof Italy,themostvirxlentcritics-l wasmovedby ( I 985),whichappeared sterminio ebraico" in English under anAmericanJewJohnC.Zimmerman-l havefinally silenced title "The Myth of the Exiermination of theJews"(in: wit\ AnAccounlantPosesas CrcmationExpert(in G- Rrdolf, JotrnalofHistoricalRerie)r,vol.8,Nos.2 and3, 1988). C. Matto€.no, Auschwitz Lies:Legends, Lies,andPrejudiceson Of courseI havecorrectedsomesmallerrors,but nothing theHolocaust.Tbeses & Dissertation Press, 2005,87-I 94). hascaused meto reverse anyofmypositions asresoundingly ss After his retreat,criticscameinto actionwho work on haslrving.In this respect, I disagree with the ardorof the variousforumsandwhatI call"TheZimmerman Emergency criticismsome Revisionists have launchedagainsthim. Committee," startingfromsuchpeopieasSergeyRomanov and Revisionism isnotareligion (asisthecase andnotadogma for RobertoMuehlenkamp, worthystudents oftheirmasterI replied thereligion ofHolocaustianity), soit doesnothaveheresies. Bd at thetimeoftheirfallacious criticismin thebook1L,/ocarrr.. ahistorian mustalsodocument whathebelieves, andthisisthe AnateursontheWeb(Effepi,Genoa,2005),mostrecentlywith weakness oflrvingt newposition. thearticleandBelzecholocaust theoryof RobertoMuehlenIt is apparent thathewastaughtaboutthefunctionofthe kamp (publishedon the Web atr httpr//ita.vho.orgAelzec eastemcamps(Belzec,SobiborandTreblinka), basedona
[email protected]). British decodingof a Cermanradio message of Jan.I I, 1943,thatsurfaced 'Thtn ulvn tlu s@nrl$s of TBR| Conversely, wastheresupport onlyin 2001.Thismessage indicates th€ tfu walityoJthz 'holocarct' for your €fforts?If so-from wheredid were numberof Jewsdeportedin the three the supportcome(i.e.,academia, free aboveand in thatof fuced,tod2a.laith rE, buausem1 fieldsmentioned speech advocates, otherRevisionish)? Lublin,wasa totalof1,274,166. Thet€xl witings begantohaaea wiltr MATTOGNO:Themostimportant speaksof"Zuga g:' "new arrivals,"not disttilrutim,tlw otcwarion "deadbodies" help came from my frien4 fellow aslrvingseems to believe. 'anti.$niti.sn' of Revisionist researcher hasbaomc Juergen Gml (a But this samefigurein the samecont€xt " memberof TBR'Scontributing editodal (transport of Jewsfromeastem provinces theirrwin cfititi.sm. board).Heleda groupofsupporters from in eastemRussia)alsoappears in the Germany, FranceandBelgiumwhohave Korherrreport,April 28, 1943.Thereis fundedour studytoursin thearchives ofMoscowandother then[thequestion of] why Irvingremained indifferent to th€ citiesin EastemEurope.Our first visit to Moscowcouldtake originalGermandocument,knownfor decades, andis instead placethanksto a generous contributionfrom my Italian converted in frontofa simpleUK decoding. publisher. Fortunately, in Italy thereis not the hysteriathat prevails in otherEuropean countries. SinceI 995,whentheban TBR: Whatis your p€rsonal assessment ofthe progress in France ofa bookby Grafwasordered by theminister olthe of Revisionism in erodingmanyofth€ *holocaust"claims? inlerior,a groupofacademics drewupanappealfor Ireedomof As anexperienced researcher andtrueveteranofthe battle thepressandhistoricalresearchTodaywe cancounton a few for truth abouttheso-called holocaust, whatadviceor sugseasoned academics who supportRevisionism -especially directlyor gestions wouldyou giveto fellowRevisionists indirectly. noviceones? MATTOGNO:Ifyou wantto viewrhebodyofholocaust TBR: Obviouslyyouhavecomea longwaysincethat first historiography, theresults of Revisionismbrilliantlyexposed step.Hasanlthinghappened that nowmak€syouruassess by RobertFaurisson in thereporthereadonDec.I I , 2006,atthe yourpositionor castsdoubtuponyourinitialfindings? I ask conference in Tehran(seewww.fpp.co.uk/AuschwitzlFau this questionin light ofwhat is currentlyhappeningwith son/atTeheran_conf-2005.htm1) arepoor,marginal anddo BishopWilliamson,aswell asreadingstatementsattributed notafectits core.Thishowever doesnotdepend on a lackof to Davidlrving ill whichhe hasbackedoff from his initial incisiveness of historiogmphical Revisionism, butthefactthat conclusions to a degree, thiscorpusis in factsubstantiated by ideologyan4 asmentioned MATTOGNO:Fromthebeginning I wascaretul to explain above, a religious spirit. thefactsdocumente4 ofwhichI havepersonally checked the The"holocaust" politicallyjustified andfounded thesrare souce.Theacquisition ofnewdocuments, notonlydidnotupset of Israel.It givestheHebrewcommunity immunityandputsit
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existenceof a double"order of the Fuehrer,"one of total extermination, theother,later,paftialextermination. However, accordingto thehistoriography ofthe "holocaust,"Sobiborand Treblinkawereopenedin May andJuly 1942,afterthealleged "orderof the Fuehrei'of I 942,aspureextermination camps, thatis. for thetotalandindiscriminate extermination of Jews anddisabledpeople,unableto work.Thiswouldhaverequired athird"orderoftheFuehrer," notwithstanding thesecon4forthe twocampsmentioned aboveandChelmnoandBelzec,theother twocampsin whichtotalextermination ofJewswasto have takenplace. "is in openconIn addition, thefirst orderofthe Fuehrer policy Naziemigration tmdictionwith thewell-documented (fiNt) (later) you onbehalfofevcryandevacuation ofthe Jews.It is knownthatJewish TBR| In closing,wewsnt to thank wasprohibited onlyfromHimmleronOct.23,1941, onewho hasrcsd your articles,for your irNaluf,blecontribu- emigration while theMadagascar Plan*(whichrequiredthetnnsfer after tion to historicalresearch,truth, and,hopefull$justice.Our lastquestionsfor you,Sr.Mattogno,are,consideringwhathas thewaroftheJewsofEuropeunderGermancontrolto theisland ofMadagascar) wasofficiallyabandoned onFebruary10,1942. takenplacein your life sincethat initial step,would you do But then-when, how andwhy wasthe differ€ntly regarding impartanything ing the knowledgeg|ined thrunghyour "Asfur tlufuttw of Rnbionism" policy of emigrationor evacuation replaced And, whatdo you seeasthe abandoned andallegedly by a rcscarch? policy Revisionists as I expktitud, befme, tlu main of extermination? future for the cflorts of claims obstadzis not hi.sturiographical, As for thefutureof Revisionism, asI world&ideto exposo thedrshonest explained before,themainobstacleisnot of tteyewitnesses" and "sutvivots"? butpolitiral end idzological, historiographical, but politicalandideoMATTOGNO: I haveah@ysconrwst so soal. tha histqrbalE logical,so eventhe most historically sideredmy primary researchand the proofremainswithouteffect. publicationof its results,but I havenever pmof unassailable unassailahle rnwitu personally in thedissemination ol Nevertheless, sinceoul purposeis notto engaged ui.thouteJIect." I fight againstthe instrumentalusethat theseresults.Forthis andotherreasons Zionismis the"holocaust,"but to estabdo not publishany personalactivities (meetings, conferences, debates etc.).An4 obviouslywith some lishthehistoricaltruth,we will continueto dealwith theissue ftom a purelyhistodographic angle. exceptions, I do not grantinterviews.Moreoverthereis nowa + toolofcommunication farmore\aluable,theWeb,whichallows of Revisionistwritingsotherwiseunimaginable. dissemination C,1RLq MArroaNowasbomitr l95l in ONieto,Italy.He lor Revisionism, which Thishasopenedenomousopporhmities hashada broadandalsospecialized education rangingfrom its initial prospects. In fact now it is hasalsogreatlyexpanded the to the milit!ry. After his Latin classics Greek and snrdieg claimsof "eyeno longersimplyto exposethe dishonest pbilosophy hestudied at theunirersitylevelaswEllasOrienwitnesses" and"survivors,"but to presentin a positivekeyhistal andreligioussMies.Whileservingin theltaliananny,he possible, information, and torical,organicandwherever complete Todayhehasbecome attededthrcemilitaryschools. anacalsoto explainth€criticismin a positiveway. complislrcd lillguist, resealcher atrd a specialist i! textual Togivejust oneexample, thequestion of an'brderof the aialysis.It wasin 1979tlut Mattogno begandedicatirghimofthe Jewsof Europecar nolonger Fuehrel'for thedestruction self to lhe disciplineof historicalRevisionistresearch aod be limited to the finding thatthereis no suchwrittenordet It writing.In Europe,hehasbeenassociated with the.{rrales meaningonly ilit fits in its overallcontext. showsits deepest d'HistoireRa'isionniste,\\hrle inAmerica,M.ttognohascadby Himrnlerto Thealleged"orderof theFuehrcr"forwarded tdbutedto the suc@ss of sevenlRevisionistpublfuhing efto have been against all Jews Hoessin Junel94l is claimed forts.Amonghishobbiesalemountainclimbingcyclingand withoutexception,includingihosefit for work.As showr by bodybuilding.Manognomakeshis hornewith his familyin Himmlerto Wislicenyin I942,it waso y aboutJewsunableto sububanRom€. the work. The holocausthistoiiographywas to demonstrate The beyondall criticism,with theblackmailof"anti-Semitism." is nowthemomlbasisof all westem beliefin Holocaustianity slartingftom theVaticanandendingwith theUnited countries, As anideologicalbodyofvital importance to Zionism,it States. because conectingit wouldmean ishistorically unassailable, thedisappear'ance ofiheZioniststateoflsmel. "anti-Semitic," meaning HistoricalRevisionists aredeclared "anti-Jewish" (nevermindthatAmbsandvfiiousothernon-Jews theideological because theirrcsearch undermines areSemites), Ismelpretends to represent fourdationsofzionism,andbecause the ofthe worl4 even though some Jews, even in Ismel all Jews lheZionistentiry itself,oppose
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ThereIs NoScientific Proofof Gassings rcn'ttheredocuments that"prove"thatZyklon-Bpoisonwasusedin lhe concentration campsto kill the Jewsin gaschambers? No,butthercaresurvivingGermandocuments thatdiscuss theuseofzyklon-B a widelyavailable commercial insecticide androdentkiller-to disinfect t'?hus-bearing clothing andto exterminate Iicein specialdelousing charnbers andto kill verminin thecampbuildings notto gasJews.In fact,RudollHoess, commandant of "special Auschwitz, issueda ordei'(dated August12,1942)in whichhesaidthat: Todaytherewasa caseof illnessdueto slights),rnptomsofpoisoning withPrussic acidlzyklon-B].This makesit necessary to wam all thoseinvolvedwith gassings, aswellasall otherSSpersonnel, thatespegassed ciallywhenopening rooms,SSpersonnel not wearinggasmasksmustwaitat leastfivehoursand keepa distance of l5 meters fiomthechamber. Io this regar4particularattentionshouldbepaidto $e wind direction. This\i€ming layswasteto theoft-repeated legendthatthousandsofJewsweregassed dailyona regularandrepeated basis, onegroupafteranotherFurthermore, if Zyklon-Bwerebeing purposes, utilizedfor homicidal therewouldbeno reason to personnel haveto wamtheSS ofthe dangers. Thiswouldhave beenobvious-ifthe allegedhomicidalgassings werebeingcarriedout,thatis. Although thousands ofcorpses werediscovered whenAllied troopsovenantheconcentmtion canpsin Europe a factof historythatnobodydisputes thereis still notonesinglepostwarautopsyreportprepared by Allied investigatom thatproves thatanyofthesepeople-oranyothervictimof theNazis waskilledby theGermans usingthefamedZyklon-Bgas,or anygasfor that matter.EvenHolocaustdevoteeRaulHilberg admittedunderoathonJanuaryI 7, 1985that"Thereis nosingle scientificreportthatshowsa gaschamber. . . I knowofno autopsy." Mostofthesepeople di€dofdisease-largely t,?hus and manyofstarvationduringthoselasthorriblemonthsofthe war whenAllied bombingandinvadingforcescutofffood andmedical supplylinesto dreconcentration camps.Thedeathswere sommpantin thefaceofthe Allied onslaught thatthere$"s no time to crematethedisease-ridden corpses. Thus,thepresence of stacksol corpsesis NOTproof of any'Nazi extermination policy''It provesonlythatmanyunfortunate peoplediedofdiseaseandstarvationduringa verytragicandbloodywa.. JewishHolocaust historian Amo Mayer,writingin 1988in
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indicates venthemostcursorysurveyofthe literature "mainsfeam" Jewish writers and academthatnumerous conclusion: theJewish ics havereached a remarkable people parricularly what American Jews havetodayreached hismaybea zenithofpowerunlike anlthingyetseenin Jewish writing in American Jewish scholar Benjamin Ginsberg, lory it welll TheFotalEnbrdce:JLvsard tre.t/ale,hassurnnarized wieldconsidemble Jewshavecometo Sincethe1960s, intellectual,and in American economic, cultural, inffuence fipoliticallife.Jewsplayeda centralrolein American andtheywereamongthechief nanceduringthe 1980s, corporate mergers andreorbencficiaries ofthatdecadet ganizations. though barely2ol0 ofthenationbpopToday, areJewsulationis Jewish, closeto halfitsbillionaires Thechicfcxecutive omcersofthetheemajortelevision networksand|hefourlargestfilm studiosareJews,asare newspaper chainand theownersofthe nation'slargest york TheNew nnes.ln singlenewspape\ mostinffuential 20%of lhefaculty thelateI 960s,Jewsalrcadyconstituted of elilelaw and40%oftheprofessors ofeliteuniversities percentages are higher. today, these doubtless schools; politicsis of Jewsin American Theroleandinfluence to publicomcein disprocqually marked. Jewsareelected portionate In 1993,l0 mcmbersoftheUS. Senate numberi. were House ofReprcscntatives Jewand32members oflhe g€neral popofthe ish,threeto fourtimestheirpercenlage ulalion.Jewsare evenmore promincntin political organizations andin finance.Onerecentstudyfoundthatin Senatc, oneorbo0r 27of36 campaigns for tbeUnitedSlates chairman or ficandidates reliedupona Jewish campaign nance direclor In therealmof lobbying andlitigation, Jewsorganized mostsucwhatwasfor manyyearsoneofwashinglon's theAmerican lscessfulpoliticalaction[organizations], (AIPAC),andtheyplay raelPublicAfl'airsCommittee groups publicinterest rolesin suchimportant leadership (ACLU)andComLiberties Union astheAmerican Civil monCause. economic, socialandpolitical Theirrolein American
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hardlymorethantheirshareofthe population-theymak€ upone-fourthor moreofthe writers,editom,andproducersin America's"elitemedia;'includingne&orknewsdi. visions,the top newsweeklies andtie four teadingdaily papels(NewyorkTi es.LosAngelesntfies, Washigton Post,tYallStreetJo rnar. In thefast-evolving worldofrnediamegacorporations, Jewsareevenmorenumerous. In anOctober1994/anilt Fatrfeanreprofilingthekjngprns ofthenewmediaeli|e, " just underhalfofthe two titled'The NewEsrablishment dozenentrepreneurs profiledwereJews.In theviewofihe magazine editors,theseareAmericattruepowerelite.r
Professor NormanF.Canto\ witing ]fi TheSaaedChak: TheHistoryoftheJews,has summarized Jewishsuccess andinResearch by CharlesSilbem,an,\tiling tnA CerlainPeople. fluence in a nurnber ofarenas: focusesonthevastandwide-rdnging influenceofthis American Jewish elite: It wastheJews,by andlarge,nottheItalians,whocreatedwhatlaterwascalledtheMafia.In Accordingto a studyof theethnic the1920s theItalians began to replace "h rrlasthzJeus, by andmcialbackgrounds olpeoplelisted the Jewsin the New York organized mdl&ge, in the 1974-75 editionof Woi llho crime industry " ' Jewswere also ,uttha lfuli,'l.s,' who ct?stcit ir lr,€nca, Jewsweretwo anda half prominenl in thegambling lmdeand unu lder was aled tlu M{ta timesmorelikely to beincludedthan developed LasVegasin rhe I040s.. members of the population at large. Intfu 1920stlu ltdims begn to Je\arsh academics andolherintelRelativeto population, moreovetthere lectualsplayedthedominanlrolein the reolae tlw tals ia ttu Nezi vot* werenore thantwiceasmanyJewsas tashionins ofthe NewLeffcultureof therewerepeopleofEnglishheritage, orgari*n oine fuhsny' rhel960Jandtq70s.. . . Oftenit \aas the groupthat oncedominated the a blendof the imaginative cuitural American elite. Marxism of Benjamin Adomoandthe In a l97l-?2analysis groupofleadofa muchsmaller FranktunSchoolofthe 1930s withthemoreradicalside ers in someeightfieldsof endeavolthe sociologists of theFreudiantradition.T RichardD Alba andGwenMoorefoundanevengreater Thehighlysuccesslul Americanfeministmovemenr concentmtion. Ofthe 545peoplestudie4ll.3 percent olthe 1970sand1980sinvolvedJewishleadersnrp. ... wereJews fourtimestheirproportionin thepopulation Perhaps the two mostprominentpersonalities in the asawhole.... women's movemenq GloriaSteinem andBettyFriedan, Thephenomenon is notlimitedto theUnitedStates. wereJewish.s Jewsmakeupaboutonepercentofthe population of Great Jewishinvestrnent barikers playeda major,perhaps preBritain,but6 to I 0 perceftofthe Britishelite;inAusrralia, dominant rolein thefuneticWallStreetspeculative venhres whereJewsare0.5percentofthe population,theyconstiof6e | 980s.'q theskillofsome Jewish billion[Inttle1980s] tute5 percent oftheelite.. . .a airesin skiningthe limirsoflhe lawbulsomehow eme€ing unscathed, with ttleaidofhigh-pricedNewYorkJewishatYetanotherJewishwritet Ll.Goldberg,nJewishPower:I tomeysanda compliant press,wasremarkable.l0 sidetheAmericanJe ishtsaarr'srmert,daresto admitthatthe As in BerlinandViennabeforeHitler,theJewish role Jewshavealsoaccumulated immensecloutasfar asthenews in publishingwasanimportantone.By I 950Jewishfammediais concemed: iliesownedtwooflhe lhreemoslinfluential newspapers in theUnitedStates, the,VewYorkTinesanlthe Washington It istruethatJewsarerepresented in themediabusiness in numbersfar outofproportionto theirshareofthe popIn 1994Jewswereonly tfueepercentofthe American ulation.StudieshaveshownthatwhileJewsmakeuplittle populationbut thef impactwasequivalentto an ethnic morethan5 percent ofthe workingpressnationwide groupcomprising 20percent ofthepopulation.,t
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