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re: Letters from Readers.
"Can you tell me why the letter talking about "no
gas chambers during W.W.II" was included,
especially considering it was not commented on? It's a little
confusing to see it next to the other letters, since they seem to
be so different with regard to Seeing what is. Or am I missing
something here?
Regards,
R
Here is the letter in question that the reader
above references:
"I am a lawyer who has acted for clients accused of
"Holocaust denial" and have written a book on it myself. The "gas
chambers" of Nazi Germany are the missing WMD of W.W.II. They
simply never existed. If you are interested, I can give you a run
down, but to give an example, the "gas chambers" at Dachau were
probably built by US servicemen immediately after liberation of the
camp. They put in a false ceiling in one room and stuck in the
heads of water cans to look like "shower heads". The very famous
Hollywood producer George Stevens produced the film "Nazi
Concentration Camps" where he showed this room and a lot of pipes
and levers while a deep, baritone voice intoned that the gas came
through the pipes to the showers. These pipes, however, are still
there today and are part of the heating system. Pretty smart, heh?
Very simple really. I suppose Stevens got a big chuckle out of it.
He was working for the US Government at the time.
No one claims today that there was a gas chamber
that worked at Dachau . They say it was "installed but never used".
But people were hanged at Nuremberg for "gassings" at
Dachau.
Those who attempted to show this lie to the world
were of course branded as "Nazis", "anti-Semites" and
"hate-mongers" and most are in jail. In France, you have Dr. Robert
Faurisson who was almost beaten to death. Norman Finkelstein has
documented how this horrible lie has been exploited, to the point
of being an industry.
I feel strongly that those of us who devoted our
lives to this issue failed badly in our efforts to bring truth to
the public. And because we did, the US was able to use more such
huge lies to bring war in Iraq. People cannot seem to accept that
such huge lies can be told and not be found out. But if you
discredit, jail, beat, kill and destroy anyone who does try to tell
the truth, its not surprising that the lie can survive."
The issue in question here is not whether ALL
details commonly accepted as factual about 'the holocaust' are in
fact factual or not. We do not question the truth that millions of
Jews were persecuted by the Nazis during W.W.II and that gas
chambers were used. The real issue is the term 'the holocaust'
itself and the apparent hijacking of a verified historical event
(the overall deaths of 65 million people) and its subversion and
distortion, in an attempt to create the illusion that Jews were the
ONLY victims of Nazi aggression.
'The Jewish holocaust' has for many years been
synonymous with the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the
Second World War. From a historical point of view this is
inaccurate. The Nazis pogrom against civilians included anyone not
of strictly Germanic or Aryan descent. As a result an estimated 11
million human beings were exterminated.
Born from the Ashes and
Blood:
In late August of 1939, Hitler signed nonaggression
pact with Stalin which, effectively, was an agreement between the
two of them to divide Poland. When the Germans invaded Poland on
September 1, 1939, the Polish people hardly knew what the Nazis had
in store for them. According to the Nazi grand design for the
solution to the need for " lebensraum , " (living space), the whole
of Polish territory was to be gradually cleared of its native
population for the colonization by German ethnic populations and
eventually incorporated into the Greater German Reich.
Thus, unfortunately, the Poles themselves were the
next target of the Nazis, and the plan was to play the Poles
against the Jews to effect their mutual destruction. Pure
Machiavelli.
The Germans considered the Poles to be an inferior
race as they did other Slavic nations. So, according to the plan,
the Poles were to be sorted according to strictly racist criteria.
Those Poles with German ancestry were to be reclassified as ethnic
Germans. The transformation of Poland into a German province was to
be carried out over a short period of twenty-five or thirty years.
Hence, no mercy was to be shown to this population. And, to
guarantee the success of this fast despoliation, the intelligentsia
was to be liquidated. "It sounds cruel, " Hitler reportedly told
Hans Frank, "but such is the law of life."
Through restrictions on marriages, lowering of
sanitary conditions, reduction of food supply, and the removal of
hundreds of thousands of able bodied men for labor in Germany, a
biological campaign was carried out to bring about a sharp
reduction of the Polish population. Polish children with strong
Aryan characteristics were forcibly taken from their families and
sent to Germany for "re-Germanization."
The Polish language was banned, and Polish towns
and cities were given German names. In the Eastern Zamosc region,
some 110, 000 Poles were evacuated from villages and replaced with
25,000 German colonists.
In other words, the whole of Poland was to be
treated as a concentration camp.
The premeditated and constant harassment of the
Polish population led to an unremitting reign of terror which
lasted the full duration of the occupation. Individual arrests were
conducted on a massive scale, and street roundups for labor in
Germany became a common, frightening reality.
And, it must be remembered, this was directed
against POLES in general, and not merely Jews! Of the 11 million
human beings killed by the actions of the Nazis, SIX million were
Polish citizens. Half of these were Jews and half were NOT. Jews
and non-Jews alike were made prisoners in their own country; no one
was allowed out.
Thus, it is obvious why Poland was chosen as the
main killing site for the slaughterhouses that were to effect the
elimination of both the Jews and the Poles. The Polish countryside
was blanketed with an array of death camps whose names will forever
remain as significators of the unfathomable depths of human
depravity. In these camps, the practice of death became a question
of German efficiency and thoroughness, with gassing becoming the
main killing device.
In spite of this it seems that there has been a
concerted attempt to deflect from the the suffering of the Poles,
keeping victimhood the exclusive right of the Jews, even to the
extent of portraying Poles as accomplices in the Nazi plan.
For example Lawrence Weinbaum writes:
"Over the last thirty years, much of world Jewry
has displayed a keener sense of hostility to Poland than to Germany
itself. Poland, not Germany, is often seen as the ultimate place of
evil ... Part of the hostility to Poland is based on the entirely
false impression that Germans chose occupied Poland as the venue
for the death camps because they could court Polish cooperation in
carrying out the Final Solution. Although there is no historical
evidence to support this contention, it has gained very wide
currency and credence ... Careless references to 'Polish
extermination camps,' rather than German or Nazi camps, also played
a part in fostering this perception ... Popular literature, not
always based on objective scholarship, has also played a leading
role in shaping the popular image of Poland. Novels (and subsequent
film adaptations) by popular writers such as Leon Uris (Exodus,
Mila 18, QBVII), Gerald Green (Holocaust), and others have done
much to influence the way we think about Poland, and the impression
gained from these books has generally been negative. In such works
Poles are often portrayed in a worse light than the Germans and it
sometimes seems that the burden of guilt for the Holocaust has been
shifted to the shoulders of the Poles." [WEINBAUM, p.
7]
History does not write itself. For this
misperception to be have gained such widespread acceptance, some
deliberate and conscious effort must have been made, and logically
must have come from Jewish quarters or those promoting a Jewish
agenda. The question then is "why?" Why would one group of people,
or their representatives seek to gain a monopoly on suffering that
was shared by so many?
Various Jewish groups have rightly denounced
'holocaust deniers', those that reject out right the idea that any
Jewish holocaust ever occurred. The problem is that the term is
used equally to malign and defame anyone that would even question
the right of Jews to their monopoly on the usage of the term
'holocaust'.
The word holocaust is defined by the Oxford English
dictionary as:
"a case of large scale
destruction or slaughter, especially by fire or nuclear
war."
Interestingly the next entry is for "The holocaust"
defined as:
"The mass murder of Jews (and
other persecuted groups such as gypsies and homosexuals) under the
German Nazi regime."
The definition then continues with further details
of the concentration camps etc. There is no mention of the Poles,
Armenians, Catholics and intelligentsia from ALL backgrounds. No
mention that 10 million Ukrainians died. Such is the level and
effectiveness of the programming.
The simple fact then is that Jews were not the only
ones that suffered the "large scale destruction and slaughter" at
the hands of the Nazis. Their suffering is no more important than
the suffering of any other group. To have a situation where, in
order to further promote Jewish interests, the memory of almost
half of the 11 million people who died innocently is ignored, is
unacceptable.
As author Maxime Rodinson asks:
"I would be the last to minimize the atrocity of
Auschwitz, where my father and mother perished. But don't the tears
of others count?"
The holocaust was a human holocaust, in all 65
million died. The practice of focusing solely on the suffering of
the Jews amounts to elitism, assigning a higher 'worth' to the
suffering of one group over another. The promotion of the 'Jewish
holocaust' and Jews as victims to whom the world owes a debt, has
been very effective over the course of the last 58 years. So
effective in fact, that the Israeli government, in it's capacity as
acting in the interests of the Jewish community, enjoys virtual
immunity from reproach in it's actions towards the Palestinians. We
disagree with Elie Wiesel when he says:
"To cheaply universalize the
Holocaust would be a distortion of history."
The insistence of groups like the
ADL that this distorted
view of history can never be questioned (on pain of being labeled
anti-semitic) amounts to censorship of the truth. If we are to
truly seek and See the truth, there can be no taboos as to what we
can and cannot look at. To follow the path of the truth seeker
requires the unwavering desire to see ALL as IS.
This emphasis as the
holocaust as a Jewish only tragedy was, however, not always the
case. On the
July 22 edition
of the Signs page we put together this commentary:
On this day in 1942
The New York Times reports on page
SIX the mass extermination of 700,000 Jews. To
further add insult to injury (to put it mildly):
"In Israel, in the early years after the Holocaust,
Jewish survivors were even scorned with contempt by Israeli Jews as
'soap' (i.e., feebly passive Jews who were passively turned into
bars of soap by Nazi tormentors, the fulfillment of demeaning
stereotypes about fellow Jews. 'With what scorn,' noted Georges
Tamarin in 1973, 'Israeli youth reacts to the alleged
faint-heartedness of the six million victims of Nazis!' The
Holocaust was an emblem of shame to Jewry, little discussed, more
often avoided. "Even in their extraordinary death agony," notes
Haim Breseeth, 'the millions of European Jews had not attracted
sympathy [in Israel] -- a minimum expectation from an important
Jewish community."
"A daughter of Holocaust survivors who was raised
in Israel remarked at a conference there that, 'What I hated and
dreaded most when I was a child was summertime. It was a time when
the [tattooed concentration camp] numbers on my mother's arm would
be there for all to see and people would know that she was a
survivor and was one of the despised people. People like my parents
were despised in Israel, and I was ashamed of them.'"
Jewish Tribal Review
In order to see reality as it is, it is important
to not see the world in black and white. To use an analogy, we
prefer 8 bit or 24 bit images rather than black and white one or
two bit images. We are against racism or stereotyping of any type,
but we refuse to look away from manipulation and propaganda twisted
to suit an agenda. There have been critical examinations regarding
this focus on the Holocaust:
"It isn't the truth [about Jews in the Holocaust
era] that frightens me but the suppression of free speech in order
to protect communal myths that are not lies but truths rendered so
sacrosanct and undiscussed that they start to smell fishy."
-- Carol Oppenheim, Jewish author
"The actual historical subject [of the
Holocaust] itself has become almost unimportant compared with its
contemporary political function in the hands of some Jews." --
John Fox, non-Jewish faculty member in Jewish history and
Holocaust studies at both University College and Jews College,
London
Who is being manipulated with
this focus? Not only the world at large, but the Jews themselves,
who right at this moment are being walled in while their government
threatens to murder Arafat. Israel's inhabitants may very well be
consumed in the inferno ignited by their own government's murderous
policies. These policies are discussed in the media in
Israel, such as this article from Haaretz, a newspaper owned by
Zionists as they clearly state on their website.
What the fatality
statistics tell us
By
Amira Hass
Haaretz
"[I]t
turned out that according to calculations of the Shin Bet and by
its own definitions, of the 2,341 Palestinians who were killed up
to the beginning of August this year, 551 were terrorists, "that
is, bearing arms and explosives" (Ze'ev Schiff, Haaretz, August 8,
2003). To those who wonder who the other victims were, whether they
were suspects, or civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time -
here is a partial answer: Until the end of August this year, IDF
soldiers killed 391 minors, according to B'Tselem. According to the
Red Crescent, the IDF killed 141 women. B'Tselem determined that
291 Palestinian security personnel were killed, some of whom were
participating in the fighting, whether during an IDF incursion or
during attacks they initiated in the settlements or against
soldiers.
However many did not take part in the fighting, and
were killed while they were standing at their posts as defined in
the Oslo Accords. Many others were killed in bombardments, in
invasions of cities, or in attempts to detour roadblocks. In
addition to some 120 Palestinians who were targets of
assassination, 82 Palestinian civilians were killed "by mistake."
They, it is to be assumed, are not included in the 551 terrorists
as defined above.
Here are the disastrous proportions, in the hope
that someone in Israel will take notice: 80 percent of the
Palestinians killed were not connected to armed
actions.[...]
The American media never
covers regular demonstrations of Orthodox Jews against Israel and
the country's policies. Instead, Orthodox Jews are targeted by the
likes of
Rick Ross, a convicted felon, self-proclaimed
cult deprogrammer and probable Mossad agent, who also instrumental
in the events that lead to the murders of the Branch Davidians at
Waco, Texas in 1993..
Jewish Protests not shown on
TV
[...]Now why don't I see this on television?
Because the media is trying to equate anti-Zionism with
anti-Semitism! These pictures cause a problem, and so must be
suppressed.
Instead there is censorship
of all sorts:
Journal axes gene
research on Jews and Palestinians
Robin
McKie, science editor
The Observer
A keynote research paper showing that Middle
Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has
been pulled from a leading journal.
Academics who have already received copies of Human
Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw
them away.
Such a drastic act of
self-censorship is unprecedented in research publishing and has
created widespread disquiet, generating fears that it may involve
the suppression of scientific work that questions Biblical
dogma.
'I have authored several
hundred scientific papers, some for Nature and Science, and this
has never happened to me before,' said the article's lead author,
Spanish geneticist Professor Antonio Arnaiz- Villena, of
Complutense University in Madrid. 'I am stunned.' [...]
The paper, 'The Origin of
Palestinians and their Genetic Relatedness with other Mediterranean
Populations', involved studying genetic variations in immune system
genes among people in the Middle East.
In common with earlier
studies, the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish
people were genetically distinct from other people in the region.
In doing so, the team's research challenges claims that Jews are a
special, chosen people and that Judaism can only be
inherited.
Jews and Palestinians in
the Middle East share a very similar gene pool and must be
considered closely related and not genetically separate, the
authors state. Rivalry between the two races is therefore based 'in
cultural and religious, but not in genetic differences', they
conclude. [...]
Very interesting considered
in the light of our research into
Ethnic Specific Weapons. Are the Jews being set
up once again, but this time right along with the Arabic peoples?
Israel's support of the Iraq Invasion for their own purposes may
bring more human suffering than ever experienced before in
history.
More Censorship:
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
OFFICIALS CANCEL PALESTINE CONFERENCE
Statement from the
Organizing Committee of the Third National Student Conference on
the Palestine Solidarity Movement at Rutgers University
[...] Today, Rutgers
University officials have CANCELLED the Third National Student
Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, scheduled for
October 10-12, 2003 at Rutgers University. [...]
In
canceling this widely supported conference throughout North
America, the university administration has trampled on
constitutional rights, muted free speech, and has betrayed
its pledge to fairness and education.
This
is an attack on peace and justice activists everywhere. It is
an attack on our society as a whole and on our right to free
expression and assembly.
But
the university administration has gone much farther, and has
taken a shameful overt political stand in favor of Israeli
Apartheid. As the university cancels the Palestine
conference, it is simultaneously supporting an overarching
pro-Israel program called "Israel Inspires", organized by the
likes of AIPAC and Hillel International along with others,
which will be held at Rutgers to "neutralize the Palestinian
movement".
According to the official
website of "Israel Inspires" (www.israelinspires.org), the
president of Rutgers University, Dr. Richard L. McCormick,
"pledged his support for Israel Inspires, and asked to be
personally involved in Hillel's positive pro-active
initiative." In fact, President McCormick will appear tonight
as a keynote at a pro-Israel event hosted by Zionists groups at
Rutgers University. Featured participants at the "Israel
Inspires" program during the weekend of October 10-12 will
include the arch-Zionist Richard Perle and former CIA
Director, James Woolsey. They will join the president of the
right-wing Hudson Institute, Herbert London, and the
publisher & CEO of the Jerusalem Post, Tom Rose. On
September 18, 2003, Israeli Minister, Natan Sharansky,
will be featured as the opening speaker of
the anti-Palestinian year-long program. [...]
There has been an effective
shutting down of all discussion of what is really going on this
world. The Holocaust is off the table for discussion. Anyone who
questions Israel's current genocidal policies is labeled
anti-semitic, or even worse an holocaust denier, which can be
punishable by law:
In
1995, while in France, Bernard Lewis, a very prominent Jewish (and
Zionist) emeritus professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton
University, told a Le Monde reporter that the Armenian disaster at
the hands of the Turks didn't qualify as "genocide." This remark
caused an uproar in France, where "Holocaust deniers" have faced
jail and hefty fines for similar assertions about Jewish history at
the hands of the Nazis. [...]
The death and destruction
of six million Jews is being dishonored by some in power, twisted
and used for their own plans.
[...] Irving Greenberg,
Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Commission,
"regarded comparison of the Holocaust with any other form of
genocide as 'blasphemous, as well as dishonest.'" [LILENTHAL, p.
55] "The unique demands and inherent risks of teaching the
Holocaust," says Richard Libowitz, "point to rejection of an
instructor who merely instructs, in favor of the professor who will
profess." [LIBOWITZ, p. 65] "The instrument of my return to [a
Jewish identity] is not religion," says Jane Delynn, "but the
Holocaust. It is where my identity as a Jew lies -- my chosen
identification with an event in history that I have declared to be
of significance as no other." [DELYNNE, p. 64]
[...] The Israeli newspaper
Ha'aretz traced the Jewish efforts to reject a proposed United
States resolution to recognize a day commemorating the Armenian
genocide. A Jewish community leader in Turkey, Jacque Kamhi hired
Paul Berger, a Jewish American lawyer to lobby against it.
[...]
[...] Katz notes that in
this century alone there were far worse man-made catastrophes that
have befallen people other than Jews. Joseph Stalin, for example,
"willfully" killed up to twenty million people in Russia between
1929-39. In the 1940's another twenty million more Soviets lost
their lives as a consequence of World War II. Alexander
Solzhenitsyn estimated that between 1929 and 1959 sixty-six million
Russians were killed by "manmade famines and related forms of
violence and war."
[...] In China, Katz figures between 34-64 million people died
during the Chinese communist revolution in the 1930's and 1940's.
In Turkey, between 35 and 60% of the Armenian population was killed
by Turks in 1915-1917. Aborigines in Tasmania were entirely wiped
out by the European conquest in the nineteenth century. [All KATZ,
p. 97] In Central America, with the invasion of the Conquistadors,
some fifty million indigenous peoples were reduced to three and a
half million in less than a century. [TRAVERSO, p. 106]
Jewish Tribal Review
This censorship inhibits
seeing. If the people cannot look into the past, we are all be
doomed to repeat it, but perhaps in a much more devastating scale.
Who benefits? Only a small minority of psychopaths.
World War II in
Ukraine:
The
Ukrainian Experience in World War II With a Brief Survey of
Ukraine's Population Loss of 10 Million
by
Andrew Gregorovich
This
article is intended to provide some of the basic information about
the Ukrainian experience in World War II. Ukraine's role in the war
is basically unknown in the world. For example, one American
encyclopedia of World War II does not even include an entry on
Ukraine. For almost a half century Soviet and Ukrainian archives
were closed to historians but today it is possible to do scholarly
research in Ukraine and Moscow. This may finally provide a more
accurate picture than has been possible with existing
sources.
Every Ukrainian family
suffered losses in the war and many had victims of both Hitler and
Stalin. Perhaps it is significant that out of three of my relatives
who were victims of the war, two were shot by Stalin's USSR and one
was shot by Hitler's Gestapo. Ukraine has thousands of World War II
monuments. Very small villages often have a monument listing the
names of the World War II dead. Ukrainian losses probably numbered
10 million or half of the entire USSR total and twenty per cent of
the entire World War II total of fifty million dead.
[...]
Will the Media Let Bush
Lose?
By
Sam Parry
September 16, 2003
The
U.S. news media may soon face a dilemma: Can pundits keep calling
George W. Bush "the popular war-time president" – a favorite
stock phrase – if his poll numbers sink much further? For two
years, the phrase has been a media cliché for Bush often
delivered with a pleasing smile from an agreeable talking head. Or
it’s used like a club against some critic who is out of step
with the American people. [...]
Similarly, the U.S. news
media has framed next year’s election around the repeated
question, "Is Bush Unbeatable?" – again suggesting that Bush
is next to invincible. But the latest polls suggest that
Bush’s voter support is fading fast in the face of job
losses, a worsening deficit and continuing violence in Iraq.
[...]
Comment: Perhaps
Bush is unbeatable. Elections mean nothing, since they can easily
be rigged with little protest from U.S. citizens. Of course, if
Bush does not fulfill every one of his bloody objectives that he
has been "commissioned" to do than he can easily hung out to dry.
He and his family have so many skeletons and dark "secrets" (in
quotes, because anyone who wants to know, can find evidence of such
with a three minute internet search) that they can be kicked out
when it suits his puppet masters.
Heart of darkness
Monday September 15,
2003
The Guardian
I
can identify the moment I fell out of love with India quite
precisely. It happened at the end of last February. Riots had just
broken out in the western state of Gujarat, after a group of
Muslims attacked a train full of Hindu pilgrims, killing 59 of
them. In Gujarat's main city, Ahmedabad, trouble was brewing. Hindu
mobs had begun taking revenge on their Muslim neighbours - there
were stories of murder, looting and arson. Arriving in Ahmedabad
from Delhi, I found it impossible to hire a car or driver: nobody
wanted to drive into the riots.
But
the trouble was not difficult to find: smoke billowed from above
Ahmedabad's old city; and I set off towards it on foot. There were
rumours that a mob had hacked to death Ahsan Jafri - a
distinguished Indian former MP, and a Muslim - whose Muslim housing
estate was surrounded by a sea of Hindu houses. A team from Reuters
gave me a lift. Driving through streets full of burned-out shops
and broken glass we arrived half an hour later outside his
compound, surrounded by thousands of people. Jafri had been dead
for several hours, it emerged. A Hindu mob had tipped kerosene
through his front door; a few hours later they had dragged him out
into the street, chopped off his fingers, and set him on fire. They
also set light to several other members of his family, including
two small boys. There wasn't much left of Jafri's Gulbarg Housing
Society by the time we got there: at the bottom of his stairs I
discovered a pyre of human remains - hair and the tiny blackened
arm of a child, its fist clenched. [...]
Hatch alarms right over anti-terror
act
By
Christopher Smith
The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON -- When
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch says he will do everything in his power
to grant President Bush's latest request to expand federal police
authority beyond the Patriot Act, it dismays one of the nation's
leading conservative strategists.
"That's like somebody
saying they'll raise taxes indefinitely," said Grover Norquist,
president of Americans for Tax Reform and a board member of the
National Rifle Association and American Conservative Union. "Why
would he want to give the federal government indefinite power?"
[...]
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