Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstorff (1862 – 1939) German
ambassador to the United States & Mexico from 1908 - 1917
He was right about war benefiting the Jews in Germany, but not the way he imagined
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
1934: Does Hitler need Jewish bankers?
British journalist Robert Edward Dell (1865 - 1940) wrote in his 1934 book Germany Unmasked:
In fact, the Jewish bankers as a class have been more leniently treated than any other Jews. Is it possible that they are more powerful even than Hitler? Or does he need their services? In any case, international finance does not seem to be unfavourable to the Nazi regime. Financiers, as a rule, are financiers first and Jews, Christians, Parsees, or what not a long way afterwards. Banking apart, the assertion that Germany was dominated by the Jews is nonsense. There were fewer Jews in important political and administrative positions—positions of authority—in Germany than in England or France, both absolutely and proportionately. There has never been a Jewish Chancellor and, if I am not mistaken, the only Jew who has held office in a Cabinet of the Reich since the murder of Rathenau is Dr. Hilferding.
Encyclopædia Britannica says 1000s gassed at Belsen
"Although Bergen-Belsen had no gas chambers, thousands were gassed in improvised shower rooms."
Many of my friends were gassed at Belsen
Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
Jewish communist, serial rapist, Zionist, Ho£ocaust propagandist
In January 1944 Koestler wrote in the New York Times that 3,000,000 Jews
had been killed with steam, mass-electrocution, or by being buried alive.
had been killed with steam, mass-electrocution, or by being buried alive.
In his 1952 autobiography Arrow in the Blue, Koestler writes:
"At a conservative estimate, three out of every four people whom I knew
before I was thirty were subsequently killed in Spain, or hounded to death at
Dachau, or gassed at Belsen, or deported to Russia, or liquidated in Russia."
7,000,000 gassed at Auschwitz
Dr. Filip (Philip) Friedman (1901-1960)
Polish/American Jewish historian Friedman wrote a history of (Oswiecim) Auschwitz
concentration camp, which was translated from its original Yiddish and published in
English in 1946 under the name This Was Oswiecim: The Story of a Murder Camp.
Friedman claimed that perhaps 7,000,000 people were gassed at
Auschwitz, this figure excluded deaths from other causes.
Sunday, 27 November 2011
5,885,000 Jews killed in just three death camps
Written by American rabbi David E. Cahn-Lipman, and published in 1986,
The Jewish Book of Knowledge: 613 Basic Facts About Judaism
gives the following death tolls in the Ho£ocaust:
Death tolls for the other three "death camps" Belzec, Sobibor & Treblinka are not
given, and the Einsatzgruppen is not even mentioned. But seeing as 5,885,000 Jews
were Ho£ocausted in just three camps, it wasn't really worth mentioning them.
Nazis built walls with dead Jews
The Roman Emperor Hadrian famously built a wall in Britain out of stone, but he also built
a wall out of dead Jews. It was around 7 foot tall, 18 miles square, and surrounded his new
vineyard. He had just killed FOUR BILLION Jews, so he wasn't short of construction material.
a wall out of dead Jews. It was around 7 foot tall, 18 miles square, and surrounded his new
vineyard. He had just killed FOUR BILLION Jews, so he wasn't short of construction material.
The Nazis, it transpires, also built walls out of dead Jews.
1,135,000 Jews killed at Chelmno
The Black Book "was brought up on the initiative of Albert Einstein."
Albert Einstein wrote an introduction for The Black Book, although
his introduction was not included in the 1946 English edition.
The Black Book repeatedly claims 6,000,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis
It claims 1,135,000 Jews were killed at Chelmno (since reduced to 150,000)
A reduction of 4,002,500 on The Black Book's figures, but The Black Book's
total of 6,000,000 Jews killed endures. How very, very strange!
Friday, 25 November 2011
Holocaust liar caught lying at the Irving trial
German Ho£ohoax promulgator—Professor Heinz Peter Longerich
Longerich was an expert witness at the 2000 Irving vs. Lipstadt trial,
he was paid £76,195 for his expert report and testimony by Lipstadt's
billionaire backers, but I bet they'd wished they'd saved their money.
he was paid £76,195 for his expert report and testimony by Lipstadt's
billionaire backers, but I bet they'd wished they'd saved their money.
Longerich wrote in his report for the trial:
Jews deemed "fit for work" were as a general rule not murdered immediately but selected either before the deportation, during the course of the deportation (when trains were stopped near labour camps - for instance in Lublin, near Majdanek or in Kosel, in Upper Silesia340) or at the final destination, in particular in Auschwitz. Jews labelled "fit for work" were usually subjected to heavy and exhausting labour under completely inhumane conditions. Life expectancy for a Jewish prisoner assigned to hard labour was generally only a few weeks, seldom more than a few months. The SS invented the expression "annihilation through labour" (Vernichtung durch Arbeit) for this method of exploiting people to the point of death. "Annihilation through labour", along with murder by execution commandos and in gas chambers became an important element in the comprehensive murder programme of the SS.His report, part V, subsection: 7
Longerich also claimed in the witness box that annihilation
through labour was a Nazi term and the Nazi policy
Well, they started in the concentration camps a programme which they called "extermination through work". So they used hard labour as a tool, as a means to kill prisoners. Day 25, page 23/4
When pressed by Irving to provide proof the SS used the term
'Vernichtung durch Arbeit" Longerich had to admit that he lied:
IRVING: Can we be absolutely specific and make quite plain for the record that this phrase Vernichtung durch Arbeit is not a wartime phrase used by SS, but is a title of a post-war book, a secondary source on which you relied, is that right?
LONGERICH. No, this is one of the major studies about this problem and it refers to a wartime phrase which was currently used among the SS.
IRVING. You have not referenced the actual wartime document, you just referenced somebody's secondary source, the title of a book?
LONGERICH. My report tries to explain how this system of systematic murder was built up. Maybe it was mistake, and also you did not have the chance to ask me for more evidence for that a month ago, it was not my intention here to explain in great detail the existing system of extermination after 1942, because I thought that this is something which is generally acknowledged and there is no major dispute about that. I am trying to explain that the building up of the system mainly through the years 1940, 1941 and 1942. Then the system is in operation and the annihilation through work is one aspect of this system. I am referring to second-hand literature. I did not go into detail here; I am just referring to general works on this topic in which this is described in full detail. Day 25, page 56/7
Hitler said Jews will have to leave Europe after the war
Furniture removal man turned SS liaison to the Foreign Office;Martin Franz Julius Luther (1895 - 1945)Seven months after the Nazis had decided to gas all the Jews in Europe at the
Wannsee Conference, Luther, who was at the conference wrote a detailed
memorandum on the Nazi's policy for the Jews, which makes no mention
of them being murdered, but does detail how they are being deported.
He states in part eight:"... at the end of this war all Jews would have to leave Europe.This was an unalterable decision of the Fuehrer ...""A good three or four hundred years will go by before the Jews set foot againin Europe. They'll return first of all as commercial travelers, then graduallythey'll become emboldened to settle here -- the better to exploit us…"- Adolf Hitler - January 23, 1942 Table Talk"The Jews must pack up and disappear from Europe. Let them go toRussia. Where the Jews are concerned, I'm devoid of all sense of pity."
MemorandumBerlin, 21 August 1942Most Urgent (Citissime)Reference: No. 954 of 19 August [1942]
1. The principle of the German Jewish policy after the seizure of power consisted in promoting with all means the Jewish emigration. For this purpose in 1939 Field Marshal Goering in his capacity as Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan established a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration and the direction was given to SS Major General Heydrick in his capacity as Chief of the Security Police. The Foreign Office is represented in the committee of the Reich Central Office. The draft of a letter to this effect to the Chief of the Security Police was approved by the Reich Foreign Minister as 83/24 B in February 1939.
2. The present war gives Germany the opportunity and also the duty of solving the Jewish problem in Europe. In consideration of the favourable course of the war against France, D III proposed in July 1940 as a solution-the removal of all Jews from Europe and the demanding of the Island of Madagascar from France as a territory for the reception of the Jews The Reich Foreign Minister has basically agreed to the beginning of the preliminary work for the deportation of the Jews from Europe. This should be done in close cooperation with the offices of the Reich Leader SS (compare D III 200/40).
The Madagascar plan was enthusiastically accepted by the Reich Security Main Office which in the opinion of the Foreign Office is the agency which alone is in the position technically and by experience to carry out a Jewish evacuation on a large scale and to guarantee the supervision of the people evacuated. The competent agency of the Reich Security Main Office thereupon worked out a plan going into detail for the evacuation of the Jews to Madagascar and for their settlement there. This plan was approved by the Reich Leader SS. SS Major General Heydrich submitted this plan directly to the Reich Foreign Minister in August 1940 (compare D III 2171). The Madagascar plan in fact has been outdated as the result of the political development.
The fact that the Fuehrer intends to evacuate all Jews from Europe was communicated to me as early as August 1940 by Ambassador Abetz after an interview with the Fuehrer (compare DIII 2298).
Hence the basic instruction of the Reich Foreign Minister, to promote the evacuation of the Jews in closest cooperation with the agencies of the Reich Leader SS, is still in force and will therefore be observed by D III.
3. The administration of the occupied territories brought with it the problem of the treatment of Jews living in these territories. First, the military commander in France saw himself compelled as the first one to issue on 27 September 1940 a decree on the treatment of the Jews in occupied France. The decree was issued with the agreement of the German Embassy in Paris. The pertinent instruction was issued directly by the Reich Foreign Minister to Ambassador Abetz on the occasion of a verbal report.
After the pattern of the Paris decree similar decrees have been issued in the Netherlands and Belgium. As these decrees, in the same way a s German laws concerning Jews, formally embrace all Jews independent of their citizenship, objections were made by foreign powers, among others protest notes by the Embassy of the United States of America, although the military commander in France through internal regulation had ordered that the Jewish measures should not be applied to the citizens of neutral countries.The Reich Foreign Minister has decided in the case of the American protests that he does not consider it right to have military regulations issued for making an exception of the American Jews. It would be a mistake to reject objections of friendly states (Spain and Hungary) and on the other hand to show weakness toward the Americans. The Reich Foreign Minister considers it necessary to make these instructions to the field commandants retroactive (compare D III 5449).
In accordance with this direction the Jewish measures have been given general application.
4. In his letter of 24 June 1940-Pol XII 136-SS Major General Heydrich informed the Reich Foreign Minister that the whole problem of the approximately three and a quarter million Jews in the areas under German control can no longer be solved by emigration, a territorial final solution [territoriale Endloesung] would be necessary.
In recognition of this Reich Marshal Goering on 31 July 1941 commissioned SS Maior General Heydrich to make, in conjunction with the interested German Control agencies, all necessary preparations for a total solution [Gesamtloesung] of the Jewish problem in the German sphere of influence in Europe (compare D III 709 secret). On the basis of this instruction, SS Major General Heydrich arranged a conference of all the interested German agencies for 20 January 1942, at which the State Secretaries were present from the other Ministries and I myself from the Foreign Office. In the conference General Heydrich explained that Reich Marshal Goering's assignment to him had been made on the Fuehrer's instruction and that the Fuehrer instead of the emigration had now authorized the evacuation of the Jews to the East as the solution (compare page 5 of the enclosure to D III 29/42 Secret). State Secretary Weizsaecker had been informed on the conference; for the time being the Reich Foreign Minister had not been informed on the conference, because SS Major General Heydrich agreed to holding a new conference in the near future in which more details of the total solution should be discussed. This conference has never taken place due to Major General Heydrich's appointment as acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and due to his death.
In the conference on 20 January 1942 I demanded that all questions concerned with countries outside Germany must first have the agreement of the Foreign Office,a demand to which SS Major General Heydrich agreed and also has faithfully complied with, as in fact, the office of the Reich Security Main Office handling Jewish matters has from the beginning carried out all measures in frictionless cooperation with the Foreign Office. The Reich Security Main Office has in this matter proceeded indeed almost over cautiously.
5. On the basis of the Fuehrer's instruction mentioned under 4 [above], the evacuation of the Jews from Germany was begun. It was urged that at the same time these Jews should also be taken who were nationals of the countries which had also undertaken Jewish measures. The Reich Security Main Office accordingly made an inquiry of the Foreign Office. For reasons of courtesy, inquiry was made by way of the German legations in Bratislava, Zagreb, and Bucharest to the governments there as to whether they wanted to recall their Jews from Germany in due time or to agree to their deportation to the ghettos in the East. To the issuance of this instruction agreement was given before dispatch by the State Secretary, the Under State Secretary in Charge of the Political Division, the Director of the Division for Economic Policy and the Director of the Legal Division (compare D III 336 Secret).
The German Legation in Bucharest reports with reference to D III 602 Secret, that the Rumanian Government would leave it to the Reich government to deport their Jews along with the German Jews to the ghettos in the East. They are not interested in having the Rumanian Jews return to Rumania.
The Legation in Zagreb has informed us that the Croat Government expresses gratitude for the gesture of the German Government; but it would appreciate the deportation of its Jews to the East (compare D III 624 Secret).
The Legation in Bratislava reported with reference to D III 661 Secret that the Slovak Government is fundamentally in agreement with the deportation to the eastern ghettos. But the Slovak claims to the property of these Jews should not be endangered.
The wire reports have also been submitted, as customary, to the Reich Foreign Minister's Bureau.
On the basis of the reports of the Ministers I have informed the Reich Security Main Office with reference to D III 661 Secret that the Jews of Rumania; Croat, and Slovak nationality could also be deported, their property should be blocked. The Director of the Political Division, Section IV of the Political Division, Section IX of the Legal Division and Section IV of the Division for the Economic Policy have cosigned the document. Accordingly, the deportations of the Jews from the occupied territories was undertaken.6. The number of the Jews deported in this way to the East did not suffice to cover the labor needs there. The Reich Security Main Office therefore, acting on the instruction of the Reich Leader SS, approached the Foreign Office to ask the Slovak Government to make 20,000 young, strong Slovak Jews from Slovakia available for deportation to the East. The German Legation in Bratislava was provided, by D III 874, with proper instruction. The instruction was signed by the State Secretary, the Under State Secretary in charge of the Political Division, and Section IV of the Political Division.
The Legation in Bratislava reported re D III 1002 that the Slovak Government has taken up the suggestion eagerly; the preparatory work could be begun.
Following up this pleased concurrence of the Slovak Government, the Reich Leader SS proposed that the rest of the Slovak Jews also be deported to the East and Slovakia thereby be made free of Jews. The Legation was, re D III 1559 Ang. II, provided with proper instruction. The draft of the instruction was signed by the State Secretary; after its dispatch it was submitted for their information to the bureau of the Reich Foreign Minister and the Under State Secretary in charge of the Political Division.As the Slovak Episcopacy meanwhile raised objections to the deportation of the Jews before the Slovak Government, the instruction carries the express statement that in no case must there develop internal political difficulties on account of the evacuation of the Jews in Slovakia. By the telegraphic report, re D III 2006, the Legation reported that the Slovak Government, without any German pressure, has declared itself agreeable to the deportation of all Jews and that the State President agreed personally to the deportation. The telegraphic report was submitted to the bureau of the Reich Foreign Minister. The Slovak Government has furthermore agreed that it will pay as a contribution to the cost entailed RM 500 for every evacuated Jew.
In the meantime 52,000 Jews have been removed from Slovakia. Due to church influences and the corruption of individual officials 35,000 Jews have received a special legitimation. However, Minister President Tuka wants the Jewish removal continued and therefore has asked for support through diplomatic pressure by the Reich (compare D III 3865). The Ambassador is authorized to give this diplomatic help in that he may state to State President Dr. Tiso that the exclusion of the 35,000 Jews is a surprise in Germany, the more so since the cooperation of Slovakia up to now in the Jewish problem has been highly appreciated here. This instruction has been cosigned by the Under State Secretary in charge of the Political Division, and the State Secretary.
7. The Croat Government is likewise fundamentally agreeable to the removal of the Jews from Croatia. It especially considers the deportation of the four to five thousand Jews from the Italian occupied Second Zone (centred around Dubrovnik and Mostar) to be important, as they represent a political burden and their elimination would serve the general pacification. The removal can of course take place only with German aid, as difficulties are to be expected from the Italian side. There have been practical examples of resistance against the Croat measures by Italian officials on behalf of well-to-do Jews. Furthermore, the Italian Chief of Staff in Mostar has stated that he cannot approve the removal since all the people living in Mostar have been assured of the same treatment.
Since meanwhile according to a telephone communication from Zagreb, the Croat Government has given its written approval of the proposed measure, Minister Kasche thinks it right to begin with the removal, and in fact to begin for the whole country. One could therefore take the risk of having difficulties develop in the course of the action, so far as concerns the zone occupied by Italians.
A report for the Reich Foreign Minister to this effect (D III 562 Secret) has been held up by State Secretary von Weizsaecker since he considered an inquiry should first be made at the Embassy in Rome. The answer has not been received.
The problem of the Italian Jews has come up in the same way in connection with the evacuation of the Jews in France.
Ambassador Abetz points out in connection with the deportation in preparation from the Occupied French Territory that there was an urgent political interest to take the foreign Jews first in the evacuation measures. Since these Jews were regarded as foreign bodies they were already especially hated and passing them over and giving them thereby a quasi privileging would cause bad feeling, the more so since among them were to be found responsible instigators of Jewish terror and sabotage acts. It was regrettable that the Axis appeared exactly in this point to pursue no uniform policy.
If the evacuation of the foreign Jews were not immediately possible, the Italian Government should be for the time being asked to repatriate their Jews from France.On the Italian side economic interests appear to play a decisive role. The safeguarding of these interests however is entirely possible, so that on this point there needs to be no obstacle to the planned solution.
On this question of the Italian Jews in France a conference record of 24 July, re D III 562 Secret, has been submitted to the Reich Foreign Minister.
8. On the occasion of a reception by the Reich Foreign Minister on 26 November 1941 the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Popoff touched on the problem of according like treatment to the Jews of European nationalities and pointed out the difficulties that the Bulgarians had in the application of their Jewish laws to Jews of foreign nationality.
The Reich Foreign Minister answered that he thought this question brought up by Mr. Popoff not uninteresting. Even now he could say one thing to him, that at the end of this war all Jews would have to leave Europe. This was an unalterable decision of the Fuehrer and also the only way to master this problem, as only a global and comprehensive solution could be applied and individual measures would not help very much. Furthermore, one should not attribute too much worth to the protests on behalf of the Jews of foreign nationality. At any rate, we would not let ourselves be taken in any further by such protests from the American side. He-the Reich Foreign Minister-would have the problem described by Mr. Popoff investigated by the Foreign Office.The Reich Foreign Minister commissioned me to undertake the investigation promised compare D III 660g).I should like to make reference to my basic conference memorandum of 4 December 1941, re D III 660 Secret, which I am dispatching, together with the proper files. This conference memorandum was held up by the State Secretary, because he considered a further examination by the Legal Division first necessary. In their opinion the German-Bulgarian trade and shipping pact was not in agreement with the German-Bulgarian arrangements proposed by me. I therefore notified the German Legation in Sofia, re D III 497 Secret, under date of 19 June, in reference to the suggestion of the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Popoff at his reception to contact the Bulgarian Government and find out whether it was prepared to come to an agreement in the Jewish problem that there should be no rights from the trade and shipping pact given effect in favour of the Jews in the promise of reciprocality.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *The intended deportations are a further step forward on the way of the total solution and are in respect to other countries (Hungary) very important. The deportation to the Government General is a temporary measure. The Jews will be moved on further to the Occupied Eastern Territories as soon as the technical conditions for it are given.
I therefore request approval for the continuation of the negotiations and measures under these terms and according to the arrangement made.Signed: LUTHER
More Nazi orders to reduce prisoner death rate
On the 28th December 1942, a letter from the head of the SS camp administration office was sent to concentration camps including Auschwitz, which carried an order from Himmler. It reads
"The SS Reichsfuehrer has ordered that the
death rate absolutely must be reduced."
SS-Gruppenführer Richard Glücks, the highest-ranking
Concentration Camp Inspector in Nazi Germany, reiterated
to concentration camps including Auschwitz, instructing:
"every means must be used to lower the death rate in the camp."
"I hold the Camp Commandant and the Chief of the Camp Administration personally responsible for exhausting of every possibility of maintaining the physical stength of the prisoners."
On January 25th, 2000 at the Irving vs. Penguin & Lipstadt trial in London, David Irving &
defence witness German historian Dr. Heinz Peter Longerich, discuss a October 1943 letter
from SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, chief of all concentration camps, to the camps:
IRVING: If you just look at the first page of this document and run your eye over it, is Pohl sending a message to all the concentration camp commandants, 19 of them, saying: "It is time to stop the rough and ready measures with prisoners. We are losing them like flies. We need their manpower. Look after them better"?
LONGERICH: Well, first of all, I have to express my reservations about this document. I do not know the context. I do not know the archive. But on the assumption that this is an authentic document, yes, it is a letter to the 19 heads of the concentration camps, and obviously the document is saying that they have to improve their measures to keep prisoners alive, so which is a kind of reference to what happened in the camps before, I think.
IRVING: Indeed, and paragraph 5 of that first page says: "Not from any false sentimentality but because we need their arms and legs because those are helping the German people to get to a great victory. That is why we have got to start paying attention to the welfare of the prisoners"?
LONGERICH: Yes. That is stated here in this document.
IRVING: Then the next page, page 2, the heading is, "Foodstuffs, food, feeding"?
LONGERICH: I do not have the time to read now.
IRVING: Well, I am just asking you to look at the headings. That all we need, I think. Page 2 he is talking about the feeding. The following page, paragraph 2, is called "Clothing". Then down to the bottom of that page, "Natural Medications" or "Health" ----
LONGERICH: Yes.
IRVING: --- "stuff".
LONGERICH: Well, I cannot, you know, I cannot read so fast but under "Clothing" it is stated here: "I decide that during the winter, as far as far as available, prisoners should wear coats, pullover, socks", so that should give you an idea about the standards which actually existed in the concentration camps before this letter arrived, and it says, it says "as far as available", so it does not actually say, "Give the men, you know, proper clothing". It is saying, you know, "You can give them socks if they are available and nothing more". So I think this gives you a kind of an idea of this.
IRVING: Over the page, paragraph 4 is called "Avoiding unnecessary exertions". For example, these frequent parades were they were held standing for hours while they were counted Zählappelle ----
LONGERICH: Yes.
IRVING: --- are to be kept as short as possible, and so on. In other words, there seems to be a reversal of existing policy because they are losing prisoners like flies to what I would call non-violent causes.
LONGERICH: That is your interpretation, yes.
MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, what is yours?
LONGERICH: Well, they started in the concentration camps a programme which they called "extermination through work". So they used hard labour as a tool, as a means to kill prisoners. This was the practice before. Now, at October '43, it is not really surprising they are a bit cautious here and they are trying to improve as far as they can, trying to improve in some sense the general conditions of the prisoners. But, of course, this is a document, I mean, this document is, of course, sent to the head of the concentration camps -- nothing to do with the extermination camps, for instance.
MR JUSTICE GRAY: I was going to ask you about that.
LONGERICH: Yes. So, as far as Auschwitz is concerned, it concerns the slave labours within the camp. It does not say anything about the people who were deported to the camp and selected in front of the camp. If one, you know, if I have to -- if I were in the position to give you a kind of expert's opinion on the condition in the concentration camps at the end of 1943, I would not completely rely on this document. It would be completely unprofessional to rely on this one document. One has to look, of course, at all kind of circumstances. One has to look at the death rates. They had statistics on the death rates and I had to look at those, and so on. You know, the problem with this kind of document is that if you have not seen the file, in the file in the next bit you could find a document which says, "Well, I recall my order from last week". If you do not have the context, it is difficult to make, you know, a general statement as an historian about the condition in this camp, and whether they really, you know, in the way gave up this idea of extermination through work in the end of 1943 and how far they still carried on with this policy.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Jan 1942, the BBC informs Germans that Germany's gassing Jews
Thomas Mann (right), with fellow gruelpropagandists Albert Einstein & Rabbi Stephen Wise
German novelist Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) whose wife was Jewish and
bore him six halachically Jewish children, emigrated to the US in 1939.
Between 1940 and 1945, Mann recorded monthly radio broadcasts
in German, which which were transmitted by the BBC to the people
of Germany. In his January 1942 broadcast he stated:
"The news sounds unbelievable, but my sources are good. According to reports I have received, there is terrible grief in numerous Dutch Jewish families, in Amsterdam and other cities, where they mourn their sons who have met a horrifying death. Four hundred young Dutch Jews have been deported to Germany, to be used as guinea-pigs in experiments with poison gas. The virulence of this method of waging war, chivalrous and essentially German, a real Siegfried weapon, has proved itself against these young men, members of an inferior race. They are dead, killed for the sake of the New Order and to prove the skill of the master race in waging war. They were just about good enough for that purpose: they were Jews."As I said, this story sounds incredible, and over the whole world, people will have difficulty in believing it. [...] The tendency ... not to mention the inclination to regard such accounts as invented horror stories is widely diffused, and acts to the advantage of the enemy. But they are not mere stories—they are history. [...] "
The BBC may have broadcast these stories of
gas chambers to Europe, but British Intelligence
still suspected they were lies over a year later
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck of
British Joint IntelligenceCommittee said at a meeting on August 27, 1943
In my opinion it is incorrect to describe Polish information regarding German atrocities as "trustworthy". The Poles, and to a far greater extent the Jews, tend to exaggerate German atrocities in order to stoke us up. They seem to have succeeded.Mr. Allen and myself have both followed German atrocities quite closely. I do not believe that there is any evidence which would be accepted in a Law Court that Polish children have been killed on the spot by Germans when their parents were being deported to work in Germany, nor that Polish children have been sold to German settlers. As regards putting Poles to death in gas chambers, I do not believe there is any evidence that this has been done. There may have been stories to this effect, and we have played them up in P.W.E. (Political Warfare Executive) rumours without believing that they had any foundation. At any rate there is far less evidence than exists for the mass murder of Polish officers by the Russians at Katyn. On the other hand we do know that the Germans are out to destroy the Jews of any age unless they are fit for manual labour.I think that we weaken our case against the Germans by publicly giving credence to atrocity stories for which we have no evidence. These mass executions in gas chambers remind me of the story of employment of human corpses during the last war for the manufacture of fat, which was a grotesque lie and led to true stories of German enormities being brushed aside as being mere propaganda.
Sterilization at Auschwitz
“Sterilization is liberation, not a punishment.” It show three handicapped
children with the caption: “Who would want to be responsible for this?”
David Irving provides details of a German radio message intercepted by the British:
On October 26, 1942 the codebreakers found Berlin warning Auschwitz to stand by to receive two visitors from the Führer's Chancellery in Berlin - the agency supervising euthanasia and various other killing schemes - for a lengthy stay at the camp: they would be setting up an X-ray sterilisation operation, the radio signal said (this being the method chosen by the S.S. to keep the Jews from breeding). (GC&CS German Police Section intercept: Lolling, Amt D III, to Auschwitz, Oct 26, 1942 (PRO file HW.16/11).]
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