Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Commandant of Auschwitz – Rudolf Höss, His Torture and His Forced Confessions

 

 Source: https://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=35

 

by Rudolf Höss and Carlo Mattogno

 

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From 1940 to 1943, Rudolf Höss was the commandant of the infamous Auschwitz Camp. Today’s orthodox narrative has it that during this time some 500,000 people were murdered in that camp. Yet when Höss was captured after the war, he confessed to having killed some 2,500,000 during that time. 40 years later, it was revealed that Höss had been severely tortured by his captors right after his arrest in March 1946. But what does that mean for the veracity of what Höss told in his various post-war statements?

 

Using various British documents, the author of the present study pieces together an almost minute-by-minute recounting of how the British managed to find Höss in his hiding place, and how they abused him after his capture to extract various “confessions” from him.

 

To separate truth from fiction, the author next presents essential excerpts from all the statements made by Höss after his capture: 85 individual documents in total (affidavits, memos, essays, interrogation protocols, etc.). By analyzing them meticulously, he demonstrates that Höss’s statements about the so-called “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” contradict one other and are refuted by historical facts established by solid documentation and material evidence. Höss, the author concludes, initially “was a coerced liar, but then he found a taste for the grandiloquent lie.”

Friday, April 12, 2024

Jews in England

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/jews-in-england/

 

The jew is always responsible for the racial decline of a people and its national weaknesses in the cultural, scientific, political, and economic realms. Fighting jewry is therefore the duty of all racially conscious peoples. – England is the headquarters and center of World jewry. – The jew rules England.

 

 

Background: One of the naturally recurring National Socialist anti-semitic campaigns began in May 1943. Goebbels introduced it with a lead article in Das Reich titled “The War and the Jews.” Soon after, this remarkable document appeared. The Deutscher Wochendienst was a weekly publication aimed at magazine editors, providing more in-depth treatment than the Zeitschriften-Dienst (also intended for magazine editors). Both came from the same office.

 

The source: Deutscher Wochendienst, 21 May 1943

 

JEWS IN ENGLAND

 

Goal:

 

Contrast between the English people and the jewish intermarried and influenced English upper class. Jewry has leading positions in England’s public life. Jews as instigators and beneficiaries of the English policy of world domination.

 

The jew is always responsible for the racial decline of a people and its national weaknesses in the cultural, scientific, political, and economic realms. Fighting Jewry is therefore the duty of all racially conscious peoples. – England is the headquarters and center of world jewry. – The jew rules England.

 

Emphasis:

 

STRESS: Misuse of Parliament and the press for jewish interests. Anti-jewish currents (Mosley, Mosley supporters in concentration camps. Protest against emigree doctors, protest against the art trade). Intellectual relations between English (Puritans) and jews. Common English-jewish interests. Social misery. The jews infiltrate the English people, as they do everywhere. This at first aroused resistance, unlike the case with the royal house, the government, the nobility, and big landowners. The jew joined the plutocracy, became part of it, and enslaved the masses of the English people. Finally, he drove the people into war, from which he earned large profits. The Church is on the side of the jews.

 

AVOID: Claiming jewish ancestry unless it is absolutely certain (proof is hard to find in most cases!). – Making the jew and his friends (royal house, government, nobility, and large landowners) entirely responsible for the collapse of the Empire (the people are also guilty). – Discussing Germanic blood in the English nobility, drawing parallels to German developments, making connections with Continental nobility, and discussing relationships between nobility and business in Germany.

 

Themes and Suggestions:

 

Politics and Business:

 

Jews have increased five-fold since 1914. – Jews concealment in England. – Not mentioned in Who is Who. – Anglicized jewish names. – Jewish peers. – The “British-Israel” movement. – Awards for jews on the king’s birthday. – The society of jewish parliamentarians. – Locker-Lampson, defender of the jews. – 80,000 man Jewish Foreign Legion? (Plans in Palestine, jews fight for England). – Lord Balfour and the Zionists. – Jewish profits from English rearmament. –  Warmongering, too, is only a business. – Disraeli’s legacy. – When England was still free of jews. – Chaim Weizmann, judah’s agent in London. – England as jewish birth home (foreign children born in London can opt for English citizenship). – Jews build the Empire. – Emigres from Germany were not interned. – The Tommies march for judah.

 

Lord Hirst, the ruler of the electrical industry. – England’s chemical industry under jewish leadership. – Rothschild determines the price of gold. – Sassoon and the Opium War. – The Montefiores and English capital. – Armaments profiteers: Lyons and Burton. – Jewish supply firms in England. – The Empire: English power and jewish business.

 

Connections between political and economic power in England. – Jews amass enormous fortunes. – Jews become bankers (moneylenders during the Crusades and in building Christian churches and cathedrals). – The jew Aron financed the construction of 10 English monasteries. – Jews incite wars (higher profits). – Usury by the jews (43 1/3% a week and 33 1/3% annually for jewish loans, sometimes doubling the interest rate). – Prime Minister Disraeli’s (jew) foreign policy. – Leading jews involved in scandal: the Honduras loan. – King Edward: encircler and friend of the jews. – The Sir Stuart Samuel scandal. – Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann establishes contacts with all the Allied powers during the first months of the World War.

 

– The Opium War in China is a terrible chapter in English commercial policy (see 2225). – String puller in the opium affair is the jewish Sassoon family, which “works” under full British protection (David S., 1792-1864, had the opium monopoly extending as far as Yokohama and Nagasaki. The greatest crime against the Chinese people). – Sassoon’s daughter married the Marquess of Cholomondeley, lord steward under Edward VIII (Sir Philip Sassoon was a member of the English cabinet). – The Boer War = jewish war (the jew Alfred Beit, diamond dealer, carried out the destruction of the Boets for Cecil Rhodes). – The jewish family Samuel controls two large Asian crude oil companies. – Sir Marcus Samuel, now Lord Bearsted, founded the Shell Transport and Trading Company. – Arthur Michael Samuel wrote a treatise on British mercantile policy during the World War, which was accepted by the chamber of commerce of the British Empire and was a foundation of the Paris Economic Conference held by the Western Powers.

 

– Jewdification of the finance system and life insurance. – Nathan Rothschild’s stock swindle. – Abdication of Edward VIII was the work of the jews. – England pledged to promote jewish rights in all countries (7.11.1917). – Weak popular defensive reactions against jewry (the English people rejected the jews in many areas; sometimes there was hatred against the jews). – Jews occupy leading positions in the Ministry of Education. – Jews hold leading positions in medicine and physics.

 

The role of jewish high finance in lending to the nobility (e.g., Sassoon, Montefiore, Montagu, Mond, Rothschild, R. D. Isaacs). – Jewish blood in the veins of British nobility (examples in Mühlen). – Change in the number of titled English nobility (before 1800, only 175 titled peers in the House of Lords, 276 with titles in the nineteenth century, and 310 with titles in the twentieth century.) – The House of Lords is no longer the representation of the English nobility as it once was, but rather “a gathering of representatives of high finance who have been decorated with noble titles” (Mühlen).

 

History:

 

The English, the “chosen people,” as descendants of the jews (frequency of the name David in the English royal house). – English jews are first mentioned in 700. – Cooperation between king and jews. – Jews as taskmasters for kings. – Influence of the jews on English history, particularly regarding wars. – One jewish oath was as good as twelve by Christians. – First ritual murder discovered in England in 1255. – Under Richard I jews first own land. – Cromwell tolerates the jews. – English Catholics support equality for the jews. – The jews enter Parliament (middle of the 19th century). – Lord John Russell, early fighter for the jews. The influence of the jews increases. – Cooperation with the royal house becomes closer (particularly under Victoria and Edward VII.). Jews are elevated to the nobility (today 40 nobles are full jews). – Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, the first jewish earl.

 

Population Policy:

 

There are an estimated 2.5 to 3 million jews today in England (and much mixed blood, particularly among the nobility). – Constant growth in jews coming to England. Constant increased poverty of the English people and forced emigration.

 

Social Policy:

 

Jews as London building owners. – Slums, but profitable ones. – Penalties for having many children (discrimination against families of soldiers). – Strikes in India against jewish enterprises. – Jewish capital destroys the position of Whites in South Africa. – White and Black slaves in gold mines. – Do the coolies in Hong Kong have it better? (No). – Another war profit: unemployment!

 

Culture:

 

The Old Testament unites the English and jews. –  The “lost tribes of Israel”. – Half of those in radio are Jews. – England’s Jewdified press. – The jewish Ellermann concern. – Mister Eden’s friends in the press. – Jews in London editorial offices. – Puritanism and jewry. – The domination of jewish advertising in England’s “free press.” – Jews dominate English film (film censors are selected and paid by film companies. Film Jews Erich Pommer, A. Korda, the three Isidore brothers, Mark and Maurice Osterer, and Oskar Deutsch control nearly the entire English film industry). – Jews in English art and literature (the painter Solomon J. Solomon, the sculptor Jacob Epstein, the publisher Palgrave). The most prominent English playwrights are jews. – The music critic Moses Biaritz. – Numerous jews in the English theatre (jewish actors, etc.). – Radio producer Jew Godfrey Isaacs. – The English press is entirely Jewdified. – Leading jews direct English life.

 

Jewish professors and lecturers in England. – Close relations between jewry and the Archbishop of York, president of the Society to Protect Science.” – Major jewdification of the Cambridge faculty. – Leese and his movement: “Imperial Fascist League.”

 

Racial profiles from England (English and jews). – Who bleeds and who earns? (Sacrifices of the English people, war profits for the jews.) – English housing misery and its exploiters. – White and Black slaves in South Africa. – The Rothschilds in England also look jewish, not English.

 

The Rothschild family policy (Jewdification of the English aristocracy). – Jews conquer the British Empire. – Plutocracy revealed. – Jews and British predatory wars (see Die Rothschilds, 2839). – Ahasver’s rule over England. – How Rothschild got into the English Parliament (the first jew was elected on 29 July 1849: Rothschild as the member for London City. As a jew he could not take the oath in its traditional form. There were conflicts, and in 1850 it was decided that he could take the oath on the Old Testament).

 

Sources:

 

Institut der NSDAP zum Studium der Judenfrage, Frankfurt a. M., Schwindstra 1. – Press Department of the Foreign Ministry, Berlin W 8, Wilhelmstr. 74 (11 00 13). – Press archive of the Hochschule für Politik, Berlin W 8, Charlottenstraße 48 (16 52 01). – Antisemitische Aktion, Berlin W 9, Potsdamer Strasse 17 ( 22 88 81).

Saturday, April 6, 2024

The Jew in Business and the War Economy

 Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/the-jew-in-business-and-the-war-economy/

 

Feature Image: FDR with Bernard Baruch

 

Background: One of the naturally recurring National Socialist anti-semitic campaigns began in May 1943. Goebbels introduced it with a lead article in Das Reich titled „The War and the Jews.“ Soon after, this remarkable document appeared. The Deutscher Wochendienst was a weekly publication aimed at magazine editors, providing more in-depth treatment than the Zeitschriften-Dienst (also intended for magazine editors). Both came from the same office.

 

The source: Deutscher Wochendienst, 21 May 1943

 

THE JEW IN BUSINESS AND THE WAR ECONOMY

 

Goal:

 

The jews have a decisive role in the growth of the capitalist-liberal economic system. – Using business, people were corrupted by jewish methods and thinking. The jews concealed the danger and extent of their infiltration through their modern capitalist methods. The significance of pan-jewry’s conspiracy against humanity should be made clear.

 

It must further be shown how the jews have always made profits by supplying armaments, and as a result had and still have economic reasons for unleashing wars. In the long term honest labor brings greater gains than speculation and crooked dealings, but since the jews live primarily from those sources they must from time to time provoke wars and lengthen them in order to build their fortune at the cost of the honest labor of others.

 

Emphasis:

 

STRESS: The business as a springboard for the jew to infiltrate politics and culture; methods to dominate the peoples. – jewish world domination in various areas of business. – The Reich as an early leader in the fight against international jewdification. – Just as attempts to throttle the German economy from 1933-1939 failed because of the battle for production and the Four-Year Plan, so the Reich and its allies will also gain political-military victory. – Jewdification in England and the USA. – Bolshevism and jewry. – An important reason for the superiority of the Three Power Pact is that they have no jewish armaments suppliers and war profiteers. – but enemy armaments are controlled by them.

 

AVOID: Calling jews „leaders“ of business. – Confusing economic bubbles, fake prosperity, and growth based on domestic strength. – Citing Sombart without the greatest care (much of his writing is unclear, and sometimes contradicts our views.)– Role of the jews in South America. – Remaining jewish problems in countries that are fighting with Germany. – Denigrating the armaments industry as such (armaments manufacturers are necessary, but must be honest.)– Suggesting unproven relations between leading persons in German history and jewish armaments manufacturers.)

 

Themes and Suggestions:

 

Historical

 

No liberal capitalism without the earlier dispersion of the jews (a desert and wandering people) across the northern countries. – jewish concealment over the centuries: as early as the 15th century many jews in southwestern Europe were baptized, and thus were not recorded as jews in records of commerce and migration. – Battle against the jews in Spain and Portugal (1492-1499),– in German commercial cities (Cologne 1424, Augsburg 1439, Straßburg 1438, Erfurt 1458, Nuremberg 1498, Regensburg 1519), in Italy (Sicily 1492, Naples 1540, Genoa and Venice 1550). – In Frankfurt and Hamburg, major jewish immigration, also in Holland. – jews permitted in England 1650. – jews at the Leipzig Fair (416 in the years 1675/80, 995 in 1767/69, 1652 in 1770/79, 3370 in 1800/09, and 6444 in 1830/39.)– Foundation of the capitalist economy by the jews, based on gold and silver.

 

Jews as major participants in the Dutch East Indies Company and in English colonial trade (South Africa, Australia). – America as Jew-Land (the first merchants were jews; jews from Portugal begin the plantation system, build sugar factories. Introduction of slavery.)– American presidents obey jews.

 

Theod. Roosevelt sent a message for the first time in 1905 on the 250th anniversary of jewish immigration to the USA., „it is a great occasion.“ Ex-president Grover Cleveland: „Few . . .nationalities have had . . .more influence on building modern Americanism than the jews.“ „If conditions in America continue to develop . . . in 50 or 100 years the USA. . . will be a land inhabited only by slaves, Negroes, and Jews, and the jews will naturally have seized economic hegemony.“ (Sombart)

 

Jews in the war economy

 

– jews rule England. – The decisive jewish victory in 1858, jewdification of English economic life. – Jewish scandals (loan to Honduras, the Marconi scandal, the Sir Stuart Samuel scandal.)– „German“ jews as court and munitions suppliers. – jews as founders of Bolshevism.

 

Early jewish munitions dealers in England (Antonio Fernando Carvaja, immigrated to England between 1630 and 1635, with four other merchants he becomes grain supplier to the English army in 1649; Sir Salomon Medina, close friend of Lord Marlborough, who sold him information [Lord Marlborough is an Churchill’s ancestor]. – Jacob Worms, munitions dealer to Ludwig XIV. – The munitions dealers of the Thirty Years War (excellent material in Peter Deeg’s Hofjuden, particularly regarding the Prussian munitions dealers Zacharias and Elias Gumpertz, Salomon Isaak Fränkel’s son, Abraham Medel, Levy Seligmann, Bendix Cohn). – Imperial court and war jews (Jakob Baschewi Schmieles von Treuenberg, the munitions supplier of the Thirty Year War; the Imperial court jew families Oppenheimer and their war businesses).

 

– Samson Wertheimer, Imperial Oberkriegsfaktor, the major munitions dealer during the Turkish War (good information in Dr. Robert Korber, Rassensieg in Wien, der Grenzfeste des Reiches, Wilhelm Braunmüller, Vienna 1939). – Samuel Oppenheimer, Imperial Oberkriegsfaktor. – „For all commissarii are jews, and all jews are commissarii“ (Moscherosch in the poems of Philanders von Sittewald). – jewish munitions dealers of the 17th and 18th centuries. – jewish munitions dealers at the beginning of the American War of Independence (above all Hajum Salomon). – The Jacobin army and its jewish suppliers on the German Rhine (Beer Cerf-Berr de Medelsheim, the supplier of the Revolutionary Army). – What did the jews earn during the French Revolution? (The role of jewish munitions dealers and financiers during the French Revolution). – Army supply business of the House of Rothschild (see Egon Cesar Conte Corti, Der Aufstieg des Hauses Rothschild and Blütezeit des Hauses Rothschild, and also Peter Deeg, previously cited). – jewish munitions dealers in the American Civil War. – General Ulysses Grant’s futile struggle against jewish munitions dealers.

 

–Stolen jewish capital behind USA imperialism (financial background to the 1898 war against Spain over Cuba, the participation of the USA in the World War 1914-1918, and in the current world war). – Feeding themselves from corpses… (jewish munitions dealers in the First and Second World Wars in France, England, and the USA). – The jews as munitions dealers in Germany during the First World War (their role in war production 1914-1918; further details under the politics section). – The battle of an opponent of the jews against jewish munitions dealers in Germany (Rector Ahlwardt’s charges against the jewish armaments factory Löwe). – „Make way for the righteous“ (Dark sides of jewish supplies to the German army during the First World War). When Rathenau organized supplies for our army. – jewish economic dictatorship in Germany during the First World War. – Z.E. G. (Zentral-Einkaufs-Gesellschaft) = „Zu Englands Gunsten“ [in England’s favor]: jews supply Germany during the First World war. – Sklarz, Barmat, and Kutisker as munitions dealers.

 

– Jewish munitions dealers as draft dodgers (even the Central Party representative Dr. Pfleger said in the Reichstag on 23 August 1915: „The worst is that this organization was a kind of insurance against the dangers of the trenches. One hired all sorts of people, and when the employees of this organization were examined, it turned out that about 80% of those said to be essential to the war effort were in fact suitable for military service.“ His faction allowed him to fall). – Munitions suppliers, corruption and jewry in history.

 

The Ballin-Rathenau economic system during the First World War in Germany.

 

– Rathenau, the head of the German war economy, above all the raw materials war office, the „modern Joseph in Egypt.“– Albert Ballin, general director of the Hamburg-America Line, and the German war economy. – The jewish circle around Rathenau and Ballin (Simon, Goldberger, Hermann, Arnold, Schwabach, Friedländer-Fuld). – jewish merchants vs. German heroism. – The victory of the merchant worldview against the German people in 1918. – The economic organization and confusion of goods exchange. – The failure of the then German governments to resist jewish pressures. The activities of war usurers, suppliers, and war profiteers 1914-1918. – Advertising in German newspapers during the World War. – The jewish „war supply advertisements.“

 

Personnel matters in war offices and businesses (20% of those in high positions were jews).

 

– Departments of the war economic departments: The „Kriegsersatz- und Arbeitsdepartement,“ the „Waffen- und Munitionsbeschaffungsamt.“– Dr. Offenbacher, the head of the „Pricing Office“ of these departments. – The „Kriegsernährungsamt“ (headed by the Stettin Jew Manasse). – The „Zentraleinkaufsgesellchaft,“ in complete control of German economic activity; jews on the board and in high positions. – The „Reichsgetreidestelle“ (headed by Dr. Oppenheimer). – Supplies of industrial war materials and products in Jewish hands.

 

Jewish activities in the Spanish Civil War 1936/38. – jews as weapons suppliers for Red Spain, their close relations with the French government. – Payments in stolen Spanish gold. – The weapons profiteer der Levante, the war profiteer of the Spanish Civil War. – Under Panama’s flag to Red Spain. – jews profit from death.

 

Soviets and Jews in the Paris fraud case Goldberg vs. Hirsch regarding new weapon supplies to Red Spain. – French Socialist leader and Jew Léon Blum and „food supplies“ for Red Spain.

 

Jewish war profiteers in the current world struggle (see ZD 4641 and 4676). – jew Bernard Baruch, the main American war profiteer and chief adviser to President Roosevelt. – Baruch divides the profits. – Jews alone are behind Roosevelt’s armaments. – The Paris Rothschilds and their end in 1940. – Churchill and the Rothschilds.

 

Economics:

 

Depersonalization of economic life: 

 

money rather than labor becomes the decisive factor; 

 

Objectification of credit relationships through impersonal documents (currency exchange, shares, bank notes, obligations); 

 

Growing foreign influence on legal relationships; 

 

Stock trading and speculation; 

 

Real estate swindles in the 1870s; 

 

Continental Iron Company (four of the six founders were jews); 

 

27 of 80 directors of Berlin land surveying companies were jews, 47 of 148 founders of north German machine factories were jews, etc. 

 

– Jewdification of the electric industry (Felix Deutsch, father and son Rathenau, Director Berliner). 

 

– The merchant (Ballin, Friedländer, Arnold) vs. the industrialist (Krupp, Borsig, von Siemens). 

 

– Jewdification of the pricing system; prices are determined not by labor and costs, but by speculation. Fraud, shoddy goods, egotistic drive for profit, lack of concern for the community, exploitation of the economically weak (selling cheap goods). 

 

– Jewdification of competition and advertising. 

 

– Jewish treason against the German people through war companies during the World War. Jewish swindlers as millionaires (Barmat, Kutisker, Katzenellenbogen, Hagen-Levy, Goldschmidt, Schlesinger, etc.). 

 

– Jews govern England (Rothschild, Sassoon, Melchett-Mond, de Pas (Kohle), Baer and Sir Leon (metals industry), Sir John Ellermann (ship travel), Instone-Einstein (air travel), Bearstead-Samuel (oil industry), Lord Hirst (electric industry), Sir Burton (clothing), Marks (shops), etc.

 

Jews in control of war economies in all ages and in all European countries. 

 

– Jews in the meat industry (attacked by the German press already during the First World War). 

 

– Jews in the grain trade. 

 

– The jewish grain monopoly in Germany (jews purchased grain in the territories occupied by Germany 1914-1918). 

 

– The case of Nathan and the fish supply. 

 

– Jews in the oil and fat industries. 

 

– The jew Barmat and the Reichsfettstelle. 

 

– The jews in the Reichslederstelle and the fur and leather trades. 

 

– The jewish coal monopoly in the Reich (jews also caused the great coal shortage in Germany after the World War). 

 

– The jewish Kriegsmetall-A.G. 

 

The Frankfurt Rothschilds and the metal monopoly. 

 

– „Jewish profiteering with Christian church bells.“ 

 

– The „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volksschulbeschaffung“ under jewish leadership. 

 

– Jews in the potato and tobacco markets. 

 

– Dumping of German war material after the end of the war by the jews. 

 

– The case of Sklarz in the German war and revolutionary leadership. 

 

– Preference for israel in distributing foodstuffs.

 

jews in the French war industry. 

 

– War incitement by jewish industrialists. 

 

– Jewish capital involved in the Schneider-Wendel factory. 

 

– Jews as important manufacturers: Citröen (production of tanks and munitions). 

 

– The jewish role in French chemical production. 

 

– Crude oil under jewish ownership (The jew Mercer was president and director of the Cie. française des pétroles). 

 

– Jews in the French military transport system. 

 

– Jewish energy trusts in France.

 

Jewish concealment tactics in all military economic systems. – The jews always subvert military supply needs. – The effects of the system on the general policies and military leadership of foreign powers.

 

Jewish Confessions:

 

Jewish reluctance to work: 

 

„If Israel does the will of God, its work will be done by others“ (Talmud);

 

Rabbi Eleazar said:There is no lower labor than manual labor; it is degrading.“ (Talmud); 

 

„To be forced to work . . . is the worst thing for a young jew, it is shameful and degrading. The dislike of physical labor is second nature to the jew, in innate feeling“ (Samuel Roth, 1934); 

 

„We despite labor, and those who do work do so from necessity and always hope with time to escape it so as to live a ‘good life.“ (Ahron David Gordon, 1916).

 

The jew hates farmers: 

 

„He who wants to turn jews into farmers is misguided“ (Theodor Herzl, 1896);

 

„The jews did not conquer the Occident with the axe and plow, but rather a clever, cunning, and practical haggling spirit, even making of Germany a ‘new Palestine“ (Wilhelm Marr, 1879);

 

„Today the nomad is everywhere the more important, viable type who oppresses the thick-headed peasant“ (Leon Feuchtwanger, 1932).

 

jewish haggling spirit: 

 

„Finally, one must remember that even in the ages of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, the jews were a people of merchants“ (Cesare Lombrosco, 1894);

 

„jewish prostitution is the worst of all ways to exploit people, and if jews could be excluded prostitution would soon diminish greatly“ (The Jewish Chronicle, 1910).

 

Judah and Marxism: 

 

„It may not be overlooked that the jews are among the fathers and pathfinders of socialism“ (Alfred Nossig, 1922); 

 

„We gave them (the Marxists) the spiritual guidance that the power of the State prevented them from acquiring; they guaranteed the safety of our lives and the foundations of our work as jews“ (Arnold Zweig, 1934); 

 

„The feeling of property born from dependence on the soil is lacking with the Semites, these nomads who never had a homeland and never wanted one. That explains the undeniable drive toward communism since the most ancient times“ (Kadmi-Cohen, 1929); 

 

„The jew is a born communist“ (Otto Weiniger, 1921); 

 

„Jewry is the mother of Marxism and communism“ (Le droit de vivre, 1933); 

 

„Marxist socialism came from the jews (one can with justice simply call it modern jewish)“ (Ch. Müntz, 1907)

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

The Kraken, the Octopus and the Jews

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/the-kraken-the-octopus-and-the-jews/

 

by Karl Radl

 

In this brief article I want to discuss the image of the Octopus that is so often used in anti-jewish propaganda. Indeed the use of the octopus motif is so common in anti-Semitic cartoons and art that jews have often commented on the ‘negative zoological morphology’ of this image and the suggestion that the jews are inhuman, alien and have their influence everywhere. (1) 

 

 

The origin of the octopus in anti-jewish propaganda probably has its genesis in the use of negative animal comparisons such as are common in medieval references to jews (for example ‘Judensau’/’Jewish Pig’) as well as Islamic ones (hence the famous reference in Qur’an to jews being descendants of ‘apes and pigs’).

 

The problem with locating a purely gentile origin for this is the fact that jews originate both the ‘apes’ and the ‘pigs’ claims by seeing non-jews as being less than human/humanoid (i.e., ‘apes’) and those who did and/or consumed things forbidden by the creator of the universe (i.e., ‘pigs’) in their own work that predates Christian and Islamic characterisations of them along similar lines.

 

It is indeed ironic that jews – especially those of Zionistic sympathies – frequently decry such imagery given that its basis is found in Judaism, but with jews calling non-jews by these names rather than the other way around. I will discuss the issue of the jewish origins of the ‘apes and pigs’ comment in the Qur’an in a separate article, but for our purposes: it is enough to state that the negative zoological comparisons used to illustrate and propagate anti-jewish beliefs derive their inspiration from the jews themselves.

 

The most common is, of course, the jewish snake or serpent (which the Tanakh is somewhat obsessed with as a negative jewish image in relation to non-jews and/or polytheism) (2) that probably derives as an anti-jewish image from the symbolism of the eating of the forbidden fruit by Eve encouraged by a snake when connected to the popularly-believed direct connection (heavily fostered by enterprising members of the tribe) made between jews and the practice of secret/forbidden/black magic.

 

Essentially the jews were guilty of tempting the non-jews with forbidden fruit that would lead to increased/increasing distance from God and it is little surprise that the common association of snakes with anti-jewish imagery comes largely from the use of such images by populist French anti-Semites like Drumont in the mid-late nineteenth century and that he – and many of his intellectual circle and readership – were devout Catholics.

 

The reptilian negative anti-jewish image was then given form and lent itself beautifully to being artistically rendered as frontispieces for editions of the Protocols of Zion and the like. However the limitation of the reptilian imagery was that it lacked the scope of being artistically rendered so as illustrate the many-faceted nature of jewish power.

 

To do that a new negative animal comparison was needed and that comparison was easily found: the octopus. With its alien many-armed appearance it was ideal for illustrating the nature of jewish power by giving it form in a known creature.

 

 

However there are limitations to this anti-jewish rendering of the octopus as an artistic metaphor for jewish power. The principal one is that an octopus is a neutral creature to most people (in fact I rather like octopuses) and this suggests that jewish power is neutral in terms of being a force for good/evil or simply benign even if one recognizes its scope and scale.

 

Thus perhaps a slight change is in order (and one that came to me while reading Victor Hugo’s ‘Toilers of the Sea’) and rather than an octopus. We need to look to its mythic (although probably based on real encounters with dead/barely alive giant/colossal squid) equivalent: the Kraken.

 

The Kraken has the many arms and the alien nature of the octopus, but it importantly is almost universally regarded as a negative comparison. People might think octopuses are harmless, but they certainly regard the Kraken as dangerous in the extreme.

 

This danger highlights the general utility of the Kraken image, because it is associated with a large size (i.e., the sheer scale of jewish power), is highly aggressive (i.e., the willingness to jews to use their power for their own individual and group advantage) as well as being instantly recognizable to any viewer of the image.

 

You don’t generally think of an octopus as dangerous, but the Kraken is certainly a threat and that is how we need to portray anti-jewish images to a mass audience: in that they need to play on their cultural knowledge base (the widely-known stories about the Kraken) while evoking the correct ideas in relation to their subject (the alien, powerfully aggressive and many armed nature of the Kraken) and provoking the appropriate negative/fear reaction that the image is trying to convey to them (i.e., the threat posed to them personally by the Kraken).

 

Portraying jewish power as the Kraken; as opposed to an octopus, is thus more appropriate: is it not?

 

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References

 

(1) For a sample discussion see Jeffrey Herf, 2006, ‘The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust’, 1st Edition, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, pp. 1-12

 

(2) For further reading please see Karen Joines, 1974, ‘Serpent Symbolism in the Old Testament: A Linguistic, Archaeological, and Literary Study’, 1st Edition, Haddonfield House: United States

 

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