by Carlo Mattogno
On 22 June 1941, National-Socialist Germany set
out to destroy what it saw as a menace to the world: Judeo-Bolshevism in its
most threatening manifestation, the Soviet Union. As the German Army marched
east, certain special units called Einsatzgruppen (task forces) were deployed
behind the front. Mainstream historians maintain that their primary task was to
exterminate as many Jews as possible. At war’s end, the Einsatzgruppen’s death
toll and that of associated units is said to have amounted to some 1.5 to 3
million Jewish civilians, depending on which historian you happen to hear.
The present study takes a critical
look at the Einsatzgruppen’s activities and missions. While many authentic
documents exist attesting to mass executions of Jews in the temporarily
German-occupied Soviet territories, the accuracy of the data contained in them
is questionable, as even mainstream scholars admit.
The present book tries to uncover
what really happened to the Jews who lived in, or were deported into, the
temporarily German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union. It first shows
that the Einsatzgruppen were not simple killing units but had a broad variety
of responsibilities. It then establishes that there is not a shred of evidence
indicating that these units ever received orders to commit wholesale slaughter
of Jews. In fact, there is abundant evidence refuting such a claim. The extant
documentation instead points to the Jews having been targeted by the Germans as
the fertile breeding ground of Bolshevism, hence as a convenient scapegoat for
the atrocious way the Soviets waged this war.
Next, and unlike all other works
published so far on this topic, the author analyzes with a critical mind and a
common-sense approach the information we have about the Einsatzgruppen’s
killings as well as the claimed attempts of German units to erase the traces of
these crimes in what has been dubbed “Aktion 1005”: the exhumation and
incineration of the murdered victims in 1943/1944. Almost everything known
about “Aktion 1005” stems from Soviet investigations conducted after the
Germans’ retreat. Their witness testimonies and forensic expert reports,
however, reek of atrocity propaganda marked by absurdly impossible and often
contradictory claims.
The only way of determining any more about what really happened would be
the forensic examination, by independent researchers, of the physical traces
left behind. Unfortunately, such research has been prevented by the powers that
be.
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