The Katyn Massacre

  by Dr. William Pierce

 

Published in Free Speech - May 1998 - Volume IV, Number 5

 

A background noise that seems never to go away is the constant whining and yammering of the Jews about how the world owes them a living because of their losses during the so-called „Holocaust.“ They do it, of course, because they make such a big profit on it. The latest flare-up of this Jewish play for a handout came more than a year ago when they began demanding that the Swiss pay them $7 billion, which „Holocaust“ victims allegedly had stashed in numbered Swiss accounts before being hauled off to gas chambers during the Second World War.

 

With a few „bought“ Gentile politicians fronting for them, the foremost among these being New York’s Senator Alphonse D’Amato, the Jews threatened Switzerland with a boycott by the U.S. government if their demands were not met. Instead of laughing in their faces, telling the Jews to go to hell, and gearing up for countermeasures against Israel and other Jewish interests if the Jews tried to proceed with a boycott, the Swiss politicians tried to placate the Jews by offering to buy them off. The Jews took the Swiss response as a sign of weakness and escalated their demands.

 

The average Swiss citizen seems to have a little more pride than Switzerland’s elected officials, however, and resentment against the Jews’ extortion efforts is building in Switzerland now to the point that some of that country’s richest Jews are wearing bulletproof vests whenever they must go out in public.

 

In general, however, this „Holocaust“-based extortion racket works quite well for the Jews, and they have expanded their demands for World War Two reparations to include a number of other countries besides Switzerland. They are even whining that the Vatican owes them because Pope Pius XII didn’t do enough to save them from the Germans during the war. The Jews’ brazenness in this whole business is quite breathtaking.

 

Their brazenness is justified, because by and large they have been getting away with it. They have been getting away with it because with their media control they have been able to distort the general public’s perception of what happened during the Second World War. They have been able to portray themselves as innocent victims and everyone else as persecutors and aggressors, even the people who were fighting on the Jewish side against the Germans during the war. They have done quite a bit of whining that after the Red Army drove the Germans from Poland, the Poles took the opportunity to lynch hundreds of Jews in 1945 and 1946: Jews whom the Germans somehow had failed to get rid of during their wartime occupation of Poland.

 

Why would the Poles do something like that? Why would they lynch the poor Jews, who had been on their side during the war? If you learned about the war from watching Steven Spielberg propaganda films and other mass-media sources, you probably believe that it was because of religious anti-Semitism on the part of the Catholic Poles. Let me tell you the real reason why so many Poles hated Jews after the war. It’s something the Jew-controlled media in America haven’t said much about. Let me tell you about what happened in the Katyn Forest in 1940.

 

In September 1939 Poland was invaded from the west by Germany and from the east by the Soviet Union. The Germans wanted back the territory in western Poland, including the city of Danzig, which had been taken from them at the end of the First World War. The Soviets wanted eastern Poland. The Germans and the Soviets divided Poland between them, with the boundary running roughly along the River Bug.

 

Britain and France, both under strong Jewish pressure, declared war on Germany in September 1939, ostensibly because of Germany’s invasion of Poland. They did not declare war on the Soviet Union, which also had invaded Poland. In the United States and in western Europe, where the Jews held a deathgrip on the mass media, a great deal of anti-German propaganda was based on the German grab for Polish territory -- much of which, of course, actually was historically German territory -- and nothing was said of the Soviet occupation and annexation of eastern Poland.

 

The reason for this anti-German and pro-Soviet bias by the Jewish media was that the Jews were riding high in the Soviet Union as commissars and communist party bosses under Stalin, while in Germany Hitler had undertaken a program since 1933 of freeing Germany from all Jewish influence. Jews had been weeded out of the media, the law, the schools, and other areas of economic and cultural life in Germany. Before Hitler became chancellor in 1933 the Jews had done in Germany what they do in every country where they gain a foothold: they had monopolized large sections of the mass media and certain professions and were doing their best to distort German culture, German society, and the German economy to suit themselves. Hitler put a stop to that, and two-thirds of the 1933 Jewish population of Germany had emigrated by the invasion of Poland in September 1939. So the Jews hated Germany and were determined to do whatever they could to destroy her.

 

For his part, Hitler hoped to avoid war with Britain and France. He hoped that after his quick victory in western Poland he could make peace with both countries. He was determined, however, to stamp out communism wherever he encountered it. Not only did he hate communism on ideological grounds, but he had sworn to fight communism when the communists in Germany betrayed his country at the end of the First World War. Hitler also saw the Soviet Union as a threat to all of Europe, and he was determined to break the power of that country when he could, even though there was an uneasy non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, at the time of their partition of Poland.

 

In the spring of 1941 massive troop movements and other developments inside the Soviet Union convinced Hitler that Stalin was preparing to invade the west with the Red Army, and so in June 1941 Hitler made a preemptive strike. German forces smashed through the Red Army and made rapid advances, first through Soviet-occupied eastern Poland and then through Ukraine and into Russia.

 

A year and a half later, in February 1943, German forces near Smolensk, in western Russia, investigated reports they heard from Russian civilians to the effect that a large number of prisoners had been murdered by the Soviet secret police in the area nearly three years earlier. The German investigators were led by local Russians to a series of mounds in a wooded area known locally as Katyn Forest, about 10 miles west of Smolensk. The forest is named for a village, Katyn, which it surrounds. The forest had been privately owned prior to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, but after the communist takeover of Russia the area had been confiscated by the government and part of the forest had been turned over to the NKVD, the Soviet equivalent of the American FBI.

 

The Germans began digging in the mounds in the Katyn Forest and made a horrible discovery. They found corpse after corpse, each with its hands bound behind its back and a bullet hole in the base of its skull. They continued their excavations for more than a month, and eventually uncovered more than 4,000 corpses. Other bodies may have remained buried in other mounds, but the Germans had no time to dig up the whole forest. Instead they called in the International Red Cross and representatives of various neutral countries to examine their findings. They also brought in groups of Allied prisoners of war, including Americans, from prison camps in Germany to view the graves in the Katyn Forest. They gave these international inspectors complete freedom to examine the exhumed bodies, permitted doctors among them to conduct autopsies, even allowed them to dig up other bodies from one of the mounds which had not been completely excavated. The Germans asked only that the inspectors report back truthfully to their own governments about their observations. And in fact, most of them did.

 

What they reported was that the bodies were those of Polish military officers, along with a number of civilian cultural leaders, business leaders, and intellectuals -- scientists, writers, and poets -- who had been in the portion of Poland occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939. Altogether the Soviet secret police had rounded up some 15,000 Polish leaders in 1939 -- including nearly half of the entire Polish officer’s corps, the half that had the misfortune of being in eastern Poland at the time -- and put them in three concentration camps in Russia: at Starobelsk, Kozelsk, and Ostashkov. All of the bodies unearthed in the Katyn Forest were of Polish leaders who had been confined at one of these camps: Starobelsk.

 

Rounding up a country’s leaders and killing them was standard practice for the communists. The theory was that the leaders were bourgeois oppressors of the working class and deserved to die. As egalitarians the communists did not regard the Polish officers and intellectuals as inherently better or more valuable human material than the average Polish criminal or bum; the officers had simply used their class advantage to gain a better life-style for themselves. Of course, no one really believed that theory except the criminals, bums, and other resentful losers and ne’er-do-wells who made up the natural communist constituency. As a practical matter, however, killing all the leaders and potential leaders of a conquered people made them easier to govern. That’s what the Marxists had done in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries.

 

In the case of the Poles there was a bit of a diplomatic problem, though. The Poles supported the war Britain and France had declared against Germany, purportedly on their behalf, because they viewed that as their one hope for getting back at least the western part of their country. They were not happy about the Russians taking the eastern part of Poland, but the Russians at least were fellow Slavs. The thing to do was get rid of the Germans first and then worry about the Russians. This Polish strategy suited Stalin fine. But it made it desirable for him to avoid alienating the Poles any more than necessary. When Polish exiles asked about their imprisoned leaders in late 1939 and early 1940, the Soviet government promised that they would be released shortly. Meanwhile, the decision had been made to kill all of them. And so in April 1940 the Polish leaders were taken from the three camps where they had been imprisoned, trucked off to various liquidation sites, and murdered. The ones who had been imprisoned at Starobelsk all went to the NKVD area of the Katyn Forest. After the war some of the NKVD executioners were interviewed in Israel and described how they had carried out the killings.

 

The Poles were driven up to the burial pits in long NKVD prison trucks known as „black ravens.“ They were pulled from the trucks one at a time by NKVD guards. Each Polish prisoner had his hands bound behind his back and then was dragged to the edge of a pit. There he was held by two NKVD men while a third fired a pistol bullet into the back of his head. Some of the officers had their coats pulled over their heads to keep them from seeing what was happening before they were shot. Some struggled and were bayoneted by NKVD guards before being shot and thrown into the pit. When all of the officers from Starobelsk had been killed, some 4,400 of them, the Katyn Forest burial pits were covered with dirt and pine trees were planted on them. The locations of the mass graves of the prisoners from the camps at Kozelsk and Ostashkov remain unknown, but none of the 15,000 Polish officers and intellectuals rounded up by the NKVD in September 1939 was seen alive after April 1940.

 

The Red Cross representatives and the Allied prisoners the Germans brought in to examine the mass graves in the Katyn Forest understood after their examination not only who had been killed; they also understood who had killed them. This was apparent not only from the medical estimates of the length of time the bodies had been buried, but also from documentary evidence on the bodies. Diaries, news clippings, letters, and other personal papers removed from the clothing of the victims all told the same story: the latest dates on any of these papers were from mid-April 1940. The Polish leaders had been killed in April 1940, when they were prisoners of the Soviet Union and when the Katyn region was under Soviet control. And this is what they reported back to their governments.

 

So what do you think happened? Were the British and American governments horrified to discover that their „gallant Soviet ally,“ as the Soviet Union was referred to by the mass media, was a mass murderer? Did the British government, which had gone to war against Germany under the pretext of defending Poland, decide that it had made a mistake? Did anyone condemn the Soviet Union for this act of genocide against the Poles?

 

Of course not! The Allied governments ordered their people who had inspected the Katyn site to keep their mouths shut, and the Jewish media immediately began announcing that the Germans had done it. A mass murder of Polish officers and intellectuals by the Nazis had been discovered in the Katyn Forest, the New York Times and the rest of the Jewish media shrieked. Poor Poles! Wicked Germans! The war must go on to free the poor Poles and punish the wicked Germans. And the war did go on, killing millions of more Germans, Britons, Americans, and other Europeans. And the Germans were indeed punished. The Poles, of course, were not freed. Instead they were turned over to the Reds, who had butchered their leaders in the Katyn Forest, and made to suffer under communist rule for half a century.

 

The war went on after the German discovery of the mass graves in the Katyn Forest, because its purpose from the beginning was not to free Poland but to destroy Germany, which had dared to free itself from the Jews. Roosevelt understood this. Churchill understood this. But the American and British people didn’t understand it, of course, because they were lied to by the Jewish media and by their own governments, who in 1943, as in 1998, did whatever was politically expedient. And what is politically expedient has been what the Jewish media bosses have decided.

 

The lies about Katyn were maintained by the media for some years after the end of the war, because these lies meshed nicely with the „Holocaust“ story which was making so much money for the Jews. Nowadays, of course, the truth about the Katyn murders is generally accepted by historians everywhere. You can go into almost any large library and read about it and even see the gruesome photographs that the Germans took of the Polish bodies they dug up. One of several authoritative books on the subject is J.K. Zawodny’s Death in the Forest: the Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre, published in 1962 by the University of Notre Dame Press. None of this is publicized a la Steven Spielberg for the illumination of American television audiences, of course. It still might undermine the Jews’ „Holocaust“ racket.

 

In 1945 and 1946, although the deceived citizens of the Western world didn’t know the truth about Katyn, Polish patriots did. The word had gotten back to the Polish prisoners in German camps from the Poles the Germans had taken to examine the graves. After the war, when these Polish prisoners were freed, the word spread to other Poles. They knew that it was the communists, not the Nazis, who had murdered their leaders, who had beheaded their nation. And they knew who was behind communism -- from the Jew, Karl Marx, who started the whole business, to the Jewish commissars in Soviet-occupied Poland. They knew who had welcomed their Soviet conquerors and then collaborated with those conquerors. And so it is hardly surprising that in 1945 and 1946 a few Polish patriots organized lynchings of Jews in Poland, before the Reds had a chance to clamp down and suppress any further expressions of anti-communist or anti-Jewish feeling.

 

The Polish dislike of Jews isn’t surprising. What is surprising is that so few patriots in America and Britain have expressed their outrage against the Jews, not only for what they did to the Poles during and after the war, but for what they have done to us: lying to us and using us to wage their wars for them. If patriots study the Katyn story and take its lesson to heart, they will understand why they cannot trust either the mass media or any government which dances to the tune played by the media. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were as much liars and traitors as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.

 

You might remember Katyn the next time you hear the Jews or some of their bought politicians whining about how much gold was stolen from them by the Swiss or how badly the Poles and the Germans treated them during the Second World War.

Auschwitz: Plain Facts - A Response to Jean-Claude Pressac

 

2nd, slightly revised edition

 

Source: https://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=14

 

by Germar Rudolf

 

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With two major works on the Auschwitz concentration camp, French pharmacist Jean-Claude Pressac tried to refute revisionists with their own technical methods. Whereas his first work remained rather obscured, Pressac’s second book on The Technique of Mass Murder was praised by the mainstream in Europe, and they proclaimed victory over the revisionists. But they did not reckon with the revisionists...

 

In Auschwitz: Plain Facts, Pressac’s works are subject to a detailed and devastating critique by leading revisionist scholars. Although Pressac deserves credit for having made accessible many hitherto unknown documents, his writings could not refute the revisionists, because Pressac violated many scientific principles: Neither did Pressac adhered to scientific nor to formal standards when interpreting documents.

• He made claims that he either could not prove or which contradict the facts.

• Many documents he quoted do not state what he claimed they do.

• But most importantly: He did not pay any attention to "the technique" of the mass murder at issue, as his books claim:

• neither do his books contain references to technical or scientific literature,

• nor are there any technical consideration in them.

In fact, he reveals such a massive technical incompetence that his works belong into the category of fiction rather than factual history. Despite these deficiencies, Pressac is still hailed as the savior of the Auschwitz-Holocaust by the mainstream.

 

Auschwitz: Plain Facts is a must read for all those who want to argue against the lies and half truth of established historiography.

 

With contribution by Germar Rudolf, Serge Thion, Robert Faurisson, and Carlo Mattogno. Second, revised edition with a new preface.

The Secret Masonic Victory of WW2 - Part 14 - The Satanic Empire

The Early History of Revisionism

Source: https://codoh.com/library/document/the-early-history-of-revisionism/

 

by David Skrbina

19 May 2025

 

Readers knowledgeable about the Holocaust will recall that the central elements of the present-day story existed not only in the immediate aftermath of the war – when such things were at least theoretically knowable – but also during the war, and even before the war, when they were not. Hitler’s plan for the “extermination” of the Jews, the gas chambers and the potential 6 million victims – all these were prominent features of major newspapers during and prior to the war. These were unprecedented and extreme claims, and they drew skeptical commentary even amidst the war. But this early history of revisionism is largely unknown today, even by specialists.

 

When the question arises of the earliest revisionist writings, most experts will point to the work of Paul Rassinier (1906-1967). A French communist at the outbreak of the war, Rassinier fought with the French Resistance against the Germans until his arrest in October 1943, after which he was deported to Buchenwald and Dora camps. He escaped a German transport train in April 1945, survived the war, and went on to write 11 books, most about the war.

 

Rassinier’s first book to challenge the Holocaust story was The Lie of Ulysses, initially published in 1950 and then in expanded form in 1955. There, he first questions the gassing claims and challenges the existence of homicidal gas chambers, leading to a grave skepticism about the entire alleged extermination program. The capture, trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 led to a second important work, The Real Eichmann Trial (1962), and eventually to a third critical book, The Drama of the European Jews (1964).

 

As important as these works are, they were preceded by, or contemporaneous with, other important critical thinkers who objected to various aspects of the Holocaust story. Here I will highlight two overlooked individuals, in order to give credit where credit is due: Douglas Reed and John O. Beaty.

 

But first, let us recall some basic aspects of the conventional story. Assertions that Hitler wanted to “exterminate” the Jews were promoted in major newspapers from almost the day he became known to the world. In a remarkable early anticipation, the New York Times reported already in February of 1923 – a full decade before he took power – that “a part of the program of Herr Hitler […] is the extermination of the Jews” (8 Feb). Upon his ascension in 1933, the NYT was ready to promote the soon-infamous figure of 6 million Jewish victims. The very month that Hitler took power, the NYT reported on a “Hitler protest” in New York; Rabbi Stephen Wise issued an appeal for “the preservation of German Jewry,” adding that his group “is now active in relief and reconstruction work in Eastern Europe where 6,000,000 Jews are involved” (29 Mar, p. 9).

 

Stories about “extermination” and “6 million” threatened or endangered Jews made several appearances in subsequent years, and accelerated as soon as war became imminent. In early 1938, the NYT reported on “a depressing picture of 6,000,000 Jews in Central Europe, deprived of protection or economic opportunities, slowly dying of starvation, all hope gone” (23 Feb, p. 23). War began in September 1939, and naturally yet more such stories appeared; in mid-1940, the NYT quoted Nahum Goldmann: “Six million Jews are doomed to destruction if the victory of the Nazis should be final” (25 Jun, p. 4). This incredible prediction came one full year before Hitler allegedly decided to begin his program of Jewish mass murder, according to traditionalist experts.

 

As the war progressed, death tolls mounted on all sides – but especially on the side of the Jews, if we are to believe our major papers. By December 1942, the Jewish death toll was reported as 2 million, representing one third of the 6,000,000 “in Hitler’s domain.” It was, said the NYT, “a holocaust without parallel” (13 Dec, p. 21). Thus, “holocaust,” “extermination,” and a looming “6 million victims” were firmly established in the public media already by the end of 1942.

 

Now, it is certainly a fact that, as they say, truth is the first victim in any war; but even so, one could expect that intelligent and critically thinking observers of that time would have begun asking themselves some pertinent questions. How, for example, do we know that 6 million are at risk? How does anyone know that 2 million Jews had been killed? How was Hitler physically able to round up and kill that many people, in only some 18 months? (Reports of mass civilian killing did not emerge until mid-1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.) If true, Hitler was killing more than 110,000 Jews per month, on average – or some 3,700 per day, every day. Surely skeptical thinkers asked themselves: is this even possible, amidst a major war?

 

And in fact, at least one thinker did ask such questions: Douglas Reed (1895-1976), a British writer, journalist and political commentator. A pilot in World War One, Reed went on to become lead European correspondent for the Times of London. He resigned in 1938 in order to become an independent journalist and author, publishing roughly one book per year for the next 15 years. Of special interest here is his 1943 book Lest We Regret. Primarily a study of the British political climate at the time, one lengthy chapter – “The Children of Israel” – examines the Jewish Question. The primary focus of the chapter is his worry about importing more Eastern European Jews into Britain, but along the way, he voices concerns about Hitler’s alleged Jewish policy and the large reported death toll.

 

Lest We Regret was apparently written from mid-1942 through about April 1943 (the latest cited date) – precisely the period of time in which the alleged extermination program was peaking, and death tolls were skyrocketing. The following is an extended excerpt from the subject chapter (pp. 249-254):[1]

 

“In November 1942, a great campaign began about the ‘extermination’ of the Jews. At that very moment, the prospect of our victory first loomed distinct. The Eighth Army conquered in Libya; Italy showed signs of distress; the Germans failed to take Stalingrad; that Germany would be beaten, possibly even in 1943, became clear (and I wrote a play foretelling Hitler’s disappearance).

 

Victory, then, approached. If it came, and found those Jews still in Europe, they would remain there. If they were to leave Europe (if ‘the problem’ was to be solved by transferring it to us) they would need to come away before Victory arrived. Also, the British government had suspended immigration to Palestine. The ‘extermination’ campaign began. The power which this particular interest wields over our public spokesmen and Press stands revealed as gigantic. Some newspapers gave more space to this matter than would be devoted to any other in any circumstances which I can imagine. The word ‘extermination’ was printed billions of times. It was used habitually, without flinching, by Ministers, politicians, and the BBC. Any who care to keep note of the things which were said, and to compare them in a few years’ time with the facts and figures, will possess proof of the greatest example of mass-misinformation in history. All sound of the suffering of the non-Jews who are Germany’s captives was drowned. […]

 

Before November 1942, none ever suggested that the Germans practiced racial discrimination in cruelty. Jews and non-Jews suffered alike; but as the non-Jews were 20 times as numerous, their suffering was as much more, as the whole is greater than the part. Indeed, the New Statesman remarked that ‘Hitler subjected the Jews of Germany to every imaginable form of insult, robbery and oppression’ (he subjected many more non-Jews, all over Europe, to the same things) ‘but he did not slaughter them.’

 

Now, when the war was over three years old, like a bolt from the brown came this news that he was slaughtering them, and they must therefore be brought to England! How, if they were exterminated? That point was ignored; the word ‘extermination’ was deliberately chosen. It means ‘to root out, destroy utterly’.[2] (If that is not clear enough, the New Statesman said: ‘Hitler is engaged in exterminating the Jews of Europe, not metaphorically, not more or less, but with a literal, totalitarian completeness, as farmers try to exterminate the Californian beetle’!)

 

We were told, then, that the Jews were being ‘exterminated,’ and we must therefore receive them. We are entitled to examine the truth of this, since it is the basis of the claim made on us, mainly on behalf of those Jews in Poland who most tenaciously hold to the teaching (expressed by the Chief Rabbi in London) that ‘the mission of the Jew is first of all to be a Jew.’ (Hitler has used those very words about Germans.)

 

The claim was, that something different was being done to the Jews, something more than the non-Jews suffered: ‘Nothing else in Hitler’s record is comparable to his treatment of the Jews,’ the News-Chronicle; ‘For Hitler, the Jews were and are the first and principal victims of a frenzied malice manifest in his earlier outpourings as an irresponsible political agitator,’ The Times; ‘Upon this people, the Jews, the fury of the Nazi evil has concentrated its destructive energy’, the Archbishop of Canterbury; ‘The worst cruelties are reserved for the Jews’, the Bishop of Chelmsford; ‘The persecution of the Jews is, however, unique in its horror; it is deliberate extermination directed against, not a nation, but a whole race; this is a horror unprecedented in the history of the world’, the Archbishop of York.

 

These statements are untrue. I saw Hitler’s work with my own eyes, from the day he came to power until the eve of this war. Nineteen-twentieths of the inmates of his concentration camps were non-Jewish Germans; nineteen-twentieths of his victims outside the German frontiers are non-Jewish non-Germans. This distortion of the picture has gone on since 1933. I felt misgivings about it then, when his first cruelties were practiced, and I noticed that the Jewish share of the whole was being put out of all proportion in the foreign press.

 

But now the suggestion has been crystallized into a definite statement which I would not dare challenge if it could be upheld: the Jews in Europe are being ‘exterminated.’ You must not use this big word unless you mean physical extinction. What was the evidence, first that ‘extermination’ was ordered, and second, that it was carried out?

 

(1) The Times of 4 December 1942, spoke of ‘a memorandum compiled by underground labour groups in Poland’ which stated, ‘one of the war aims of Hitler’s regime, and one which has been publicly proclaimed by its highest authorities, is a complete extermination of the Jews.’ The Archbishop of York said on December 9^th, ‘The extermination of all the Jews in Poland has been decided on and will be carried out’. The Manchester Guardian, on December 11^th, spoke of some

‘evidence available in London [that] a plan was proposed to Hitler last June that the Jews [in Poland] should be exterminated by Christmas. […] He hesitated for a time but soon relapsed and decided to gratify his lust for cruelty by adopting the original proposal. […] One need not suppose that Hitler has signed an actual order for the destruction of the Jews, which is strongly reported but at present unconfirmed.’

 

The Times, on December 12^th, said ‘Hitler has boasted of his intention to eliminate every Jew in Germany under his yoke.’ Mr. Eden, on December 17^th, spoke of ‘Hitler’s oft-repeated intention of exterminating the Jewish people in Europe.’ The Times, on December 21^st, quoting ‘a statement issued by the Allied Information Committee’, said ‘Himmler, after a stay in Warsaw, issued an order that half the Polish Jews were to be killed in the course of a year.’ The Arch-bishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales, in the name of all the British Bishops, in January 1943, stated, ‘The extermination already carried out is part of the carrying into effect of Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe, which means in effect the extermination of some 6,000,000 people’.[3] The Roman Catholic Cardinal of Westminster and the head of the Salvation Army associated themselves with such statements, which were repeated innumerable times in the radio and Press. On January 9^th, the New Statesman said, ‘In July of 1942, Himmler gave the necessary orders for extermination on a continental scale.’

 

(2) On December 4^th, Mr. Vernon Bartlett wrote, ‘According to cables from Dr. Stephen Wise, President of the World Jewish Congress, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, confirmation has now been received of an order issued by Hitler for the extermination of all Jews in Nazi-occupied countries before the end of the present month’ (then how could they be rescued?). ‘The number of Jews who have already died cannot, of course, be estimated with great accuracy. In the opinion of the World Jewish Congress, roughly two million out of the three-and-a-half million Jews in Poland have been murdered by the Nazis since the outbreak of the war.’

 

Almost on the same day, the World Congress, according to The Times, ‘issued a statement on Nazi massacres of Jews in Europe showing that of the 7,000,000 Jews who normally live in the territories now under Nazi occupation, 1,000,000 have been cruelly done to death.’ Mr. Harold Nicolson wrote in the Spectator of December 25^th, ‘In order to assuage his insane hatred of the Jewish people Hitler, with Himmler as his main agent, has carried out the murder of some 250,000 men, women and children in cold blood.’ And again, ‘In October 1940, the Germans interned 433,000 Warsaw Jews in a special area or ghetto which they surrounded with a high wall. […] For the month of October 1942, only 40,000 ration cards were printed.’ (His clear inference, and he says ‘there can be no doubt whatever of the facts,’ was that the number of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto was reduced from 433,000 to 40,000 by ‘extermination.’) The Jewish Labour representative on the Polish National Council in London reported, in March 1943, that ‘only 200,000 Jews remain in the Warsaw Ghetto.’

 

Readers may compare these quotations for themselves. ‘Extermination’ was ordered; it was not ordered, but strongly suspected; it was ordered for half the Jews in Poland; for all the Jews in Poland; for all the Jews in Europe by the end of 1942. Two out of three-and-a-half million were already dead, on December 4^th; one million out of seven million were already dead, on the same day; 250,000 were already dead, three weeks later. Thus spake our leading public men.

 

This was the factual basis of the most stupendous political and press campaign in my experience. I suspect that I am better informed about German affairs than many of the people who spoke thus, and I know of no ‘oft-proclaimed intentions’ or ‘orders’ to exterminate the Jews.[4] Hitler is noticeably reticent on that theme. Any threats he has uttered cannot compare, in ferocity and iteration, with his threats to exterminate England, the British Empire, Bolshevism and other things. The only threats I know, which promised ‘extermination’ were clearly aimed, not at the Jews, but at the Czechs, Poles, and Serbs, who are the foremost objects of German detestation. Such was Hitler’s statement, on 24 February 1943, that he would ‘not spare alien lives’, and its meaning was pointed two days later by Frank, the Czech ‘Protector’, when he said, ‘Stalin could only enter Germany as a victor over the body of every single German and over the body of every single Czech’. The only authentic instance that I know (the Germans themselves announced it) of local extermination in this war, was the extermination of every Czech man, woman, and child in the village of Lidice, where I once received most friendly hospitality. Similar, though smaller massacres have been committed on Frenchmen, Serbs, Norwegians, and Greeks: the Germans published them.”

 

This is a remarkable passage, especially as it was written at the height of the war. This seems to constitute the earliest extended revisionist analysis.

 

Eight years later, when the “fog of war” had cleared a bit, Reed wrote another book titled Far and Wide (1951). Here the focus is on communism and Zionism and their role in striving for a World State or World Government, but Reed makes an interesting side remark on the by-then-iconic figure of “6 million”. Astonishingly, this figure, given as a definitive Jewish death toll, appeared in the NYT just six days after Germany capitulated on 7 May 1945: “It has been calculated that in all about six million Jews were deliberately slaughtered [in gas chambers] and other ways” (13 May, p. SM4). Calculated by whom? How? And with what evidence? The NYT does not say.

 

But the figure was certainly getting around. On 17 July 1945, Jewish activist Abba Kovner gave a speech in Italy lamenting “the loss of six millions”; “we saw how the six million faced the great test […] before their deaths,” he exclaimed.[5] In August, the NYT stated that “six million [Jews] have perished at the hands of the Nazis” (5 Aug), and in September, they reported: “Loss of six million Jews during the war has made extremists of all Zionists […]” (2 Sep) – as if it were common knowledge at that point.

 

To further solidify the number as literal fact, it had to appear during the Nuremberg Trials – which it did. The first occurrence came at the very start of the trial, read in the record from an affidavit by Wilhelm Höttl (or Hoettl). Recalling the words of Eichmann, Höttl stated that around 4 million Jews died in the concentration camps, and another 2 million in other ways.[6] A second appearance came in March 1946, when British prosecutor Maxwell Fyfe was interrogating Hermann Göring; Maxwell Fyfe cited Höttl’s earlier testimony of 4 million plus another two.[7] A third occurrence came with a prosecutor’s statement of 30 September 1946:[8]

 

“Adolf Eichmann […] has estimated that the policy pursued resulted in the killing of 6,000,000 Jews, of which 4,000,000 were killed in the extermination institutions.”

 

Thus the figure became codified at Nuremberg and has never relinquished its grip.

 

Reed was rightly concerned that this figure had, by 1950, become something like a religious icon – unquestioned and unquestionable. In Far and Wide, he wrote:

 

“[T]he words ‘six million Jewish dead’ seemed to atrophy the power to think. […] During the Second War, I noticed that the figures of Jewish losses, in places where war made verification impossible, were being irresponsibly inflated. […] The process continued until the war’s end when the figure of six millions was produced. A transparently worthless estimate was not only used for mass-delusion through newspapers, but even given official status! If by any turn of chance, the American and British representatives who bandied it about at Nuremberg were ever called to answer for it, they might be hard pressed for a defense, for any impartial tribunal might tear it to pieces. […]

 

No proof can be given that six million Jews “perished”; proof can be adduced that so many could not have perished. […] Yet this massive assertion about the six millions was used by politicians in the highest places, by prosecutors at Nuremberg, and habitually by mass-newspapers which in lesser matters would print no statement unverified! […] In my judgment, the figure of six millions was a grotesque exaggeration which an unintimidated press would never have published, save to expose [as a hoax…].

 

If ever freedom of debate returns to the world, a board of impartial accountants might be set to study this matter of the six millions, stated by leading politicians of the West, and their representatives at Nuremberg, to have perished. Until then, all the student of the times can do is to try and trace their fate in such figures as are available to him.” (pp. 307-309)

 

“Freedom of debate” has, of course, yet to return to this world, now 75 years later; but intrepid revisionists have pressed ahead and “traced the fate” of the 6 million with remarkable accuracy. The story is telling.

 

At about the same time that Reed was composing his 1951 book, another man, John Owen Beaty, was busy at work on his magnum opus, The Iron Curtain over America (1951). Beaty (1890-1961) was an American professor, writer, and anti-communist who earned his PhD in philosophy in 1921 and taught at Southern Methodist University in Texas. He also served active duty during World War Two, working for the Military Intelligence Service.

 

In his long academic career, Beaty wrote over a dozen books, the most famous being Iron Curtain, where he argues for the ‘Khazar hypothesis’: that modern-day Ashkenazi Jews are descended from, or related to, the Khazar people of the central Caucasus region. The bulk of his book is dedicated to arguing that Khazar/Ashkenazi Jews are infiltrating American government and academia, thus bringing down an ‘iron curtain’ in our own homeland; subsequent analysis bears out many of his claims.

 

Of note, though, is a short comment in chapter 6, where Beaty presses on the absurdity of the claimed ‘6 million’ Jewish deaths in WW2.

 

“An official ‘Israeli’ view of Germany was expressed in Dallas, Texas, on March 18, 1951, when Abba S. Eban, ambassador of the state of ‘Israel’ to the United States and ‘Israel’s’ representative at the United Nations, stated that ‘Israel resents the rehabilitation of Germany.’ […] The same day that Ambassador Eban was talking in Dallas about ‘Israel’s’ resentment at the rehabilitation of Germany, a Reuters dispatch of March 13, 1951 from Tel Aviv (Washington Times-Herald) stated that ‘notes delivered yesterday [March 12] in Washington, London, and Paris and to the Soviet Minister at Tel Aviv urge the occupying powers of Germany not to ‘hand over full powers to any German government’ without express reservations for the payment of reparations to ‘Israel’ in the sum of $1,500,000,000.’[9]

 

This compensation was said to be for 6,000,000 Jews killed by Hitler. This figure has been used repeatedly, but one who consults statistics and ponders the known facts of recent history cannot do other than wonder how it is arrived at. According to Appendix VII, ‘Statistics on Religious Affiliation,’ of The Immigration and Naturalization Systems of the United States (A Report of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate, 1950), the number of Jews in the world is 15,713,638. The World Almanac, 1949, p. 289, is cited as the source of the statistical table reproduced on p. 842 of the government document. The article in the World Almanac is headed ‘Religious Population of the World.’ A corresponding item, with the title, ‘Population, Worldwide, by Religious Beliefs’ is found in the World Almanac for 1940 (p. 129), and in it the world Jewish population is given as 15,315,359.[10] If the World Almanac figures are correct, the world’s Jewish population did not decrease in the war decade, but showed a small increase.

 

Assuming, however, that the figures of the US document and the World Almanac are in error, let us make an examination of the known facts. In the first place, the number of Jews in Germany in 1939 was about 600,000 – by some estimates considerably fewer [11] – and of these, as shown elsewhere in this book, many came to the United States, some went to Palestine, and some are still in Germany. As to the Jews in Eastern European lands temporarily overrun by Hitler’s troops, the great majority retreated ahead of the German armies into Soviet Russia. Of these, many came later to the US, some moved to Palestine, some unquestionably remained in Soviet Russia and may be a part of the Jewish force on the Iranian frontier, and enough remained in Eastern Europe or have returned from Soviet Russia to form the hard core of the new ruling bureaucracy in satellite countries. It is hard to see how all these migrations and all these power accomplishments can have come about with a Jewish population much less than that which existed in Eastern Europe before World War II. Thus the known facts on Jewish migration and Jewish power in Eastern Europe tend, like the World Almanac figures accepted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, to raise a question as to where Hitler got the 6,000,000 Jews he is said to have killed.” (pp. 133-135)

 

As such, this brief statement constitutes perhaps the first attempt at a numerical critique of the Jewish death toll. World Almanac figures on Jewish demographics came from Jewish sources, and hence were ‘self-reported,’ to some extent, and lacking in independent verification. And by the 1950 edition, the Almanac had adjusted its postwar population figures to 11,373,000 (p. 473), thus indicating something close to the mandatory 6-million loss. But the validity of this lower figure is as uncertain as those of previous years. Hence it is difficult to come to firm conclusions about the Jewish death toll from such reports alone. More useful are the approaches of current revisionists who make arguments based on the technical inability to kill so many people via the claimed methods, the inability to dispose of so many bodies in the allotted timeframes, and the striking lack of material evidence today.

 

In any case, the two above authors certainly deserve credit for their early critiques. Reed’s work seems to have been completely overlooked by later revisionists, but Rassinier, in his 1955 edition of Lie, cites Beaty’s Iron Curtain as a source of early criticism. And Rassinier, in turn, was cited by subsequent revisionists, such as in David Hoggan’s 1969 work, The Myth of the Six Million.

 

Thus we can see that Holocaust revisionism has had a long and distinguished evolution, from early doubts and questioning to recent analysis that is scientifically and logically rigorous and has a substantial evidential basis. But we all owe a debt of gratitude to the likes of Reed and Beaty who, working in complete void, established the framework for skeptical and rational doubt.

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Endnotes

 

[1] The full chapter is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming book Classic Essays on the Jewish Question, volume 2 (Clemens & Blair; T. Dalton, ed.)

 

[2] Reed does not say, but the German word most likely used was Ausrottung, from aus+rotten, lit. ‘to root out.’ Notably, people (like animals, plants, etc.) can be “rooted out” without killing them; they are simply picked up and displaced.

 

[3] This is the only reference to “6 million” in Reed’s book. Clearly it was too early for this figure to become the icon that it is today.

 

[4] No such order has appeared in the intervening 80 years, nor even any reference to such an order.

 

[5] See Kovner, “The mission of the survivors,” in The Catastrophe of European Jewry (1976, Gutman and Rothkirchen, eds.), pp. 673, 680.

 

[6] IMT (vol. 31: 86). Himmler was reportedly disappointed, believing that the number “must be more than 6 million.”

 

[7] IMT (vol. 9: 611).

 

[8] IMT (vol. 22: 496).

 

[9] $1.5 billion in 1951 is equivalent to about $18 billion today.

 

[10] These figures are confirmed as correctly cited.

 

[11] Most current estimates put the figure at around 220,000.

Caricatures from "Der Stürmer" - translated in English and colourized - The Year 1942 – Part 8!

The Year 1942 – Part 8

  

 

Jewish Invention Myths: Monotheism

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/jewish-invention-myths-monotheism/

 

by Karl Radl

 

One of the most common ‘jewish invention’ claims is that ‘jews invented monotheism’ or the worship of one not many gods, which is exemplified by ‘Israel Hayom’s’ claim that:

 

‘Monotheism, the belief in a single God, has profoundly influenced religious thought throughout history. Judaism is credited with introducing this radical idea, which challenged the polytheistic beliefs prevalent in ancient cultures. This foundational concept has shaped the beliefs of billions today as over half the world’s population practices monotheistic religions.

 

Monotheism has encouraged moral frameworks that guide ethical behavior and community values. The implications of this belief system extend beyond religious practice, influencing art, culture, and philosophy.’ (1)

 

Claims like this are routinely repeated by jews (2) but typically it is ill-researched nonsense given that the first known form of monotheism emerged in ancient Egypt with the ‘Heretic Pharaoh’ Akhenaten circa 1,400 B.C.

 

To quote Redford:

 

‘Akhenaten was clearly a monotheist. All the well-known ingredients are present: the revelation-cum-teaching, the belligerent iconoclasm, the denial of the plurality of the Supernatural, the anathematization of other “gods,” the purging of forms of religious expression. He believed in a single, universal god, Aten, who had created the world and who continued to affect the world through His active presence.’ (3)

 

Indeed, it has been long-argued that the emergent religion of Zoroastrianism in Babylonia/Mesopotamia – modern day Iran and Iraq – was also monotheistic (4) although this is not without significant opposition. (5)

 

This would make a certain amount of sense given that most attempts to claim ‘jews invented monotheism’ are – to quote Smith – ‘evidently driven by post-Biblical concerns’. (6)

 

It is also noteworthy to point out that at the Greeks – notably the pre-Socratic philosophers Thales of Miletus and his student Anaximander of Miletus – created and adhered to as well as advocated a philosophic monotheism in the early-mid sixth century B.C. (7) several decades before we find the first expressions of monotheism in Biblical texts (i.e., Second Isaiah which dates from the mid-late sixth century B.C.).

 

Now given this we can clearly see that jews certainly didn’t invent monotheism and given the Exodus story and the Babylonian captivity right around the time they first begin to properly ‘develop’ monotheism in their religious faith: it is reasonable to suggest that only did the jews not invent monotheism but likely simply adapted the already extant monotheistic belief systems of those around them to form what we call Second Temple Judaism which subsequently became rabbinic Judaism.

 

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References

 

(1) https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/08/01/did-you-know-these-inventions-were-made-by-jews/

 

(2) For example: https://boulderjewishnews.org/2009/an-informal-list-of-jewish-inventions-innovations-and-radical-ideas/

 

(3) Donald Redford, 1997, ‘The Monotheism of Akhenaten’, p. 26 in Hershel Shanks, Jack Meinhardt (Eds.), 1997, ‘Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One’, 1st Edition, Biblical Archaeology Society: Washington D.C.

 

(4) For example: Almut Hintze, 2014, ‘Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vo. 24, No. 2, pp. 225–249 and Mike Ferrero, 2021, ‘From Polytheism to Monotheism: Zoroaster and Some Economic Theory’, Homo Oeconomicus, Vol. 38, pp. 77-108

 

(5) For example: Mark Smith, 2001, ‘The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic texts’, 1st Edition, Oxford University Press: New York, pp. 165-166

 

(6) Ibid., p. 103

 

(7) M. L. West, 1999, ‘Towards Monotheism’, pp. 32-3 in Polymnia Athanassiadi, Michael Frede (Eds.), 1999, ‘Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity’, 1st Edition, Clarendon Press: Oxford; Michael Frede, 1999, ‘Monotheism and Pagan Philosophy’, pp. 47-48 in Athanassiadi, Frede, Op. Cit.

 

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