Kabalistic Gematria and the Myth of the Six Million

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Kabalistic Gematria and the Myth of the Six Million

When someone is working a “magic spell” over you, the spell can easily be broken once you understand how the trick works. It is much like this with the Jewish “Myth of the Six Million,” which has successfully (after a couple of early 20th century false starts in 1919 and the early 1930s) been incorporated as an inviolable article of faith into the actual empirical history of WWII. If you understand the real processes concerning how the number of Jewish victims (or ‘sacrifices’) was arrived at, you will very easily be able to separate ‘History’ from ‘Myth’, and there is a very significant difference between the two, no matter what traveling carnies and professional snake-oil salesmen like Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal may tell you.

THE HEBREW LETTER ‘VAV’ AND THE NUMBER 6
This now well-known six million number is, in fact, not a number from the world of empirical history, but one from the realm of Jewish mysticism and the human religious imagination. It is a mystic multiple of the Hebrew letter ‘Vav’. The letter ‘Vav’ (or ‘Vau’, ‘Waw’) = the sounds of the English letters ‘V’, ‘W’, or ‘U’, while numerically ‘Vav’ (or ‘Vau’, ‘Waw’ = 6 (as in the numeral ‘six’). This Kabalistically ‘sacred’ number 6 is interpreted as representing the concept of “cosmic completion,” as in the number of days it took G-d to create the complete world. This number also signifies the 6 directions of space (north, south, east, west, up, down), and the 6 points on the “star of David.” Within the ‘cosmic completion’ notion attached to the number six, there is also the idea involving the “completion” of a circle or cycle, such as “from exile to homecoming.”

In the literature of the Kabala, such as the books of the Zohar, the number of 6,000,000 is considered to be the number of “perfect souls” times 10, with the number 10 representing the total number of Sephira, i.e. the divine “emanations” of G-d. ‘Alef’, the first letter of the first word of Creation = 1 or 1,000. (1,000 x 6 = 6,000 x 10 = 60,000 x 10 = 600,000 x 10 = 6,000,000). This ‘mystic’ sexagesimal (60-based) system was most assuredly adopted by Jewish scribes during their sojourn in Babylonia. The Babylonians, of course, borrowed this mathematical system from the earlier Sumerians. The three separate multiplications by 10 in this calculation can also each represent one of the three points on the sacred triangle? The pre-Judaic fertility symbol represented by the “star of David” consists of two sacred triangles – the one pointing downwards represents water and the feminine principle, while the one pointing upwards represents fire and the masculine principle. In this fashion, the symbol of the “star of David” can be interpreted to represent the Active and Passive principles of Creation united in harmony and equilibrium. In the books of the Zohar, the Hebrew letter Yod and the letter He, which make up the first two letters of the divine Tetragrammaton YHWH, also represent, respectively, the male and female principles of Creation. YH (Yah), of course, is the name of the original Canaanite deity that the idea of YHWH is based upon. The number 6 is represented in the Tetragrammaton name of the Deity by W (the letter Vav). In the Zohar’s “Book of Concealed Mystery” it is explained that, by means of utterance, the sound of the letter Y(od) creates the worlds as an idea in the Divine Mind, and then later, with help from the feminine principle of H(e), gives form to these ideas as fabricated material reality after receiving Light from V(av) (or W). This provides the triangular, triliteral, trilateral name of YHW (Yod, He, Vav/Waw). Adding the extra feminine creative principle represented by the letter ‘He’, gives the full, ineffable Tetragrammaton of the Deity’s sacred name – YHWH.

PROCESSES OF KABALISTIC TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION
Aside from the multiple processes of Notariqon—where every letter, or just the initials, medials, and finals, is taken to be a possible initial letter or abbreviation for another completely different word—or Temura, where each letter in a word or phrase is substituted for either the letter that precedes or follows it in the Hebrew alphabet, one of the leading principles in the Kabalistic interpretation of sacred Hebrew texts is called Gematria. This involves a mystical analysis of sacred texts that operates according to various numerological principles. Every Hebrew letter has a sound as well as a numerical value, so by adding together all the numerical values of each letter in a word or phrase, different interpretations and analyses of a text can be arrived at. For example, the Hebrew letter Shin, with the sound ‘sh’, also has the numerical value of 300, which equals the total numerical value of all the letters in the phrase Ruach Elohim (RVCh ALHIM), “the spirit (or breath) of the Elohim,” from Genesis 1:2 – R = 200, V = 6, Ch = 8, A = 1, L = 30, H = 5, I = 10, and M = 40; TOTAL = 300. In this way, the letter Shin, with its numerical value of 300, is interpreted by the Kabalists as symbolizing “the spirit (or breath) of the Elohim [‘the God(s)’].” It is this Kabalistic numerological process of Gematria which provides the “prophetic” Holocaust interpretation of a verse from the third book of Torah - Leviticus, Chapter 25: Verse 10. This six million number in the Jewish Holocaust narrative is a ‘sacred’ numerological figure which was also spoken of by the 12th century Jewish philosopher Moshe ben-Maimon, or ‘Rambam’ (Maimonides, 1135-1204).

“and you shall hallow the fiftieth year. You shall proclaim release (liberty) throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee (Heb: yobel, a ‘ram’s horn’) for you: each of you shall return to his holding and each of you shall return to his family.” (TORAH: Leviticus 25:10)

English translation from: TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text). Philadelphia/Jerusalem: 1985, p. 196.

This phrase, “you shall return,” from Leviticus 25:10 is written in Kabbalistic versions of the Torah as “TShVU.” Grammatically, however, this phrase should have been written “TShuVU,” but the letter ‘Vav’, which should follow the letter ‘Shin’, is MISSING! Another part of this “prophecy” of six million burnt holocaust offerings, followed by a tribal homecoming, is formed by adding up the numerical values of this grammatically incomplete phrase.

‘Tav’ = 400
‘Shin’ = 300
‘Vet’ (or ‘Bet’) = 2
‘Vav’ (or ‘Vaw’, ‘Waw’) = 6
TOTAL = 708

When the year of the Hebrew calendar is written, the millennia number is always ‘5’, and is therefore never written (a kind of short-hand), so the 708 in this case can be interpreted by the process of Kabalistic gematria as referring to the year 5708, which just so happens to equal the Christian calendar date of 1948, the year when the modern State of Israel was declared.

The phrase (repeated twice) in Leviticus 25:10 – TaShuVU (“you shall return”) can now be interpreted according to the principles of Kabalistic gematria as –
“you shall return (lacking, minus, or without the 6[,000,000] in the year [5]708).”

THE RISE OF ZIONISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HOLOCAUST RELIGION
For this Kabalistically generated prophecy to actually be fulfilled, however, the Nazis would have had to actually cremate the bodies of 6 million Jews in their detention camp bread ovens. At this point, it then must be asked, that if Hitler had really planned to systematically exterminate the roughly 3 to 4.5 million Jews of Europe in his efficiently run German “extermination camps,” or “death camps,” why are there still several hundred thousand people walking around with IBM-generated detention camp numbers tattooed on their arms? Were the German Nazis really that incompetent? And what about the 150,000 assimilated Jews and mischlinge (“mixed”) Jews who served in the German armed forces? How come Hitler didn’t round them up, seize their assets, and put them in camps? (see: Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers, 2002.)

When dealing with Kabbalistic numerology, we are basically dealing with concepts of magic and power. Kabala is very much about the acquisition of power and control over matter through magic, and after all, the dictionary definition of a cabal is “a conspiratorial group,” so the understanding of Kabalistic processes is highly relevant to understanding the manipulations of modern power politics.

Because of this power-seeking numerological magic, the number of 6,000,000 cannot be changed or altered, even when the “official” death tolls at Auschwitz are reduced from 4,000,000 to 1,000,000 (The multi-volume, 1948 reports of the International Red Cross, however, put total Auschwitz deaths at the still sad and unfortunate number of 52,389). For the ritualistic repetition of this magical Holocaust “spell” to continue working upon the minds of the goyim though, the 6,000,000 number must never be altered, hence all the international, anti-real-Holocaust research legislation. The secular religion that has replaced Judaism for many “Jews” is the religion of the Holocaust, and what gives this religion its power is the magical unalterable number of 6,000,000. And for the word ‘holocaust’ (or ‘burnt offering’) to have any meaning in this religion, there is absolute necessity for the placement within this narration of the concept that these 6,000,000 were systematically sacrificed and burnt in ovens. Without this ‘sacred’ fatality number of 6,000,000 and the Nazi ovens working ‘round the clock for a mere 4.5 years, the entire Holocaust religion, in its two most important elements, falls like a house of cards and loses all of its power over the goyim. Who knows, Christians worldwide might even take time out one day to shed a single tear for the very real 7.5 million mainly Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who died from starvation due to Stalin’s policies of punishment in the 1930s. Many of these Ukrainians who survived the famines were also sent to detention camps (in Siberia). Maybe the Christian world will build a memorial to them in Washington, D.C. and also say, “NEVER AGAIN!”

This Holocaust religion has been correctly and succinctly explained by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he said, “They have fabricated a legend under the name of ‘Massacre of the Jews’, and they hold it higher than God Himself, religion itself, and the prophets themselves.” With Holocaust museums as “temples,” it is a religion of exaggeratedly romanticized and glorified imaginary heroic martyrdom wherein the suffering of perhaps a million Jews during WWII is looked upon as unique and transcendentally separate from, and beyond, the sufferings of all other humans throughout the entire course of recorded or unrecorded history.

The only FULLY protected (by law) religion on earth is that of the Holocaust Faith. One can urinate on Christ or construct a Virgin Mary painting out of elephant dung in a museum and charge admission, but jail and never-ending social exile will surely come to anyone who questions the mythic burning sacrifice of six million bodies to the Nazi Moloch deity. Deny the legislatively protected dogmas of the Holocaust Religion and suffer the Inquisition!

The people who push for the Orwellian Trojan horse of “anti-hate speech laws” only serve the manipulative cabal of what might be called “historical truth deniers.” And they will not have an honest debate against any real historians on these issues because they know that their house is built on the sands of emotional fiction, and mystic mumbo-jumbo, and they would be fully exposed within the hour of the debating contest. Their power is the power to endlessly parse, obfuscate, and cheaply manipulate emotions (Ooo, what about the poor victims, don’t you have any heart?, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah...), but when it comes to logic, hard facts, or any kind of real documentary evidence outside of confessions acquired through torture and extortion, their part in this historical debate basically disappears. Stripped of their emotionally based content, they are left with nothing but a three-legged chair to sit on, very much like the fake version of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

The Holocaust House of Cards will come down, and the spell of the magical Kabalistic six million number over the emotions of the goyim and their generous, naive wallets will most assuredly come to an end. The truth of 9/11 will also be understood, and then Americans will take back their Republic, driving the money-changers once again from the Temple. In the meantime, the innocent Jews of the world would do well to soberly apprise themselves of this momentous international awakening to the lies of modern history.

SOURCES CONSULTED

The Kabbalah Unveiled, containing the following Books of the Zohar – “The Book of Concealed Mystery,” The Greater Holy Assembly,” and “The Lesser Holy Assembly.” Translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers from the Latin version of Knorr Von Rosenroth, and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text. London: Penguin Group, 1991.

TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text). Philadelphia/Jerusalem: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985.

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I found this interesting...

http://www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com/videos/09_readers_digest.wmv

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"Jews Ask Public To Aid War Victims" -NY Times,

05/02/1920

Non-Sectarian Appeal For $7,500,000 Starts Today With Sermons In All Churches

Poland's Woe Appalling

Campaign to be pressed by 10,000 active workers in the five boroughs

A famished child upon the auction block, a mother in the foreground pleading for aid, death with outstretched arms lurking near and the legend "Shall Death Be the Highest Bidder?"

Such is the pictorial representation of the needs of stricken peoples in the war-devastated zones of Central and Eastern Europe which will confront New Yorkers everywhere today. Back of that representation stands an organization designed to take advatage of every channel to press home to the people of this city the need for contributing toward the $7,500,000 to be raised here this week by the Greater New York Appeal for Jewish War Sufferers.

This fund is but a tithe of that which must be subscribed in the entire country if disaster to whole peoples is to be averted. The world nature of the calamity, which has overtaken men, women and children, deprived not only of life's bare necessities but of all means of rehabilitating themselves without aid from the outside, has led leading Jews of New York and the nation to turn to the public, irrespective of creed, for help.

Heretofore the Jews themselves have contributed many many millions which have been expended by the Joint Distribution Committee through relief agencies of all countries and without regard to the religious beliefs of those in need. This time the burden is too gigantic to be borne by Jews alone.

Millions Racked by War

A pen picture of actual conditions, typical of those in several countries, has been sent to the Campaign Committee by Dr. Boris H. Bogen of this city, now in Warsaw as head of the First Relief Unit, sent abroad by the Joint Distribution Committee. Dr. Bogen writes:

"Hunger, cold rags, desolation, disease, death - Six million human beings without food, shelter, clothing or medical treatment in what now are but the wastes of once fair lands ravaged by long years of war or blighted by its consequences.

"That, in a few words is the actual situation in all those countries that constituted what was known during the conflict as the Eastern theatre of the war.

'Words cannot adequately convey nor can any picture be drawn which can bring home to comfortable, affluent, happy New Yorkers surrounded by their family and friends, riding in their automobiles, enjoying every luxury, the utter, abject, hopeless misery confronting the population of these lands, a population almost equal to that of New York City itself. If you would try to visualize, to realize the situation, place yourself at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street.

"The once teeming avenue is all but deserted. Gone are the gay equipages, their bejeweled occupants and liveried attendants. No longer are the sidewalks filled with a surging crowd of gayly dressed men and women. The street is all but still. Laughter and lively chatter are heard no more.

"Instead old men lean for support against the buildings. Mothers, with dying babes tugging vainly at their breasts sit along the curbs. The flower of what was once the young manhood and womanhood of the city is not in the picture, for they, by the thousands and tens of thousands, lie stricken in the overcroded hospitals, laid low by the breath of a pestilence.

Too Weak to Cry for Bread

"Little children with wasted frames and swollen bodies, cling to their mothers' rags, too weak to even cry for the bread that is not to be had.

"A bitter wind sweeps through the avenue from the north. A man - his tatters cannot be called clothes - his face blue and pinched, looks at you with unseeing eyes. You do not at first recognize him. It then dawns on you that you have seen that face before. It is the face of a friend, a man who but a few short months before was well-to-do, a banker, as prosperous, well fed and well dressed as you are now. He reaches out his arms toward you and falls at your feet. You stoop down to lift him up. He is dead!-Hunger did it.

"The scene is not exaggerated. Not overdrawn. It has its exact counter part in hundreds of cities, towns, and villages throughout Central and Eastern Europe at this very moment. The call comes from one human being to another, from those who have less than nothing to those who have much. It is the call of humanity.

"At no time during the war, in any land, not either in Belgium or Northern France, was their a situation more critical, a need more great, a demand for sacrifice and help more insistent than now comes from Eastern and Central Europe. Both the present and future existence of an entire people are at stake."

The campaign is receiving the active cooperation and support of archbishop Patrick J. Hayes of the Roman Catholic Diocese, Bishop Charles S. Burch of Episcopal diocese, Bishop Luther B. Wilson, President of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Miss Evangeline Booth, Commander of the Salvation Army.

Members of the executive committee include Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer of the Committee for the Relief in the Near East: President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University. George Gordon Battla, Otto T. Bannard, John C. Agar, the Rev. Dr. David J. Hurrell, Robert Grier Cooke, Paul G. Cravath, Francis D. Gallatin, Charles H. Sabin, President of the Guaranty Trust Company: former Attorney General George W. Wickersham, Judge Joseph F. Mulqueen, Judge William H. Wadhams and Alfred E. Marling.

The appeal is to be brought home forcibly to the people of New York in many ways. Today is Church Sunday, and there will be special sermons in churches of all denominations. The Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman has prepared a model sermon for Protestant churches. Vicar General Joseph F. Mooney has written a message to the Roman Catholic churches, and Dr. Nathan Stern, rabbi of the West End Synagogue, prepared an appeal to be read to the Jewish congregations.

Children in the public schools, through the cooperation of the Board of Education, are to hear the story of the sufferings of the children in other lands. In theaters, moving-picture houses, clubs, hotels and restaurants. In short, wherever people are gathered together, the conditions they are asked to alleviate will be made clear to them.

It is estimated that not fewer than 10,000 active workers have been enlisted in the cause in the five boroughs. The organization for the campaign has been divided into these parts: The organization of the trades and industries, so that not a single business or profession in the city has been overlooked: the women's division, embracing 3,000 women workers under the leadership of Mrs. I. Unterberg. Mrs. Samuel C. Lamport and Mrs. S.S. Prince, which has divided the city into districts: the women organized the schools and churches and will make a direct appeal to the homes and to the neighborhood store-keepers; the third organization is is that of the boroughs, each borough, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond, having a borough organization.

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"The Sad Plight Of Jews" -NY Times 11/12/1919

Felix M. Warburg says that they were the worst sufferers in war

Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Join Distribution Committee of American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, who returned several days ago from a trip to Europe for that organization, made public yesterday some of his findings.

"The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of European Jewry," he said, "and have reduced to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and disease about 6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish population of the earth.

"The Jewish people throughout Eastern Europe, by sheer accident of geography, have suffered more from the war than any other element of the population. The potential vitality and the capacity for self-help that remains to these people after the last five years is amazing to me."

"The people are deeply moved by the help given them by America, Mr. Warburg said, but it would be fatal to lessen the emergency aid now while millions are in tragic need. The $30,000,000 spent by the committee, he said, has fed and clothed more than a million children and has renewed the hope of five million parents and elders.

"For more than four years," he said, "The war on the Eastern front was fought largely in the congested centres of Jewish population. A straight north and south line from Riga, on the Baltic, to Salonika, on the Aegean Sea, will touch every important battle area of the Eastern war zone and every centre of Jewish population. After the cataclysm of the last few years it is too much to expect this Jewry to become self-sustaining in a short twelve-month."

Mr. Warburg is concerned over the program soon to be started for the discontinuance of of emergency relief. This plan, he said, calls for the formation of a $10,000,000 reconstruction corporation.

"This organization," he said, "would afford facilities for constructive aid to Jews abroad in the way of loans and credit at nominal interest rates. The value of this sort of assistance as a substitute for pure charity is apparent."

"Other relief projects recommended by Mr. Warburg include the establishment of an express company to forward money and packages from Jews in this country to relatives and friends abroad; the distribution of $120,000 worth of fuel in sections of Poland where destitution is greatest; the purchase of $300,000 worth of cloth in the bolt whereby unemployed workmen of Poland may get new material, and a plan to reunite those Jewish families that have relatives in the United States and those who have become separated abroad.

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"The Jewish War Sufferers" -NY Times 05/03/1920

The non-sectarian character of the drive on behalf of the Jewish war sufferers was emphasized in the appeal which marked its formal beginning yesterday. An accompanying letter was signed by Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army, Bishop Burch, Archbishop Hayes and many other representatives of Christian churches. A statement of the nature of the crisis was prepared by the Rev, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and sent to every Protestant minister in the city to serve as a basis for an announcement from the pulpit. A similar statement for the Catholic churches was sent out by Mgr. Joseph P. Mooney.

Hitherto the Jews have financed their own charities, and with a liberality and skill that have been universally recognized, The present need transcends the means of any single sect and centers in a catastrophe which threatens the entire world. In Russia and the neighboring countries the Jews have been subject to a particularly malignant persecution which has not ended with the war. Without any national organization of their own, they have no central organization to appeal to. Living in segregated and generally impoverished communities, their misery is cumulative to an extent unknown among other sufferers. It is estimated that more than five million are are actually starving or on the verge of starvation, and a virulent typhus epidemic is raging among them and is already spreading among the neighboring populations. Both in the intensity and the extent of present suffering and in the menace it holds out for all Europe, the situation is one which directly concerns the public spirited of all races and creeds.

The quota of New York City is $7,500,000. On the American Joint distribution Committee are Professer Harry Fisher of Chicago, Professor Israel Friedlander, Max Pine, and Maurice Kass. In their work of distributing food and medical aid through the ghettos of Central Europe they are obliged to proceed without the protection of the government of the United States, which has no diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. Ample precautions will be taken, however, to make sure that the supplies will be used for the purposes in hand. It is a work of mercy that makes a peculiar appeal to both the hearts and the interests of a common humanity.

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"A Work of Mercy" -NY Times 04/21/1921

Hitherto the Jews have financed their own philanthropies, and with a liberality and skill which has been universally recognized. In behalf of those of their religion who are still suffering in the war-ridden districts of Europe they are now for the first time seeking oustide aid.

With the fate of Belgium and Serbia it was easy to sympathize. A nation's territory was invaded and its citizens were making a united stand. The Jews have no fatherland, no means of uniting in the common defense. Yet from the outset, wherever the call came, they fought, and fought bravely, for the allied cause. Meantime, in the widely scattered lands the folk at home suffered as perhaps those of no other people, and their suffering has has in many localities long outlasted the war.

In Europe there are today more than 5,000,000 Jews who are starving or on the verge of starvation, and many are in the grip of a virulent typhus epidemic. An appeal has been issued throughout the world. The quota of New York City is $7,500,000. The drive will occupy the week of May 2-9, and will be based wholly upon the principle of sympathy and a common humanity.

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"Germans let Jews Die" -NY Times 08/10/1917

Women and Children in Warsaw Starving to Death

Through the intelligence Department of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense, the Provisional Zionist Committee last night made public a letter describing the conditions among Jews in Warsaw under German rule. The name of the writer of the letter is not divulged for obvious reasons. The veracity and authenticity of the letter is vouched for by the Zionist Committee, of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is Chairman, and Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis honorary chairman. The letter says, in part:

"Death from starvation is a real fact. It is witnessed here all over, in every street, at every step, in every house. Jewish mothers, mothers of mercy, feel happy to see their nursing babies die; at least they are through with their suffering.

"Our wealthiest people cut off their daughters' hair and sell it to be able to buy the indispensible things like bread for their dying children. Four and five-year old children have become so weak that they must be carried in the arms like babies. Fathers should they return from the battlefield will meet of their five and six children they kissed good-by when they left for the war two or probably one or more.

"How long yet will this suffering last? From where will our help come? A committee has been sent to Switzerland to maintain our soup kitchens, but I doubt the success of the mission. Help us, help us. Awaken, America. This is our only hope. Should America not aid us we will be lost."

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"1,500,000 RUSSIAN JEWS REPORTED STARVING" -NY Times

11/01/1915

British Coreligionists are Exhorted to Raise $5,000,000 to succor them.

London, Monday, Nov. 1. - At a meeting held here yesterday in behalf of the fund for the relief of Jewish victims of the war in Russia it was announced that 1,500,000 Russian Jews were starving.

Leopold de Rothschild presided, and Lord Swaythling, Chief Rabbi Hertz, Israel Zangwill, and other prominent Jews were present.

Rabbi Hertz described the task before those raising the fund as vast and urgent. The response to the appeal for funds from the British Jews, he said, was not nearly adequate, mainly owing to their ignorance of the real state of affairs. For nearly a year there had been a sinister silence in the general press, broken only occasionally by a sneer at the Jews on the part of the preachers of race hatred and apologists for reaction. The Jews, he added, were face to face with a tragedy unparalleled in the history of Jewish agony.

The Petrograd authoritiesm Rabbi Hertz concluded, expected a million pounds ($5,000,000) from the British Jews, and only $300,000 had been raised. He said the present call was for sacrifice and and self-taxation.

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Jews Indifference to War Aid Rebuked

Louis Marshall Denounces Apathy Toward Suffering of Co-Religionists

MILLIONS IN DIRE DISTRESS

Jacob H. Schiff, Meyer London, and Dr. Enelow Plead with the Rich to Give

Louis Marshall, speaking at a meeting in Temple Emmanu-El last night, deplore what he termed the failure of the Jews of America, particularly of New York, to realize the terrible calamity that has overtaken the millions of Jews whose homes are in the Eastern Theatre of the European war.

The meeting was held in the interest of the American Jewish Relief committee, of which committee Mr. Marshall is President. Besides Mr. Marshall, congressman-elect Meyer London, and the Rev. Dr. H. G. Enelow of Temple Emmanu- El spoke. Like Mr. Marshall, each deplored the fact that the Jews of America have not given the assistance they should to their suffering co-religionists. Further emphasis on the same subject was contained in a letter from Jacob H. Schiff, read by Mr. Marshall.

"It is discouraging," said Mr. Marshall, "to those who have devoted so much time and energy to this work that that there has been so small a response from Jews in New York, a city which is so great a Jewish centre. It seems to me that the people are so dazed by the European cataclysm that they are unable to realize that it is their duty to aid those who are suffering through the calamity.

In the world today there about 13,000,000 Jews, of whom more than 6,000,000 are in the very heart of the war zone; Jews whose lives are at stake and who today are subjected to every manner of suffering and sorrow, and the great American Jewish community is not doing its duty toward these sufferers. In the United States there are between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 Jews, nearly all able to do something and yet, after months of work, we have not raised more than $300,000. In New York there more than 1,000,000 Jews, some of them persons of great affluence, but many of them seem to think if they give a few hundred dollars they have done their duty.

We hear of pogroms in Russia, in Poland, in Galicia, and yet we sit indifferent. In Palestine starvation stalks through the land. Shall we selfishly enjoy ourselves and say we would like to, but cannot help because of hard times and think we are doing our duty? No. The time has come for every man woman and child to do his duty, and we must fulfill that duty quickly or it may be too late in hundreds of thousands of cases."

At this point Mr. Marshall read Mr. Schiff's letter. Mr. Schiff said his own interest in the work was intense, and that it should appeal to every Jew. Private reports he has received, Mr. Schiff said, showed conditions in Russia, Palestine Poland, and Galicia the frightful nature of which could not be pictured.

He said that the Emmanu-El congregation is the largest and wealthiest in the United States and hoped that its members would give in proportion to their means. He further suggested a committee to canvas the congregation for a Temple Emmanu-El fund, and said he would contribute. Mr. Marshall put the suggestion in the form of a motion which was unanimously carried. Mr. Marshall will name the committee soon.

Mr. London said this was the "worst period in Jewish history," and that the saving of millions of Jewish people depended on the generosity of more fortunate Jews of the United States.

Dr. Enelow emphasized what Mr. Marshall had said and, added that never before were the Jews of this country confronted with so great a duty.

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Preface to The First

Preface to The First Holocaust by Don Heddesheimer



By Germar Rudolf

   As we all know, roughly six million Jews were killed by National Socialist Germany during World War II, or so we are told. This genocide is today generally referred to as the Holocaust or the Shoah. But how do we know that six million Jews lost their lives? And for how long have we known it?

Whereas it seems that the first question can be answered by demographic research on the Jewish losses during World War Two, the second question has to be directed to historians.

With regard to the first question, while several scholars tried to make demographic investigations into the question of Jewish population losses during World War Two - sometimes with quite conflicting results - it was not until 1991 that a major monograph, published in Germany by a mainstream publishing house and authored by a group of renowned authors, addressed this important issue. To nobody's surprise, the result of this massive demographic study confirmed what everybody knew anyway:[1]

"The bottom line indicates a minimum of 5.29 and a maximum of just over 6 million [Jewish victims of the Holocaust]."

And even though the six million figure had been called a highly "symbolic figure,"[2] it has now reached almost sacrosanct proportions. It is clear that the massive social and legal persecution encountered by everyone in Germany who doubts, denies, or refutes the six million figure[3] has resulted in an invisible guideline for this study despite the editor of said tome, Wolfgang Benz, rushing to point out:[4]

"Of course the purpose of this project also was not to prove any pre-set figure ('six million')."

But considering that the Holy Holocaust is without any doubt the biggest taboo of our times, is this really a matter of course?

In a comparative analysis of Benz' study with a major revisionist analysis of Jewish population losses during World War Two,[5] I pointed out that Benz' work has so many logical, methodic, and systematic flaws that its result have to be rejected.[6]

But if it is true that we do not have a reliable demographic study that shows without a doubt that six million Jews lost their lives during World War Two, then why are we confronted with this six million figure? Where does this figure originate? And when was this figure first propounded?

The late Dr. Joachim Hoffmann was the first mainstream historian who marveled over this question. In his 1995 study Stalin's War of Extermination 1941-1945, he pointed out that the chief Soviet atrocity propagandist, Ilya Ehrenburg, had publicized the six-million-figure in the Soviet foreign press as early as January 4, 1945, i.e., fully four months before the war's end.[7] At that time, no demographic figures could have been available to him. Just a year later, British Historian David Irving emphasized that as early as June 1945, in other words immediately after the end of hostilities in Europe, some Zionist leaders claimed to be able to provide the precise number of Jewish victims - six million, of course - even though the chaos reigning in Europe at that time rendered any demographic studies impossible.[8]

Revisionist scholars, on the other hand, have long pondered about the origin of the six million figure, the most famous and thorough research stemming from Prof. Dr. Arthur Butz in his epochal work The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.[9] While analyzing a large amount of New York Times articles on the persecution of Jews in German dominated Europe during World War Two, Butz found several articles which clearly indicate that as early as late 1942/early 1943, Jewish lobbying groups within the United States were already anticipating a total loss of five to six million Jews at war's end. Some of these articles I would like to briefly quote here, taken from Butz' book:

NYT
, June 30, 1942, p. 7:

"1,000,000 Jews Slain By Nazis, Report Says"
[10]

NYT
, September 3, 1942, p. 5:

"A European observer said the Germans planned to exterminate the Jews not only in Europe, but throughout the world. He declared the Nazis had executed 2,000,000 Jews in the past three years."
[11]

NYT
, December 13, 1942, p. 21:

"
[...] 'Authenticated reports point to 2,000,000 Jews who have already been slain by all manner of satanic barbarism, and plans for the total extermination of all Jews upon whom the Nazis can lay their hands. The slaughter of a third of the Jewish population in Hitler's domain
[3?2,000,000=6,000,000] and the threatened slaughter of all is a holocaust without parallel.'"[12]

NYT
, December 20, 1942, p. 23:

"What is happening to the 5,000,000 Jews of German-held Europe, all of whom face extermination
[...].
Early in December 1942 the State Department in Washington gave some figures showing that the number of Jewish victims deported and perished since 1939 in Axis-controlled Europe now reached the appalling figure of 2,000,000 and that 5,000,000 were in danger of extermination."
[13]

NYT
, March 2, 1943, pp. 1, 4:

"Immediate action by the United Nations to save as many as possible of the five million Jews threatened with extermination
[...] was demanded at a mass demonstration [...] in Madison Square Garden last night.
[...Rabbi Hertz said] 'appalling is the fact that those who proclaim the Four Freedoms have so far done very little to secure even the freedom to live for 6,000,000 of their Jewish fellow men by readiness to rescue those who might still escape Nazi torture and butchery. [...]'"
[14]

NYT
, March 10, 1943, p. 12:

"Forty thousand persons listened and watched
[...] last night to two performances of 'We Will Never Die,' a dramatic mass memorial to the 2,000,000 Jews killed in Europe. [...] The narrator said 'There will be no Jews left in Europe for representation when peace comes. The four million left to kill are being killed, according to plan.'"
[15]

NYT
, April 20, 1943, p. 11:

"London, April 19 (Reuter) - Two million Jews have been wiped out since the Nazis began their march through Europe in 1939 and five million more are in immediate danger of execution. These figures were revealed in the sixth report on conditions in occupied territories issued by the Inter-Allied Information Committee."

Thus, Butz concludes in his book:
[16]

"Another point that should be made here
[...] is that the six million figure had its origin apparently in the propaganda of 1942-1943."

Butz also shows that the origins of these articles were Jewish-Zionist pressure groups like the World Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Congress. Initially, their claims were not taken seriously in Washington, until Henry Morgenthau of the Treasury department managed to reduce the influence of the State Department on official U.S. politics.[17]

But even Butz' farsighted approach was still a little short. Let me first go back in time six more years. On November 25, 1936, Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, testified in front of the Peel Commission, which was formed as a reaction of violent clashes between Jews and Arabs in Palestine and which finally decided to divide Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab State. In his speech, Weizmann said:[18]

"It is no exaggeration to say that six million Jews are sentenced to be imprisoned in this part of the world, where they are unwanted, and for whom the countries are divided into those, where they are unwanted, and those, where they are not admitted."

That Weizmann's reference to six million threatened and/or suffering Jews is neither an exception nor by any means the earliest reference to this figure, is now shown by Don Heddesheimer. He has collected a vast amount of material indicating that the propaganda unleashed by Zionist organization during World War Two was not unprecedented. As a matter of fact, it is a mere repetition - or should we say continuation? - of propaganda, which intensified during World War One (!) and reached its first culmination in the 1920s. Already by then, the figures of five or six million Jews threatened by death were widely publicized and were used as a means to an end: namely the uncritical support of Jewish and Zionist political goals.
[19] To go one step further, Heddesheimer even found a source from 1900 claiming that six million suffering Jews were a good argument for Zionism (see p. 40).

In this preface, I have quoted several New York Times articles of the years 1942 and 1943, because after having read this book, I would like the reader to come back to these pages and read those articles again. He will then be struck by the similarity of the theme. But he will also notice a difference:

During World War Two, Zionist pressure groups found a very convenient propaganda target in National Socialist Germany, whose extremely anti-Jewish politics invited all sorts of credible sounding accusations.

Before, during, and immediately after World War One, however, the situation was more complex. As Heddesheimer shows, the major target for polemic attacks in the years before World War One was czarist Russia due to its policies toward Jews, which many Zionists considered to be anti-Jewish. After czarist Russia's defeat was apparent in 1916/1917, Zionist propaganda switched its target over to Germany (see pp. 38f. of this book), whose ally, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), needed to be defeated to 'liberate' Palestine for Zionist plans (and of course in order to secure billions of dollars lent to the British and French). Such propaganda accusations against Germany, however, ceased at war's end, because Germany, in those years, was quite willing and capable of defending itself against such untrue propaganda.

After the end of World War One, when Zionist dreams about Palestine were temporarily disappointed, but new hopes had arisen with the Soviet experiment in Russia, no particular country was initially singled out, even though there was a perfect target: Poland.

Between World War One and World War Two, Poland was a military dictatorship, which implemented a policy of 'ethnic pressure,' i.e., all non-Polish minorities were subjected to discriminations and various degrees of persecution with the intention to 'convince' them to emigrate (quite similar to what Israel does today in Palestine against non-Jews). The Jews in Poland were not exempt from this treatment. As a matter of fact, Polish official as well as unofficial anti-Judaism was so massive that many Polish Jews preferred to live in Germany even during the Third Reich until late 1938 rather than to stay in their native country.

Hence, there was enough justification to massively attack Poland for its rabid anti-Jewish attitude as there were reasons to attack Germany after Adolf Hitler rose to power there and step by step implemented a policy increasingly comparable to that already in effect in Poland.

Although it can be shown that The New York Times accused Poland of anti-Jewish persecution in many articles - whereas this newspaper was basically silent about similar persecution suffered by Germans, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, Ukrainians, and Slovaks residing in Poland -Heddesheimer does not focus on this aspect, because his book is not about the suffering and persecution of Jews in eastern Europe, but about propaganda and fund raising in New York. I therefore want to draw the reader's attention to a few examples of articles in The New York Times addressing anti-Jewish persecution in Poland.

Already by 1919, a report about alleged anti-Jewish pogroms in Poland appeared in the New York Times, but with a very ironic connotation, since the veracity of these reports was doubted:[20]

"It has been pointed out that some of these reports may have originated with German propagandists or may have been exaggerated by them with the obvious purpose of discrediting Poland with the Allies, in the hope that Germany might be the gainer thereby. Germany might have assisted in spreading these stories, may have invented them, although it would be a cruel deception to wring the hearts of great multitudes of people in order to gain such an end
[...]"

False claims of Jewish suffering would be cruel, indeed, and it sure is nice to read it from the horse's mouth. It is troubling, however, when such claims are falsely attributed as in this case where the New York Times apparently could not suppress its prejudice to potentially see the 'evil German' behind everything.

In some articles during the 1920s addressing the sufferings of Polish Jewry, these hardships were interestingly depicted as a result of general economic hardship in Poland after World War One rather than as a result of any specific anti-Jewish policies.[21] Others, in particular during the 1930s when Polish policies became more repressive, reported about anti-Jewish persecutions, which triggered the public protest of Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, the chairman of the American Jewish Congress.[22] This was, however, also accompanied with some dramatic exaggerated claims about the suffering of the Jews:[23]

"The Jewish people all over the world face a war of extinction, Dr. Tenenbaum declared in an address
[...]."

This was roughly one year before Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany!

Even though Poland's anti-minority policies in general and anti-Jewish policies in particular, which started right at this country's establishment in 1918/19, made it a perfect target for criticism, this aspect of Polish history is today almost forgotten.

As we know today, the largest suffering of mankind between the two world wars was happening in the Soviet Union, so one would expect that the Zionist organizations would name the Red Terror as one main reason for the claimed sufferings of Jews. But this didn't happen until later. The reason for that can be deduced from one example, shedding bright light onto how the New York Times viewed the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union. In late 1922, this newspaper reported that there were some hostilities toward Jews in the Ukraine, but that this was stamped out violently with the help of a Jewish army of allegedly 500,000 soldiers - an army that could have been formed and operated only with the consent of the new Soviet authorities.[24] In other words: Considering the terror inflicted upon the civil population of the early Soviet Union in general and the Ukraine in particular by armed and unarmed units of the Soviet authorities, it must be assumed that this Jewish army was one important factor causing terror rather than defending against it. And the New York Times depicted this essential part of Red Terror as heroic, justified Jewish self-defense. This attitude can be understood if one keeps in mind that many Zionist Jews looked at the new Soviet Union as a Jewish dominated and controlled experiment of a Jewish led country free of anti-Judaism.

Another aspect of the story is to trace the money raised by those fund raising campaigns. In chapter five, Heddesheimer addresses this question. The literature quoted by him shows that Jewish organizations were indeed using some of the money to assist the Jewish populace in Poland. But on the ugly side, as Heddesheimer hints at in his fifth chapter, it also served as a fund raising drive to support various aspects of the Jewish dominated communist revolution in Russia, or in other words: to wittingly or unwittingly finance the Jewish-Soviet holocaust against Christians in Russia, the Ukraine, and all the other states within the Soviet Union.

In contrast to that, the second large-scale Zionist fund and support raising campaign during World War Two was pointed at the creation of Israel, and this propaganda has never ceased. First of all because Israel has a continuous need for massive support, whereas the Soviet Union did not get any more such support after it became basically de-Judaized under Stalin, and secondly because Germany collapsed totally after the war and has never been allowed to defend itself against those Zionist propaganda claims; quite to the contrary: it is punishable by law in Germany and many other European countries to challenge those claims.

In his last chapter, Heddesheimer briefly investigates whether or not the claims of extraordinary Jewish sufferings made by Zionist pressure groups during the late 1910s and the 1920s were based on facts. Did Jews in Central and eastern Europe suffer more than the average populace in those countries, which had collapsed after World War One? Was there indeed a holocaust looming or going on in the years between 1915 and 1927? Using contemporary Jewish population statistics, Heddesheimer briefly points out that the worldwide Jewish population was growing much faster during and shortly after World War One than the other religious and/or ethnic groups who lived in the same countries.

That should suffice to answer the above questions.

One might also easily conclude that if those first holocaust claims were true, it would dominate our history books as the First Holocaust. But since it cannot be found there, we can rightly assume that this propaganda was untrue.

To close my preface, I would like to briefly mention the means of alleged Jewish suffering in both holocaust propaganda claims. Whereas simple poverty is mainly claimed to have been the reason for the (invented) First Holocaust, mass murder by gas chambers and executions are supposed to have been the means during the Second, the 'real' Holocaust.

Even though gas chamber claims were not part of the propaganda pattern of the 1910s and 1920s, there is one known exception, which was published by the London Daily Telegraph on March 22, 1916, p. 7:


"ATROCITIES IN SERBIA

700,000 VICTIMS

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

ROME, Monday (6:45 p.m.).
The Governments of the Allies have secured evidence and documents, which will shortly be published, proving that Austria and Bulgaria have been guilty of horrible crimes in Serbia, where the massacres committed were worse than those perpetrated by Turkey in Armenia.

[...] Women, children, and old men were shut up in the churches by the Austrians and either stabbed with the bayonet or suffocated by means of asphyxiating gas. In one church in Belgrade 3,000 women, children, and old men were thus suffocated. [...]"

Of course, today no historian claims that the Austrians or any of their allies ever committed mass murder with poison gas in Serbia during World War One. This was nothing but black propaganda issued by the British government and eagerly disseminated by the British media.

But juxtapose this with an article that appeared in the same London Daily Telegraph on June 25, 1942, p. 5, that is, five days before the Jewish owned and controlled New York Times reported about the alleged mass murder of Jews in German controlled Europe for the first time:

"GERMANS MURDER 700,000 JEWS IN POLAND TRAVELLING GAS CHAMBERS"

DAILY TELEGRAPH REPORTER

More than 700,000 Polish Jews have been slaughtered by the Germans in the greatest massacre in world history. [...]"

This time, however, we all know that these claims were true, don't we? And it is also true that at the end of the 20th century nobody would seriously accuse any country in the world of having built gas chambers and stocked Zyklon B to murder all Jews, hence, that the Jews would once more face a holocaust, an extinction of millions. After all, that was something uniquely German and 'Nazi,' which does not happen again, right?

If you think that it is obviously that nobody would make such outrageous claims, I have to teach you another quite astounding lesson: Let me bring up only two examples from a war that took place almost 50 years after the second holocaust propaganda started, in 1991. It is about America's first war against Iraq to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. The New York based Jewish Press, then calling itself "The largest independent Anglo-Jewish weekly newspaper," wrote on its title page on February 21, 1991:

"IRAQIS HAVE GAS CHAMBERS FOR ALL JEWS"

Or take the front cover announcement of volume 12, number 1 (spring 1991), of Response, a periodical published by the Jewish Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and distributed in 381,065 copies:

"GERMANS PRODUCE ZYKLON B IN IRAQ

(Iraq's German-made gas chamber)"

If you do not believe it, turn to the Appendix, pp. 136f., for reproductions of the documents mentioned above.

I hope that you get the idea of this book: 1900, 1916, 1926, 1936, 1942, 1991...

In 1991, it was all invented, for sure, as were the later claims prior to America's second war against Iraq in 2003 that Iraq possessed or was about to possess weapons of mass destruction - Zyklon B not being mentioned here, though. But as Israel's renowned newspaper Ha'aretz proudly proclaimed:[25]

"The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to change the course of history."

Because, as we all know, the Jews in Israel deserve preventive protection from annihilation by weapons of mass destruction - Zyklon B or not, invented or not...

So maybe not quite all claims referring to events between 1941 and 1945 are completely true? Maybe there is a chance after all that things were twisted, distorted, exaggerated, invented? Maybe...

If the reader has by now opened his mind to that possibility, I can only invite him to read about the arguments of those who do indeed claim that many things about the 'Holocaust' were twisted, distorted, exaggerated, and invented. If Heddesheimer's book is an eye-opener to you, which I think it will be, then I can only invite you to read even more tantalizing revelations, about which you can learn in the back of this book.

I think that Don Heddesheimer's book is a very important contribution to our understanding of the origins of modern time Jewish Holocaust claims. These claims are neither primarily Anglo-Saxon nor Soviet-Communist. The victorious nations of World War Two surely seized upon the opportunity to take advantage of such propaganda and to increase its scope and impact. But the original propaganda claims are Jewish-Zionist in nature and part of a propaganda pattern that started at the very dawn of the 20th century. And they have increased in intensity ever since due to their political success and the lack of resistance.

This book ought to remind us also of the simple fact that the truth is always the first victim of every war. It is surprising that so many people reject this, when it comes to the most atrocious war ever fought, during and even more so after which the truth was raped and murdered more often than ever before or after in mankind history: World War Two. Isn't it therefore likely that we were and are being told many more lies about this particular war than about all those other wars, where we all know that our government lied: World War One, Korea, Vietnam, and the wars against Iraq?



Notes

[1]

W. Benz (ed.), Dimension des Völkermords, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1991, p. 17.

[2]

German mainstream historian Martin Broszat from the Munich Institut für Zeitgeschichte did so while testifying as an expert witness for the Frankfurt Jury Court, May 3, 1979, Ref. Js 12 828/78 919 Ls.

[3]

For this, see my study "Discovering Absurdistan," The Revisionist 1(2) (2003), pp. 203-219.

[4]

W. Benz, op. cit. (note 1), p. 20.

[5]

Walter N. Sanning, The Dissolution of the Eastern European Jewry, Newport Beach, CA: Institute for Historical Review, 1983.

[6]

"Holocaust Victims: A Statistical Analysis. W. Benz and W. N. Sanning - A Comparison," in Germar Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust, 2nd ed., Chicago: Theses & Dissertations Press, 2003, pp. 181-213.

[7]

Stalins Vernichtungskrieg 1941-1945, Munich: Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften, 1995, pp. 160f.; English: Stalin's War of Extermination 1941-1945, Capshaw, AL: Theses & Dissertations Press, 2001, pp. 189f.

[8]

David Irving, Nuremberg. The Last Battle, London: Focal Point, 1996, pp. 61f.

[9]

Brighton: Historical Review Press, 1976. All following quotes are from the 3rd edition, Chicago, IL: Theses & Dissertations Press, 2003.

[10]

Ibid., p. 98.

[11]

Ibid., p. 99.

[12]

Ibid., p. 100.

[13]

Ibid., p. 101f.

[14]

Ibid., p. 103. This is the same Rabbi Hertz who already as early as 1922 referred to "1,000,000 human beings [...] butchered" during pogroms in the Ukraine, New York Times, January 9, 1922, p. 19; see p. 54 and Appendix, p. 117.

[15]

Ibid., p. 104.

[16]

Ibid., p. 105.

[17]

See Butz' chapter "The First 'Extermination' Claims and Washington," starting on p. 81 of his book, ibid.

[18]

Retranslated from the introduction of Walter A. Berendsohn to Thomas Mann, Sieben Manifeste zur jüdischen Frage, Darmstadt: Jos. Melzer Verlag, 1966, p. 18. I am grateful to R.H. Countess for bringing this to my attention.

[19]

Don Heddesheimer has published an earlier, shorter article on this topic: "Holocaust Number One - Fundraising and Propaganda," The Barnes Review, 3(2) (1997), pp. 19-24.

[20]

"Pogroms in Poland," New York Times, May 23, 1919, p. 12.

[21]

E.g., "Jews of Poland Again Face Period of Want", New York Times Sunday Magazine, May 28, 1926, p. 8.

[22]

"Tenenbaum quits Polish Group Here. Charges Anti-Semitic Policy Abroad in Resigning as Head of Good-Will Committee," New York Times, Nov. 20, 1931, p. 26.

[23]

"Racial Bias Viewed as Threat top Peace," New York Times, Feb. 22, 1932, p. 20.

[24]

"South Russian Jews Raise Strong Army," New York Times, December 20, 1922. It is possible that this claim is an exaggeration itself, though it is quite likely that Jews joined the armed forces of the early Soviet Union more eagerly than non-Jews.

[25]

Ari Shavit, "White man's burden," Ha'aretz, April 7, 2003; www.haaretzdaily.com/ hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=280279; see also Stephen J. Sniegoski, "War on Iraq: Conceived in Israel," The Revisionist, 1(3) (2003), pp. 285-298

gulu's picture

Can they handle the truth ?

http://www.onethirdoftheholocaust.com/ is a very interesting site Gret.Preaching to the chior here but some historical propaganda is almost imposible to refute for most people.They have been spoon fed lies and half truths most if not all of their lives.Facts are completely omitted,things none of us will ever know about.I wasnt sure if I should post this but here she goes http://www.historiography-project.org/admissions/admissions.html Its an interesting site that raises more questions for me than answers.Thats the game for me.History is a running tape where everything is connected.Most people cant or wont handle the truth.Many could care less.

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> 7.5 million mainly

> 7.5 million mainly Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who died from starvation due to Stalin’s policies of punishment in the 1930s

That number was spun during the Cold War along with the "manmade famine" myth. The modern demographics, which even the most politically conservative Ukrainian scholars accept, list about 2.5 million Ukrainians dying in a famine which killed about 4.5 million nation wide in the USSR in 1932-3.

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http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713779166~db=all~order...

A new estimate of Ukrainian population losses during the crises of the 1930s and 1940s
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During the Cold War it used to be customary to charge either that the crop of 1932-3 was sufficient to feed most people and that the famine was deliberately created by Stalin or to claim that the famine was a consequence of the disruption of free enterprise. Both of these versions have been thoroughly discredited by the opening of the archives since 1991. Mark Tauger gives a lot of details on what the research in the archives has shown:

http://www.as.wvu.edu/history/Faculty/Tauger/soviet.htm

Of special significance are the items which can be downloaded at his page entitled "Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933" and "Statistical Falsification in the Soviet Union: A comparative Case Study of Projections, Biases, and Trust." The first gives a detailed account of the wave of natural disasters in this period, especially plant rust, which caused the massive crop failure and the second analyzes what the internal statistics show and how they differ from the published statistics.

What's ironic is that collectivization did improve Soviet agriculture, contrary to popular myth. People did have more to eat after collectivization than before. The problem in 1932-3 was not that collectivization itself was a bad idea but that plant rust can have the effect of allowing grain stalks to grow without carrying the expected number of grains in them. This set off a rumor that the crop had been fine and that somehow the deficit was the result of someone taking the crops away. West-Ukainian groups based in Poland spread the story that Stalin was taking the crops away to destroy Ukrainian nationalism (in fact the peasants in East-Ukraine which was then a part of the USSR didn't care much about Ukrainian nationalism, that was a movement based in the Polish-Ukraine). But Stalin in turn assumed that the mischief must have come from rich peasants, kulaks, hiding the food away in revolt against the government. The only measure which could have alleviated famine at that time was a massive importation of food from abroad, but no one appreciated that crop failure was the root cause of this.

Amartya Sen has repeated a lot of the same errors in an academic context. Peter Bowbrick's critique of Sen is significant for understanding many of the typical past errors which occurred in famines.

http://www.bowbrick.org.uk/famine.htm

Bowbrick focuses on the Bengal famine and shows how officials were in fact trying to follow exactly the policy which Sen claims they should have followed, but the results were negative. Bowbrick shows how Sen and the Bengal officials both played down the role of natural disaster in creating the famine and instead for a social cause, hence failed to address the root problem. Much of what Bowbrick says about Bengal and Sen could be transferred over to the errors made by Soviet officials in failing to appreciate the actual crop failure caused by plant disease.

But it should be noted that none of this comes close to the caricature picture still popular from Cold War times which alleged the root cause of the famine in 1932-3 was either a plan by Stalin to destroy Ukrainian nationalism or the result of abandoning the free market. Those myths have been debunked.

gretavo's picture

interesting, thanks

it wouldn't surprise me if this were true. we should always be on the lookout for inaccuracy and exaggeration whatever the source, but especially when the subject is one as politically charged and historically significant as the experience of soviet communism. it does not make Stalin or Hitler into angels to correctly represent their records.

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Perhaps it's entirely fabricated propaganda

But from what I've read of the Ukranian starvation of the early 30s;

1) the USSR was exporting plenty of 'collected' food to Europe while the Ukranians starved

2) In at least one particular case, the Ukranian farmers went to turn their harvest in to the collective by depositing it in grain silos and they found locked in the grain silos was the grain from the prior year's collection, while the townspeople had spent the year starving.

http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/gregorovich/

I was thinking perhaps the desire to paint as markedly extreme the 'holocaust' of WWII has almost entirely overshadowed such a famine and that's whyI didn't learn of it in U.S. public school? Someone I know suggested leftist educators and historians didn't want to stain communism with accusations about this tragedy. what do i know.

I've also heard that another better known famine (Irish potato) was more or less produced by the British. Yes the potato crop went to rot, but there was food in the UK; under British rule, Irish Catholics were prohibited from entering the professions or even purchasing land. During the famine's worst years, many Anglo-Irish estates continued to export grain and livestock to England.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm

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Misha: A Holocaust Survivor's Tail

http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/11-97/11-12-97/c01lo080.htm

Horror among humans, sanctuary with wolves

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A Holocaust survivor speaks out after 50 years

By Manuela Da Costa-Fernandes, Standard-Times staff writer 

 DARTMOUTH -- Whenever silver-haired Misha Defonseca, a 64-year-old Holocaust survivor, sees a dead squirrel in the road, she does not avert her gaze and drive on. She stops her car. 

 Respectfully, she moves the animal's body to the side of the road because animal corpses still remind her of the Holocaust. 

 They remind her of the children's corpses she saw -- the exposed entrails, the dislocated joints, the exposed skeletons, stomachs and protruding bones. 

 "It was abominable and indescribable. I will never forget this in me," she said, recalling the living nightmares that she endured. 

 "I will never be able to part with the bloody memory of what I lived through." 

 Captivated, a capacity audience listened quietly to Ms. Defonseca recall the horrors of the Holocaust, and, ultimately, her odyssey of survival, at UMass Dartmouth on Monday evening. 

 Ms. Defonseca was promoting her book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust," which will be published in April. She spoke for an hour and answered questions from the audience. The program was sponsored by the university's Boivin Center for French Culture. 

 Describing not only an extraordinary journey of miles, Ms. Defonseca also delivered an uplifting eulogy on the Holocaust. 

 Wearing Benjamin Franklin glasses, a red tunic and a brown corduroy trouser suit, Ms. Defonseca visually dazzled the audience, frequently switching between English and French, and sprinkling the occasional Portuguese and German phrase throughout. 

 Despite her sophisticated appearance of shining silver rings, pearly white nail polish and necklace of polished stone in an animal shape, she confessed she is not a "fancy lady." 

 "The real me still sleeps in the woods with my furry friends. I have buried my past life for 50 years," she said, speaking with a strong French accent. 

 As an 8-year-old child, she said, she walked for four years, across 3,000 miles, from Belgium through eight Nazi-occupied countries in search of her parents, and along the way was befriended by wolves. 

 In 1941, when Misha was 7, her parents, Belgian Jews, were arrested and she was hidden in a "safe home." But when she overheard her stepmother planning to turn her over to the Germans, she ran away. 

 Hiding in forests, she said, she survived by stealing from farm kitchens, pilfering crops in fields, and eating wild plants. In the course of her travels, she lived with a pack of wolves, she said. 

 She told of being captured by partisans, trapped in the infamous Warsaw ghetto, and being forced to knife a Nazi soldier to death in self-defense after she witnessed him rape and shoot a young girl. 

 Although she never found her parents, she survived the Holocaust because she shunned humans and played mute, and embraced her furry friends. 

 As she saw humanity crumble around her, she said, she found solace, a superior ability to find food, and a tender, enveloping warmth in the company of wolves. And it was the start of a great love. 

 Eventually, she said, she was accepted into the wolf community and the "mummy wolf" replaced her lost mother. If she straggled behind the pack, the mummy wolf would cautiously watch her. 

 "I was human only in appearance. I had become a wolf and a pup. ... With them, I forgot the horrors of the war," she said, her voice softly trailing as she spoke. 

 Rejected by mainstream society after the war because she '"stank like a dog" and was too wild, she worked in a convent. Eventually, attracted by the wide spaces Africa offered, she left Europe to become a teacher. 

 However, she was unable to easily escape how she was hardened by the suffering she witnessed during the Holocaust. 

 She lost her first child in childbirth. Her body had become so accustomed to excruciating pain, she said, that she delivered her child herself, only to lose the baby. 

 Ms. Defonseca emigrated to the United States in 1988 and lives with her husband of 28 years and a menagerie of animals: 12 cats, three dogs and 17 wolves nearby, in a suburb one hour from Boston. 

 She said she suppressed her memories for years, until a journalist encouraged her to write a book after she made a video on animals. When the publisher she found, Mt. Ivy Press, said she could dedicate the book to one of her dogs, that clinched her decision to write about her experiences. 

 Although she says she will never be able to part with the memory of what she lived through, she pins her hopes for humanity on the youth, especially the young people of this "wonderful and prestigious university. 

 "It's hope that makes you walk and hope that brought me to walk to you today," she said, tilting her head proudly and staring at the audience.


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Misha Defonseca says she was adopted by a pack of wolves when as an 8 year old child she evades the Nazis

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how dare you mock this brave woman?

How dare you, you Nazi piece of shit?  This book made me cry.  And you probably think she made it all up.
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uh oh Family Guy, I guess you haven't heard...

she did.

Wolf girl admits survival story a hoax | NEWS.com.au

Wolf girl admits survival story a hoax. March 02, 2008 12:00am ... Wael) admitted that her bestseller, Misha - A Memoir Of The Holocaust Years, was made up. ...
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23301873-2,00.html - Similar pages
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Gretavo, that's so...beyond the pale...

Like, what are you going to do next? First you insensitively claim that some of the 9/11 victims might be frauds, obviously showing that you care not about all those peoples' suffering! Then you discriminate against fake exposed 9/11 family member's family members! And then you expose fake memoirs from the holiest of holy holocausts! You're probably going to call into question the truthfulness of the Diary of Anne Frank, next, aren't you? Have you no heart? HOW DARE YOU...how dare you...

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5 star reviews of hoax holocaust memoir...

...or, a Parade of Fools or Liars?

5 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
One of the most moving books that I have ever read., July 4, 1998
By nh_mensch (Merrimack, NH USA) - See all my reviews

I couldn't put the book down once I started it. The account of this real life tragedy, as remembered by Misha after many years, brings vivid images to me. These images are probably very insignificant compared to what Misha as a child must have endured. I can only hope that Misha can write a follow-on of her experiences. Also I hope someone has the forsight to make a movie of this, with Misha authenticating the accounts as they happened. In these ways, her experiences can be communicated so that many understand the inhumanity that we're capable of, so that we can attempt to prevent this from happening in the present and the future.
I have had the opportunity to have met Misha and am convinced of her authenticity and convictions.

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amazing, April 3, 2000
By silvia (Israel) - See all my reviews

I read this book a short while ago and it is almost impossibleto put down.Being jewish ,I read many books about theholocost-biographys,historical,novels and such.The book is heartbreaking and inspirational indeed.I have a little problem with it though-The memories are of a child's but they are told in the language of a grown-up,maybe it's because she had a co-author. Many people say "how can you trust the memory of a child or even a grown-up,when it happend "so long ago"? Well if you think like that you can't trust anything in this world-no accounts of people,memories or anything because one can always claim all thoughts,accounts and memories are subjective.I always used to think(and i'm only 29 years old)that nobody will ever be able to deny the holocost.The Germans documented everyting,there are films,pictures,all kinds of documents,millions of people that took part in the greatest mass murder ever,the survivers themselves,and last but not least the soldiers of the allys that liberated Europe.Most of them weren't Jews,but they saw it all!SO WHAT! there are many holocost deniers even in the face of so much evidence! At some points while reading the book I thought "God,it's not logical that such a little girl would react in such ways,it can't be".But then I thought,"what was logical in those times and circumstances?"Desperate times call for desperate mesures and means.Who knows what each of us would have done in the same situations?Who knows what ideas we would have if we didn't have a choice and our lives depended on it?One more thing I want to say to those that can't believe a child can remember so vivedly.Take yourselves and your memories,and you'll see you have memories from a very early age,especially very good or very bad memories!Almost all of us remember!The terrible things Misha experienced and saw,make it very logical that she does remember.I'm sure I would never forget such things! I strongly recommend this book and many others about the holocost and world war two ,it will change your life,or at least it should! END Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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A true tale of the triumph of the human spirit, September 21, 1998
By A Customer

Having met Misha in person, and not having heard her entire story, I set about reading this book with the thought that it would tear my heart out. This was true, in some parts; in others, I laughed at her childlike approach to survival and groaned over her adult perspective on human beings.
This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever celebrated childhood or courage or survival; it should be recommended to readers who are interested in history or spiritualism or people.

It is at once saddening and uplifiting, humorous and desparate, dark and enlightening.

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Good addition to my library, July 24, 2006
By Sovereign Bank "bookey" (Boston MA) - See all my reviews

I was captured in the story. Did'nt want to put the book down. Misha wasn't necessarily "raised" by wolves, she encountered the wolves on her lonely journey, and what way to make friend than foe with the wolves- Being out in the woods on her own made her senses heighten, which helped her to adapt (the best she could as a child) to her surroundings and nature. Furthermore, brang her to a higher understanding level with the animals. She was lonely, and she felt peace from her many struggles when she was with the wolves. Misha had many encounters humans and animals. When you read this book hopefully you will underdstand why the wolves play a significant part to her life. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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THE DEEP DOWN STRENGTH OF SURVIVAL, May 10, 2002
By Joanna Riden Aamodt (WALKER, MINNESOTA) - See all my reviews

This is not just another view of WWII. It is a true and personal journey of an orphaned 7 year old through war ravaged Belgium and Eastern Europe. From her escape from a "safe home" to living with a pack of wolves, this is a story of what strength and ingenuity it takes to survive. She joins thousands of others who managed to escape the Nazi's. A remarkable story. Can't wait for the movie! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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The greatest book of all books . ( I cried reading it ), September 24, 1999
By A Customer

Hi I'm a reader from holland. I'm 15 years old. I just wanted to say this book should be red by everybody. And also I wanted to say to Misha that I find it really good of her to tell her story.
xxx- jes and lots of Love Justina

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A survival storie through the eyes of a child, August 24, 2001
By Valerie E. Sullivan "vsullivan@essexinvest.com" (Millis, MA USA) - See all my reviews

I am a personal friend of Misha and her family and the account of her story is true. Misha's personality as an adult truly reflects the effect of her life's trauma. Animals are magnetized by her. And i don't just mean domesticated animals. The wildlife is equally attracted to Misha and her love for them. My family and I have been mesmerized by the way she communicates with them. On one occasion, we joined her to a place in Ipswich where they have wolves in captivity. As the group of wolves was innocently going about their daily routine, Misha howled to them. They all howled back to her. Tears ran down my face and shills went down my spine at the same time. It was so incredible. Now we, as an audience tried to howl too. But the response just wasn't there. She clearly could communicate to them. I read her book, i know her life and she is a dear friend to the family. It's a touching story of true survival. The people that actually survived the period of the Holocaust, all have remarkable and incredible stories of survival to tell and sometimes it make you think that only a greater power must have been there to keep them alive. Misha just happened to be one of them.Now may be someone out there may know the fate of her parents and can put her life at rest. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
best book in my life, May 23, 2000
By irene pahor (Trieste, Italia) - See all my reviews

I think Misha's book is the best book i've never read. I hope to meet this special person to tell her how she made me cry while reading. I agree with people who told that it's a book that must be read from all the people, particularly from students who are now opening to the world I would be very happy to have some more informations about the author and also to speak with sombody who read this book to discuss Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Fantastic!, September 19, 1999
By A Customer

This book is fantastic! I really liked it. It was wonderful to see what this little girl did to live tro WW2. I just think that this book is great. You just have to read it. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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Amazing, I'm in awe of her ingenuity and 7 year old courage., June 8, 1999
By A Customer

There are people who have incredible rapport with animals, and Misha certainly is one of those people. Those who do not care about or understand animals will doubt her friendship with them. I feel a certain tie to Misha, as while she was walking and walking and surviving and surviving, my father was one of those who landed at Normandy, and who liberated Buchenwald. It's even possible that their paths crossed as he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre for actions while there at that time. I would certainly love to meet Misha, and find her story believable as well as spellbinding. She must be an incredible person. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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best book I have ever read, March 16, 1998
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Misha, was the best book I have ever read. You walk every step with her. Couldn't put the book down....wonderful, man injustice to man...a must read Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Misha, March 13, 1998
By A Customer

How do I rate this book...you don't go above 10...this is the best book I have ever read. I loved it. A must read of human injustice of man. This is wonderful book of courage, bring your tissues..I can't understand why Steven Speilberg haven't made a movie out of it yet. It would sink the Titanic... Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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Fantistic book on how much a human being can endure, November 4, 1997
By A Customer

I read continually and I think of all the books I have ever read about the holocaust this was one of the best from a human standpoint. I now know that I as well as all humans are able to withstand tremendous hardships if we have that one desire to live. Also being an animal lover I know how she felt, they were her soul mates, true friends. Her statement that the Nazis killed like humans" not animals was so profound and true. Animals would never kill in masses as the Nazis's did and in this world there will always be somewhere a "holocaust". People do that to each other not animals. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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A great book - very moving, and hard to put down, July 17, 1997
By A Customer

This book was very moving on many levels. The author witnessed and experienced so many horrors, and yet the book has quite a few uplifting moments as well. For someone as young as her to have had such wisdom, common sense, and sheer luck is amazing. The book is very well written, and really grabs you. I didn't want it to end. I wanted to know more about what happened in her life after the war ended Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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A Very Moving Book, July 28, 2000
By Jerald Figgins (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

Of all the books that I have read, this book is one that I will never forget. This very moving book will burn an unforgetable image in your brain. The image of her, a seven year old girl, surviving by eating what she entices an adult wolf to regurgitate, is wrenching.. There are many more things about this book that make it such an important book to read. I hope that someone will make it into a movie. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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another wolf lover: me, May 26, 2000
By A Customer

This is the most cool book I ever read in my entire life, a biography with animals, at last, first I saw the wolves in the cover (the french book with a black and a grey wolf), I asked my mother if could buy itand she accepted, I read it, searching for the wolves, getting interested on the storie in the war, my father speeks of the war and he knows so much about it, I was so suprised to see than the germans in the army were called nazis, thats why I'm more interested to the world war two, I finished the book and now I'm reading it again, I laugh when Misha describes the wolfcups playing and glamblimb, I love playing like this but with who? I didn't cry but I had pity, I always knew the human tyrany, I lived betrayal with my friends and somehow I knew the adults were like this too, but not all, my parents are not bad against me, NO! I'm twelve and I know what a "child" can do, I am one myself (like says my mother). I all ready heard the little red riding hood but I never liked it, I liked White Fang, and I like it now to, I always collected animals figurines but I didn't really liked dolls. Misha's the best person (maybe almost) who understands me, we both prefer animals and forest than humans and cities, this book is recomended for everyone! I have a wolfcup figurine and for a memorial name I named her: Louvie Mischke Misha Defonseca, I nickname her: Misha Mischke or Louvie. Animals do not do mortal war for rocks, but humans do, at least I know not all the humans are like the nazis, Misha's one of my heroes (the rest are fiction or...?), at last someone who can understand wolves without a pencil and a paper. If Misha learned Tae Kwon Do or else, man she'll be a great martial artist. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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incredible story of human survival, but it's more than that, June 9, 1999
By A Customer

I am aware that there are more harrowing holocaust stories out there but this book really moved me as a child's perception on the world changes as she experiences the bitterness of the real world; finding only happiness amoung the animals. As the only thing humans seem to do is destroy. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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A heart-warming account of a little girl's survival., May 25, 1998
By A Customer

The book is captivating,filled with horror,yet heart-warming. The horror Misha experienced during the Holocaust is strongly portrated, yet the love she experienced while living with wolves brings a feeling of warmth,love,and trust in a time when hate ruled.The book teaches a lot about every aspect of living.Well-worth reading! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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Will be read and reread in 1000 years., May 14, 1998
By sgaffin@natick-ccmail.army.mil (Natick, MA) - See all my reviews

It's winter and you're hiding from the World War II enemy who is paying bounty hunters to find you, deep in a Polish forest, ice cold, the snow is falling. You're wearing thin rags, starving, no food and your only tool is a kitchen knife. You have been travelling alone, hiding for a year and walked in ill-fitting shoes for over 1,000 miles. How to go on? And you're an 8-year old little girl! That was the condition of Misha Defonseca who recounts her childhood of hiding alone in the forest, and who went 2 years without speaking to a single human. All because she was Jewish. Her parents were rounded-up by the Nazis, probably taken to a concentration camp, but not before they provided for a Belgian family to raise her, should they be taken. That family turned out to be far from ideal and she ran off in a naïve quest to find her mother and father, who, she believed, were taken eastward by the Germans. By the end of the war, she had walked from Belgium, across France, Germany, Poland, parts of Russia, Ukraine, Balkans, Italy, France and back to Belgium. During her journey, she smuggled herself into, and then out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Having surreptitiously observed the atrocities carried out by the Germans, Misha learned to survive by hiding, by scavenging harvests, stealing from unsecured farm houses and eating what she found in the forest, (including worms). Desperately alone, she encountered a lone wolf in a forest, which was as hungry and lonely as she, and, incredibly, instead of eating her, the wolf adopted her. And they loved each other. She is no longer a little girl living in the same forest as wolves; she is the adopted pup of a male and female wolf, now forming a pack. She eventually becomes a member of a different pack, where the wolves trusted her enough to grant her the unbelievable compliment of having her guard the pups while they were out hunting. Many frigid winter nights were spent in a cave cuddling and playing with the wolf pups. She never went hungry while! living with wolves. Her formative years were spent relating to wolves and she feels, even after all these years, more wolf than human. Several messages come through. One should better describe degrees of evil using humankind as a criterion, but to compare loving families, wolves should be the criterion. We all have within us the ability to survive and prevail, and should never to give up. Her adventures and survival methods are significant to every soldier, and maybe to everyone. Misha's childhood story is incredible and the book hard to put aside once you start. Naturally, the war years marked her. Today, she's in her 60's, her son studies for his Ph.D., and she lives peacefully with her computer-engineer husband in a Boston suburb, along with loving her 15 cats, 3 dogs, wandering deer, family of raccoons and wild skunks. Misha has blessed us through retelling her life story and reliving her pain during the years of the Holocaust. She may be no less than a historic figure. "Misha and the Wolves"-- the story a good-little-girl searching for her parents, wandering the forests of Europe and saved by wolves-- will be retold in a thousand years, and they will wonder, "Did it really happen, could she really exist?" the way we wonder did Johnny Appleseed really exist and plant all those apple trees? Read "Misha" now, while she is still ours, before she is "discovered" by the world. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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An Amazing Gift, July 17, 2006
By Ainsley - See all my reviews

This author is a captivating writer. Having met Misha once, not one person can deny the truth behind this story. She is an amazing person and this book can only show a glimpse of what she has been put through. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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An Inspiring Story of Survival and Courage, January 18, 2002
By ERIC REITMAN (Norristown, PA United States) - See all my reviews

I have read this book several times, and each time I was inspired by Misha's determination and resourcefulness. I am Jewish myself and was hidden in an orphange in Molenbeek, not far from Anderlecht were Misha stayed.
The ability of a young girl to take care of herself in the wild and to relate to wild animals is remarkable. What is also noteworthy is the fact that she was able to function alone. That this is not easy. I know this from experience since I had to learn how to be alone because I was often ostracised due to religious prejudice as a child.
Hopefully more people who read about Misha will see the futility of hating ones fellow human beings and animals and be inspired to respect all life.

This book is definitely a treasure worth reading. If it were to be made into a movie, it would surely be inspiring!

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Waiting for next book, July 18, 2000
By Barbara Luetters (Green Valley, Az USA) - See all my reviews

I read this book when it first came out and I had heard her speak in Ma. My understanding was that she was writing a sequel to this and i am very interested to read it if she does. It's a very moving story and one can't help wondering how this brought her into adulthood. Her life didn't stop here. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
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She's probably a little too old

to have, like me, read this book a zillion times in her formative years:

Alarm bells should go off for anyone reading about "repressed memories" that have been "retrieved." It's entirely possible that she experienced major trauma as a young child, quite possibly as a direct result of the war (duh) but the "memory retrieval" business is now understood to be highly unreliable.

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> the USSR was exporting

> the USSR was exporting plenty of 'collected' food to Europe while the Ukranians starved

The USSR exported some food because the government had underestimated the extent of crop failure, but the food exports themselves were severely cut back upon as it was realized that the crop was not what had been forecast. The grain exports in themselves were nowhere near large enough to account for the famine as it actually did occur. That was a consequence of the fact that real crop failure was not well enough appreciated in time.

There was a whole body of literature produced during the Cold War which aimed at hyping the story of food being shipped away as the cause of famine. Mark Tauger has an interesting piece on his site which documents the administration of food aid in the Ukraine during 1928-9. It also appears in Donald Raleigh, (ed.), PROVINCIAL LANDSCAPES, under the title "Grain Crisis or Famine?" One should be rather wary of stories produced in the Cold War environment.

As already noted, the root cause of the stories taking off the way they did was the fact that the rustic plant diseases which Tauger discusses could reduce the crop while still allowing the grain stalk to grow. This fed the story of a big crop from which the grains were apparently missing. No one figured it out in time.

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"One should be rather wary of stories produced in the Cold War"

And, I hope you agree Patrick, of stories produced in the post-WW2 effort to villify the conquered and exalt the conquerors.

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No doubt. Cold or hot, wars

No doubt. Cold or hot, wars almost always produce a trail of legends in their wake.

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This is excellent research, Lazlo

Thanks so much for this piece of the puzzle on the origin of the six million number. I've been wanting to look into this aspect more, and this answers a lot of my questions. These are difficult subject matters to dig up and question, for so many obvious reasons, so thanks for your willingness to take this on, and do it in such a scholarly and humanistic way. But it's important that we do this work, I think, for the sake of moving our whole sick, diseased civilization in the direction of healing and reconciliation with all the past as well as current tragedies and atrocities that are justified/built upon such historical "magic spells" and con games. The more we can continue this kind of education and dialogue, like we do on this incredibly unique and intelligent blog site, the closer we get to really being able to once and for all free society from the clutches of the psychopathic con men.

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the Holocaust religion/berated by Jewish friends.

How timely for me to read this piece, my dear Lazlo. 

just last evening i attended a party. it did not end well. most of my fave Jewish friends were there. everything was going along quite splendidly until i sat down next to E and M to chat. M is an Israeli, born and bred, now living in the US with her American Jewish husband, E.  They are getting ready to leave for a month's stay in Israel. when i asked where her kibbutz was located, she stated near Gaza, in the south.  i inquired how her family there reacted to the big Gaza breakout into Egypt. she made a quip about the Egyptians sending them back and laying blame on them. I then mentioned about my high school buddy who emigrated to Israel and is now this big deal midwife. although she was quite anti-Palestinian for many years, she now has taken a softer stance and is working with and teaching them.  I'm quite proud of her, i stated. the husband E suddenly moved his chair closer and started telling me what he thinks of the Palestinians: " You don't know what it's like. M's family and people have to worry about missiles, someone they know was killed, you don't know! he irately chastised me. they are scum, they are pigs, i tell you, they are pigs!!!" at that moment, i was saved from retort by my ole man stating we had a call from our daughter. we left hurriedly. i broke down in tears outside.  this has happened a couple of times with E when the subject of Palestine-Israel comes up.  although we've touched on 9/11 and my research regarding demolition, remote control, security companies, i have not had the heart  to really lay it on the line.  there never seems to be the right time.

but the  perceived hurt, victim vindication, and persecution paranoia MO is really wearing thin. i wanted to scream "don't you know your have been victims of a protection racket? your fears of persecution may actually come true when the world finally swallows the truth!"

i pray i find the right words the next time we speak....

btw, your Kabalistic Gematria numerology expo on the 6 million is amazing, Lazlo. wow.

and...i found the video on the 9/11 cellphone call very interesting, perhaps not a the best quality vid, as Cass said, but i have always had a hunch they were forced to make calls on the ground and then off'd.

 

 

 

 

 

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A Very Belated Thanks and Hello to Keenan & Kate & Gretavo,

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this extremely abbreviated research journey into the kabalistic occult significances of the famous “six million” number and its biblical derivations. And an editorial thanks must also go out to our true patriot brother at Harvard for his popping up all the pre-1940 info about previous, “non-official” holocausts which also repetitively employed the magically “prophetic” and kabalistic occult number of “six million.” It is fascinating that methods of sorcery from olden times are nearly the same as those employed by the modern media, which also EMPLOYS (as in a spell) magically repeated sequences of “occult” numbers and short, crafted info-spells and psychologically tested phrases (cf. “conspiracy theorists,” “anti-Semites”).

I philosophically support you Keenan when you say that,

“...it's important that we do this work, I think, for the sake of moving our whole sick, diseased civilization in the direction of healing and reconciliation with all the past as well as current tragedies and atrocities that are justified/built upon such historical ‘magic spells’ and con games.”

“The more we can continue this kind of education and dialogue, like we do on this incredibly unique and intelligent blog site (a shout out to the G-ster Hahvahd-ala-rama-man), the closer we get to really being able to once and for all free society from the clutches of the psychopathic con men.”

Amen, Brother Keenan al-Santacruzarian!

And Yo Kate from the green woods kiosk of NJ, and your good-hearted musical band and good-souled husband (I salute you my musical brother), yes it is a very sad situation that we all find ourselves in, especially the Palestinians who are living in real, 3-D, open-air concentration camps, blockaded from the outside world (ongoing for 60+ years). I know about the severe communication hardship of certain friendships (so sad). You must understand that the purpose of the Zionist-dominated media (and if casual visitors to this blog want to dispute my aforementioned description, I will put up the International Media Org Charts right now! Don’t make me do it! It’s very tedious! Google it for yourselves) is not only to brainwash the so-called “Gentiles,” but to brainwash the Jewish community as well (and especially). Your Jewish friends (and mine) are most likely (99.99%) not conscious participants in some diabolical “Holohoax conspiracy” lie when they tell you about their belief in the “Holocaust of the Six Million,” OK. They have been completely indoctrinated since birth (as you have) that this story is ABSOLUTELY capital “T” true, and that all Gentiles (and they consider the Semitic Arabs to be “Gentiles,” I kid you not) are possessed of a biologically uncontrollable and unpredictable “Jew-Hatred” gene. The mythological and deviously crafted, irrational memes that we must cut through to persuade the common folk of the trouble and danger that they must awake themselves to seems like a thick jungle, and it surely, actually is, but we must continue to hack away at the incessant bullshit nonetheless, for the people who succumb to the work of this evil, it seems, take no rest from their ways of deception and corruption (cf. the Mexican slave labour and methamphetamine labs of the Rubaskins in Postville, Iowa) 24/7/365!!!

The “innocent” (as related to God’s total problem of completely “whacking” Sodom and Gomorrah), manipulated, brainwashed, human-shield Jewish masses are in a very, very tough spot (with the fake 9/11 thing and the AIPAC-Israeli-inspired fake War on Muslims thing), and most have absolutely no idea about what is really going down. They really need, however, as a means of real Jewish tribal survival, to remove their heads from inside their asses—and many of them are sincerely trying to do exactly just that—and begin the process of completely separating themselves 100% from the atheistic, Nazi-Zionist, Psycho-Dickhead Elitist Corporate Terrorists who in actuality, in fact, even unconsciously, seek the absolute true, full destruction of the real “Jewish People.”

I mentioned that my reply to you is BELATED, and that is because I am now (finally) in the process of boiling down the absolute essence of about 1,000 pages of research notes (I am completely kidding you not) for the Part Three section of “Wired for Terror.” As I previously mentioned, I have been spending too much time in 1930s-1940s Palestine with the “Hebrew Underground” and their whole scene there in Mr. Peabody’s “Way-back Machine.” I have gone down into the cave, into the underground, and brought back to the surface some incredible and historically frightening and weirdly enlightening things. I think I could now qualify for free “post-research” PTSD treatment at the local 9-11 Veterans Admin Hospital. No, I keed you Man! I’m feeling great. The Lava lamp and Electric Ladyland Lps are burning brightly.

So many times in the last few months I have been in the midst of this research, and I have been reading something, and have thought to myself, “Oh man, wait till the D. Alexander Floum, Esq.-Allen Gilles-Jon Gold-911Blogger, info-censored castaway folks on Gretavo’s Island see these things I am reading; they will completely FKN flip out!” I should just start posting preview pieces of some of this stuff. I must honestly say that Part Three of “Wired for Terror” is going to be a bit long, but imho, the Content in this section of my Blog-Book (or serial blog-article) is the most important part of the whole damn shebangarooni, because if you do not fully understand the historical pieces in this part of the puzzle, the modern flow of events (incl. 9/11 and the War on Terriers) will be far less clear. If the ZPC is able to completely shut down free speech and information sharing on the internet tubes in 2009 because of “unexpected events” such as WWIII (or “WWIV” as Norman Pod-Whor-etz and the other Neo-con-artists from the “Synagogue of Satan” would couch it), I may not be able to post the rest of “Wired for Terror,” but I will try my damn hard bestest to get Part Three posted, and that section alone (through the dark censor days of the Izro-Nazi-NWO internet tubes shut down period) will let you know fully what is up with what the hell is going on – all, as in ALL, of the now very familiar operational, ideological, and propagandistic methods and patterns are on full display in this brief twenty year period of 20th century history in Palestine (1929-1949).

Of course, the anthemic mantra of our time must certainly be:

“All of THIS is so very, very sad, and none of this is necessary at all, nor should it all have to be like this, and none of this should have to happen, but for the Satanic, demonic delight of a severely mentally ill, bored and psychopathic, elite minority of fabulously wealthy, souless dying old men. The ‘Babylon System’ is indeed a Vampire, as uncle Bobby M. once sang.

Ask Bill Gates for non-Monsanto, natural seeds to plant the New World after the fallout from the IsroNazi-Amero-UK-Nutfuck “War on Persia, Syria, and (yes, one more time) Lebanon.” And this time “we’re” finally gonna take out that goddamned Roman temple at Ba’al-bek, once and fer all. The U.S. Military has already ~ 70% destroyed the 4,000 year-old archaeological site of the ACTUAL Mesopotamian city of Babylon in southern Iraq, so why not go for broke. The archaeological sites and architectural super treasures of ancient Iran are just waiting for the ignant boot heel-cluster bombs of Israel’s U.S. vassal troops to be upon them.

Our hope (as in people around me throughout the northern section of the North American continent) is that good, caring Human Beings, good Americans, good Patriots of a good moral Nation (like Gretavo and his dad) will realize the breathlessly deep and dangerous treachery (and it ain’t al-Quesadilla) that they/we are enveloped in, and that those possessing some power within the System will suck it totally up and decide to actually fearlessly defend and uphold their vow of honour to defend their country, their fellow citizens, and its just and noble Constitution against ALL FKN ENEMIES, foreign and especially domestic (cf. AIPAC, AEI, JINSA, JDL, ADL, Hudson Institute, Nancy Pelosi, etc.). We are in Unprecedented dangerous times, no doubt, and yes, I do intuit that there is a perceivable split in the American elite power structure between those who want to walk down the Zionist “inspired” path of World-suicide in order to receive further campaign contributions and favourable, future media coverage, and those decently humane and honourable true public servants of a great nation who wish, for posterity, to preserve the national honour and the Constitutional republic of the United States of America. The Few, the Honourable, the Noble, the totally fuckin’ UNCOMPROMISED, Mark Twainesque patriot of a great nation must STAND AGAINST the REPETITIVE FALSEHOODS of the wealthy, the powerful, the old and dying, mentally ill and doomed psycho Super Fucks and their bullshit pagan sorcery and world domination Krap. They dare us to produce a Batman who will challenge them and fuck with them, as in a Contest. They are carelessly over-confidant, and thus they will most assuredly vanish from the Book of Life and the Face of the Earth. To all those active and retired true American heroes within the SYSTEM who truly understand what is going on and are prepared to stand for their country and its noble Constitution, I salute you and stand with you. The entire world will celebrate your BLESSED victory. Pour some pure water on that horrible witch!

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temple of Bacchus and Ba'al-bek

if they even touch a fkn stone...grrrrrrrrrrr

i saw Rudolph Nuryev and Margot Fontaine perform there once long ago on a starry Near Eastern summer's eve....twas only 12, very impressionable. as i was telling Mostafa last evening at the end of that moving commemorative Nagasaki event...and he said"you have definitely been moved, Kate,  by your middle eastern experience!"

George Bush was just interviewed on the Olympics....casual, suave, arrogant, the lean and uh-huhs gallore.  The Chinese need to allow human rights, religion, to bring about peace. i fkn then hurriedly printed out the second half of your excellent post, Laz, proceeded to interrupt the reverie and read it to my almost taken in but not quite taken in loved ones, wanting to believe, that he is a good man, wanting to be proud of our President, of America ...with as much Toth-style power, passion -swear words and all -as i could mimmick and muster.

You are such a powerful essence-of-total (mind, gut, spirit,soul) writer, Lazlo Toth! much appreciated, again. blessing to you and yours, k

 

 

 

 

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Elie Wiesel: Con-Artist and Irgun Terrorist

Now that I got your attention with that catchy and soon to be explained title – In case anyone was quasi-shocked that I took a poke at Eliezar and DJ Simon W., the untouchable High Priests of the Synagogue of the Holoco$t, here are some of the quotes that were informing the background thinking of what I wrote in the last sentence of my first paragraph re: Mssrs. Wiesel und Wiesenthal.

Wiesel Words by Christopher Hitchens

“Is there a more contemptible poseur and windbag than Elie Wiesel? I suppose there may be. But not, surely, a poseur and windbag who receives (and takes as his due) such grotesque deference on moral questions....”

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010219/hitchens

Hitchens (now an anti-Semitic, Muslim-hating Bush-Israel supporter, go figure) also mentions in this article in The Nation that during the 1940s Elie Wiesel was a member of the Zionist terror group Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL), a group I have been living with (research-wise) for too long now. I guess after Wiesel somehow “miraculously” survived Hitler’s obviously inefficient “Extermination Camps,” he decided to go to Palestine and help the Irgun assassinate British policemen and UN observers, and blow up oil refineries, trains, bridges, cafes, and hotels. So now it appears, if Hitchens’ research is correct, that not only is Mr. Wiesel a CON-ARTIST (cf. his Jews burning in concentration camp lakes of fire narration), but a TERRORIST conspirator as well.

In his well known book Legends of Our Time (New York: Schocken Books, 1982, p. 142.), Wiesel shows his true consciousness by writing:
“Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate-healthy, virile hate for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.”

Here’s a guy who has a university teaching position, and who speaks in terms of “ALL Germans (‘the German’) are x, y, and z,” but his job is not threatened, nor his prestige. In fact, he gets a Nobel Prize for a book of fiction masquerading as real “history.” If a member of the “lesser species” of Homo sapiens (i.e. the “non-Jew”) with a PhD writes in a publication that “The Jew is x, y, and z,” that “non-Jew” professor will lose their job and prestige in, oh about ten minutes, and then be exiled to a cell in a jail on the island of Elba. The existence of such double-standards is not a so-called “conspiracy theory.” These double-standards are a direct result of the constant repetition (i.e. marketing) of the magical 6,000,000 number with its accompanying, made for Hollywood, endless narration of abject, historically unprecedented suffering and psychological victimization, what to speak of neeto stories about growing up with wolves and stuff.

In this same book, Legends of Our Time, Mr. Wiesel explains his, let us say, rather elastic notions of history and reality, and I quote:

“What are you writing?” the Rebbe asked. “Stories,” I said. He wanted to know what kind of stories: “True stories, about people you knew?” “Yes, about things that happened or could have happened.” “But they did not?” “No, not all of them did. In fact, some were invented from almost the beginning to almost the end.” The Rebbe leaned forward as if to measure me up and said with more sorrow than anger: “That means you are writing lies!” I did not answer immediately. The scolded child within me had nothing to say in his defence. Yet, I had to justify myself: “Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some events do take place but are not true; others are - although they never occurred.”

The above quoted hallucinatory schizoid concept of truth and history in the head of Elie Wiesel is exactly what I was referring to in the first paragraph of this blog about how the 6,000,000 Holocaust number was derived by the processes of Kabalistic gematria:

“If you understand the real processes concerning how the number of Jewish victims (or ‘sacrifices’) was arrived at, you will very easily be able to separate ‘History’ from ‘Myth’, and there is a very significant difference between the two, no matter what traveling carnies and professional snake-oil salesmen like Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal may tell you.”

It is interesting how the government party administrator from Mini-Tru over at “Truth-Bowel-Move.Org” quoted this first paragraph to somehow bring shame upon this website and blog, yet cleverly neglected to quote anything else from the rest of the article. “How dare Dr. Toth call the High Priest of the Holocaust Faith a professional snake-oil salesman!” OK, perhaps I was just maddeningly tired from all the constant, non-stop 24/7/365 lying and treasonous BS, or was perhaps feeling rejected for being completely left off the ADL’s “7,000 Self-Hating Jews List.” Maybe I should write to them and ask why, oh that’s right, I’m considered a mischlinge. They probably have a disqualifying clause on that kind of status. Never mind then. Maybe next year.

And, Hey Gretavo, thanks for putting up all those references to the pre-Official 6,000,000 Holocaust Holocausts. I actually have four other articles to add (an article in The American Hebrew, October 31, 1919, and three from the New York Times published in 1920.

So every time now, when you see the members of the Holocaust Faith pull out that magical 6,000,000 sympathy and/or extortion card, you can always remember that it’s just the product of Kabalistic numerology and sorcery. But in the spirit of Leviticus 25:10, I do hope that everyone shall return to their home and find their family, BUT WITHOUT ALL THE KILLING AND TORTURING AND BOMBING! The truth always comes out in the end, and besides, the Jewish people should be absolutely frickin’ thrilled that not so many tribal members died as was once believed. That should be great news! The truth shall set us free.