Out of respect for the Memory of the 6,000,000 Murdered Jews of The Holocaust, I will not debate the Factual Integrity of The Holocaust. The Truth of this Fact of The Holocaust is well and extensively written. It is etched into History! It is seared into the consciousness of all Humanity. It is not Forgotten! It is not for me to even begin to Forgive the terrible crimes committed! That right belongs squarely to those 6,000,000 Jews whose answer has been quashed, eradicated, obliterated from time! For that reason I have no wish to even acknowledge the depths plunged by those whose denial shames not just these 6,000,000 Jews of Europe, but all of us as Human Beings, Historians and as Truthful witnesses to a Genocidal Catastrophe. For these 6,000,000 of The Jewish People, it has come too late to save the integrity of their Lives, but we will not rest while the veracity of their having come this way is being undermined.
“..yes there were gas chambers. ..Auschwitz was not an extermination camp in ..manner of Treblinka ..Sobibor ..Belzec ..Chelmno .. part of a genocidal programme against Polish Jews ..The Holocaust ended in 1943 ..when ..Nazis realised they needed Jewish slave labour for factories ..and that there was no overarching ..genocidal plan ..but an evolving ..morphing policy which claimed perhaps 4,000,000 ..rather than 6,000,000 ..Jewish lives.” David Cole.
It occurs to me that the denial by those, whose underlying antisemitism seeks to cloak their rancid hatred in historical terms, can only add to an erosion of History. This fraudulent attempt though will not wash with History. Their revised version of a corrupted accounting is misplaced. That they seek to administer to a failed despot a reviewed version of his trawl through History is to distort a hatred before the gratification of those who aim to satisfy their own peculiar hatreds and with a tyrant’s hatred for The Jewish People. This all presents a blurred perspective of our own History which is untrue. This is also a remarkable failure to honour any of those Allies against Hitler who fell while fighting him. But for a little peace from the rabble, I relent here, and only for a moment. I am concerned that the contagion spread by such denial might just influence a generation whose trust they would foul! The mere presence of pseudo commentators on History, is distressing enough without their putrid version of events tainting further the historical relevance of our own Historical integrity.
“..pure myth ..Jews ..merely ‘passive’. ..Jews fought back ..to a degree no other community anywhere ..would have been capable of. ..they fought against hunger ..starvation ..disease ..a deadly Nazi economic blockade. They fought against murderers and ..traitors within their own ranks ..and ..were utterly alone in their fight. ..forsaken by God and ..man ..surrounded by hatred or indifference. ..there was much heroism ..little beauty ..much toil ..suffering ..no glamour. We fought back on every front ..biological ..economic ..propaganda ..cultural ..with every weapon ..possessed. In ..end ..ruse ..deception ..cunning beyond anything ..world had ever ..seen ..accomplished what hunger ..disease ..terror ..treachery ..could not. What defeated us ..Jewry’s unconquerable optimism ..eternal faith in ..goodness of man ..even a German ..a Nazi ..could never have ..renounced ..own humanity as to murder women ..’children’ coldly ..systematically. ..when we finally took up arms ..we inscribed in ..book of history epic of ..Ghetto Uprising.” Michal Berg.
I did not have any wish, while contemplating my choice to Remember these Jews of The Holocaust, to enter into any dialogue with these haters. Nor in fact does History itself wish to court the names of those persons whose clearest fraud is to deny the presence of 6,000,000 Murdered Jews in the overall Catastrophe of World War II. The denier, whose presence is in the same mould as far too many others who would press their own hate filled agenda, cannot succeed while Truth has a cause worth winning. But then that is the remit of those hate filled deniers, whose constant is a caustic erosion of Truth over lies. They secrete the need for Honesty over their deliberate deceit and they deny the veracity of The Holocaust over their self propelling intolerances and antisemitism. So here goes a rebuke I had considered was not required for these deviants! ALL deniers are liars, they are fraudulent, and any contradiction of the Factual Truth of The Holocaust is despicable.
“..Are we dealing ..with merely a passing phenomenon ..a transient ..ugly wave ..a sort of by-product of ‘The Final Solution’ or are we faced with an antisemitic trend that may have a future .. which ..we shall have to confront.” Yisrael Gutman.
That a person so resents our History is shocking enough with the essence of History being eroded by a non adherence to circumspection which their lies and fraud promote. Virulent and damning their certain agenda is a sad reflection upon the many who pursue hatred above all reason. Having lied to so many, having altered their view on many occasions, in much the same way as all other liars have a propensity to do, the denier seeks to swell the arena with words that are corrupting and corrosive. With an attempt to simply promote themselves, they deny the Jewish Fate in The Holocaust. Here, before the mantle of Historical evidence they forge an untruth which has no credibility. They have become an irrelevance which is in need of lancing. They are a boil on the backside of Humanity, creaking from a tired and vested hatred for a People who have a proven worth in Human, Religious and Educational terms. As you will remember, this denial concerns the Murder of 6,000,000 Jews of Europe; Men, Women and Their Children.
“..No 6,000,000 Jews were murdered ..but only one Jew ..and this happened 6,000,000 times. If you really want to understand ..meaning of ..persecution of ..Jews ..you would have to write 6,000,000 biographies of 6,000,000 individuals.” Abel Herzberg.
So while those deniers admit to the Gas Chambers, and then dismiss the Gas Chamber as a creation of those seeking to extract a sympathy, restitution or imposition, we severely rebuke their denial. While indeed Auschwitz was not in the same mould as Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor or even Treblinka, though Birkenau was, there does not emerge anything but a meagre job of denying what the accepted Truth is! BTW! Cole Forgot to mention Majdanek which was also a Death Camp, but aligned more with Auschwitz, as it too had a Concentration Camp element to it. So, Lest we Forget, I wish to restate that while Auschwitz was part of an unholy trinity as The Concentration Camp Auschwitz, as The Labour Camp Monowitz and as The Death Camp at Birkenau, the combined effort was to debilitate, enslave and Murder those Jews who entered through a gate which cynically boasted it would set them free. Those who explore the realm of The Death Camp will know Auschwitz for its capacity to Murder and it Murdered more than 1,100,000 Jews and others on an industrial scale unprecedented in all History.
“..I would like to hope ..testimonies will continue to serve as a manifesto ..which says ..day will come when all discriminations will stop in this world ..hatred ..mass murders ..wars ..and peace ..dream of our prophets ..will dwell safely upon this earth.” Miriam Novitch.
I have visited the Concentration Camp at Auschwitz. I have entered the realm of a hell that is known to the entire World as Birkenau. It is a sad fact that only those who wish to deny that in a land, overrun by Germans, within a system ordered by Hitler and for a People confined forever in a Catastrophe of such proportions, Jewish antecedence took a major blow. For such a crime, History had to come up with a term to define it. Raphael Lemkin did just that with a designation, Genocide. But Genocides have been and gone and nothing confines Humanity to a space more aptly named than The Holocaust, for wherein lies the remains of 6,000,000 of the Jewish People. For what was a journey of concern, out of respect I have Blogged my experience. That experience you can meet and be a Witness to my effort here!
Now while Cole is right that the genocidal policy of Hitler was conceived of on the go, and that The Holocaust only emerged as a resolve toward The Final Solution. This was all decided only after exile, starvation, ghettoisation and ‘resettlement’ had been attempted by Hitler’s wish to have all aspects explored. While Cole clearly admits to The Holocaust’s inception, he admits to its commencement and a sort of final resolve. So even though he stated the Final Catastrophe wrongly as below that 6,000,000 which is the applicable Account, he admits to a genocidal policy. With the T4 Euthanasia wing wound down, after public/church protest(sic), the aficionadoes of Murder by lethal injection, shooting, hanging and ‘Gassing’ became the arbiters of Death and Destruction elsewhere. They emerged to add knowledge to der Einsatzgruppe, Waffen SS, SS and police battalions and this is where Cole’s confusion over dates occur.
“..I have struggled hard to overcome ..hatred of those who cruelly destroyed my early life ..my family and almost succeeded in exterminating my people. ..I have come to realise ..there are no basically evil nations or racial groups. ..There are only evil people ..seekers after wealth or power.” Maja Abramowitch.
By 1943, the bulk of Hungarian Jewry was still intact and Birkenau had barely completed its worst accounts. But the acknowledgement in History that 1,250,000 Jews had already been Murdered by der Einsaztgruppe, which is an assessment logged in their own words has not been correctly computed by this denier! The passage of time will never relinquish its hold on the true weight of the Catastrophe. For History alone must adjudge what is the correct account, given the almost exact detail of the atrocity against the Jewish People. But while we err on the cautious, and accept that some 6,000,000 Jews perished, died or were systematically Destroyed, we might well be looking for an eternity to find the exceeding figure is far greater than the 6,000,000 Jews of Europe.
“..I will never cease to rebel against those who committed or permitted Auschwitz ..including God. ..questions I once asked myself about God’s silence remain open. If they have an answer ..I do not know it. More than that ..I refuse to know it. ..I maintain that ..death of 6,000,000 human beings poses a question to which no answer will ever be forthcoming.” Elie Wiesel.
There was an emergence of effort which led, through experimentation with various forms of killing and execution. This led one notorious Murderer, who fell asleep in his car, after imbibing far too much liquid beverage of the alcohol sort, to strike a eureka moment with a drowsy effect? Carbon Monoxide does actually kill. The Gassing Van was born out of that reality check and it was passed along the line for use before the static version of The Death Camp became the choice of Hitler and the machinery of destruction moved up a gear. From that initial concept stems The Final Solution as we are aware of it. Evolving into a mechanised, industrialised and systematic Slaughter of the Jews of Europe, History has a term so difficult to comprehend.
“..If there were only one decent German ..then he should be cherished despite that whole barbaric gang, and because of that one decent German it is wrong to pour hatred over an entire people.” Etty Hillesum.
All told, and if you are as unaware of the figure as would not be possible, some 6,000,000 Murdered Jews of Europe, those Jews of The Holocaust, were Murdered systematically and in cold Blood. These were Men, Women and Their Children of the race of People we recognise within Humanity? Now these Jewish People, innocent of any charge, were Shot, Hanged, Gassed and otherwise killed for pleasure and to satiate the hatred of Hitler and those others who attached their intolerances to the bandwagon of antisemitism. The Holocaust is borne out of a travesty for The Jewish People, but within our own indifference are we not shamed in all History?
“..Murder of 6,000,000 Jews must never be reduced to a statistic.” Simon Wiesenthal.
All of this relating to The Holocaust, its Truthful integrity and Factual certainty has now been said and more often than I would care to suggest. But in adding mere words to the sanctity of Remembrance, there is a divine space where those words meet an intention that was forgotten within that History! I have no further wish to demean further the Memory we have set aside for the Jews of The Holocaust. But contentions with these despicable deniers, a surely hate filled people makes the effort ever more necessary. I will continually respond to any manner of hatred of The Jewish People on all sites, and I will Remember that in the Slaughter of 6,000,000 Innocent Jews of Europe, much of our ‘Christian’, humanitarian, moral and ethical Soul has been lost. For the likes of those who deny, they have been ridiculed, denounced and have been found wanting!
“..when hatred and defamation quietly germinate ..we have to be alert ..on guard. ..legacy of ..victims of Auschwitz. ..dead were strong ..in their destruction they displayed a strength…Can ..living ..be any weaker?” Lucie Adelsberger.
The denier’s insignificance can not be enhanced by a churlish disregard for what makes History integral to Truth and Honesty! The deniers have lost the very battle they have set before time and the war on History is over for them. The denier’s hatred is not only a despicable slur on 6,000,000 Jews, who are unable now to respond but demeans the efforts of those Soldiers and Civilians who died protecting this World we live in from Fascism and a total disregard for the rights of all others. So while I respond on behalf of those 6,000,000 Jews represented here, I do so with the fullest knowledge that The Holocaust is the most uniquely, unprecedented Slaughter of any People in ALL of History! It is a failing of Humanity to not just stand against the tide of Intolerance but it is a watchful accusation that Indifference can all too easily take hold.
“..When I stand before you ..to lead ..Prosecution of Adolf Eichmann ..I am not standing alone. With me are 6,000,000 accusers. ..they cannot rise ..and point an accusing finger. ..For their ashes are piled up on ..hills of Auschwitz and ..fields of Treblinka ..and are strewn in ..forests of Poland. Their graves are scattered throughout ..length and breadth of Europe. Their blood cries out ..but their voice is not heard. ..I will be their spokesman and in their name I will unfold ..awesome indictment.” Gideon Hausner.
Always to Remember, Never to Forget.
