What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be supported
by evidence?
Here is a summary of what happened to the Jews: Before the war, the
Nazis encouraged emigration of German Jewry. Laws were instituted and
governmental pressures were brought to bear to make life more
difficult for Jews in many professions which Jews came to dominate in
the Weimar Republic. The "Ha'avara" or transfer agreement was reached
with Zionist leaders to facilitate the emigration of German Jews to
Palestine. Emigrating Jews very often were forced to abandon much of
their wealth when they left Germany.
After the defeat of France, a plan was discussed by the Nazis to
remove the Jews from Europe to the French colony on Madagascar. This
plan was soon dropped in favor of a resettlement plan which
transferred Jews into ghettos and work camps inside Soviet territory
following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. This was to be the
first stage toward the ultimate creation of a Jewish homeland after
the war.
As the Germans invaded and the Russians retreated, large shifts in
population occurred in eastern Europe. This shift went from west to
east. Tens of millions of people were involved. Many were forcibly
deported into the Russian interior. Others willingly accompanied the
Communists as the Red Army retreated eastward. General Gehlen
estimated in his memoirs that a third of the population in the areas
the German army was to occupy was evacuated eastward ahead of the
German invasion.
Since Jews were viewed by many eastern Europeans as willing
accomplices of the Communists who had occupied the area in the years
and months preceding the German assault, pogroms occurred after the
retreat of the Red Army and prior to arrival of the German army. Many
of these assaults on local Jews were in reaction to the murdering of
political prisoners by the Soviet police as they prepared to retreat.
These events left areas of eastern Europe, now occupied by the German
Wehrmacht and under Nazi administration depopulated.
The Nazis took the situation as an opportunity to remove Jews eastward
into the areas abandoned during the Soviet retreat. Jews were
assembled at train terminals and deported to ghettos and concentration
camps established for them in the east. Some Jews were not deported,
however, due to the fact their work was considered too important to
the German war effort.
A result of the tremendous movement of people is many families and
communities were scattered and people lost contact with one another.
Many of these contacts were not reestablished after the war due to a
multitude of reasons the greatest of which were the splitting of
Europe in two after the war and the establishment of the state of
Israel.
Guerrilla groups were formed to fight the Nazi occupation. A campaign
of sabotage and assassination by these groups was countered by
repression on the part of the occupiers in the form of the Einsatz
groups. The Einsatzgruppen fought the partisans in ways which included
reprisal shooting of civilians. Jews were believed to make up the
majority of partisans. They were also the people targeted for
reprisals. These reprisals took several forms which included the
shooting of hostages or their deportation to ghettos and concentration
camps.
During the summer of 1942 a major typhus epidemic swept the Nazi
concentration camp system. The most severely affected camp was
Auschwitz camp in Poland. The epidemic continued for many months.
Crematories were built in some of the concentration camps as part of
hygienic measures established to fight the epidemics. The fumigant
Zyklon B was used to exterminate the typhus-bearing body louse which
spread the disease. The total number of Jews and others who died in
the camps is not known, but the total is probably in the hundreds of
thousands.
As the Germans suffered military reversals in 1944 and 1945, the Nazis
took many who were in labor camps with them as they retreated
westward. Others were left behind. As this happened, tens of millions
of people were again uprooted as civilians abandoned almost everything
in an effort to escape the approaching Red Army. The migration in
1941-42 was eastward. In 1944-45 it was westward.
In the beginning, Europe's Jewish communities were concentrated in
eastern Europe. By the end of the war, Europe's Jews were still in
eastern Europe, but the communities were shattered. Tens of millions
of people, particularly Germans and Jews were left homeless by the
war. As a result, millions of Jews emigrated. Many settled in
Palestine. Many more moved to North America. Others settled in
Australia, South America, and South Africa.
The war was a boon for the Zionist movement. The Holocaust become the
founding myth of modern day Israel. As such it became an excuse for
behavior of the Israelis which would have been inexcusable. It also
became the excuse for billions of dollars in aid and "reparations"
being sent to Israel from Germany and the United States even though
Israel did not exist during the war and its citizens were not subject
to Nazi repression. Much of the aid the new Zionist state was to
receive was for the purpose of resettling European refugees who did
not want to go there, but had little alternative at the time.
Source: A. R. Butz -1976; Solzhenitsyn -1973; Walter N. Sanning 1983;
Dr. Wilhelm Staeglich -1986; Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint 1972;
Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, and Volker Riess 1991; Alfred M. De Zayas
1989; Carlo Mattogno 1994; George W. Robnett 1968; Segev 1994
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