What can be cooked from squid: quick and tasty

A. N. Ignatiev

Introduction

In the literature devoted to the results of World War II, different numbers of losses incurred by the peoples of a particular country participating in this war were reported. But little is said about them, although the main losses were from the Russians and Germans.

With the beginning of the notorious perestroika and, especially recently, more and more emphasis is being placed on the loss of Jews, although neither from Germany nor from Russia, not only a single Jewish division, but even a company took part in the hostilities.

In this regard, it is enough to recall that on the Soviet-German front, they took part in military operations Czechoslovak corps, Polish division, French squadron "Normandie-Niemen".

World Jewry, or as it was then called the "international international" did not form a single Jewish military unit. It, having unleashed a war, watched the developing events in anticipation of "whose will take". In order to strike at the exhausted opponents and seize the wealth of both the winner and the loser. This policy has borne fruit. First, they gutted Germany, and now they are gutting Russia, taking out of it not only oil, gas, timber, gold, diamonds, but even land from the black earth regions of Russia.

It is alleged that the losses of Jews in World War II amounted to 6 million human.

According to the new Jewish terminology that appeared in the press during the years of perestroika and came to us from the United States, this is called the "Holocaust."

Anyone uninitiated in this story, the question arises: where did this figure come from - 6 million, not 3 or 4 million?

After all, there is still no documentary evidence confirming such colossal losses of Jews!

There was also no commission that, out of the entire mass of persons of other nationalities who died during the war, would identify only Jews and scrupulously, by name, would carry out their count.

Moreover, not all 6 million Jews were killed in gas chambers, hanged or shot! Some part of them died a natural death, like other prisoners.

It is unlikely that the number of Jewish prisoners in German concentration camps would exceed the number of prisoners in other countries combined.

It is also unlikely that Jews were outnumbered by the Germans for forced labor in Germany.

This means that there is already reason to doubt this figure.

How the Holocaust myth began

In search of 6 million victims of the Holocaust, I decided to look through the 1945 file of the Pravda newspaper. In the published orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief JV Stalin, the settlements liberated or taken by the troops of one or another front were reported. There were famous German concentration camps in the zone of our troops' offensive in Poland, but not a word about them.

Warsaw was liberated on January 18, and on January 27 Soviet troops entered Auschwitz. In an editorial in Pravda on January 28, entitled “The Great Offensive of the Red Army,” it was reported: “During the January offensive, Soviet troops occupied 25,000 settlements, including liberated about 19,000 Polish cities and villages.” If Auschwitz was a city (as indicated in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia) or a large settlement, then why were there no reports about it in the reports of the Sovinformburo for January 1945? If such a massive extermination of Jews had really been recorded in Auschwitz, then newspapers around the world, and Soviet ones in the first place, would have reported such monstrous atrocities of the Germans.

Moreover, the first deputy head of the "Sovinformburo" at that time was a Jew, Solomon Abramovich Lozovsky.

But the newspapers were silent.

Only on February 2, 1945, in Pravda, the first article about Auschwitz flashed under the title “The Combine of Death in Auschwitz”. Its author - the correspondent of Pravda during the war years - the Jew Boris Polevoy.

There is a well-known rule for all journalists - write the truth about what they see. But this rule did not apply to the Jew B. Polevoy (real name Kampov), he lied: “The Germans in Auschwitz covered the traces of their crimes. They blew up and destroyed the tracks of an electric conveyor, where hundreds of people were simultaneously electrocuted. ” Even if no traces were found, then electric conveyor it was necessary to come up with. In the documents of the Nuremberg trials, the use of electric conveyors by the Germans was not confirmed.

Continuing to fantasize B. Polevoy imperceptibly, as if in passing, in passing, threw into the text and gas chambers: “Special mobile devices for the killing of children have been taken to the rear. The gas chambers in the eastern part of the camp have been rebuilt with turrets and architectural decorations to make them look like garages. "... It is not known how B. Polevoy (not an engineer) could guess that instead of garages there were gas chambers before. And when the Germans managed to rebuild the gas chambers into garages, if according to the testimony of other "eyewitnesses" - Jews, the gas chambers worked continuously, until the arrival of Soviet troops in Auschwitz.

So for the first time thanks to B. Polevoy, the Soviet press began to mention gas chambers.

The task posed by B. Polevoy (as, incidentally, his fellow tribesman Ilya Ehrenburg did) is quite obvious - to increase the hatred of the Germans among the readers: “But the worst thing for the prisoners of Auschwitz was not death itself. German sadists, before killing prisoners, starved them with cold, 18-hour work, brutal punishments. I was shown leather-upholstered steel bars used to beat prisoners. "... Why would anyone who read this article by B. Polevoy, almost sixty years old, need to “upholster” steel rods with leather? just incomprehensible.

Further B. Polevoy fantasizes, not confining himself to gas chambers and electric conveyors, in order to show even more the bestial appearance of the Germans, enumerating: “I saw massive rubber truncheons, with the handle of which the prisoners were beaten on the head and on the genitals. I saw benches on which people were beaten to death. I saw a specially constructed oak chair, on which the Germans broke the backs of the prisoners. " Surprisingly, there is not a word about the number of Jews killed in this death camp. And about the Russians too.

B. Polevoy, as a journalist, did not even ask national composition prisoners, how many of them survived, and did not try to take an interview with any of the prisoners of Auschwitz, among whom there were many Russians, on the fresh trail.

If this camp was so terrible and several million people allegedly died in it, most of whom were Jews, then this fact could be inflated as widely as possible.

But B. Polevoy's note went unnoticed, it did not evoke any responses from readers.

Another note by B. Polevoy dated February 18, 1945, entitled “Underground Germany”, is of interest. It spoke of an underground military factory built by the hands of prisoners: “The prisoners were kept under strict control. None of the builders of the underground arsenals should have escaped death. " As you can see, the number of prisoners was counted, which contradicts the statements of other Jewish propagandists, who deliberately rounded up the number of victims in one camp or another to four or five zeros (see articles on concentration camps in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia).

Newspapers reported on the crimes of the German invaders in the occupied territories. So, for example, in “Pravda” dated April 5, 1945, there was a message from the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Atrocities of the Germans on the Territory of Latvia. There is a figure of 250 thousand civilians killed in Latvia, of whom 30 thousand were Jews. If this is true, then 30 thousand murdered Jews in the largest republic of the Baltic states indicate that the total number of victims among the Jewish population of the Baltics differs sharply from those cited in Jewish sources.

On April 6, 1945, a note appeared in Pravda with the title “Investigation of German Atrocities at Auschwitz”. It said that on April 4 in Krakow, in a building appellate court The first meeting of the commission to investigate the German atrocities in Auschwitz took place, which is to collect documents, material evidence and interrogate the captured Germans and escaped prisoners of Auschwitz, and organize a technical and medical examination. It was reported that the commission included prominent lawyers, scientists and public figures of Poland. For some reason, the names of the members of the commission were not named.

And on April 14, in the same Pravda, a message appeared that the Commission had allegedly begun work. “The commission visited Auschwitz and found that in Auschwitz the Nazi villains blew up gas chambers and crematoria, but this destruction of the means of killing people is not such that the complete picture cannot be restored. The commission established that there were 4 crematoriums on the territory of the camp, in which the corpses of prisoners previously poisoned with gas were burned daily. In special gas chambers, the poisoning of the victims usually lasted 3 minutes. However, to be completely sure, the cameras remained closed for another 5 minutes, after which the bodies were thrown away. The bodies were then burned in crematoria. The number of people burned in the Auschwitz crematoria is estimated at over 4.5 million people. The commission, however, will determine a more precise number of those accommodated in the camp ”. The note by an unknown TASS correspondent from Warsaw did not report either the number of gas chambers, or where the gas was supplied from, how many people were placed in the gas chambers, and how corpses were pulled out of them if poisonous gas remained in the chambers. It was not reported how in such a short time (the commission worked for one day!) The figure of the killed was 4.5 million, people, what it consisted of and what documents the commission relied on when calculating. It is strange that the “commission” forgot to count the number of Jews killed.

However, checking the reports of the Polish Press Agency - the main source of information for newspapers, radio and state institutions in Poland, shows that there were no such reports in the Polish press. Nor was there a TASS correspondent in Poland, which had just been liberated from the Germans. B. Polevoy in his first article reported that the gas chambers were rebuilt into garages, and here they were blown up. The wording that “the destruction of the means of killing people is not such that it is impossible to restore the full picture.” Such formulations are typical for those who want to hide the truth. Apparently, this note was prepared not without the participation of B. Polevoy.

Here it is appropriate to mention the following fact.

In the Great Soviet Encyclopedia in an article about Poland (v. 20, p. 29x) it is said that St. 3.5 million people.

This is how the myth of the Holocaust was born.

Even then, in April 1945, long before the Nuremberg trials, lies were introduced into the minds of millions of Pravda readers.

The apotheosis of the lie was an extensive article in Pravda of May 7, 1945 entitled “The Monstrous Crimes of the German Government at Auschwitz” (without mentioning the author).

From "Polish" sources, the number of victims is "over 4.5 million." people migrated to the central party body, where it was brought to the figure "over 5 million."

The article was overgrown with new details:

“Every day 3-5 echelons with people arrived here and every day they killed and then burned 10-12 thousand people in gas chambers”.

It does not take much work to determine the lie, reading this, at first glance, sensational article: “For the incineration of corpses in 1941, the first crematorium with 3 ovens was built. The crematorium had a gas chamber for strangling people. It was the only one and existed until the middle of 1943 ”. How such a crematorium with 3 ovens for two years could burn 9 thousand corpses monthly (300 corpses per day) is not clear. For comparison, let's say that the largest in Moscow Nikolo-Arkhangelsk crematorium with 14 ovens burns about 100 corpses every day.

We quote further, “By the beginning of 43, 4 new crematoria had been delivered, in which there were 12 furnaces with 46 retorts. Each retort contained from 3 to 5 corpses, the process of incineration of which lasted about 20-30 minutes. At the crematoria, gas chambers were built for the killing of people, placed either in basements or in special annexes to the crematoria. ” The word “or” immediately evokes a protest. If the gas chambers were in “basements,” what kind of cellars were they that could hold thousands of people? If in “special annexes”, then how was their tightness ensured so that gas would not escape from them. So that the reader can imagine what such "extensions" should have been like, let's say that the Palace of Congresses in Moscow can accommodate 5,000 people.

Realizing that it was impossible to burn such a huge number of corpses in additionally built crematoria, an unknown author reported one more "news":“The capacity of the gas chambers exceeded the capacity of crematoria, and therefore the Germans used huge bonfires to incinerate corpses. In Auschwitz, the Germans killed 10-12 thousand people every day. Of these, 8-10 thousand from arriving echelons and 2-3 thousand from among the prisoners of the camp ”. However, simple calculations show that 140-170 wagons are required daily to transport 10-12 thousand people (railway wagons of that time could transport about 70 people). In conditions when the Germans suffered one defeat after another, the delivery of such a number of cars during the 4 years of the camp's existence is unlikely. Germany did not have enough wagons for transportation military equipment and ammunition to the front line. This was especially felt after the Battle of Stalingrad and Kursk in the summer of 1943.

The author of the article did not take into account such an indisputable fact. It takes not 20-30 minutes to burn a human corpse in a crematorium furnace until ash is formed, but at least 1.5 hours. And in the open air, it takes even longer to completely incinerate a corpse. For example, we were told how the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed by terrorists, was burned at the stake according to Indian traditions. The corpse burned for almost a day. If coal was used in crematoria, then it is simply impossible to burn a human corpse on such fuel until ash forms in 20-30 minutes.

The article in Pravda states that 2819 rescued prisoners of Auschwitz, among whom were representatives of different countries, including 180 Russians. But for some reason the testimony came exclusively from Jewish prisoners.“They drove 1500-1700 people into the gas chambers,” said Dragon Shlema, a resident of the town of Zhirovin, Warsaw Voivodeship. “The killing lasted 15 to 20 minutes. After that, the corpses were unloaded and transported on trolleys to the ditches, where they were burned. " The names of other “witnesses” are also listed: Gordon Yakov, Georg Katman, Shpater Ziska, Berthold Epstein, David Suris and others. The article does not say when the survey was carried out and by whom. And why there is no evidence from prisoners of other countries. According to all laws of jurisprudence, the testimony of witnesses must be verified and corroborated by documents and other sources such as photographs. However, the Nuremberg Tribunal found no documentary evidence of the use of gas chambers by the Germans in the camps. If this fact had taken place, then not only the designers of the gas chambers, but also the company that produced and supplied the poison gas to the camps, would have appeared before the court. The gas chambers did not appear in the questions of the judges to the accused German Minister of Armaments Speer.

The only known case of the use of toxic substances (chlorine) by the Germans during the 1st World War. But in 1925, an international agreement was signed to ban the use of chemical poisonous substances, known as the "Geneva Protocol". Germany has also joined it. Throughout World War II, Hitler never once dared to use poisonous substances, despite the difficult situation of his troops, even at a critical moment for the Reich - in the battle for Berlin. If gas was used in Auschwitz, which one? They talk about Zyklon-B. But such a gas does not appear among the known chemical poisonous substances.

Exaggeration in the Jewish press, especially recently, of the use of gas chambers by the Germans to kill only Jews for some reason has taken on a completely curious character. So, a well-known Jewish propagandist, one of the active participants in the overthrow of Soviet power Henrikh Borovik, touching upon this topic in one of his TV programs, he agreed that he allegedly met with the designer of German gas chambers in South America. But I, Borovik said, felt the danger and was glad that I got out alive. In Chile, he ended up “while searching for the creator of the gas chambers, the Nazi Walter Rauf,” who allegedly worked as “the manager of a canned fish factory”.

At the end of the article, Pravda reports on the carrying capacity of 5 crematoria per month (in thousands): 9, 90, 90, 45, 45. And the final conclusion is drawn: “During the existence of Auschwitz alone, the Germans could have killed 5'121'000 people ”.

And further: “However, applying correction factors for the underloading of crematoria, for their individual downtime, the maintenance commission established that during the existence of Auschwitz, German executioners destroyed at least 4 million citizens of the USSR, Poland, France, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia. , Belgium, Holland and other countries ”.

T As in all publications, including the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the figure of 4-4.5 million began to walk.

Years later, this figure, supposedly of millions of people killed in Auschwitz, was included in the collections of documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal when they were published and thus, as it were, legalized.

They began to refer to these collections when preparing new publications.

Those who prepared the article for Pravda on May 7, 1945 were clearly at odds with reality. If in 20 minutes 75 corpses were burned in 15 retorts of the 3rd and 4th crematoria, then 4.5 thousand are obtained per day. This is theoretical. But after all, with such an intensity of destruction of corpses, it is necessary to load only one crematorium 48 times a day. Not counting the unloading of corpses from the gas chambers, which allegedly contained poisonous gas. To get to the truth and get the truth about the mass extermination of people in Auschwitz, it would be necessary to interrogate those who built the gas chambers, who delivered the gas, who unloaded the corpses, who brought them to the crematorium, who unloaded the ashes. But none of the direct participants in the extermination of people during the Nuremberg trial was questioned. From this we can conclude that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz.

As a starting point for the assertion that it was precisely such a huge number of corpses that were burned per day, an article in Pravda cites a letter addressed to the “Central Construction of the SS and Police Auschwitz (Auschwitz)” by a certain company “Topf and Sons”, which supposedly had to build gas chambers and crematoria.

However, in the archives of Auschwitz, correspondence between the camp administration and such a company was not found.

In Germany, firms received orders not from the leadership of the concentration camps, but from the Ministry of Industry and Armaments.

There is only one crematorium in the testimony of witnesses.

Having come up with 5 gas chambers (which were supposedly either attached to crematoria, or were in basements) and 5 crematoria, Jewish propagandists created a myth about the destruction of millions of people in Auschwitz.

It was nothing more than an ideological sabotage with far-reaching consequences.

In the preparation and organization of this sabotage An important role was played by the Trotskyists who had not been killed by Stalin, who, having changed their Jewish surnames to Russians, disappeared into the general mass of the party during the purge of the party in 1935-1996. The aforementioned article in Pravda did not appear without the participation of the then editor-in-chief of Pravda P. N. Pospelov (real name Fogelson) and the well-known in the future party ideologists M. A. Suslov and B. N. Ponomarev, who worked in those years in “ Sovinformburo ”under the leadership of the Jew Lozovsky.

Their role as secret Trotskyists came to light with the coming to power. Khrushchev.

It was Pospelov (Fogelson) who prepared the notorious report “On the cult of Stalin's personality,” which Khrushchev delivered at the 20th party congress.

The birth of doubts about the Holocaust (reading Jewish sources)

There are many doubts.

The reason for doubt is the numerous publications about the Holocaust, which suggest that the information contained in them is falsity.

Let us first turn to Jewish sources, for example, to the “Brief Jewish Encyclopedia” (Jerusalem, 1990).

For some reason, there is no article about the Nuremberg Trials, but there is an article "Nuremberg Laws", which says that in Germany, with Hitler's rise to power, two supposedly anti-Semitic legislative acts were issued - the "Reich Citizenship Law" and "Law on protection of German blood and German honor ”.

According to Art. 2 of the "Law on Citizenship of the Reich", a citizen can only be one who possesses "Germanic or related blood and who, by their behavior, proves the desire and ability to faithfully serve the German people and the Reich!"

This article was interpreted by Jewish encyclopedists in their own way:

"Such a wording actually meant the deprivation of the Jews of German citizenship." The "Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" prohibited marriage and extramarital cohabitation between Jews and "citizens of Germanic or related blood" as a "desecration of race". The same law defined the concept of "non-Aryan". On the basis of this law, in 1935, decrees were issued that allegedly barred Jews from accessing leading positions in Germany, and introduced the mandatory mark jude (“Jew”) in their certificates. But this is a natural phenomenon - to occupy leading posts in any state by representatives of the so-called titular nation, which constitutes the majority in terms of population. There were more Germans in Germany than Jews, but before Hitler came to power, Jews alone dominated all power structures in Germany. This was the need for the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws, which limited the power of the Jews.

However, no government orders for the extermination of Jews in Hitlerite Germany were issued and, naturally, they did not figure in the Nuremberg trials.

If you carefully consider the period preceding Hitler's coming to power in 1933, you can see that all the hatred of the Jews towards the Germans lies precisely in the fact that they have lost power.

By the way, the same hatred of Jews for Stalin is explained by the same - he also took power from the Jews, only in Russia.

Although not in such large numbers, Jews in both Germany and Russia remained in the power structures.

Both Hitler and Stalin stopped the plundering of their countries and made their countries independent from the basically Jewish criminal capital.

There are no articles on the Holocaust in the Concise Jewish Encyclopedia, but there are articles on several German concentration camps that give some idea of ​​the Jewish victims. For example, an article about Majdanek says that “only in 1942-43. over 130 thousand Jews were deported to Majdanek. The prisoners were used in various jobs. By November 1943, 37,000 people had died from overwork. The rest were liberated by the Red Army in 1944 ”.

Here Jewish propagandists, contradicting themselves, are forced to admit two indisputable facts. The first is that people in the camp were not killed or gassed, but "used in various jobs and they died from backbreaking labor." The second is that almost 100 thousand Jews were not exterminated, but were liberated by the Red Army.

The article about Mauthausen says even less: “According to the documents that have survived, 122 thousand people were exterminated in the camp (of which 32 were“ 120 Jews) ”.

Now let's see what the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia, published in 2000, writes about the victims of the Holocaust. It also lacks an article on the Holocaust, but volume 4 contains an extensive article, "The Catastrophe". In particular, it says: "The attempt to establish the exact number of victims is fraught with extraordinary difficulties due to the lack of verified data on the scale of genocide in Eastern Europe." In articles about German concentration camps, figures are given for the deaths of Jews. Although they are unverified, they nevertheless say that there were few Jews in the concentration camps, since the bulk of the prisoners consisted of prisoners of war, among whom there were few Jews.

Claiming that the total number of victims of the Holocaust is difficult to establish, the same article gives the calculations of the American Jew Jack Robinson, who "calculated" that during the war, 5 million 821 thousand Jews died, of which 4 million 665 thousand were Polish and Soviet Jews.

And in the article “Jews in Poland”, placed in the same edition, it is said that after the annexation in 1939-40. Western Ukraine and Belarus (taken by Poland from Russia in 1920), as well as the Baltic States and Bessarabia, the Jewish population of the USSR was 5.25 million people and that of them 2 million Jews were exterminated. As you can see, the data on the perished Jews of one article contradict the data of another article of the same publication.

Even more interesting information is provided by the article "Poland". From reading this article, it turns out that (I quote) "in total there were about 350 thousand Polish Jews in the inner regions of the Soviet Union - they all fled either to the United States or inland." According to the 1939 population census, 3 million 28.5 thousand Jews lived in the USSR. With the addition of 350 thousand Polish Jews to them, their total number on the eve of the war should have been less than 3.5 million. And according to Robinson's “calculations”, it turns out to be 4.565 million!

To convince the reader that Robinson's data are correct, the article "Catastrophe" refers to the verdict of the Nuremberg International Tribunal, which allegedly noted that "according to A. Eichmann's estimate, the Germans killed 6 million Jews."

Here, in general, sheer nonsense, because Eichmann I did not make any calculations, and he himself was not at the Nuremberg trials. He was caught and executed in Israel later. 15 years after the war.

For the uninformed (by reading the Nurembern Tribunal documents)

Now let's turn to the documents of the Nuremberg trials over the main German war criminals.

Noteworthy is the fact that the documents were published 20 years after the Nuremberg trials, during the so-called “Khrushchev thaw”, when lies were elevated to the rank of state policy.

Before getting acquainted with the documents, I no longer doubted that there too Jewish ideologists from the Central Committee of the CPSU tried to stick in the figure of 6 million or close to it.

The third volume of documents is devoted to the Nazi death camps. They generally contradict the figures of Holocaust victims trumpeted by the Jewish media on a daily basis. For example, in the materials about the Treblinka camp, the conclusion of Z. Lukashevich, the acting district judicial investigator in Sedlice, is given: "I believe that about 50 thousand Poles and Jews were killed in this camp."

More specific information is given about Buchenwald.

The "Report of the British parliamentary delegation investigating the atrocities of the Germans in this camp" is cited:“The maximum capacity was determined at 120 thousand people. On April 1, 1945 (by the time of liberation by the troops) the number of prisoners in the camp was 80-813. It turned out to be impossible to give an accurate estimate of the percentage of nationalities remaining in the prisoner camp: we met many Jews, Germans of non-Jewish origin, Poles, Hungarians, Czechs , the French, the Belgians, the Russians, etc. The detailed report transmitted to us by the representatives of the anti-fascist committee indicated that the total number of those who died and were killed in Buchenwald was 51-572 people. The Nazis left detailed camp files with names, but at the time of our visit it was impossible to start compiling lists of people still in the camp, since the American medical and sanitary services were engaged in cleaning the camp. "

It turns out that it turns out that Jewish journalists, screaming about 6 million victims of the Holocaust, deliberately keep silent about the fact that in German concentration camps there were detailed camp files with the names of prisoners. By them, it turned out to be possible to determine the total number of victims, up to one person. In Buchenwald, this figure was 51 "572 people. In the encyclopedia" The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. " the article on Buchenwald provides additional information: "The labor of prisoners was used in mines and industrial enterprises, especially at the large military enterprise Gustloverke."

The Germans did not divide the prisoners along ethnic lines, which was confirmed by the British Parliamentary Commission. The surviving documents indicated from which country the prisoners arrived, their names and the total number. For example, prisoners from the Soviet-German front were called Russians, although among them were Ukrainians, Belarusians, and representatives of other nationalities inhabiting the Soviet Union. Therefore, everywhere, in all documents, the total figure of the decline of the camp population is indicated, without division along ethnic lines. How many Jews were among the dead in Buchenwald, so no one has determined. Thus, even this information casts doubt on the numbers of victims of the Holocaust.

The documents of the Nuremberg Trials inform about the Dora camp as follows: “The capacity of the camp is 20 thousand people. The camp has a barracks system with 140 residential and service barracks. There is a crematorium with two ovens with 5 corpses in each oven. According to the amount of ash and according to the remaining documents, 35 thousand corpses were burned in the furnaces of the crematorium and in the pits (for the entire existence of the camp from 1942 to April 11, 1945) ”.

Now you can compare that exactly the same crematorium, but with three ovens (Pravda, May 7, 1945) burned 9 thousand corpses every month. All this suggests that the article in Pravda was inspired by the Soviet Zionists, who were then hiding under the guise of communists.

From the report of the legal service of the 3rd US Army on June 2, 1945, which surveyed the Flossenbürg concentration camp: “Among the victims of Flossenbürg were Russians - civilians and prisoners of war, German civilians, Italians, Belgians, Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, British and American prisoners of war ... It is almost impossible to compile a complete list of the victims who died in the camp from its foundation in 1931 until the day of liberation. Approximately this list contains more than 29 thousand people ". And here we see that no one from the general list singled out or counted the number of Jews who died. They are not even mentioned in this report.

It is known that by the beginning of the war on the territory of Germany and Austria there were 6 concentration camps. Among them is Flossenbürg. Opponents of the regime - German communists and German criminals - were kept in these camps. There weren't many of them. Only with the beginning of the war, prisoners of war and the Russian civilian population driven to Germany for forced labor began to enter the camp.

Auschwitz occupies a special place in the Jewish propaganda machine.Without exception, all Jewish publications are united in one thing, that it is in Auschwitz that the total number of Jews killed is the largest. Since the Jewish propagandists did not succeed in isolating from the general mass of prisoners and counting the number of Jews who died in a single camp, the Jewish propagandists did not succeed. 6 million it was necessary to dial from somewhere, then somewhere, by someone, at some closed Jewish council it was decided to concentrate the greatest number of victims on Auschwitz and consider it a Holocaust.

It is alleged that the Germans brought Jews from all European countries for extermination precisely in Auschwitz, in connection with which the total number of murdered Jews in some publications was brought to almost 4.5 million.

But recently, this figure has begun to decline. So, for example, the "Concise Jewish Encyclopedia" says:

“In view of the fact that the vast majority of Jews were sent to the gas chambers without any registration, it is impossible to establish the exact number of victims. According to US intelligence reports (published by the presidential office in December 1950) and covering the period up to March 1944, 1.765 million Jews were destroyed at Auschwitz. ”

If the number of victims of Auschwitz cannot be established, how did the Americans establish them? Is it possible to believe at all the American data, if Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army, and all the camp documentation was taken to the USSR and classified?

Comparison of American data with Soviet ones showed that 1.765 million Jews killed in Auschwitz is a lie!

In the recently published book by Jewish authors “Jews and the XX century. Analytical Dictionary ”(2004), this figure became even lower:“ It is believed that almost 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz, and about a million of them were Jews ”. Who “believes” and on what basis is unknown.

And then it follows: "Due to the fact that Auschwitz had the status of the deadliest place in all of Nazi Germany, Auschwitz is known as the epicenter of the Holocaust, the Nazi killing of over 6 million European Jews during World War II."

And here the question arises.

If one million Jews were killed in Auschwitz, then where, in what place, were the remaining 5 million Jews killed? After all, the number of Jews killed in all camps is still unknown.

It is interesting to note that the authors of the analytical dictionary, talking about the monument to the victims of the Holocaust erected in Auschwitz, drew attention to the inscription on the monument: “Four million people suffered and died here at the hands of German murderers in 1940-1945”. And they immediately noted: “Meanwhile, it is well known that 4 million people did not find their death in Auschwitz. The number 4 million is as unreliable as it is rounded, arose as a result of the desire of the Polish authorities to inflate as much as possible the figure reflecting the number of political martyrs ”.

Some Jewish researchers of the Holocaust are forced to state that such an impressive number of victims of Auschwitz had more of a political nature than a desire to establish the truth.

And subsequent publications in the Jewish press revealed and financial benefit from Holocaust propaganda.

If you carefully read the collections of documents from the Nuremberg Trials, you will notice that for some reason there is no detailed information on the Auschwitz camp itself. There are no references to camp documents, no evidence that they were examined during the court hearings. And if some information is found, then they come into conflict with one another. For example, in the testimony of the former commandant of the Auschwitz camp, Rudolf Hess, it is stated that the total death toll is about 3 million people, of which about 100 thousand are German Jews. However, Max Grabner testified: "During my leadership of the political department of the camp in Auschwitz, 3-6 million people were killed." So 3 or 6 million? Hess talked about one gas chamber in a camp with a capacity of 2 thousand people, and Grabner - 4. Hess allegedly claimed that "during the summer of 1944, in Auschwitz alone, we executed about 400 thousand Hungarian Jews." While Hess was the commandant of the camp until December 1, 1943. For some reason, all of Hess's testimony is focused on Jewish victims.

Apparently someone from the compilers of the collection, published not just anywhere, but in the USSR, "edited" Hess's testimony in the right direction - towards an increase in Jewish victims. a forgery was committed, the testimony of witnesses was falsified.

Hess himself was not interrogated at the Nuremberg trials.

Another document called “Report of the Polish Government”.

It lists the extermination camps located in Poland, and for some reason, again, apparently deliberately, the emphasis is on the victims suffered only by Jews. Attention is also drawn to the vagueness of the wording, the style of presentation, and lack of specificity.

Belzec: “Thousands of people died”.

Sobibor: "Thousands of Jews were brought there and killed with gas in the cells."

Kosuev-Podlaski: "The methods used here were similar to those in other camps." Not a word about the number of victims.

Kholmno: “This camp was a station that received Jews arriving from the Reich and from the adjacent territories.” Not a word about the number of victims.

Auschwitz: “In the period until the end of December 1942, according to reliable information and testimony, 85 thousand Poles, 52 thousand Jews from Poland and other countries, 26 thousand Russian prisoners of war were among the victims”. Further, it is reported in what conditions the prisoners were, how much food was given to them, and at the end, without any references to documents (and in Auschwitz, like other camps, there were books for registering all prisoners arriving at the camp), a stunning conclusion is made: “... thus, 5 million human beings were killed in Auschwitz ”. What kind of "reliable information" is this and why the number of victims is limited to December 1942 is unknown. How many of these “human beings” were Jews is not said.

Majdanek: “In 1940 the Germans set up a concentration camp in Majdanek, near Ljubljana, in which 1.5 million people of various nationalities, mainly Poles and Jews, were imprisoned for 4 years”. And then follows the absolutely incredible: "1.7 million human beings were killed in Majdanek." How many Jews among them is unknown.

Treblinka: “When the process of extermination of the Jews began, Treblinka became one of the first camps to which victims were sent. The average number of Jews exterminated in the camp in the summer of 1942 reached two railroad transports a day. This data was obtained from one prisoner who managed to escape from the camp. It was Yankel Wernik, a Jew, a carpenter by profession, who spent a year in Treblinka. " It was evident that the document was fabricated somewhere: the prisoners were called “human beings”.

The document itself looks strange (if you can call it that).

All documents that were considered by the court of the international tribunal were assigned a number. It is not on this document.

Reading this "report", many questions arise.

Why is it placed not in the 3rd volume, where documents about the atrocities of the Germans are collected, but in the 2nd?

If this is a “lecture”, then who did it, when and where?

At that time, there was still no Polish government as such, but there was the Provisional Polish Government of National Unity, formed on June 23, 1945. There is neither date nor signature on the document certifying its authenticity.

If the commandant of the camp R. Hess allegedly showed 3 million killed in the camp, then why was it necessary to overestimate this figure to 5 million?

Not finding answers to these questions, a firm conviction is created that one of the compilers of the collection was interested in inserting this fake “document” into the collection in preparation for publication, in order to give the figure 5 million authenticity.

And this interested person could be one of the compilers of the collection Jew Mark Raginsky.

It was he who was responsible for the selection of documents in this section (this is stated in the collection).

Now it becomes clear why in many Jewish sources the emphasis is on Auschwitz.

Subsequently, the figure of 5 million destroyed "human beings" Jewish propagandists turned into 5 million Jews. And taking into account the "exterminated" Jews in other German concentration camps, it was not difficult to "find" another million.

So the final figure of 6 million, called the Holocaust, began to circulate in the press. Auschwitz was artificially made the center of the Holocaust, in which the mass extermination of Jews allegedly took place.

However, Mark Raginsky, placing a forged document in the 2nd volume of the collection of materials from the Nuremberg Trials, did not take into account the fact that this deception is easily detected when reading the documents of the 3rd volume. In this volume entitled Crimes Against Humanity. Mass extermination of the population for slave labor ”reveals the whole lie of Jewish propaganda: prisoners were brought to the camps not for destruction, but for use in the construction of military factories. And the title itself speaks about it. From the documents on Auschwitz it is clear that a meeting of representatives of the German military industry was held at the Ludwigshafen plant on March 24, 1941, at which a decision was made to build on the territory small village Auschwitz of the IG Auschwitz plant for the production of buna (synthetic rubber). Soon in the same area, construction began on the Krupp plant for the production of weapons. For this, it was supposed to demolish most of the village. At the same time, it was noted that "the eviction of Poles and Jews will cause a major shortage of labor by the spring of 1942." That is, this document is not about the extermination, but about the eviction of Poles and Jews from the village of Auschwitz. Volume 3 contains many documents on Auschwitz, including weekly reports from the plant management with the presence of the camp commandant. At the meeting on August 9, 1941, it was said that, based on the intervention of SS Reichsfuehrer Himmler, all German concentration camps were ordered to provide 75 guards for Auschwitz (“40 already arrived last week,” the document said). And then it said: "This makes it possible to send another thousand prisoners to the concentration camp in addition to the 816 already working at construction sites." That is, we are talking about only about two thousand prisoners in Auschwitz at that time. Already by 1942, a shortage of labor began to be felt in Germany, and therefore it was decided to use prisoners of war in the construction of military facilities. Subsequently, the civilian population driven to Germany from the territories occupied by the Germans began to be used to work in military factories and agriculture.

The report on the meeting on the construction of the Farben-Auschwitz plant dated September 8, 1942 states that “by order of Sauckel, another 2,000 prisoners were sent to Auschwitz”. Thus, on September 8, 1942, there were 3816 people in the camp. And the "Report of the Polish Government" says that by the end of December 1942, 163 thousand people were killed in the camp. In a report dated February 8, 1943, the issue of increasing the number of prisoners in the Auschwitz camp was discussed: "SS Colonel Maurer promised that their number will increase in the near future from 4 to 4.5 thousand people." And from the report of September 9, 1943, it is clear that there were a total of 20 thousand prisoners in the camp. These figures give an idea of ​​the number of prisoners in Auschwitz, although there is no information about the camp itself.

The testimony of some witnesses for the prosecution, contained in the third volume, is curious.

So Gregoire Arena said: “On January 22, 1944, I was arrested in Paris and sent to Auschwitz. The wake-up took place at 4 o'clock in the morning. At 4.30 the prisoners were called for roll call. After the roll call, we were taken to the factory, where we construction works for IG Farbenindustri. There were about 12 thousand of us prisoners and about 2 thousand English prisoners of war, as well as civilian workers of various nationalities. Hanging was common. Every week 2-3 people were hanged. The gallows stood on the same team parade ground where the roll call took place. On January 18, 1945, the Germans evacuated Auschwitz. The Russians arrived on January 27. I stayed in Auschwitz until February 9 and worked as a translator for the Russians. ”

As you can see, there are no millions here either (they are simply invented). The total number of working prisoners says that by the time of release it did not exceed 15-16 thousand people. Gas chambers are not mentioned either. The prisoners would have remembered them. Instead, one gallows and 2-3 hanged per week. Here are all the victims of Auschwitz in a week, not 10-12 thousand a day, about which the Jewish press portrays.

Another prisoner, Douglas Frost, testified at the trial: “I was captured on April 9, 1941 near Tobruk. I was first sent to Italy, then to Germany and finally to Auschwitz. I soon started working for IG Farben. The plant at Auschwitz covered an area of ​​approximately 6 square kilometers and was built exclusively by the slave labor of prisoners. The Germans worked only as overseers. There were from 10 to 15 thousand Jews and 22 thousand people of other nationalities, mainly Russians and Poles ”.

And in these testimonies there is no talk of any millions of Jews.

From the testimony of the defendant Otto Ambros: “From 1938 to 1945 I was the general manager of the IG Farbenidustri concern. All departments of the production of buna for rubber were under my control. In 1940 I was instructed to find the necessary territory for the construction of the 4th plant for the production of buna. Auschwitz is an area that turned out to be suitable for our purposes. IG Farbenidustri was built using prison labor as labor was scarce. The plant in Auschwitz produced 30 tons of grain per year ”... Many other testimonies, both prosecution witnesses and defendants, can be cited, from which it follows that prisoners were brought to Auschwitz not for mass destruction, but for work.

Few people know that all the documents on Auschwitz were taken to Moscow and immediately classified. Apparently, so that people do not know the true figures of the victims of Auschwitz, and what actually happened there

Already during perestroika, in the era of glasnost, a meticulous journalist obtained access to the documents of Auschwitz.

It is surprising how the Jewish newspaper Izvestia overlooked by publishing this sensational material.

After all, he completely crosses out all the writings about the horrors of Auschwitz with its gas chambers and crematoria. On February 17, 1990, the newspaper published an article "Five days in a special archive", which indicated the victims of Auschwitz, who were closer to the truth, consonant with the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal. “But we, thank God, survived to publicity. Last summer, the Auschwitz books of death were recovered from the depths of the archive, albeit with some difficulty. with the names of seventy thousand prisoners from 24 countries who died in the extermination camp "... As mentioned above, the Germans were not involved in establishing the nationality of prisoners. Therefore, it was not possible to determine the number of Jews killed in Auschwitz out of these 70 thousand.

Although Jewish researchers in their latest research have reduced the number of their victims at Auschwitz to one million, this figure is far-fetched. It is simply impossible to locate a concentration camp with a capacity of even a million people on the territory of the village of Auschwitz on an area of ​​6 square kilometers, and there is no documentary evidence of the destruction of such a number of people in the records of court hearings in Nuremberg in Nuremberg.

The fact of the destruction of such a huge number of Jews is not confirmed by demographic scientists studying the change in the number of peoples of the world over the years.

conclusions

Now it becomes clear why Jewish scholars of the Holocaust in their numerous writings try to hush up some documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal, in which 3, 4, and even 5 million victims of Auschwitz were inscribed with great stretch. It is unprofitable for them, since the following indisputable facts are revealed upon acquaintance with the testimony of the prosecution witnesses and the original documents.

1 ... The prisoners were used at work in the construction of military enterprises in Germany, which is confirmed by numerous documents of the 3rd Reich, including minutes and reports of meetings, telephone messages, circulars, and testimonies of prisoners. Even common sense told the Germans why, with so many cheap labor, to destroy it. Government orders prescribing the mass extermination of Jews. The Nuremberg Tribunal did not record. The reference of the Jewish encyclopedists to the Wannsee Conference held on January 20, 1942, at which a decision was allegedly made on the final solution of the Jewish question, is also untenable. She did not figure in the Nurembern Trials. The Concise Jewish Encyclopedia (1976 edition) states that the decisions of the Wannsee Conference extended to 11 million Jews living in Germany. In reality, 503 thousand Jews lived in Germany before the war (of which 300 thousand left for other countries). The basis for the supposedly final solution of the Jewish question should have been the Nuremberg laws adopted after Hitler came to power. But they do not say that the Jews must be exterminated without exception.

2. The documents of the concentration camps show that the Germans did not divide the prisoners along ethnic lines. Therefore, it turned out to be impossible to single out Jews from them.

3. We are often shown newsreels with people stripped to their nakedness and the accompanying text that they allegedly go to the gas chambers. But specially created commissions of representatives of the allied powers did not find a single gas chamber when examining the concentration camps. In some camps (according to documents), in order to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases, barracks and people were sanitized, which was later described by some Jewish propagandists as gas poisoning.

4. The multimillion-dollar sacrifices of Auschwitz are an indicator of the lies of the Jewish press both in Russia, where the Jews seized power, and abroad. In the "report of the Polish government" penned by someone, the figure is 5 million. On the monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Auschwitz, the figure is stamped 4 million. The camp commandant R. Hess indicated 3 million. The authors of the guide "Jews and the XX century" prove that 1.1 million people died in Auschwitz. But in reality it turned out that the number of victims in the camp does not exceed 70 thousand.

5. The main supplier of labor for Germany was the Eastern Front, and the bulk of the concentration camp prisoners were prisoners of war and civilians forcibly taken out by the Germans from the occupied regions of the USSR. There were few foreigners. The hijacking to work in Germany was part of the German fascist occupation regime. According to the encyclopedia “The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (published in 1985), the Germans took out about 6 million people from the USSR. According to the logic of the Jewish propagandists, it was they who made up the bulk of the perished Jews. But the same encyclopedia reports that of these 6 million, 5.5 million returned to their homeland.

It is believed that by the end of the war there were about 14 million people on the territory of Germany, Austria and Poland, forcibly taken by the Germans from various European states, including the USSR. If we consider this figure close to the truth, as well as the figure of 10 million of them who returned from the camps to their homeland, then the figure of 6 million Jews who died does not fit into the remaining figure of 4 million citizens of various nationalities. So how many Jews actually died? This question is answered by the demographic data of states when comparing the number of Jews before and after the war. Rough calculations show that the number of victims among the Jewish population of Europe does not exceed 250-400 thousand people. At the same time, this includes those who died of natural death.

6. Now about the gas chambers and crematoria, in which these ill-fated millions of Jews were allegedly burned.

There are 3 state and one private crematoriums in Moscow. Mitinsky and Khovansky each have 4 ovens, Nikolo-Arkhangelsky - 14 and private CJSC Gorbrus - 2 ovens. With the modern technique of incineration (and in our crematoria, the English technique is installed), the time of incineration of one corpse is on average 1.5 hours. Theoretically, with the continuous operation of 24 furnaces a day, 252 corpses should be burned. But the furnaces are stopped for ash removal and preventive maintenance. Therefore, in total, all 4 crematoria in Moscow burn about 200 corpses per day. That is, 6,000 corpses per month.

This figure completely refutes the assertion of the Jewish press that 279 thousand corpses of people previously killed in gas chambers were burned in Auschwitz every month. This, at least, was reported in Pravda on May 7, 1945. Even if in Auschwitz there really were 5 crematoria with 15 ovens, with the technique of incineration of corpses that existed in Auschwitz, it is simply impossible to burn such a number of corpses per month. And the Germans were physically unable to deliver almost 300 thousand people monthly to only one Auschwitz camp for 5 years. Even if they could, then with such an intensity of extermination of people, the Germans would have handled 6 million prisoners in 2 years, and not in 5 years.

All these calculations and reasoning lead to an unambiguous conclusion: there were no gas chambers either in Auschwitz or in other camps. Most of the prisoners died of natural causes from disease, exhaustion and exhausting labor in the military factories built in the camp zone. The gas chambers were invented by Boris Polev so that the public was horrified, they say, what kind of monsters the Germans are, and thereby further arouse hatred of the Germans throughout the world.

It is known that a similar technique was used by British intelligence during World War I, when a rumor was circulated through the press that the Germans were processing the corpses of soldiers, their own and others, into stearin and feed for pigs. ... This message caused a storm of indignation around the world and served as a pretext for China's entry into the war on the side of Great Britain. On this occasion, the American Times Dispatch newspaper wrote a few years later: “The famous story of the corpses, which during the war brought the hatred of the peoples towards Germany to the limit, is now declared a lie by the British House of Commons. The world learned that this lie was fabricated and spread by one of the clever British intelligence officers. "

Today we can say that the famous story of the gas chambers is a lie. The world learned that this lie was fabricated and spread during World War II by one of the clever Soviet officers B. Polev (he had the rank of colonel). But the message about the gas chambers in that distant 1945 did not arouse indignation either among the readers of Pravda or the world press, which, as we know, was in the hands of the Jews. Nobody believed this. They do not believe even today. The fact that there were no gas chambers in Auschwitz throughout the war is indicated not only by the original documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal (they are not mentioned in the accusatory speeches of the representatives of the victorious countries), but also by the conclusion of the International Red Cross Commission, which arrived in Auschwitz immediately after his release. It is also known that representatives of this international organization repeatedly visited German concentration camps during the war and did not record a single gas chamber.

Despite the lack of evidence of the use of gas chambers by the Germans (no drawings, no orders of the German command for their construction, no photographs were found), Jewish propagandists, even 60 years later, are still trying to assert that they were. So, for example, in the program "Euronews" on Channel 5 TV for January 17 of this year. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one trumpet was shown, which suggests that there was one crematorium in Auschwitz. This is a small piece of software that survived. appearance a building in which it is not clear how 5 thousand corpses could be destroyed daily, according to the announcer. Then the viewers were shown a small pile of metal cans in volume similar to canned food, and the announcer's voice said that there were 20 thousand such cans, and that each can with 5 kg of gas could kill 1.5 thousand people. How such small jars could hold 5 kg of gas and how they were filled with gas, viewers were not told.

Then they showed a small square hole in something, where, apparently, this can of gas should have been placed. It was a hint of a gas chamber. They tried to convince the viewers that with the help of these 20 thousand jars, either 4, or 3, or one and a half million prisoners were destroyed (the last figure is indicated in the “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” dated January 26, 2005). But a simple arithmetic calculation by multiplying 20 thousand by 1500 gives 30 million! This figure does not fit anywhere and once again shows all the falsity of the Jewish propagandists. We Russians are apparently considered fools. You can deceive part of the people all the time. You can deceive the whole people for a short time. But you cannot deceive the whole people all the time. The time has come to bring to justice the persons and organs of the press who spread this lie and constantly impose on the Russians the idea that the Jews, working for the Germans, suffered more than all other peoples during the war.

Holocaust propaganda is profitable

American Jew, professor at New York University Norman Finkelstein has published a book entitled "The Holocaust Industry", which has been published in English (2000), German (2001) and Russian (2002). This book is remarkable in that it reveals a subtle fact. If 6 million Jews became victims of the Germans (this is almost half of all Jews in the world), then why are they still alive? After all, they are considered destroyed in the gas chambers, where they were driven by 10-12 thousand a day! Today they are demanding compensation like victims of the Holocaust.

Finkelstein opens the eyes of the world community to some aspects of this ingenious Jewish invention. He drew attention to the fact that the unwinding of the propaganda campaign on the Holocaust began after Israel's victory over the Arabs in 1967, and American Jews began it. Through the Holocaust, they defended and justified the violation of Palestinian rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. As Finkelstein noted, "Israel and the Holocaust became the pillars of the new Jewish religion in the United States, replacing the dilapidated Old Testament."

And not only in the United States, but also in Russia, which ended up in Jewish hands. The legend of the eternally persecuted people and the terrible Holocaust became necessary not only to protect Israel from condemnation by the world community, but also to protect their national wealth seized by Jews from other peoples from any criticism. As soon as a word is said against the rogue Jew, the Jewish-owned world press immediately yells about Auschwitz. And if it comes to Jewish fraudsters like Berezovsky, Gusinsky or Khodorkovsky, then they immediately threaten the return of the GULAG.

Finkelstein argues that the top of the Jewish community in the United States amassed millions and billions of dollars in the gesheft of the Holocaust, while the real victims of Nazism receive crumbs.

Finkelstein writes that only 15% German compensation for ex-prisoners reached the goal, the rest were stuck in the pockets of leaders of various Jewish organizations, such as the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, B'nai Brit, Joyne, and others. Jewish claims for compensation turned into racketeering and extortion, Finkelstein writes. Not only those who were in German concentration camps, but also those who had never been there, began to extort money.

Jews charted as their first victim even Switzerland. They started a rumor that Swiss banks still hold billions of dollars in Holocaust victims' accounts and that their heirs could not get them. But none of these ransomware, as Finkeliitein writes, "did not provide valid evidence of the existence of deposits in Swiss banks." It is known that Swiss banks are very sensitive to economic pressure from the United States and therefore were forced for fear of notoriety, pay the extortionists.

Having dealt with the Swiss, Jewish organizations took over Germany... They demanded compensation for the forced labor of their fellow tribesmen during World War II, and under pain of a boycott and legal action German companies agreed to start the payment.

Here the "victims" of the Holocaust exposed themselves.

They did not die in gas chambers, but worked in German factories.

The experience of extortion in Switzerland and Germany served as a prologue to the total robbery of Germany's allies during World War II.

The Holocaust industry, Finkelstein writes, has embarked on extortion from the poor of the former socialist camp.

The first victim of pressure was Poland, from which Jewish organizations are demanding all property that ever belonged to Jews - victims of the Holocaust and estimated at many billions of dollars. Next in line is Belarus. At the same time, a robbery of Austria is being prepared.

There were Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and people of other nationalities in German concentration camps, but for some reason the German compensation did not reach them. Narusseva, the wife of the famous Sobchak, was in charge of receiving compensation in Russia.

The Russian people did not notice how he was enslaved. And they have to pay Jewish extortionists.

With the beginning of perestroika, the Jewish media led the Russians to the idea that they should also pay for the victims of Stalin's concentration camps to the living Jews. And the payments are already in progress. Rallying about 6 million victims of the Holocaust, Jews with the same zeal scream every day about the millions of victims of the Stalinist period, equating Stalin to Hitler. But even here, if we take a closer look at these “victims,” the following becomes clear. Firstly, these tens of millions never existed, and secondly, Soviet concentration camps were created by Jews at the dawn of Soviet (Jewish) power and the victims of these camps were exclusively Russians. About 3 million Russians fled abroad from the horrors of Jewish emergency situations and Jewish concentration camps, and about the same number of Russians were tortured to death in these Jewish emergency situations and concentration camps.

The Jews received compensation from Germany in a fraudulent way, 50 years after the end of the war, because there was no Holocaust.

But Israel, where Russian Jews arrived, and Jews living in Russia, where they are again in power, must pay compensation to the Russians for their truly millions of victims and the property confiscated from them in the years after the 1917 revolution and during the period of perestroika - the new Jewish revolution - at the end of the 20th century. Compensation for the robbery that they committed on 1/6 of the land. That would be perfectly fair!

Holocaust propaganda - the response

On January 26-27, 2002, the International Conference on Global Issues was held in Moscow world history. Scientists from the USA, Morocco, Austria, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Australia and Russia took part in it. The overwhelming majority of the reports were devoted to the study of the Holocaust. Some speakers who studied the Holocaust visited former German concentration camps and independently came to the conclusion: the Germans did not kill 6 million Jews. The Russian media tried not to notice the conference. Her silence once again showed that the Russian press is in the hands of those who benefit from supporting the Holocaust myth. Freedom of speech and glasnost in Russia turned out to be among the Jews, so any attempt to express the opposite opinion runs into an obstacle; it is forbidden even to speak on this subject. Those who try to understand the Holocaust are persecuted. For example, the author of the book "The Great Lies of the 20th Century" (the myth of the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War), 1997, Jurgen Graf was forced to emigrate from Switzerland and move to Belarus.

In this regard, retaliatory measures are also needed: to prosecute those who are engaged in the propaganda of the Holocaust and profit from this propaganda (in a number of Russian cities, Holocaust museums have already been opened, books on the Holocaust, including textbooks for children, are being published in mass circulation) ..

Memorial plaques at Auschwitz. Left - 4 million, right - 1 million

The history of mankind, perhaps, does not remember a more brutal crime than the Holocaust. From the Greek language, this term is translated as "burnt offering", it became widespread only after the 1950s. The story of the victims of the Holocaust is a terrible catastrophe for European Jewry that began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and established the absolute dictatorship of the National Socialists. The new government was guided by pseudoscientific racial theories and the desire to purge the German nation of those it deemed objectionable. The Jews had to suffer the most crushing blow then, and even children became victims of the Holocaust.

• Why did Jews become victims of the Holocaust?
  • History of dislike for Jews
  • What do the experts say?
• Number of victims of the Holocaust
• International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Victims' Museums

Why did Jews become victims of the Holocaust?

History of dislike for Jews

To the question of why exactly the Jews became victims of the Holocaust, scientists and historians have several reasonable answers, and all of them originate in the mists of time.

Historically, Jews have lived outside their homeland for many centuries. Living in the territory of other peoples, they retained their language and religion. In appearance, clothing and traditions, they differed from the Europeans. When Christianity arose, Judophobic ideas about Jews began to form. The Catholic Church accused them of killing Jesus Christ.

In the 5th century, Augustine the Blessed formulated the "correct" Christian attitude towards people of Jewish origin: you cannot kill Jews, but you can and should humiliate them. Thus, the religious consciousness perceived the image of the Jew as something negative, impure. As a result, the Jews had to live in separate quarters, the authorities limited their birth rate and freedom of movement. They were expelled from different states, including Russia. The connection between religious Judeophobia and the state was very close.

Video about the history of the victims of the Holocaust:

The concept of "anti-Semitism" first appeared in the 19th century. Anti-Semitic sentiments were especially popular in Germany. Hitler, who came to power, unified them in Nazi ideology and sentenced the Jews to complete annihilation. Nazi ideology assumed that the Jews were guilty of being born.

In addition, the list of victims of the Holocaust included all "subhumans" and "inferior", which were considered all Slavic peoples, homosexuals, gypsies, and mentally ill people.

The Nazis set themselves the goal of wiping out the Jews as a biological species, making the Holocaust their official policy.

What do the experts say?

Experts have different opinions on the reasons for such a large-scale and unprecedented destruction of people. It is especially unclear why millions of ordinary German citizens were involved in this process.

• Daniel Goldhagen believes that the main cause of the Holocaust is anti-Semitism (national intolerance), which at that time massively took possession of the German consciousness.
• A leading Holocaust scholar, Yehuda Bauer, has a similar opinion.
• German historian and journalist Goetz Ali expressed the opinion that the Nazis supported the policy of genocide because of the property taken from the victims and appropriated by ordinary Germans.
• According to the German psychologist Erich Fromm, the cause of the Holocaust lies in the malignant destructiveness that is inherent in the entire biological human race.

Number of victims of the Holocaust

The number of victims of the Holocaust is terrifying: during the Second World War, the Nazis destroyed 6 million Jews... However, at present, many researchers argue that in fact there were much more Nazi camps than was commonly believed a few years ago. Accordingly, the number of victims is also increasing.

Historians have found about 42,000 institutions in which the Nazis isolated, punished and exterminated both Jewish and other groups of the population considered inferior. They carried out this policy in vast territories - from France to the USSR. But the largest number of repressive institutions were in Poland and Germany.

So, in 2000, a project was launched, the goal of which is to search for death camps, forced labor camps, medical centers in which pregnant women were given abortions, prisoner of war camps and brothels, whose kept women were forced to serve the German military. In total, more than 400 scientists took part in the project, taking into account the real facts and memories of the victims of the Holocaust.

After the work done, American researchers released new figures showing how many victims of the Holocaust were in fact: about 20 million people.

International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust

International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust is celebrated on January 27. This day was approved by the UN General Assembly in 2005, calling on all member states to develop and educate programs aimed at ensuring that the lessons of the Holocaust will be preserved in the memory of all subsequent generations. People around the world must remember these terrible events in order to be able to prevent future acts of genocide. Many countries around the world have created memorials and museums dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Mourning ceremonies, commemorative events and actions are held there annually on January 27.

Such events are also held on this day in the Auschwitz memorial camp - a complex of Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps, where in 1940-1945 Slavs and Jews - victims of the Holocaust were killed en masse.

According to many scientists, it is very difficult for the human mind to fully comprehend the genocide that originated in a state rich in spiritual traditions and developed culture. These monstrous events took place in civilized Europe practically in front of the entire world. To ensure that such a Holocaust will never happen again, people must strive to understand its origins and consequences.

In April 1943, the Bermuda Conference was held, the participants of which limited themselves to an exchange of views on the problem of Jewish refugees and decided that the issue of providing assistance to the surviving Jews should be postponed until the end of the war!

During and after World War II, the British government did everything to prevent the surviving Jews from entering Palestine and other parts of the empire. Moreover, it did not agree to recognize them as either prisoners or political emigrants. Shameful pages in the history of England in those years were the events that unfolded around three ships with Jewish refugees.

In November 1940, the steamer Atlantic with 1800 passengers on board arrived at the port of Haifa after a long voyage. The British authorities interned them and deported every single one to Mauritania.

Another ship - "Salvador" (several hundred refugees, including children) - sank in December 1940 off the coast of Palestine, without waiting for help.

And finally, Struma. This Romanian ship, designed for only 100 passengers and also in disrepair (holes, machine malfunction), took on board 769 refugees in the Romanian port of Constanta and sailed to Haifa on December 16, 1941. It crashed near Istanbul, but the Turks said they would not allow refugees to go ashore if they did not have permission from the British authorities to enter Palestine. The British did not give such permission. The ship remained at anchor for ten days, and on February 24, 1942, despite the captain's assurances that the ship was unfit for sailing, the Turks towed it out to sea.

The Struma sank six miles offshore. Only two people were saved. Before leaving the ship on the high seas, officials received permission from the British authorities to enter Palestine for only 70 children.

At this time, terrible events were taking place in Romania. Back in January 1941, the American ambassador to this country, Gunter, reported about the massacre by the "Iron Guard", as a result of which more than 700 Jews were killed.

Three weeks later, the tragedy of the ships became the subject of an inquiry from MP Lipron. He accused the government that if the Struma were an enemy ship, then Germans, Italians or Japanese would surely be interned and held until the end of the war, while it refused to do so with regard to Jewish refugees.

Mr. Macmillan, assistant secretary at the Department of Colonies, said in response, "We must not take action that is contrary to our policy on illegal immigration." Secretary of State Lord Cranborne cynically remarked: "The situation in which the world is today, it is necessary to some extent to get used to such atrocities."

It was as if everyone conspired against the Jews. Even the chief of the Swiss police, Rotmund, who ordered on 13 August 1942 to grant asylum to political emigrants, warned that "refugees for racial reasons will not be considered as such."

Churchill admitted with difficulty: "The Jews were the first victims of Hitler and from the very beginning were on the front line of the struggle against National Socialism." The matter did not go beyond these words. On March 23, 1943, a debate took place in the House of Lords on the issue of the salvation of the Jews, but the gates of Palestine remained closed to them after that. Nevertheless, between 1939 and 1945, some 90,000 Jews made their way to Palestine illegally.

The words of Ben-Gurion, spoken by him in 1943, sound like pain and anger: “You, the peoples who preach the ideals of freedom and justice, who consider themselves defenders of democracy and champions of social progress, why do not rush to help, seeing how relentlessly and mercilessly our blood? Why are you mocking our grief by giving cheap and meaningless condolences? "

In order to avoid exposing our own, perhaps subjective, views on the role of the Atikan in the tragedy of the Jews, we will present to the reader's court several reliable evidence on this issue.

Here is the content of the speech of the former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. G. Rieger (Geneva), delivered in the Church of St. Anna in Dresden and entitled "Warnings Heard by Only a Few - Actions of the World Jewish Congress in Hitler's Times" (we quote from Signs of Light - a collection of joint works of the Catholic Church and the synagogue of March 5, 1986): "First of all, he said, that he is very excited that after 52 years he can again turn to the German people. He left his hometown Berlin and Germany in 1933, when he and his family were expelled on the basis of the “Aryan paragraph” of the Nuremberg Law. People's underestimation of the events was characteristic of that time. Many thought that National Socialism was just an episode, and only a few understood that Nazism knew no boundaries, either moral or ethical.

As vice-chairman of the Congress, Dr. Rieger spoke primarily about the attitude towards the Atikan. The first contacts between Congress and the Atican were established only in 1942, in the face of impending tragedy. As a result, the Vatican intervened in the events taking place in Slovakia, and there was a short lull. However, this did not happen in other countries, primarily in Germany.

The second stage began after the appeal of the US government in the fall of 1942 to the Atikan with a request to confirm the information about the extermination of the Jews. Atican's secretary, Cardinal Maglioni, replied that he did not believe there was evidence to support these serious concerns.

In the months that followed, the Vatican received numerous reports confirming suspicions of an ongoing "extermination of Jews through massacre." In December 1942, a statement by the allied countries was published, publicly condemning the "extermination" of the Jews. A similar statement came from the Polish government in exile. The governments of the United States and many Latin American countries demanded a public condemnation (declaration) from the pope. Pius XII, in his speech on the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, delivered by him in 1942 on the Vatican radio, described the situation, but did not emphasize the special position of the Jews. According to the assistant, the condemnation was "very bold"; from the point of view of today, it can be called “extremely weak”.

The reaction of the Anglican Church in England to the extermination of the Jews was extremely convincing. 1944 this church provided effective assistance to Hungarian Jews during their deportation. Thanks to the intervention of the Atikan and the Hungarian Church, many Jews were saved in Hungary. However, according to Dr. Rieger, Vatican diplomacy has failed to grasp the tragedy of the situation. The position of the interim sevenfold Council of Churches was completely different, with two personalities deserving special mention: the later Secretary General of the Council, Issert Hooft, and his predecessor in this post, the German diplomat, pastor of the confessional church Adolf Freudenberg, who led the provision of assistance to refugees. unlike the atican, the sevenfold Council of Churches constantly maintained an exchange of information with the sevenfold Jewish congress. "

The historical truth about the help that the Poles provided to the Jews is sometimes distorted for various reasons. A classic example of document manipulation is Stefan Krakowski's essay “Polish Society and the Hiding Jewish Fugitives, 1942–1944”. November 1984 at the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies in Oxford the First International Conference on Polish-Jewish Relations in the Light of Modern History was held. And this is how S. Krakowski sees these relations.

The primary sources on which he relied are diaries, stories, memoirs of the surviving Jews and Poles who contacted the hiding Jews or witnessed the help provided to them. Clandestine literature composes additional material. The studies did not take into account the Arshava district and the territories belonging to the Germans, but the situation on the lands of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth within the borders before 1938 was analyzed, which determines the statistics given by the author. After all, S. Krakowski was well aware that Bendera exterminated thousands of Poles there, and tens of thousands more fled. There are too few Poles left in these territories to reproach them with a bad attitude towards Jews.

Despite this, being themselves exposed to mortal danger, the Poles, to the best of their ability, helped the persecuted Jews. from, for example, the testimony of Adam Landesberg: “Especially in the eastern territories Ukrainian gangs prowled, betraying people to the Germans, killing and robbing. In this area, near Zholkiev, the Polish village of Kosteyev constantly helped the Jews. People from this village gave food to the hungry, and clothes to the naked. "

Another example: in Lviv, in his house on Stryiskaya Street, Joseph Sokha hid several dozen people, and after the end of the war he did not want to hear about any reward, considering it his Christian duty. Such cases, most likely, were not taken into account by the author of the abstract.

In the abstract, 2000 documents were examined, 1000 cases that occurred in 767 settlements were described. Based on this by no means indicative material, Krakowski came to the following conclusions: thanks to the help provided by the Poles, 2,652 people of Jewish nationality were saved. The number of identified Poles who were hiding or assisting in hiding Jews is 965. 80 Poles were shot for helping Jews.

The number of identified Jews killed or extradited by the Poles to the Germans is 3,037. Murders of Jews by the underground (the National Armed Forces and, in part, the Home Army) were recorded in 120 settlements, including those committed by the "AK people" after the formal liquidation of the AK in January 1945.

Based on such arbitrarily analyzed data, the author of the abstract summarizes: “Therefore, we consider ourselves empowered to emphasize that while most of the crimes against hiding Jewish fugitives were committed by underground organizations, acts of aid to Jews were, for the most part, individual in nature, based on good the will of benefactors and were not associated with the actions of the underground. Based on the total number of crimes and violence, the role of the Polish underground cannot but be assessed as definitely negative. "

It is difficult to find a suitable definition for this "scientific work", despite the fact that this kind of public speaking is not unique.

Describing the martyrdom of the Jewish people on Polish lands, one cannot but touch upon the question of the assistance rendered by the Poles to the persecuted Jews. How can one explain that aid to Jews in the territories occupied by the Germans, including Poland, was so small?

This problem was solved differently in different countries. This depended on many circumstances, including whether the country was a "subject" of the occupier, what was the standard of living of its inhabitants, who was in charge of the state.

Poland was not doing well. After 123 years of dependence on other powers, it was necessary to unite the people, restore the very foundations of the state, economic and other systems. The country was destroyed by the war, remained deeply backward, poor, inhabited by citizens of different nationalities, including representatives of the large Jewish community. Over the twenty-year period, the Polish government has done a lot for the country, but also made many mistakes in the national and confessional politics... power was commanded by the army with the support of the bourgeoisie and the Catholic Church.

The pastoral message of Cardinal Hland, the head of the Church in 1936, gives us an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the position of the Polish Church in relation to Jews: “The Jewish problem exists and will continue to exist as long as Jews are Jews ... The fact that Jews are opposed to the Catholic Church are free-thinkers, the vanguard of godlessness, the Bolshevik movement and subversive work. The fact is that Jewish influence on morals is pernicious, and their institutions and publishers are promoting pornography. It is also true that the Jews are engaged in deception, usury, trade in human goods. It is also true that in schools, the influence of Jewish youth on the Catholic, in religious and moral terms, in most cases is negative. But let's be fair. Not all Jews are like that. Many Jews are believers, decent, just, merciful, doing good. many Jewish families have a warm, healthy atmosphere. We know that in the Jewish environment there are people who are morally outstanding, noble and respectable. "

Here is an example of traditional Roman Catholic anti-Judaism, which condemns the use of violence against Jews, as distinct from ethnic anti-Semitism and racism. We can say that the pre-war Church was popular and national with a nationalist and anti-Jewish bias.

Professor Raoul Hilberg, who appears in the film Shoah the main expert witness, says: “From the very beginning, Christians said to Jews: 'You cannot live among us as Jews.' The secular authorities at the end of the Middle Ages decided: "You cannot live among us." Finally, the Nazis proclaimed: "You cannot live."

The society of pre-war Poland, the vast majority of which was Catholic, was under anti-Semitic influence imposed by the clergy, the episcopate and its press organs. The Polish authorities saw a partial solution to the problem of unemployment and control by Jews over various spheres of economic life in their mass emigration to Palestine.

A few decades later, Israel found itself in a similar situation with the Arab population. During the war with the Arabs in 1967-1968. some 500,000 Palestinians were forcibly evicted. Israeli media reported that 22 % Israelis considers the "best way" to "get rid" of Palestinians who are Israeli citizens. This percentage turns out to be much higher when it comes to the eviction of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and from the west bank of the Jordan River.

This kind of practice, regardless of who is doing it, cannot be justified. But, looking back decades later, it can be argued that the various kinds of pressure exerted before the Second World War on Eastern European Jews, including Polish ones, forcing them to emigrate, was an attempt on the part of God to save them from inevitable destruction. It can only be regretted that only a small number of Jews took advantage of this chance.

The Red Army, entering the eastern territories of the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the basis of the Ribentrop-Molotov Pact, met with an enthusiastic welcome from the local Jewish poor, which is natural, since this was a temporary salvation for it. But it is also necessary to understand the Poles, who saw the treacherous behavior of Jews, former citizens of the Polish state. In this situation, it was not possible to refute the many fabrications and exaggerations about Jews, as well as to provide evidence that Jewish traitors made up a negligible percentage compared to other nationalities.

An active position on the side of the Stalinist regime, taken by Jews apostate from the religion of Moses, cast a shadow on all representatives of this people, inciting the local population against them. To some extent, this explains the fact that when the Germans entered the aforementioned Polish territories on June 22, 1941, part of the local population accepted them with joy as deliverers from the Bolshevik regime. In Brest over the Bug, prisoners released from Soviet prisons staged pogroms of local Jews.

This incident conveys the atmosphere of those days. Rumors about the position taken by the Jews during the Soviet occupation were exaggerated, and all the crimes committed by the Stalinist regime were attributed to the Jews. This partly explains the indifference and even hostility of the population towards Jews.

On September 25, 1941, the commander-in-chief of the AK, General Groth-Rovetsky, reported in a telegram to the government in London: "It is a real fact that the vast majority of the country's population is anti-Semitic ... Anti-Semitism is widespread in the country."

In August 1942, the writer Sophia Kossak wrote on behalf of a small Catholic group, the Polish Renaissance Front, in a brochure called Protest: “Whoever is silent, seeing how a murder is being committed, becomes an accomplice in the murder. He who does not condemn allows him ... We, Polish Catholics, want to speak out. Our feelings towards Jews have not changed. We never cease to consider them as political, economic and ideological enemies of Poland. Moreover, we realize that they hate us more than the Germans, and that they blame us for their misfortunes. Why, on what basis - remains a secret of the Jewish soul, although this is a confirmed fact. However, the awareness of these feelings does not free us from the condemnation of crimes. "

This position of well-known representatives of Polish society simplifies the problem. The fact is that the majority of Poles turned out to be indifferent to the trouble of the Jews. But indifference is not an accomplice in a crime or a manifestation of anti-Semitism. However, many Jews, researching this issue today, do not notice this.

In Poland, in contrast to other countries occupied by German troops, from the very beginning of the occupation, power was seized by the German administration, which, with methodological precision, carried out all the orders of the Ermacht. Only those who survived the heat of the occupation can understand the terrible and difficult conditions in which the majority of the population of the occupied countries was. Let us emphasize that a significant part of it did not help the persecuted Jews, which was explained not so much by anti-Semitism as by the disorientation of an ordinary resident, his low consciousness and enlightenment, but most often - by fear of revenge of the occupier. Therefore, today one should not draw too hasty and superficial conclusions about people who lived both on one side and on the other side of the ghetto walls; it was a time of great ordeal.

Only individual Jews could escape death, while no one was able to save the people as a whole; only those who left the country could change the course of events. No one has the right to demand that a person give his own life to save his neighbor. And this, alas, was the price of saving the Jews. It was necessary to prepare in advance not only for his own death, but also for the death of his entire family. But many Poles have chosen this path.

We will end our reflections on this problem with the words of the outstanding Polish writer Andrzejewski: “For all honest Poles, the fate of the dying Jews was especially painful, because people were dying, whom our people had no right to look into the eyes directly and with a clear conscience. Poles and Poles dying for freedom, the Polish people could boldly look into the eyes. Jews dying in a burning ghetto - no! "

However, contrary to this statement, let's try to face the truth and find a reason for optimism in the scraps of the history of those years. of all the occupied countries, individual citizens rushed to the aid of the Jews. But it was only in Poland that this assistance became centralized, covering the entire territory of the country. Someone will ask: why did it happen so late? Most likely, because then no one could have foreseen that the genocide would acquire unprecedented proportions in history.

Above, we have already talked about the creation in 1942 of a department on the Jewish question and a temporary committee for aid to Jews named after Konrad Zegota. On December 4, 1942, with the cooperation of political parties, the government office established the Council for Aid to Jews “Zhegota”. The head of the "Jewish department" Vitold Benkovsky was elected as a delegate of the representation to the Council.

The importance that Poland's representation in emigration attached to the Jewish question is evidenced by the notes made by Benkowski in 1948: “As the head of the egota department, I got a direct connection with the Civil Struggle Directorate, the Finance Department, the Main Headquarters of the Home Army, and with all information channels (radio, field mail, emissaries). This fact (the only case in the structure of our secret state administration) testifies to a very serious attitude towards the problem of the Jews. While party leaders and high-ranking officials waited for weeks on radio to communicate with London, during the Warsaw Uprising in the ghetto, seven times a day, I could broadcast news from the scene to London. When it comes to sentencing blackmailers to death, I was given special powers. I personally signed 117 death sentences, of which 89 were carried out ... The Zhegota Department held an important position in political terms ... The organization of the Department covered all structures dealing with the Jewish question: politics (domestic and foreign), intelligence, social assistance. " ...

The Zhegota Council for Aid to Jews had financial, housing, ideological, children's departments, a clothing department, as well as a provincial affairs, documentation department and a department for combating blackmail. In the spring of 1943, the Council's activities were organized in Krakow and Lvov, as well as in Radom, Endzheev, Czestochowa, Skarzysk-Kamennaya, Petrkow Trybunalsky, Tarnov, Przemysl, Sanok, Lublin, Zamosti and other cities.

On the basis of the story of F. Archinsky, the head of finance at “Zhegota,” let us outline, for example, the scope of action of some of its departments. The Department of Ideology, through a network of correspondents, received information about the extermination of Jews, about Jews who fled and hiding, their needs and well-being. Bulletins were published and received by the authorities, political parties and the underground press. 1943 three pamphlets with a circulation of 25,000 were published, and one more in German, under the guise of a publication of the German Resistance movement; the brochures were distributed among the Germans and in their institutions. The brochures described the scale of Nazi crimes and called on the public to help the dying Jews. The brochure "A Year in Treblinka" was published in 2000 copies, and the collection of poetry "From the Abyss" - in 3000 copies. Both brochures were distributed not only in the country, but were also sent to the West.

The reports sent abroad were supposed to inform the public in the West and cause special repressions against Germany by the Allies. But all efforts were in vain. For example, one of the dispatches sent during the liquidation of the ghetto contained a call for revenge for the murders of Jews. The explanation received was as follows: "the air forces of the N-military unit are not called upon to perform acts of revenge, but are called upon to perform exclusively combat missions."

The Zhegota children's department took care of a thousand and more Jewish children and teenagers.

Zhegota is believed to have patronized over 20,000 Jews. In Warsaw and its environs, the department of documentation issued false documents to all wards of Jews, including certificates of birth, death, church wedding, registration, etc. On average, about 100 personal documents were issued per day. Moreover, this department served in Warsaw the local branches of the Council of the whole country, issuing "blind" documents, that is, forms without names and surnames, which were entered locally. Before the start of the Warsaw Uprising, in 1944, 50,000 documents were produced, of which 80% were for hiding Jews.

The finance department received subsidies from the dealership with funds sent by the government from London. Here are just a few general data.

During the two years of operation of "Zegota" 90% of the costs were borne by the Polish authorities, and 10% - by Jewish organizations abroad. From October 1942 to August 1944, Polish paratroopers ("quiet-dark") delivered 420,000 dollars for the needs of the Bund, equivalent to 30,000,000 occupation zlotys. Evidence suggests that financial aid from Western Jews began to arrive in greater numbers when fewer Polish Jews were left alive. the treasure of the dealership was very significant. At the same time, the representative office had huge expenses for various purposes (including military ones), while financial subsidies from the Polish government in London were limited, since it itself waged a war with the Germans with money received mainly from the allies on credit ... This is the truth about some of the forms of aid given to Jews. However, there remain whole areas that have not yet been and, it seems, will never be explored, since the darkness of oblivion has covered many events, and there are fewer and fewer living witnesses.

Who, then, can establish the exact number of Jews saved by the Poles, or say how many Poles died, giving them shelter or food? Witnesses confirm that there was not even a day in the Warsaw ghetto when at least a few “smugglers” transferring food to the ghetto were not shot. It must be remembered that since March 1941, the Nazis excluded Jews from the city's system of shopping for Arshava. Nevertheless, the Poles delivered more than 250 tons of food per day to the ghetto, and this at a time when hunger reigned in most Polish cities (including Lvov and Warsaw).

It should also be emphasized that before the action of the Lublin Gestapo under the leadership of Hoffle, that is, until September 13, 1942, mainly thanks to the Poles, the workshops working in the ghetto had raw materials and could sell their products, that is, the Jews had Job. What can we say about the help with weapons, thanks to which a handful of ghetto defenders were able to hold out for quite a long time in the fight against the well-armed and experienced Nazis!

Is it possible to calculate how many Polish families hid Jews in their homes without any outside help, because few people had the opportunity to contact the conspiratorial organizations of the Resistance or “Zhegota”. Can someone who did not survive the occupation imagine how a family hiding Jews provided themselves with food, fearing the increased volume of purchases to attract the attention of others?

In addition, it happened that a person hiding without permission, without the knowledge of the "guardian", temporarily left his shelter, as was the case, for example, in Ossov near Warsaw with the Jew Shapiro, the "ward" of Zelenkevich, who, being caught, led the Gestapo to his shelter. Only Shapiro's wife and son miraculously escaped death: they managed to escape, but Zelenkevich was executed. Under similar circumstances, priests of the Pauline Order in Lvov died.

Rumors of these events exacerbated feelings of anxiety and danger. Today it is very difficult to put oneself in the shoes of those whom the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem calls “the righteous of the peoples of the world”. And it is not for nothing that such an honorary title was given to only a few.

In 1941, only in one of the occupied countries - in Poland - the death penalty was threatened for providing not only shelter, but also food to a Jew. Not a single Belgian or Frenchman died for this "crime" in the West. In order to imagine a picture of the reigning terror in Poland, we will describe some of the tragedies that took place then.

As the reports of the Main Commission for the Study of Hitler's Crimes in Poland in 1968 show, 343 Poles died for helping Jews, of whom 243 victims were identified, among them 64 women and 42 children. These figures are greatly underestimated, based on the results of new research, we can speak of more than 900 Poles who died for helping Jews, which is confirmed by the Jewish Historical Institute.

In three parts of the book Those who help Who Saved ”), published in 1993, 1996, 1997, not only lists the names of the awardees in Jerusalem. There is a list of 704 Poles executed by the Nazis for helping Jews during World War II. This list has not yet been completed, research continues.

The Pope canonized Father Maximilian Kolbe for saving the Jews in Auschwitz. For such acts, many Poles were executed, who showed no less heroism. But few Poles (and Jews) remember them, especially their orphaned families.

Here are some examples of such heroism: On December 6, 1942, in the village of Chepelovo-Stare (Kieleckie Voivodeship), for hiding Jews, the SS department burned three Polish families in their homes (a total of 23 people, 15 of them children). In Warsaw, two families from Grojecka Street - Marczaki and Olskie - perished in a similar way. They were members of egota and gave shelter to more than thirty Jews, including the Warsaw ghetto historian Dr. E. Ringelblum (1900-1944) who had escaped from the concentration camp. On March 7, 1944, everyone who was in the apartment - both Poles and Jews - was shot. Iosif Ardzinsky hid a group of local Jews in the village of Yerkhoviska near Lublin. While checking the buildings, the Nazis found Jews and shot them. During the skirmish (the Jews defended themselves as long as there was enough ammunition), the owner managed to escape. He was hiding in the forest with the surviving Jews and the Russians who had escaped from captivity. During the raid in the Minkowice forest, all but two people were killed. Ardzinsky died on July 9, 1943, he was shot in a tree where he was hiding. In the village of Karchmiska (Lublin Voivodeship) S. Ishnevskaya and her 12-year-old sister Sofia, as well as the family of S. Marchinyak, whose farm was burned down, died for helping Jews. Naftaline (Yastkov district), together with the hiding Jew Naftali Bruter, was executed by S. Kasiora, and in Tomashovitsy the families of Petrak and Ismul were executed for helping Jews. On December 10, 1942, Ladislav Abramek, Joseph Aftyka (54 years old), Anela (52 years old), Marianna (14 years old), Sofia (17 years old) died in Oli-Przybyslavskaya (Lublin Voivodeship). These examples clearly illustrate the degree of dedication of those unrecognized heroes.

The Righteous Among the Nations medal, which the Institute of People's Memory (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem) awards to those who saved Jews, is indirect evidence of the attitude of the occupied peoples towards the persecuted Jews. These medals are not awarded posthumously, nor are those who do not claim them themselves. Many of those still living remain unnamed heroes, not looking for any rewards. How many have already died? The greatest reward for them is a clear conscience and consciousness to the end of the fulfilled duty.

From the documents, as well as from the comparison of the number of awardees from different countries, it follows that the Poles constitute the largest group (if we correlate the number of awardees with the population, then the Dutch are in first place).

But it's not about numbers. The significance of these data, unfortunately, is underestimated by those who should remember them and many other facts of the more than 800-year history of Jews in Poland.

A separate topic is the gratitude of those saved to their benefactors, and far from everything has been done here. The famous Jewish poet Chaim Hefer invites us to reflect on this in the poem "The Righteous of the World".

... At the sound of these words - their saviors
I remembered, and seized with a harsh doubt:
When a whirlwind of that hatred roared around, -
Would I be able to hide strangers under my stepfather's roof?

To risk, to death, I would doom my family
And the soul - for discord, for the darkness of sleepless nights?
I would be able to curb my thought and my speech
Before everyone around - in greetings, in bows?

Like this - after an hour an hour, like this - after a year a year,
Afraid of informers, I would be able to chill -
For a grateful look that will only flicker at the end,
For words of warmth, for a moment of handshake?

There is no payment for good. There are no awards for loyalty.
And it is a small honor to give the surplus to strangers.
Only on the worst day will you see who your brother is,
Learning about sincere love firsthand.

And again I search - and I find the answer:
To be able to become so not in words, in deeds!
After all, in order for me to survive, to see the sun's light, -
They despised death and looked into her eyes.

For courage in the dark hour, for your highest talent -
For the warmth of the soul - bow to you, sincere brothers.
Oh you, who do not let the sky fall, like Atlas, -
O Righteous One! I want to give you praise!

The nightmare experienced during the occupation instilled in the consciousness of the peoples, including the Poles, the desire for peace, security and stability. However, the current situation in the country has postponed these prospects for several years. This happened as a result of changes in the social order. The extreme left forces, which, at the behest of Moscow, took power in the country, liquidated the existing structures of the underground state. They filled prisons with tens of thousands of former soldiers of the Home Army, and tens of thousands more were deported to Siberia by the repressive organs of the USSR. During this time, many irreparable mistakes were made in national policy, including in relation to the Jews.

In the struggle for power, the opposing forces tried to play on anti-Semitism, especially since Hitler's policy and propaganda left traces in the minds of some citizens.

In such circumstances, it was not difficult to incite the crowd to anti-Jewish protests and even pogroms. Such pogroms took place in Krakow (August 11, 1945), Rzheshov (July 4, 1946), in Kielce (on the same day). they killed 40 Jews. According to one of the versions, the reason for the last pogrom was the deliberate hiding in the basement of the eight-year-old Henrik Blashik, according to another, his father allegedly sent him to the village. The boy was told to say that the Jews kept him in the cellar of the house on the street. Planty, 7, in Kielce. As the state press agency later reported, the instigators, dressed in the uniforms of the army of General Anders (the Polish army in the West), seemed to be shouting: “Beat the Jews! Long live the government in exile! Long live the Leader! "

Rabbi D. Kagan determines the number of those who participated in this pogrom at 2,000 and describes the whole event in this way: “The Jews locked themselves in the house and were ready to defend their lives with the weapons they had. At 12 o'clock a group of armed militiamen under the command of a sergeant arrived. Blakhuta ... who ordered to surrender the weapon to him ... and go out into the yard. When the Jews refused to obey, Blakhut began to beat them on the heads with the handle of a pistol, shouting ... The investigation established that Blakhut was the only police officer sent from the police station, and his assistants were “murderers from the crowd”.

A person familiar with this case will ask with surprise, what did the local and central authorities do, who were, of course, informed about this event? Is it possible that in a voivodship town with a large garrison of troops, militia, security services, during the riots, only policeman Blahut acted, and even in this way? The "case" launched against the alleged perpetrators of the events looked more like a farce (like other similar trials of those dark times).

The Catholic Church, in the Krakow newspaper Seosobshich Weekly, condemned both the Kielce pogrom and anti-Semitism in general. A week after these events, on July 11, 1946, Archbishop Primate Hland, condemning the pogrom, concluded his statement with the following words: “The Poles, themselves being exterminated, supported the Jews, sheltered them and saved them at risk to their own lives. Many Jews in Poland owe their lives to Poles and Polish priests. The responsibility for the fact that this good attitude towards Jews is changing falls largely on those Jews who today hold leading government posts in Poland and seek to impose on Poland a social order that the overwhelming majority of the people do not want. This is a dangerous and stressful game. Unfortunately, Jews die in these clashes in the political struggle, but many Poles also die. "

Historian Christina Kersten in the weekly "Solidarity" (1981, no. 36) in the article "Kielce, July 4, 1946" claims that this provocation was the work of the special services and remains an unsolved secret of the then authorities of the People's Republic of Poland. This opinion is also shared by Michal Khentzinski in his book. Professor I. Gutman from Jerusalem comments on this hypothesis as follows: “The author, familiar with the activities of the secret services from the inside, sees most of the political events in Poland after the war as a consequence of the intervention of these services. The Kelecki pogrom is also connected with the secret services ... ”.

At the same time, rumors spread that this provocation was organized by the Zionists (agents of "Briha") in order to rush Polish Jews to emigrate to Israel as part of the "aliyah bet" campaign. There is no need to justify the absurdity of this opinion.

Other events with pain in the heart are the killing of Jews by Poles after 1944. I. Gutman in his book, referring to an "internal circular of the Polish government", claims that by the end of 1945 341 Jews were killed in Poland. He estimates the number of Jews killed by the summer of 1947 at about 1,000. For a reason known only to him, he uses the "approximate" method of calculation, although at that time the bureaus for the registration of population movements were already clearly functioning and the authorities registered all cases that could be used in the fight against political opponents. Gutman makes another dubious argument.

In a conversation with reporters who came with Hoover (former US president), Polish President Boleslav Bierut said that "there is no way to establish an exact figure, but several hundred Jews were killed during the year by the remnants of anti-Semitic organizations that are illegal in Poland." under normal conditions, even such an approximate figure reported by a high-ranking statesman would have been significant, but not in Poland at that time, and besides, expressed for political purposes by such an ambiguous person as Boleslav Bierut, called the Polish Stalin. The PUWP declared at the 1989 congress that “Boleslav Bierut ... has inspired numerous trials and harsh sentences. On his initiative, groundless arrests and falsified accusations of groups of leading leaders of the PRP were carried out ... ”.

A scientist of the magnitude of Professor Gutmann should know how often Jewish blood was used for political purposes. Therefore, you should not make final conclusions based on such "evidence".

There are objective difficulties in determining the actual number of Polish Jews who escaped extermination by the Nazis. Many thousands of them, for various reasons, mostly personal, were still in the USSR. A significant part at the end of the war ended up in concentration camps in Germany and never returned to the country. Many of those who survived the occupation with the help of "Aryan papers" (passports) broke with Judaism and either left for the West or assimilated inside the country. Both of them did not come into contact with the Jewish communities. Jewish collaborators who wanted to leave for the West as soon as possible did not register in the communities. The data received from the branches of Jewish organizations in Poland are approximate and do not completely answer the question of who, when and how was saved. The results of the studies carried out by the Poles are incomplete and contradictory.

As of October 10, 1944, the Sector for Assistance to the Jewish Population under the Committee for National Liberation had registered only 8,000 Jews in Lublin and other settlements in that part of the voivodeship that was liberated by the Red Army. On November 4, 1944, the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CCEP) was established. In July 1946, 244,964 Jews already lived in Poland, including from February to June 1946, 136,550 people were repatriated on the basis of an agreement on repatriation between Poland and the USSR. Another 108,000 are Jews who either survived the occupation or by February 1946 found themselves in Poland as a result of illegal repatriation from Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania. According to the Presidium of the CCEP, in 1945 about 40,000 Jews managed to get into Poland in this way.

In the 1920s, when England restricted the entry of Jews into Palestine, “aliyah bet” (“second aliyah”, ie illegal) was proclaimed to support illegal immigration. There were also "alia gimel" and "dalet" (from the following letters of the Hebrew alphabet) - emigration on fake IDs or through their multiple use by different persons. In the 1930s, aliyah bet smuggled emigrants mainly from Germany and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. To do this, she created underground groups called "Briha" (Hebrew "flight", "unexpected departure" to Eretz Yisrael - "the land of Israel").

As early as November 1945, Briha's agents organized the illegal emigration of Jews from Poland. Since February 1946, they have removed more than 10,000 Jews by truck. In the same place, with the repatriation from the USSR, the “big aliyah” also began, especially after the arrival of the last echelons of the repatriated (June - July 1946) and after the Kielce pogrom that took place at that time. Out of a quarter of a million Jews, by the spring of 1947, only 100,000 remained in Poland.

During the repatriation of the Germans from Szczecin to the British zone, "Briha" added to their trains carriages with Jews (about 700 people) who had fake documents, from which it followed that they were citizens of the former Third Reich. In the refugee camps in Germany there were over 200,000 Jews (most of them from Poland), waiting there for the "opening of the gates of Palestine."

The difficulties that the mandate authorities created for the Jews, after the horrific experiences of the war years, who tried to get to Palestine, should be described separately. A striking example is the fate of the passengers on the St. Louis ship, which the British returned to Hamburg.

After the UN decision to partition Palestine, the Zionists launched the "Fund for Assistance to the Fighting Palestine" campaign. All Jewish organizations operating in Poland, including the communist Jewish faction of the Polish Workers' Party, by September 1948 had raised almost 113 million zlotys for this Fund. In addition, volunteers were recruited into the Haganah, who, after retraining with legal passports, were sent to Palestine. For this purpose, a military training camp was established in Bolkovo near Zelena Gora. as a result of a campaign to recruit and train volunteers for the Haganah, about 3,200 Jews ended up there.

In November 1945, the organization "Hehaluts" ("Pioneer") with its center in Warsaw resumed its activities. 1948 Kibbutzim in Lower Silesia, in which more than 2,000 Halucians were concentrated, received an allowance from the government in the amount of about 40,000,000 zlotys. They prepared Jewish youth for the work and struggle ahead in Palestine.

In 1944-1956. in People's Poland, Jews had free access to the highest political, administrative and economic posts. A Jewish minister, general, voivode, judge, prosecutor, police chief, head of the Security Committee, director were not uncommon. More than a dozen Jewish organizations, including Zionist ones, operated legally. these years more than 12 Jewish newspapers were published.

In January 1949, the US government recognized the State of Israel de jure and provided it with a $ 1,000,000,000 loan. The hopes for the education of “Jewish Soviet Republic"In Palestine, Israel did not become" a socialist island in the capitalist world. " The Communist Party of Israel in the 1949 elections to the Knesset, which consisted of 120 deputies, received 4 mandates. But this did not stop the Polish authorities from issuing 40,000 passports for emigration to Israel. Until 1950, several tens of thousands of Jews emigrated from Poland legally and illegally.

At the turn of 1949/50. The CCEP and its local committees were declared nationalist and transformed into the "Social and Cultural Society of Jews" (OCOE). At the same time, by decree of the Minister of Public Administration of December 13, 1949, the deadlines for the liquidation of all Zionist parties and organizations were determined.

The last tragedy of Jews in post-war Poland happened in 1968, after student protests in March. The reason was the six-day Israeli-Arab war and the associated severance of diplomatic relations with Israel by the entire communist bloc (with the exception of Romania) and the growth of anti-Semitism in these countries, which took the form of a struggle against "Zionism and cosmopolitanism."

To justify the anti-Semitic campaign, the authorities referred to the fact that many Jews in the country then took a critical position in relation to the policy of the Polish government, that they demonstratively expressed support for "Israel's aggression against the Arab countries", that emigrants from Poland were even in top positions in the Israeli army , including officers.

As already mentioned, mass student protests became the reason for the reprisal against Zionism. On March 8, 1968, a peaceful meeting of Warsaw University students was dispersed by militia and auxiliary services. This was the beginning of rallies and strikes in almost all universities, which were also suppressed by force. The propaganda pointedly pointed to the student organizers of these events, who came from the families of certain influential persons, especially of Jewish origin, who by that time had lost their social and political posts.

This is how 20 years later the organ of the Central Committee of the Party "Tribuna Lyuda" of March 2, 1986 illuminates the background of these events: administrations, including those in the punitive organs, were occupied by citizens of Jewish origin. The memory of the lawlessness of those years, the violations of the law and the perpetrators of those actions remained in the minds of the Polish public. On this basis, it was easy to accept in 1968 the statement that "a group alien to the Polish people was the source of all evil." speech of June 19, 1967, the secretary of the Central Committee of the party, Gomulka, even used the expression "5th column". But on his own initiative, on June 24, 1968, it was forbidden to emphasize in the press the theme of Zionism and the Jewish origin of the participants in the March events. As a result, personal scores were settled, people were divided according to their origin. Many even distinguished Jews were removed from various areas of life, regardless of their political position. "

On this wave in 1968-1971. about 13,000 Jews left Poland. Today the Jewish community numbers several thousand.

In thinking about the Jewish question, one cannot ignore the situation of Soviet Jews. Today we can talk about circumstances that until recently were surrounded by a wall of silence. However, in this book there is no opportunity to cover with sufficient completeness the problem of Jews in the USSR. Therefore, we will focus on a few questions. One of them is the position of the Jews in a system for which some of them developed a theoretical basis, while others actively contributed to its implementation. 1920 out of 22 people's commissars, 17 were Jews. the military commissariat of 43 members, 33 are Jews. the rest of the commissariats, they made up from 80 to 100% of the members.

Paul Johnson, in The History of the Jews, comments on this situation: “Immediately before the First World War, during and after it, 'non-Jewish' Jews were significant figures in every revolutionary party and in every European country. They played a major role in the uprisings that followed the defeat of Germany and Austria. Bela Kuhn (1886-1939) was the dictator of the communist regime that came to power in Hungary from March to August 1919. Kurt Eisner (1867-1919) led the revolutionary uprising in Bavaria in November 1918 and led the republic for 4 months until he was killed. The assassination of Rosa Luxemburg, the former "brain" of the revolutionary Berlin group "Spartacus", took place a few weeks before the assassination of Eisner.

But the most striking and revealing example of the identification of some Jews with revolutionary violence was Russia. The strategist of the coup that gave power to the Bolsheviks in October 1917 was a gentile Lenin. But the executor was Lev Davidovich Trotsky (Bronstein). His father was a Ukrainian peasant or, as the prosperous peasants later came to be called, a “kulak,” Trotsky himself was the “fruit” of the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Odessa (he went to a Lutheran school). Trotsky argued that neither Judaism nor anti-Semitism influenced the development of his personality. But this is not true. his attacks on the Jewish Bundists at the Second Congress of the RSDLP in London in 1903 were something unnatural, close to hatred. These attacks caused the Bundists to leave the meeting, as a result of which the Bolsheviks won. Trotsky called Herzl a "shameless brawler", a "dubious type." Like Rosa Luxemburg, he did not want to notice the suffering of the Jews. During the time when Trotsky was in power, he constantly refused to receive Jewish delegations. Like other "non-Jewish" Jews, he suppressed his feelings for his own family, as required by his political position. He was not interested in the misfortunes of his own father, who lost everything during the revolution and later died of typhus.

Trotsky's unrealized sense of belonging to his own nation was transformed into the ruthless, volcanic energy of a revolutionary. It is unlikely that without him the Bolshevik revolution could have won and survived. It was Trotsky who pointed out to Lenin the significance of the Workers' Councils and taught how to use them. It was Trotsky who organized and led the armed uprising that overthrew the belt government and granted power to the Bolsheviks. It was Trotsky who formed the Red Army and led it until 1925, he helped physically withstand the communist regime during the Civil War. Trotsky more than anyone else embodied the violence and demonic power of Bolshevism in his intention to "set the whole world on fire." And more than anyone else is responsible for the widespread identification of the revolution with the Jews.

For Jews, the consequences - both immediate and remote, locally and globally - are tragic. The troops of the White Army, in an effort to deal with the Bolshevik regime, all Jews were considered enemies. In Ukraine, the civil war degenerated into the largest pogrom in Jewish history. More than a thousand individual killings of Jews have been recorded, persecutions, during which 60 to 70 thousand Jews were killed, affected more than 700 Jewish communities in Ukraine and several hundred in Russia.

In eastern European countries, the identification of Jews with the Bolsheviks led to criminal attacks on Jewish communities. The persecution of Jews in Poland after the Bolshevik invasion and in Hungary after the fall of the Bela Kun regime were especially bloody. The persecution of the Jews continued for 10 years (1920–1930). In all these countries, the communist parties were most often created and led by "non-Jewish" Jews, and traditional Jewish believers from ghettos and townships, not connected with politics, paid the price.

The tragic irony is that ordinary Jews did not get any benefit from the revolution, on the contrary, their situation deteriorated significantly. Kerensky's government in power recognized all civil rights for Jews, including the right to organize their own political parties and cultural institutions. In Ukraine, Jews became members of the belt government; the Jew was in charge of a special ministry of Jewish affairs. In Lithuania, which the Bolsheviks did not manage to occupy until 1940, guarantees for national minorities were effective, and the position of the Jewish community between the First and Second World Wars was the best in all of Eastern Europe. For Jews, the Bolshevik coup turned back the clock of history, and the Bolshevik regime became a misfortune. At first, Lenin and his supporters equated anti-Semitism with counter-revolution. The Council of People's Commissars in a decree of July 27, 1918 ordered "all Soviets of Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Deputies to take steps that would lead to the destruction of the anti-Semitic movement and its roots." The government published a speech by Lenin condemning anti-Semitism. These sluggish efforts were canceled out by Lenin's fierce attack on the "exploiters" and "democrats", which referred to the Jews and in this sense was understood as an attack on the Jews. A regime based on the ideas of Marxism, which in turn relied on an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, a regime that began its activities by declaring entire social groups "enemies of the people" and then persecuting them - such a regime inevitably had to create around the Jews atmosphere of hostility. Jewish merchants were among the earliest victims of Lenin's policy of terror against "anti-social groups"; many were “liquidated”, some (about 300,000) fled to Poland, the Baltic countries, Turkey and the Balkans.

However, it is also true that Jews constituted a significant percentage of the top of the Communist Party (as well as its rank-and-file members). At party congresses, 15–20% of the delegates were of Jewish origin. But these were "non-Jewish" Jews. The Bolshevik Party was the only post-Tsarist party that was hostile to Jews. Ordinary Jews only suffered because of Jewish activity on the political scene. Jewish Bolsheviks made up a significant number of Cheka commissars, tax inspectors, and bureaucrats. They played the main roles in the expeditions organized by Lenin and Trotsky, which took away grain from the peasants. For all this, the Jews were hated. And, as has happened more than once in the history of the Jewish people, they were persecuted for completely opposite reasons. On the one hand, the Jews were "antisocial elements," on the other, the Bolsheviks. The only Soviet archive, the contents of which were known in the West, concerning the situation in Smolensk in 1917-1938, shows that the peasants often identified the Bolshevik dictatorship with Jewish intermediaries. In 1922, the peasants threatened: if the commissars take out the gold jewelry from the church, then "not a single Jew will survive, we will kill everyone in one night." Crowds shouted in the streets: "Beat the Jews, save Russia!" 1926 ritual murder charges reappeared. However, the archive testifies that the Jews were afraid of the regime: "They are afraid of the police, as they once feared the tsarist gendarme."

The Jews' fears were well founded. In August 1919, all Jewish religious communities were liquidated, their property was confiscated, and most synagogues were closed. The teaching of the Hebrew language and the publication of non-religious works in it were prohibited. It was possible to type in Yiddish, but only in phonetic transcription (Yiddish culture was allowed, although it was under vigilant surveillance). The functions of supervision were performed by special Jewish departments (Evsections), organized in the cells of the Communist Party from "non-Jewish" Jews, whose important function was to register signs of "Jewish cultural particularism." The Bund was destroyed, and the persecution of the Russian Zionists began. In 1917 it was the strongest political trend among Russian Jews, with 300,000 members and 1,200 branches. Numerically, this movement was much stronger than Bolshevism. Since 1919, Evsektsia began an offensive against the Zionists, using for this the cells of the Cheka, headed by "non-Jewish" Jews. Petersburg, the main headquarters of the Zionists was occupied, personnel were arrested and the newspaper was closed. The same thing happened in Moscow. In April 1920, the Sero-Russian Zionist congress was interrupted by the invasion of the Cheka branch, headed by a young Jewish woman. Seventy-five delegates were arrested. Beginning in 1920, thousands of Zionists were exiled to camps, from which few returned. On August 26, 1922, it was announced that the Zionist Party “under the cover of democracy seeks to corrupt the Jewish youth and push them into the arms of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie in the interests of Anglo-French capital. Representatives of the Jewish bourgeoisie, seeking to restore the Palestinian state, are supported by reactionary forces, including such fierce imperialists as Poincaré, Lloyd George and the Pope. "

The pressure on the Jews increased with the coming to power of Stalin. at the end of the 1920s, all "Jewish" forms of activity were destroyed or deprived of their authenticity. In this situation, Stalin liquidated Evsektsiya, leaving the supervision of the secret services. Jews were removed from almost all internal party positions. Anti-Semitism has become a significant party force. "Is it true," Trotsky wrote to Bukharin on March 4, 1926, "is it possible for our Party in Moscow to carry out anti-Semist propaganda with impunity?" Alas, this campaign was not only carried out with impunity, but also encouraged. Jews, especially party members, made up a disproportionate proportion of Stalin's victims.

One of them was Isaac Babel (1894-1940?), Probably the only great Jewish writer who was given to the world by the Russian revolution. His tragedy is a kind of parable about the Jews ruled by the Soviets. Like Trotsky, he was raised by Odessa, where Babel's father kept a shop. He, like Trotsky, wanted to become a "non-Jewish" Jew. He fought in the tsarist army, and when the revolution began, he served in the Cheka and, as a Bolshevik activist, robbed peasant farms. place with the Cossacks, he fought in the First Horse under the leadership of the SM. Budyonny. The events he experienced formed the basis of Babel's masterpiece - the collection of short stories "Cavalry" (1926), in which he was able to convey the breath of a formidable time, the stages of the revolution, steps towards achieving, as he put it, "the simplest form of high art, the ability to kill a neighbor. ". The idea of ​​becoming a "non-Jewish" Jew turned out to be unrealizable. For Stalin, Babel was as much a Jew as the rest. Stalin's Russia from the heights of honor Babel slipped into hell. At the 1934 Congress of Writers, he delivered a mysterious speech full of irony. He said that the party, in its boundless kindness, deprives writers of only one freedom: the freedom to write badly. The writer noted that he himself writes in a new literary genre, becoming a "model of silence." "I respect the reader so much," he added, "that I can't get a word out of myself." soon Babel was arrested and disappeared (probably shot).

The world did not know that in Soviet Russia anti-Semitism was revived in a new form, that all Jewish organizations were destroyed, that the very life of Jews was under threat. The implication was that since the Jews were the leaders of the revolution, they won the most. No distinction was made between Jews — traditionalists, reformers, or Zionists — and the group of "non-Jewish" Jews that actually participated in the establishment of the "revolutionary order." This is not surprising, because one of the theses of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory is this: the apparent conflict of interest between Jews is only a cover for achieving common goals. The most common anti-Semitic libel is that behind the scenes there are always signs of Jewish cooperation. The Bolsheviks' arvarism intensified anti-Semitic sentiments in different countries.

French anti-Semitism, which had previously focused on Jewish financial power, has now shifted to Jews - social "saboteurs". Jewish socialists (such as their leader and theorist Leon Blum) prided themselves on the messianic role of Jewish revolutionaries. “The collective impulse of the Jews,” wrote L. Blum, “leads to revolution; their criticism (I use this word in the most sublime sense) inclines them to reject any idea, any traditional form, inconsistent with the facts or not subject to justification by the intellect. Throughout their long and gloomy history, the Jews were strengthened by the hope of “inevitable justice,” they were convinced that one day the world would be governed according to reason; there will be one law for all, so that everyone gets what they deserve. Isn't that in the spirit of socialism? from the original spirit of this race. " Blum wrote this in 1901. After the end of the First World War, these words became even more dangerous. However, Blum persisted in repeating that the goal of the Jews was to be at the forefront of the socialist movement. He, apparently, was convinced that rich Jews would take part in this march. Although Blum was considered the epitome of Jewish radicalism by the French right wing, many leftist groups attacked him as an undercover agent of the Jewish bourgeoisie. A third of French bankers were Jewish, and the left was happy to say that Jews control government finances regardless of who is in power. Jean Jaurès argued that "their long association with banking and commerce has developed in them a great capacity for capitalist crime." in the post-war years, when the Left Party became the “communist lady of France,” anti-Semitism - albeit implicitly - was part of Blum's repertoire of insults. But Blum and other French Jewish leaders stubbornly underestimated French anti-Semitism on both the right and the left.

The most important consequences of the coming to power of the Bolsheviks and the active participation of radical Jews in the establishment of the new order manifested themselves in the United States. About France, although Jews were attacked both from the right and from the left, Jewish refugees were still accepted in the 1920s and even in the 1930s. In America, fear of the Bolsheviks led to the end of the policy of immigration without restrictions, which saved European Jews in the period from 1881 to 1914. Even before the war, there were attempts to limit immigration, but the American Jewish Committee, organized in 1906 to combat such threats, successfully resisted this. However, along with the war, the ultra-liberal phase of the expansion of democracy in America ended and a ten-year period of xenophobia began. 1906 The Ku Klux Klan resumed its activities to keep under control minority groups (including Jews) who were alleged to be a threat to American moral and social norms. In the same year, Madison Grant's book was published Tha Passing of Graat Raca. it argued that American racial superiority was disappearing due to massive immigration, in which Jews played a significant role. Later, the "Decree on Espionage" (1917) and "Decree on the Threat of Betrayal" (1918) were issued, which led to the identification of foreigners with traitors.

The atmosphere heated up to the limit after the victory of the Bolsheviks in Russia. Its result was the "Red Alert" of 1919-1920 - an action led by Attorney General Matchel Palmer against, as he called them, "saboteurs and agitators who came from abroad." He claimed that there were "60,000 of these organized agitators of the Trotsky doctrine in the United States." And Trotsky himself was "a contemptuous immigrant ... the worst type known in New York." Much of the material published by Palmer and his followers was anti-Semitic. one of the leaflets said that of the 31st Soviet leader, all but Lenin were Jews. Another analyzed the composition of the Petrograd Council, pointing out that only 16 of the 380 Council members were Russian and the rest were Jewish, of whom 265 were from New York's East Side. The third document proved that the decision to overthrow tsarism was actually made on February 14, 1916 by a group of New York Jews, which included the millionaire Jacob Schiff.

The Charter on Immigration Amounts (1921) was adopted, according to which the annual number of immigrants cannot exceed 3 % the population of this ethnic group in the United States in 1910.The Johnson-Reed Amendment of 1924 reduced this number to 2%, and the baseline year was 1890. The result was a decrease in the total number of immigrants to 154,000 per year and a decrease in the amount intended for immigration Polish, Russian, Romanian. This was most clearly reflected in the Jews, ending their massive immigration to the United States. From that moment on, Jewish organizations had difficulty in maintaining the allocated amounts (later they were canceled altogether). It is considered fortunate that in nine difficult years (1933-1941), 159,000 German Jews were helped to enter the country (there were almost the same number as Jews immigrated in 1906 alone).

Realizing the Stalinist national policy, in 1928 in the Khabarovsk Territory on the Bir River, the Jewish Autonomous Region was formed with the capital Birobidzhan. 1959, only 41,000 people of different nationalities lived there. In 1989, about 10,000 Jews lived on this territory, most of whom did not know the language, history and culture of their fathers, not to mention the Law of Moses. Until recently, only one synagogue functioned there. All this testifies to the failure of the Stalinist experiment (in Moscow alone at the end of the 1980s there were about 100,000 Jews, and in the whole of the USSR - about 2,000,000). This project of creating a national habitat for Jews, like the previous ones - in Argentina, Madagascar, etc. - turned out to be an illusion. The only place that magnetically attracts the ideological part of the Jewish people is Palestine, and now Israel, the best destination for their emigration and the best place to stay.

The second problem is anti-Semitism, which has not been eradicated in the socialist states. Here it also manifested itself in the form of a struggle against the "Zionists and cosmopolitans." As we saw in the example of Poland in March 1968, these campaigns are controlled "from above" and are muted by order. During the Stalinist period, this was clearly manifested in the fabricated trials of Reich in Hungary in 1949 or Slansky in Czechoslovakia in 1952. Jews devoted to Stalinist ideology were increasingly accused of treason. 1952 the flower of Jewish culture in the USSR was eliminated. In addition, the show trial of the Jewish elite of the medical world is known. Only the death of Stalin interrupted the preparation of the largest anti-Jewish act in the entire Eastern bloc.

Changes that took place in the country after 1985 led to an improvement in the position of Jews in the states the former USSR... 1989 The USSR Academy of Sciences invited Rabbi A. Steinsaltz from Jerusalem to Moscow to found a center for the study of Judaism in the USSR. He gave a series of lectures in Moscow and Leningrad. Since 1990, an educational institution has been operating to train future rabbis. The Jewish archives and the Israeli Cultural Center were opened, and S. Wiesenthal was given the opportunity to organize an anti-fascist exhibition in Moscow. These amazing, incredible changes will undoubtedly intoxicate Soviet Jews. But will they be so attractive as to make them forget about the homeland of their forefathers - the land of Israel?

More than a hundred years have passed since the first pogroms in Russia. But even now there are forces there, ready to persecute Jews. Ladimir Soloukhin wrote in 1973: “Believe that their (Jews. - Yu. G.) eviction from our country is already close. And neither Sakharov ... nor you, Mr. Solzhenitsyn, will be able to prevent this by any tricks! We drank our blood and that's enough! They will not leave voluntarily - we will help, we have a moral right to do so. "

These ominous voices are not alone. During personal contacts with individual Moscow dissidents, one could notice their negative attitude towards Jews. Each time they told that the Jew Lazar Kaganovich, which means that all the Jews in his person, with twenty-two explosions destroyed a wonderful architectural monument - the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, erected by the Russian people in honor of the victory over Napoleon ("and over the Freemasons") ...

We have already noticed: when the situation of the Jews in the "northern countries" deteriorated, the borders of the Western countries opened up before them, but in the end, the eternal wanderer, ended up in his original place of residence - in Israel. This pattern is still relevant today.

The origins of revisionism

In the blogosphere and social networks there are frequent discussions about the number of victims of the Holocaust. At the same time, some of the disputants consider the generally accepted figure of 6 million to be clearly overestimated, and their opponents argue that this figure is several times underestimated. There are also people who generally deny the Holocaust. They argue that the number of victims of this process was exaggerated, that the extermination of Jews was not the result of a deliberate policy, and also question the existence of gas chambers and death camps. In a number of European countries, as well as in Israel, denying or minimizing the consequences of the Holocaust is prohibited by law. At the same time, Holocaust deniers refer to the British journalist and historian Vivian Byrd, who claims that 400 thousand died in the Reich concentration camps, of which 73 thousand died in Auschwitz, including 38 thousand Jews. Bird himself, in turn, refers to a certain E. Maksimova, who allegedly studied in detail the registration books of the Third Reich concentration camps in the KGB archives. So is it possible to name the exact numbers of the victims of the Holocaust today?

Expert of IA REX, political scientist and historian, candidate of historical sciences Lev Vershinin commented to the agency on the situation with the number of victims of the Holocaust.

The truth is easy and pleasant not only to speak, but also to listen. Moreover, at the suggestion of the IA REX agency and at the numerous requests of readers who knocked on the PM of my blog, there was a reason to talk about what I had been planning for a long time ...

In fact, a fact is a fact: the phrase "" And those killed in Auschwitz, according to the testimony of the journalist E. Maksimova, who was admitted to the archives", - exactly, " E. Maximova", and nothing else - just a copy of the English text of the brochure of the British journalist (also called the" historian ", but he was never a historian) Vivian Byrd, one of the most radical revisionists, called" Auschwitz: The Final Count " , where it is proved that the entire people in the concentration camps of the Reich died 400 thousand, of them in Auschwitz - 73 thousand, including 38 thousand Jews, and the main links go just to "E. Maximov ".

It is not surprising that the most stupid "deniers" and admirers of the Fuehrer are running around with this brochure as if it were a written sack. But in vain. Everything is not at all the way they want it.

The fact is that Ella Maksovna Maksimova (really - Merkel ... yes, a distant relative!) - is not just some kind of there " E with a dot", but a very famous person. For many decades she was one of the brightest stars of Izvestia, was famous for her exceptional professionalism, and it was her in 1990, when Gorbachev wanted to please his friend Helmut, was allowed to enter the holy of holies of the USSR archives for several days. the result of which was a huge cycle of five voluminous articles " Five days in the Special Archive", which includes a lot of interesting things, including the data on the victims of the Holocaust, later used by Vivien Bird, and now by his fans.

But the trouble is: having appeared in printed form back in January 1991, these articles were never transferred to the Internet. Many were looking for them, asking to publish the full texts wherever they crossed with Ella Maksovna - for example, here (taken from here) - but to no avail. Cycle references " Five days in the "Special Archive"- the sea, but the articles themselves cannot be found. If, of course, you do not know how to search. But if you know how to search and not be lazy, then whoever seeks will always find it. And it was found! Here they are, these treasured articles, almost completely included in the memoirs of Anatoly Prokopenko, a "limescale", from which we learn that:

(a) in the passage " But we, thank God, survived to publicity. Last summer, the Auschwitz Books of Death with the names of seventy thousand prisoners from twenty-four countries who died in the extermination camp were recovered from the depths of the archive, albeit with great difficulty."we are not talking about complete" books of death", but only about those four volumes (yes, yes, 74 thousand names, including 38 thousand Jews), which at the direction of the Central Committee of the CPSU were" restrictedly declassified"back in 1964, when the trial of the executioners of Auschwitz was going on in Frankfurt am Main;

(b) however, - Ella Maksovna further writes, - there was silence in response to the demands of the International Committee of the Red Cross and other organizations to declassify not only these four volumes of the "Books of Death", but all several dozen in the Soviet archives. All questions for more than a quarter of a century - only silence. And finally, on the morning of November 10, 1989 " local and federal newspapers reported that« Councils hand over 400,000 names of victims of fascism to ICRC"". Friend Mikhail made a pleasant surprise to friend Helmut - 20 more volumes of "Auschwitz books of death." However, Ella Maksovna complains, " many more are still unavailable".

This is such, sorry, sadness. Four volumes (70 thousand names) were declassified in 1964, and published in 1990. Another 20 volumes (a total of 400 thousand names) were declassified and "opened" in 1989. And many tens of volumes to this day have not been declassified and not "open".
In early 1991, Ella Maksovna spoke about this, and two months later, on March 3, 1991, a retelling of her material appeared in “ New York Times”, - where did Vivian Bird take these figures, but in his presentation they have already become final: 400 thousand killed in all camps of the Reich, of them in Auschwitz- a little more than 70 thousand, and of this number - 38 thousand Jews.

I really don’t know if this author got confused in the translation, didn’t understand what it was about, or deliberately cheated, but I assume the last option is correct. Radical "revisionists" are far from always stupid, but they have problems with conscience, and hatred cleans up complexes. But their fans, stupidly reprinting falsifications - they are likely to rustle not so much out of malice as out of a lack of brains. For there would be brains, it would be easy to check.

And also Ella Maksovna brings a lot of clarity to the damned question of "gas chambers".

"Archives of the Central Construction Directorate of Waffen SS taken during the liberation of Auschwitz, - she reports. - In several hundred "storage units", in a lucid and businesslike manner, in the language of drawings, calculations, financial estimates, a typical technology for the construction of a death factory with special forces, including camps - gypsy, Jewish and Soviet prisoners of war is outlined. The total cost is 51,797,218.5 Reichsmarks. Engineering improvements in crematoria with muffle furnaces attached to "baths for special events" made it possible to increase their capacity to 4,756 people per day, including in the Russian camp to 1,440. However, the head of the department with alarm reports in a memo that “due to continuous and excessive use from the resulting overheating chimney gave such cracks that there was a danger of its fall. " The military translator, apparently, was an intelligent and decent man. Having managed to translate only a small part of the documents, he writes: further research of all materials by specialists in technology and medicine will help to more fully illuminate the true purpose of installations and devices hidden in correspondence under conventional symbols. There was no further research. The fund's "usage sheet" is empty...".

These are, my friends, pies with kittens. But there is no point in slowing down on this - the topic has been promoted too well. So let's talk about revisionism in general. If you think about it, this phenomenon is very ambiguous. We will not talk about the "deniers" for now (about them a little below), but we will point out that the camp of the "admitters" is not monolithic either. Initially, two camps were clearly visible in its ranks. For some - let's call them "fanatics" - the very fact of mass extermination of people on a national basis was important, and here the numbers are no longer important, the more the better. The latter - let's call them "professionals" - recognized the fact of mass destruction, but demanded that facts be considered facts only when they were verified. That is, they are duly documented.

The problem, however, was that there were few documents. A lot of orders were given orally, a bunch of acts and instructions were written in "Aesopian language", understandable to everyone, but not attached to the case, and the Nazis managed to destroy many papers. In fact, the only reliable source is the so-called. "Memorandum of Korherr" (a report addressed to Himmler, prepared by order of the Reichsfuehrer SS by one of the leading German statisticians, Richard Korherr), which stated that " since 1937 to December 1942 year number of Jews in Europe decreased by 4 million due to emigration, as well as due to excess mortality of Jews in Central, Western and especially Eastern Europe, partly due to evacuation", moreover, out of 4 million in the territory of the Reich and occupied countries, including the USSR, as of January 1, 1943 (the report was filed in March)" died"2,841,500 Jews. This figure is not questioned by anyone. But it in itself is insufficient, because it includes those who managed to leave, but does not apply to the events of 1943-1944 (that is, the most" disastrous ") years.

Where did the figure come from “ six millions"(That is, twice as much as" according to Korherr ")? And from Nuremberg, where no one aspired to objectivity. And it is based only on the "testimony" of two witnesses out of many hundreds. Moreover, both - and Dr. Wilhelm Hethl, deputy head of the AMT-6 (foreign section) RSHA, and Hauptsturmführer Dieter Wisliceny, Eichmann's subordinate in the IV-A-4 ("Jewish department") RSHA, referred to Eichmann, allegedly who told them in secret about “ about five to six million Jews killed". Moreover, " approximately 4 million were exterminated in concentration camps, and an additional two million were killed in other ways».

This figure became the "canon". But only in a political and ideological context, and nothing more. There were, however, attempts to raise it even higher - for example, the French Office for the Study of War Crimes in 1945 suggested “ take at least"The figure of 8 million victims, and in the documentary (also French) film" Foggy night"(1955), and in general it was about 9 million - but this initiative was still not picked up. In the end, the experts at the American Jewish Congress settled on the modest "six," and this became generally accepted.

However, punctures immediately started. The figure needed substantiation, but it didn’t work to substantiate it. Even such the highest and generally recognized expert as Raoul Hilberg folded his hands on 5.1 million, and his British colleague Gerald Reitlinger gave out 4.3 million. Even during the trial of Rudolf Hess (1947), no matter how hard they tried, it turned out “ more than five million victims, of which 90% are Jews", But not six, but in general the figure tended to decrease.

In such a situation, "revisionism" could not but arise - and first of all, it is quite understandable, again as not a scientific, but a political and ideological reaction to the "obligation". Instead of revision (clarification), a tendency towards "denial" started. Like, no one killed Jews on purpose at all, and all this is "just a Jewish invention to siphon money." This position was mainly held by convinced anti-Semites and surviving Hitler-worshipers, in general, the moral twins of the followers of the “six million”. There were, however, and just Germans who did not want to believe in the crimes of their fathers and older brothers. They, as a rule, disputed not so much the fact as the quantity, the methodology, and sometimes the motives of the destruction (the main pros and cons are collected).

But in the end the truth suffered. Any attempt at a sane and impartial examination became impossible, because, on the one hand, it was immediately taken into service and emasculated by fanatics like the above-mentioned Vivien Byrd, and on the other hand, they sought to nullify the "six millionaires". Even if an inconvenient fact was investigated by a serious historian, from any side not a Jew-phobe, or just an expert invited to assess some technical nuances, as soon as he voiced doubts about the truth of the "canon", fanatics disseminated his theses in an extremely distorted form, instantly compromising them, and one or another Jewish professional organization, for its part, sued and, as a rule, won.

The swamp a little cleared up 25 years ago, when Bradley Smith, undoubtedly a truth-seeking historian, founded the well-known Committee for Open Discussions on the Holocaust, on whose website all the materials of the "revisionists" are published and anyone who wishes can ask questions, argue, suggest versions and generally check the strength of the structure of this or that author. At this point, the nonsense of many became evident, and the fairness of the claims of the "professionals" too. But nevertheless, ideologization and politicization ruled as before, and this was the case until 1991, when the so-called. " Auschwitz breakthrough».

The bottom line is as follows. Auschwitz was considered one of the "sacred cows" of the canonical version. According to the accepted opinion, over four million souls died there. Approximately half of which (that is, 1/3 of the "canon") were Jews, while others included Poles, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war. The problem, however, was that this figure was again based on one oral source: the testimony of Rudolf Hess in Nuremberg, where he, in response to numerous questions and, apparently under pressure, finally said that “ I didn't count, but let it be about three". But in 1947, at the Krakow trial, where he was already allowed to refer to documents, Hess named a different figure: 1 135 000 person, convincingly substantiating it, and it was also recorded as official, along with the "canonical". She was simply not supposed to be paid attention to.

And only in 1989, when the archives of Auschwitz were declassified, did it appear - for the first time! - the possibility of an objective study of the problem by historians seeking the truth, and not dancing to the tune of ideologists and politicians. Franciszek Pieper, a Polish historian with a solid "dissident" reputation, attracted very serious people to cooperate: the Zionist Miles Lerman, an authoritative expert on Holocaust history from the United States, Aaron Breitbart, director of the Holocaust Studies Department at the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (of course, also a Zionist ) and Israeli Israel Gutman, a professor at the Hebrew University in Israel with an Auschwitz number on his shoulder. That is, the very composition of the group of researchers excluded possible attacks.

Yes, not only Jews (and Gypsies) were doomed to death, they went under the ax in the first place, but the same fate, in the second place, awaited the Slavs, first of all, the Russians (including Belarusians), with whom they also did not they stood on ceremony, except that on the ground they did not have time to take it seriously.

Yes, not everyone was rejected. In any case, the German Jews, who perceived themselves to be Germans, had (albeit a minority) some chances of getting on the "Rosenberg scale" in the "mishlinge" category - that is, leaving the danger zone into the "very spoiled" category or even " very, very spoiled ", but still Germans (or" a little bit of Germans "), that is, subjects of the Reich, with somewhat limited, but still rights, and a full set of duties, including serving in the army ( only the numbers differ, but the fact itself is not denied by the critics).

Yes, the Nazis did not kill everyone in a row, but “only” the majority, and even then with a choice, and the “farther west” a Jew was, the more chances he had to avoid the gas chamber or execution. Yes, finally, very many of the victims, especially at the end of 1944 and the beginning of 1945, died of hunger, disease and other "everyday" hardships, and not in gas chambers and execution ditches (for example, from Ani Frank's entourage, only one of her died from gas neighbor, the death of the rest was caused by hunger, typhus, etc.). This is true and you need to know it. At least in order to move on. Understanding the real reasons why the idea of ​​"exporting" Jews anywhere turned around massacres, which is why it was Soviet citizens who were killed especially mercilessly, even more mercilessly than Polish ones, who and why blocked their exit from the becoming mortally dangerous Europe, and by and large, who in general conceived everything, and having conceived, for almost 20 years encouraged, covered and it was Hitler who pushed through.

But it is also true that, with all the pitfalls, Jews - just as Jews, strictly on a national basis - were taken away (or literally squeezed out and squeezed out of the "allies", if those like Mannerheim, Tsar Boris and Horthy did not agree ). And then they took them out and (in the vast majority) killed them. If not gas and bullets, then hunger and disease. Which is also, between us, pure murder, since almost all the victims were civilians, who suffered only because they were Jews. Including, "Soviet Jews" were often "extremized" right on the spot, without even taking them out. Providing no opportunity to adapt or survive.

In other words, if the purposeful, elevated to the rank of a state program, the destruction (by one method or another) of millions - and at least hundreds of thousands - of absolutely innocent people, mostly civilians, purely by biological (or even pseudo-biological) indicators, can be called the Holocaust, the Holocaust, whatever one may say, was. And the numbers - when people are destroyed on a national basis, with an irrational and mystical justification - are no longer very important.

The fact is important. Which can only be denied by people with shifted brains. Or, on the contrary, those who know very well what to distract the attention of the masses on, so that they do not think about really serious issues. Which, of course, it is necessary to voice and study. In accordance with " Breitbart's formula"- and no matter how screeching the" ideologists "and" politicians "are from the left or from the right flanks. Moreover, these flanks easily close together.

In addition to the German Jews who served in the Wehrmacht, there were also those Jews who guarded the Jewish ghettos, and then, together with the Germans, Lithuanians and Latvians, destroyed their own brothers.

Moreover, currying favor with the Germans, they showed even greater cruelty towards the Jews than the most ...

Frozen Balts. Having occupied Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Belarus - the traditional settlement area of ​​Jews, the Germans created ghettos in large cities, into which Jews were moved in order to isolate them from the non-Jewish population.

Unlike ordinary policemen, Jewish policemen did not receive either rations or salaries, and therefore the only ways to feed themselves were robbery and extortion.

It's like in that joke - they gave me a gun, spin as you want. True, pistols were not given to ordinary policemen - only the chiefs of the detachments and commandants had them. Rifles, on the other hand, were issued to the police only for the duration of the executions.

The units of the Jewish police were quite large. In the Warsaw ghetto, the Jewish police numbered about 2,500; in the ghetto of the city of Lodz - 1200; in Lviv up to 500 people; in Vilnius up to 250 people.

Head of the Jewish Police of Krakow Shapiro

The head of the Jewish police in the Warsaw ghetto, Jozef Sherinsky, receives a report from the head of one of the detachments, Yakub Leikin. Sherinsky was then caught stealing, and Leikin took his place.

Many Jewish policemen made quite decent fortunes from this by the end of the war, but the largest fortunes were made by the members and heads of the Judenrat - the bodies of Jewish self-government created by the Germans, the heads of which were most often the kagal headmen. Firstly, they took bribes for the right to enter the police, and secondly, the policemen brought them a share of the loot. They also took bribes from ordinary Jews for the right to postpone sending them to a concentration camp. Thus, the richest Jews, as a rule, survived, and the leadership of the Judenrat not only survived, but became even richer as a result of the war. They stole wherever possible. Even the 229 grams of the ration set by the Germans for the Jews, they managed to reduce to 184.

Jewish Police Armband

When creating the Judenrats, the Germans, as a rule, relied on the top of the kagal. The fact is that from ancient times each Jewish community had its own kagal - a self-government body that acted as an intermediary between Jews and the authorities of the state in which this community lived. At the head of the kahal were four elders (roshi); they were followed by "honorary persons" (Tuva). The kagal always had a detachment of the kagal scarecrow under the command of the shamesh. Having driven the Jews into the ghetto, the Germans simply renamed the kagals into the Judenrats, and the shamesh became chiefs of the police.

Some of the former members of the Jewish police in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai were arrested by the NKVD in the summer of 1944 and convicted of collaborating with the Germans. The same policemen and members of the Judenrat, who did not fall into the hands of the NKVD, safely repatriated to Israel, and enjoyed honor and respect there. Their "exploits" were justified even in the Talmud, which calls for preserving at least a drop of Jewish blood by any means. The Jews reasoned this way: if the policemen had not gone into the service of the Germans, the Germans would have killed them along with the rest of the Jews, and by killing their fellow tribesmen, whom the Germans would have killed anyway, they saved at least a part of the Jews - themselves from destruction.

Jewish Police Bicycle Detachment in the Warsaw Ghetto

V150 thousand Jews served in the Wehrmacht

Among the 4 million 126 thousand 964 prisoners of various nationalities we took, there were also 10 thousand 137 Jews.

Are there really such Jews who fought on the side of Hitler?

Imagine, there were many such Jews.

The ban on the admission of Jews to military service was first introduced in Germany on November 11, 1935. However, since 1933, the dismissal of Jews who wore officer ranks began. True, many veteran officers of Jewish origin then received permission to remain in the army at the personal request of Hindenburg, but after his death they were gradually sent to retire. Until the end of 1938, 238 of these officers were escorted from the Wehrmacht. On January 20, 1939, Hitler ordered the dismissal of all Jewish officers, as well as all officers who were married to Jewish women.

However, all these orders were not unconditional, and Jews were allowed to serve in the Wehrmacht with special permits. In addition, the dismissals occurred with a creak - each boss of the dismissed Jew zealously argued that his subordinate Jew was irreplaceable in his place. The Jewish quartermasters were especially tight-fisted. On August 10, 1940, only in the VII Military District (Munich) there were 2,269 Jewish officers who served in the Wehrmacht on the basis of a special permit. In all 17 districts, the number of Jewish officers was about 16 thousand people.

For heroic deeds in the military field, Jews could be arized, that is, appropriated German nationality. In 1942, 328 Jewish officers were Aryanized.

Checking for Jewishness was provided only for officers. For the lower rank, only his own assurance was provided that neither he nor his wife were Jews. In this case, it was possible to grow to the stafffeldwebel, but if someone was eager to become an officer, then his origin was carefully checked. There were those who, upon entering the army, recognized their Jewish origin, but they could not receive a rank higher than the senior rifleman.

It turns out that the Jews sought to join the army en masse, considering it the safest place for themselves in the conditions of the Third Reich. It was not difficult to hide Jewish origin - the majority of German Jews bore German names and surnames, and nationality was not written in the passport.

Checks of privates and non-commissioned officers for belonging to Jewry began to be carried out only after the attempt on Hitler's life. Such checks covered not only the Wehrmacht, but also the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, and even the SS. Until the end of 1944, 65 soldiers and sailors, 5 SS soldiers, 4 non-commissioned officers, 13 lieutenants were identified,

one Untersturmführer, one SS Obersturmführer, three captains, two majors, one lieutenant colonel - battalion commander in the 213rd Infantry Division Ernst Bloch, one colonel and one rear admiral - Karl Kühlenthal. The latter served as a naval attaché in Madrid and carried out assignments for the Abwehr. One of the identified Jews was immediately Aryized for military service. The documents are silent about the fate of the rest. It is only known that Kühlenthal, thanks to Dönitz's intercession, was allowed to retire with the right to wear a uniform.

There is evidence that Grand Admiral Erich Johann Albert Raeder was also a Jew. His father was a schoolteacher who adopted Lutheranism in his youth. According to these very data, it was the revealed Jewry that became the real reason for Raeder's resignation on January 3, 1943.

Many Jews named their nationality only in captivity. So, Wehrmacht Major Robert Borchardt, who received the Knight's Cross for a tank breakthrough of the Russian front in August 1941, was captured by the British at El Alamein, after which it turned out that his Jewish father lived in London. In 1944 Borchardt was released to his father, but in 1946 he returned to Germany. In 1983, shortly before his death, Borchardt told German schoolchildren: "Many Jews and half-Jews who fought for Germany in World War II believed that they should honestly defend their Fatherland while serving in the army."

Another Jewish hero was Colonel Walter Hollander. During the war years, he was awarded the Iron Crosses of both degrees and a rare insignia - the Gold German Cross. In October 1944, Hollander was captured by us, where he declared his Jewishness. He remained in captivity until 1955, after which he returned to Germany and died in 1972.

There is also a very curious case when for a long time the Nazi press placed on its covers a photo of a blue-eyed blonde in a steel helmet as a model of the representative of the Aryan race. However, one day it turned out that Werner Goldberg, placed in these photos, turned out to be not only blue-eyed, but also blue-assed.

Further clarification of Goldberg's identity also revealed that he was also a Jew. Goldberg was fired from the army, and he got a job as a salesman in a company that sews military uniforms. In 1959-79 Goldberg was a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of West Berlin.

The most high-ranking Jewish Nazi is considered to be Goering's Deputy Inspector General of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Erhard Milch. In order not to discredit Milch in the eyes of ordinary Nazis, the party leadership stated that Milch's mother did not have sex with her Jewish husband, and Erhard's real father was Baron von Beer. Goering laughed for a long time about this: "Yes, we made Milch a bastard, but an aristocratic bastard."

On May 4, 1945, Milch was caught by the British in the castle of Sicherhagen on the Baltic coast and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court. In 1951, the term was reduced to 15 years, and by 1955, he was released early.

Some of the captured Jews died in Soviet captivity and, according to the official position of the Israeli National Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Yad Vashem, are considered Holocaust victims