9. Why did the Germans intern Jews in concentration camps?

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Rebuttal # 9

In an article entitled "Zionism versus Bolshevism" that appeared in the British Sunday Herald on February 8, 1920 (p 5) Winston Churchill wrote, while first addressing what he called "National Jews" whom he described as ". . . helpful and hopefull in a very high degree to humanity":

1918 - The first People's Commissariat -Allmost all Jews
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"International Jews"

In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the schemes of International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all of them, have forsaken the faith of their forefathers and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus_Weishaupt to the days of Karl Marx, and down to Trotzky (Russia), Bela Kan (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the re-constitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century, and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Jews in Stalin's murderous regime
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"Terrorist Jews"

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews. It is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate, Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotzky, or of Zinovieff, the dictator of the Red Citadel (Patrograd) or of Krassin or Radek - all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astounding. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kan ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria) as far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astounding."

How many in America - or the entire world, for that matter - know this? The "Russian" Revolution was an imported revolution that threatened to engulf the world when Hitler came to power. He saw his country in the path of such destruction as the human mind can barely accommodate - and at the core of this destruction Hitler saw, just as Winston Churchill had earlier, a preponderance of Jewish revolutionaries.

Ian Macdonald, a former Canadian career diplomat, now living in retirement in Ottawa, Canada, has commented:

"It is a measure of the virtually iron-clad control over the media by a small, wealthy, influential, devious, self-serving, duplicitous, racist, alien pressure group that the obvious truths about the origins and nature of WW II are still considered beyond discussion.

And in a recent Letter to Time Magazine, (rejected!) this former soldier, having fought on the Allied side, wrote further:

"Some day, if there is indeed a God in Heaven, the truth about the origin and events of World War II will emerge. It will not be a happy day for the diabolical schemers who defamed the German nation and contrived the fratricide among Christians so serve their own selfish purposes.

It will however be a happy day for mankind, and Germans will no longer need to apologize for doing the right thing."

The "right thing," as far as pre-World War II Germany was concerned, was not to fight a racial war or to engage in an illegal expansion conquest, as has so often falsely been alleged, but to fight Stalin's Communism - the Evil Empire, as President Reagan called it belatedly only in the 1980s. And Communism was known to be the brain child of largely Jewish thinkers and writers like Karl Marx, Trotzki-Bronstein, Apfelbaum and his disciples Bela Kon, Rosa Luxemburg, Kurt Eisner, Ilja Ehrenburg, Karl Radek and others.

As every school child knows, less than two years after the war broke out in 1939, Germany found itself at war with Russia. Contrary to what we have all been spoon-fed to believe, that war against the Soviet Government was in fact a preventive war, as recently made clear by Russian researchers and writers on that topic and by hitherto secret but now-released Soviet documents.

These revelations also confirm what is even more important and timely to know: that that which threatens the survival of the Christian world today, as many people now believe, is indeed identical to what was threatening Germany back then. We call it now the New World Order - it is nothing more than Communism repackaged.

What was that threat? Stalin himself made it clear in a well-known speech in 1938:

"The revival of revolutionary action on any scale sufficiently vast will not be possible unless we succeed in utilizing the existing disagreements between the capitalistic countries so as to precipitate them against each other into armed conflict. . .

The essential work of our party comrades in foreign countries consists, then, in facilitating the provocation of such a conflict. Those who do not comprehend this know nothing of revolutionary Marxism.

And in Red Dusk and the Morrow (page 303) by Sir Paul Dukes, formerly Chief of the British Secret Service in Russia, we read that a Lithuanian asked a prominent Bolshevik how the Soviet regime was maintained. His answer was:

"Our power is based on three things: first, on Jewish brains, secondly, on Lettish and Chinese bayonets, and thirdly, on the crass stupidity of the Russian people."

And it was not just Soviet Russia, harboring Jews in power who did not view Germany kindly. Even prior to the "Russian" Revolution, Hitler knew full well who had financed and manipulated the ideological struggle - namely the banking houses and armaments industries, many of which were owned by Jews, and who were still arming and protecting the Reds when World War II broke out in America and England.

According to the Reverend George A. Simmons, Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Petrograd,

"In December 1918,. . . under the presidency of a man named Apfelbaum (Zinovieff). . . out of 388 members, only 16 happened to be real Russians, and all the rest Jews, with the exception of one man who is a negro from North America . . . and 265 of these Jews belonging to this Northern Commune Government that is sitting in the old Smolny Institute come from the Lower East Side of New York - 265 of them". (The Rulers of Russia, Third Edition (Rev. Denis Fahey, Professor of Philosophy and Church History, 1984, p 28)

This must be understood: Hitler's war was largely a war against Jewish International Communism in which Jewish and other Western capitalists joined in on Communism's side. Jews were evident everywhere in the global Marxist movement and in the Soviet Hierarchy. The source of that bloody World War II conflict can very easily be traced to the source of the World War I conflict - and that source was the cabal of viciously determined, utterly unscrupulous, largely Jewish Communists, revolutionaries and cold-hearted, money-hungry, calculating New York banking interests.

Here are a few examples of this Communist/Jewish threat, according to The Rulers of Russia, page 8)

So it was not as though Jews were not legitimately and easily identified as enemies of Germany agitating the world against Hitler's government - from Samuel Undermeyer (he was the one who declared war on Germany!) to Rabbi Stephen Wise (an unelected but powerful warmongering "special advisor" to FDR) to Henry Morgenthau (author of post-war plan to starve millions of Germans to death) and on and on and on. As an identifiable group, Jews were the self declared enemies of Germany, from Untermeir to Wise, from Nathan Theodore Kaufman to Chaim Weizman and some of those, but by no means all, who were still inside the Reich were incarcerated as enemies and were treated as enemies of the Reich quite legitimately so!

It bears repeating that incarceration of people believed to be harmful to the war effort is nothing new and nothing unusual. Countries at war did then (and still do today) adopt virtually similar policies. War time "enemies" were and still are incarcerated to neutralize their potential for sabotage on behalf of the enemy. In England, Englishmen like Mosley, the Mitfords and Admiral Sir Barry Dormille, etc, France, Canada people like Adrien Arcand and Camilien Houd Mayor of Montreal and the USA, Japanese and many Germans and Italians were interned for precisely those reasons.

Therefore, the Germans - after the Jewish "Declaration of War" on Germany on March 24, 1933, broadcast all over the world by Samuel Undermeyer - had plenty of justification for incarcerating suspect Jews. Unlike the Japanese who had no documented history in the United States or Canada of terrorism, sabotage and revolutionary activity, the Jews were massively implicated in what Germany prior to World War II perceived as the main threat to her existence - namely Communism and revolution, Soviet style, all over Germany and the rest of Europe.

Now, given the fact of Jews as self-identified and self-declared enemies of Germany, just how did National Socialist Hitler Germany treat the danger to its national security - compared to America, let's say, which interned the Japanese?

As already pointed out exhaustively in Reply # 8, after Pearl Harbor, all Japanese-Americans had to sell or simply abandon their homes and belongings - at a great loss, to be sure - to be interned as 'public enemies' or possible 'sympathizers with Japan'. A similar fate befell many Germans. These groups included children, all of whom were innocent, many of whom suffered, and some of whom died in countries that were not being bombed into the stone age, as was the case with Germany.

The so-called "horrors of Naziism" could not have been all that horrible for the Jews after all. According to Sol Littman, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's representative of Canada, close to 50,000 still lived and worked in Berlin alone in 1942. The Allies found over 5,000 Jews in Berlin in 1945, none of whom had been incarcerated but lived like the Germans.

Contrary to popular lore - and even given the horrendous history of Jewish involvement in all the atrocities of the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's plans for a global take-over - the treatment of Jews in Germany was much more humane than the 'American measures' against the innocent Japanese-American population.

A mass-incarceration, American-style, did not take place in Germany until well into the war. Incarcerations of Jews in Germany did take place according to a selective, largely ideological criterion for quite some time after the beginning of WW2 hostilities, until resettlement in the East became feasible due to the defeat of Poland and the near-collapse of Russia when national security became a primary concern, as the war dragged on.

Until then, Jews lived - despite their 'declaration of war' from London - among the Germans much as they had done for hundreds of years and before the outbreak of the shooting war. They were constrained only by the Nuremberg-Laws, which many have compared to the Israeli Laws of Return and policies adopted against Palestinians in Israel since 1948.

Let's just compare:

The Allies released all these inmates indiscriminately when the war ended and found that over half of them were re-arrested and incarcerated for new criminal activities under Allied military rule in the months and years that followed.