February 8, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

The recurring theme in much of the Zundelsite mail is: "What are you guys REALLY up to?" As one reader summarizes it:

• "The hidden premise is that everyone who opposes the standard story of the Holocaust wants to establish a National Socialist dictatorship. The reasoning runs thus:

(a) Anyone who questions any attribution of evil to National Socialist Germany is in fact apologizing for NSDAP Germany,

 

(b) People who apologize for NSDAP Germany actively seek the reestablishment of NSDAP Germany,

 

(c) Therefore anyone who *denies* the *Holocaust* wants to reestablish Nazi Germany."

That is the simple view - the Holocaust Promotion Lobby view that "justifies" their howls about "Never again!" and flinging "Nazi!" "Racist!" "White Supremacist" in everybody's face who dares to question the Goldhagen dogma of wholesale "German evil".

The reasons are much deeper, as amplified by this same reader in a separate e-mail - and amplified by Zundel comments.

This format will make it a bit hard to read, but I don't know how else to illustrate what happens when it comes to war crimes committed by the Allies. That's when Ernst Zundel's blood pressure goes up! Ernst Zundel simply hates it that, while we get daily overdosed with Holocaustomania, so little about Allied crimes is known.

Here starts the reader's e-mail:

• Great destructiveness, especially if it is near to us in time, cannot be shrugged off as ". . . just one of those things." Failure to condemn brutality, cynicism, cruelty, barbarism makes it possible for us to slide right into such types of conduct again, and again, and again.

But Germany has repented its brutalities. What about the Allies? Do any of _these_ engage the moral sense of conventionalists?

• The murder of at least 600,000 Germans, mostly women and children,

in the terroristic bombing campaigns against German cities,

• The deaths of hundreds of German POWs in mass shootings, documented in anecdotal accounts by Gerald Astor, Paul Fussell, and many others

(Ernst: ". . . there were hundreds of THOUSANDS of death through starvation! And how about James Bacque's claim in "Other Losses" that the US Army at Eisenhower's order starved to death between 1 and 2 million German soldiers AND civilians?")

• The postwar beatings and torture of many German soldiers, in countless accounts, especially the members of the Waffen SS divisions "Leibstandarte AH" and "Das Reich"

(Ernst: ". . . by British, American, French and Soviet interrogators!")

• The postwar imprisonment of German POWs for up to 10 years in Allied prison camps, where they were reduced to the status of slave laborers -- not only in Russia, but also in France and England
• The deliberate post-war malnourishment of the German population, stated publicly by Field Marshal Montgomery in 1945-46

(Ernst: ". . . and by the French and Morgenthauists in the Truman administration!")

• The deliberate expulsion of some 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia, where, in many cases, they were detained in grotesque prison camps where, in an atmosphere of complete anomie, they were beaten, tortured, raped, and garrotted

(Ernst: ". . . during which 200,000 were killed!")

• The deliberate expulsion of an even greater number of ethnic Germans from Poland, where, again, in many cases, they were detained in camps and in an orgy of violence were tortured, mutilated, and murdered

(Ernst: ". . . hundreds of THOUSANDS were murdered!")

• The systematic terrorization of several millions more of ethnic Germans from throughout Eastern Europe and Poland, who were driven before the Red Army in a frenzy of brutality, including instances of the deliberate murdering of German infants (Nemmersdorf), systematic rapes, including elderly nuns, deliberate murders of men as heads of households, and all other local figures of authority, and, again, in many cases, deportation of hundreds of thousands of Germans to prostitution and slave labor in the Soviet Union
  
  
  
• The systematic rape of German women, in particular in the Soviet zone, but frequently in the Western zones as well, for years after the war
• The systematic plunder of German scientific know-how, through glorified kidnappings (Operation Paper Clip), of German treasures (Quedlinberg, Troy, sound recordings), and German overseas assets (peremptorily seized).

(Ernst: ". . . and all the German patents stolen by the Allied powers! The wholesale destruction of German institutions of learning! The stealing and/or destroying of millions of priceless books and manuscripts!")

• Add it up: 1 million German POW's. Perhaps 1 million German civilians in terror bombings. Another 1 million Germans as a direct result of Soviet atrocities, orchestrated by Ilya Ehrenberg. 14 million Germans expelled, including 2 million who died in process. 2 million German dead in the first two postwar winters, from malignant neglect, disease, and hunger. . . Germans done to death. Not because they were war criminals. Not because of some terrible mistake. Not because no one knew.

But because they were Germans.

(Ernst: " . . . because of Allied-induced hatred propaganda and their Europe-wide policy of 'ethnic cleansing!'")

• Yes, let us maintain a "moral vision." It is important that the atrocities of the Germans against the civilians of Europe -- and in particular against the Jewish people should be condemned.

(Ernst: SOME segments of the Jewish population! Note: 5,000 still lived freely in Berlin in May of 1945!")

• But let's remember, while doing so, that a "moral commitment" that is selective is worse than none: because it pretends that it is _justifiable_ to murder the members of one group, but not of another

(Ernst: ". . . namely it's a crime to mistreat Jews, but it's not a crime to intern, rob, expel or murder Germans!")

• Indeed, a _selective_ moral commitment, which fails to acknowledge the criminal behavior of the "Good", or, even worse, seeks to excuse it, gives the lie to moral commitment altogether.

For it reveals the _a priori_ bias of the observer, who seeks to justify the victor's justice by an appeal to morality, which would never be able to stand were all the facts confronted honestly.

Those who say that the Holocaust must never happen again are fond of quoting the following, falsely attributed to (Adolf Hitler): "Who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?" by way of saying that a refusal to face the sins of the past is the best way to ensure their reoccurrence.

But -- really -- who today remembers the genocide of the Germans of Eastern Europe . . . ?"

Thought for the Day:

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."

(Andre Gide)

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