January 14, 1998

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

A Zundel supporter and local media monitor for Zundel-Haus has an interesting story to share.

There was a newspaper ad in a local newspaper for a fair-sized British Columbia town about a Holocaust Survivor (genuflect here!) sharing his experience in a Nazi concentration camp with the local folks.

Ms. Sonnenschein - the name means just the way it sounds, "Sunshine" - was undoubtedly willing to shed some new light on this old subject.

At the appointed date and time, our monitor-friend visited the local library where the Holocaust Reinforcement Session for the local goyim was supposed to take place. The talk was scheduled to start at 7 P.M.

At 7:15 P.M. there were only four people present: Ms. Sonnenschein herself, two elderly gentlemen, and our Zundel-Haus friend.

The latter left at 7:25, since no one else had appeared. He returned at 8:00 P.M. and found only one of the two elderly people left.

Asked if the lecture was over, he was told that it had been canceled since nobody else had shown up.

The weather was nice. No snow. No rain.

The lesson of course is obvious. Goyim as well as members of the local Jewish community decided not to vote with their feet, since they had better things to do with their evening than to listen to the same old schlock stories.

Along the same lines:

I receive a monthly German language publication, called "Nation Europa" - indexed, by the way, as "ethically disorienting to minors" by the German government - that ran a little article called "Hardly anyone is reading (Shoah) any more".

This article notes that publishers in the United States have 781 Shoah titles on their backlists. Germany, a much smaller country with fewer publishers and fewer readers, has 294 titles.

In this write-up, Ernst Peter Wieckenberg, CEO at C.H. Beck of Munich, is quoted as saying:

"We as publishers have, of course, an obligation to pay due attention to the Holocaust. But I am skeptical of whether this flood of new titles serves the cause."

He is further quoted as saying that, from a business point of view, these Shoah projects don't make any sense, since these titles barely make it past the break-even point.

The article goes on to say that books of that genre are bought in huge numbers by libraries and educational outfits - that is, with taxpayers' money. Without this subsidy factor, the titles would not survive. The citizens of Germany are being so inundated with Shoah stuff in print, radio and television, and feel so saturated by the topic, they avoid buying these books in the stores.

Even Jewish voices are ever more frequently heard criticizing this incessant Shoah business. Says German-Jewish journalist Richard Chaim Schneider:

"This so-called coming-to-terms-with-the-past has flooded the market with titles that make us ask ourselves: who reads them in the first place? Probably no one. They serve as ***proof*** (emphasis added) for the alleged willingness to come to terms with the past." (Nation Europa, Nov. Dec. 1997 issue, pp. 60-61)

In a letter to Maclean's Magazine, January 12, 1998, H. Clifford Chadderton, Chairman of the National Council of Veteran Associations, sheds his own light on the matter while struggling against Shoah taking over veterans' turf.

Writes Chadderton:

"Barbara Amiel's column on the Canadian War Museum ("Controversy over a delicate matter," Dec. 29/Jan. 5) goes to the heart of the issue.

As veterans, we are not defending our turf; neither is it simply a remembrance of the Holocaust.

The plot is more complicated. The arts and culture gurus at the Museum of Civilization saw an opportunity to go beyond war itself.

Dr. George MacDonald, president of the Museum of Civilization, told us that ***a major reason for the Holocaust Gallery was to oppose the rise of neo-Nazism***. (Emphasis added) He suggested further that the gallery would represent a far-reaching human rights campaign as a Canadian initiative.

Fair ground for the Museum of Civilization, but a real stretch from the war museum's mandate to preserve our military heritage. The bureaucrats at the civilization museum have set veteran against Jew, and succeeded in making both look bad.

Only well-meaning intellectuals, with little knowledge of the dangerous ingredients, could have concocted such a witches' brew."

Which is precisely what it is - a witches' brew. In the wake of so much visceral revulsion against Holocaust material being forced down people's throats at every opportunity, you would think that these people would know it is time to lay off.

That has always been organized Jewry's Achilles Heel - not knowing when to lay off. They never know when enough is enough.

Thus, time and again, they have snatched defeat from victory - from Moses' Egypt times to the Weimar Republic to Stalin's monstrous Soviet-Marxist terror system to Israel's West Bank. Ethno-centrism, coupled with medieval Talmud teachings, as explained by Israel Shahak, has been a sure ingredient for losing, over and over again, legitimate gains made by individual Jewish sacrifices over millennia.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism."

(George Moore)

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