An interesting opinion piece that ran in the London Times, August 10, 1998, requires comment - the Michael Pinto-Duschinsky op ed essay on what he calls "the Holocaust survivors' split":
London Times: "An intense, symbol-laden argument is dividing Britain's community of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. The dispute is over strategies for pursuing financial claims related to their treatment in the Second World War. One side favours public protest and legal threat; the other defends the age-old approach of Jewish organisations: private negotiation and compromise."
Ingrid: This paragraph admits that there were, and are, Jewish strategies at work for at least half a century of how to get the most out of the Germans for the wealth and properties supposedly lost to the Third Reich regime - wealth and properties many Jews got via questionable means and methods in the first place during the terrible inflation of the 1920s.
London Times: "The immediate issue is the question of compensation from German companies which employed Jewish slave labourers. These include Volkswagen, Daimler-Benz and Siemens. Other claims concern insurance companies and banks (Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank) which financed and benefited from many of Hitler's operations. All these companies have major British interests."
Ingrid: How about all the companies in England, France, Holland, Belgium etc. who used hundreds of thousands of German slave laborers after 1945?
How about Soviet state enterprises, Polish coal mines, Yugoslavian farm collectives? When will these exploiters pay for the millions of Germans who toiled and died while working in unspeakable conditions in Siberia and elsewhere?
London Times: "It may seem strange that, 53 years after the war, this controversy has resurfaced. The former slaves, who tried to bury memories of the past in order to rebuild their careers and to raise their families, now face old age. This has brought renewed anguish and the realisation that this may be their last chance. Quite apart from the money, the fact that they are not entitled to payment for their slave labour while their former overseers (including SS officers) receive pensions leaves many with feelings of outrage and injustice."
Ingrid: Would the millions of German slaves used by the Allies not have the same "anguish", and a claim to compensation by the same rights? British, Soviet, French and Polish officers who guarded them also got war pensions - and are still getting them. None of those who mistreated millions of these German slaves were ever brought before any courts - anywhere!
London Times: "The survivors leading the campaign for compensation have received support from younger Jewish professionals such as the lawyer Anthony Julius. This is part of a shift in Anglo-Jewish attitudes. Traditionally, Jews " like other minorities " felt that the price of social acceptance was outward conformity. Yet Britain is now a pluralist nation. While most official Jewish institutions cling to the traditional line of not "making waves", the approach is beginning to lose its logic."
Ingrid: It isn't "losing its logic" - extortionists have been emboldened by recent events because most people roll over and play dead the moment the Holocaust issue is trotted out. The "pluralist nation" is useful in that it lends itself to shrieks of "racism!" whenever a brave man remembers his spine.
London Times: "The activists among the Holocaust survivors are at loggerheads with the Jewish Claims Conference, a worldwide organisation which includes representatives of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Since the early 1950s, the Claims Conference has negotiated with the German Government and occasionally with German companies. At times it has been successful. But it has almost always negotiated in private, shying away from open confrontation. In recent years it has concentrated on obtaining compensation for Jewish victims of the Nazis living in the former Soviet bloc."
Ingrid: The Jews collectively - and many of them, individually - have had a free ride on the sweat and toil of the Germans for three generations. Maybe they should leave well enough alone and be satisfied with their DM 100 billion plus (!) ill-gotten gains already extorted out of the defeated Germans and approved by the Allied-installed regime after the war. To open that can of worms of what happened in the Eastern Blocs is not wise - from a Jewish point of view.
It isn't wise for two reasons - first, because the Slavs are not the shrinking violets the brain-washed Germans are when it comes to withstanding smear campaigns, and secondly, because of the specter of Jewish-Bolshevik involvement in the hideous torture and murder of tens of millions from 1917 on. This record has yet to be exposed - covered up as it is to this day by the obliging lapdog media in the West.
London Times: "Its critics argue that the Claims Conference has become addicted to the inside track; by its aversion to protest it has made some poor deals. When Daimler-Benz and Volkswagen refused to compensate their former Jewish slaves, the Claims Conference agreed instead to accept derisory offers of £3.6 million and £1 million for Jewish institutions such as old people's homes. The specific condition of the companies was that none of the money be paid as compensation to former workers for fear of creating a legal precedent. Controversially, the Claims Conference used bank interest on unspent money from Daimler-Benz to pay for a public relations consultant."
Ingrid: They engaged a public relations consultant no less? And the victimized capitalist is even paying for it?
For us, this is a positive development, for the world finally gets a glimpse of how the scam is worked in all its many immoral facets.
London Times: "The timidity of many Jewish representative bodies has meant that some of the most effective campaigns against the recalcitrant German corporations have come from individuals and groups within Germany itself. It was Baron von Munchhausen, a professor at Bremen University descended from the famous storyteller's brother, who in 1990 initiated a long series of legal actions against the German Government on behalf of Jewish women who survived the cruelties of slave labour. His own mother, a Jewess, had died at Auschwitz. When the Claims Conference rejected his appeal for help, he obtained financial backing from an anonymous German donor to pay the heavy legal bills. After seven years, Munchhausen finally succeeded in obtaining compensation of £7,000 for one woman who had been a slave labourer in Bremen in 1944. This limited victory paved the way for a campaign in Nuremberg which resulted in payments by the Diehl company to 250 Jewish women."
Ingrid: Interesting that even in the Munchhausen clan - a venerable old aristocratic German family - an "Esther" shows up, passing on, so it seems, some of her ethnic traits and tactics to her son, who shows all the typical traits of first whining, then making threats, and finally courts and litigation - and wanting, of course, to freeload on the Germans. And they say that ethnic stereotypes do not count?
London Times: "Munchhausen then threatened legal action against Volkswagen unless it agreed by July 31, 1998 to compensate its former Jewish workers, which it previously had resolutely refused to do. Within three weeks, VW complied. At the end of July, Deutsche Bank issued a statement acknowledging moral (but, significantly, not legal) responsibility for "the darkest chapter in its history". Meanwhile, the German Government has taken modest steps to restrict pension rights of German war criminals. Legal actions against VW and other German corporations are being prepared in the US. The Claims Conference finally decided in July that it, too, will now assist Jewish slave labourers in their negotiations with the German corporations."
Ingrid: Remember how the "advertiser" Volkswagen keeled over and helped browbeat a Japanese magazine, Marco Polo, not all that long ago when that popular magazine ran an expose of the gas chamber myth? Immediately, the Holocaust Enforcer thumbscrews were applied to its advertisers. The Volkswagen account was one of the first that threatened to pull out. A number of other German firms took the hint. Shortly afterwards, Marco Polo went belly-up and was finished. That whole campaign was a combined operation by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Israeli Embassy. Only the then-Revisionist David Cole flew to Japan to try to stop the censorship. In vain.
The one thing the German capitalists, as well as the German state and its politicians, have yet to learn is that once you give in to threats and blackmail by these people, there will never be an end to their demands. The Swiss are learning this extremely expensive lesson now. The world is watching keenly.
We watch the spectacle with sadness, because a small investment of, let's say, $1,000 of Revisionist research could have saved Switzerland $1.2 billion - which may be only the beginning. Will people forget how it feels?
London Times: "The settlements so far agreed have been for small sums and for limited groups. The corporations doggedly refuse to accept legal responsibility; the Federal Government does not accept liability to pay for slave labour under the Nazi regime either. This could change if a coalition of Social Democrats and Greens wins power next month.
"But confrontational tactics are proving more effective than caution. If younger generations of British Jews, together with vociferous groups within Germany, are able to campaign effectively for justice for the survivors of the Nazi regime, there is more hope that a pluralist, democratic Europe may emerge after all."
Ingrid: Confrontational tactics? By vociferous groups? Wow! There is finally an admission - in the venerable Times of London, no less! - that these tactics are being applied. I am afraid that the last word on the effectiveness of these tactics has not been spoken yet.
There is one constant in the tragic history of the Jewish people - which is that their reckless leaders have never known when enough is enough - and the little Jews had to suffer the reactions and fall-out to the destructive actions of those leaders.
It was like that in Russia. It was like that in Hitler's Germany. It was like that in pre-Cromwell England, in Spain and Portugal. If present trends continue, it will be like that, too, in Switzerland. And maybe even in America.
A proverb has it right. No matter how fair the sun shines, still it must set.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war."