ZGram - 12/11/2004 - "Romania yields to the blackmail of Jewish
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December 11, 2004
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
Once more, an essay for history from Dr. Robert Faurisson, Europe's
most renown Revisionist. (The short bio sketch was supplied by
Michael Santomauro of RePorterNoteBook at aol.com )
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About the author:
Dr. Robert Faurisson is Europe's leading Holocaust revisionist
scholar. He was educated at the Paris Sorbonne, and served as
associate professor at the University of Lyon in France from 1974
until 1990. He is a recognized specialist of text and document
analysis. After years of private research and study, Dr. Faurisson
first made public his skeptical views about the Holocaust
extermination story in articles published in 1978 in the French daily
Le Monde. His writings on the Holocaust issue have appeared in two
books and numerous scholarly articles, many of which have been
published in the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. [ www.ihr.org ]
Dr. Robert FAURISSON
23 November 2004
Romania yields to the blackmail of Jewish organisations
The press of the whole world has rung with the news: Romania, after
persistently saying that it had incurred no personal responsibility
in what is conventionally called "the extermination of the Jews" (or
"the Holocaust" or "the Shoah"), has at last seen the error of its
ways and is set to do penance. In France, Le Monde recently
headlined "Romania formally acknowledges its participation in the
extermination of the Jews" (article by Mirel Bran, 17 November 2004,
p. 7).
Yet, if there is one country that protected its Jews during the
Second World War, that country is Romania. This truth could still be
articulated twenty or so years ago. Today, we are bidden to conceal
it, and so to lie.
On the reality of the Romanian Jews' fate during the war, let us
first quote, by way of a foreword, a testimony published by
L'Express in 1979 under the title "Les Roumains et les Juifs" ("The
Romanians and the Jews"), then, for a more in-depth consideration,
look closely at a 1982 report in Le Monde juif, the review of the
Centre de documentation juive contemporaine (CDJC) in Paris, under
the remarkable heading "La Roumanie sauvée de l'Holocauste" ("Romania
saved from the Holocaust").
"The Romanians and the Jews"
Here is the letter signed by one Constantin Mares that appeared in
L'Express (week of 10 to 16 March 1979):
I am a Romanian living in the Federal Republic of Germany. I am 51
years old. When Hitler died I was 17. - I read with bewilderment in
L'Express n°1440 that in Romania, during the Second World War
(source cited and taken up without objection), 425,000 Jews are
alleged to have died or disappeared, in other words 50% of a Jewish
population of 850,000 (in 1939). - This is a grave error, a
veritable slander directed at a people who have suffered far too
much, who have never practised hatred, political or racial mass
killing or invasion of territories belonging to other peoples. It is
also the occasion to remind your readers that, during the Second
World War, Romania was not led by a Fascist party but by a marshal
who committed some errors, but who waged a struggle of invaded
territories. - It is my duty to specify that, during the Second World
War, my Romanian compatriots of Jewish origin were not made to wear
the star of David, that they had schools, that, in the capital of
the country there operated a [Jewish] secondary school (the
"Culture") and a [Jewish] theatre (the Baracheum), the latter being
attended by all inhabitants of Bucharest, Jewish or non-Jewish. In
those years, on the stage of the Romanian national theatre, the play
"Star without a Name", written by the great Romanian playwright of
Jewish origin Mihail Sebastian, brought full houses. In all Romania
there existed no concentration camps for the Jews, with Marshal
Antonescu having personally opposed Hitler's request [to establish
them], and, consequently, none of my compatriots were handed over to
the Nazis.
Let us chiefly note three strong points of this brief testimony: the
Romanian Jews, unlike, for example, certain French Jews, did not
have to wear a star of David in public, were not put in
concentration camps and were not handed over to the Germans for
deportation to Germany or Poland.
"Romania saved from the Holocaust"
(presentation of the Popescu report by Le Monde juif)
Bearing the signature of Josif Toma Popescu, the report entitled "La
Roumanie sauvée de l'Holocauste" (Le Monde juif, January-March 1982,
p. 1-2 and 3-11) is all the more important as it received the
approval of the CDJC, whose director was Georges Wellers, sworn
enemy of the revisionists. The presentation by Le Monde juif (p.
1-2) of the report (p. 3-11) is laudatory and rather honest. It is
careful to recall that the Romanian government did not incur
responsibility in the fate that may have been experienced by the Jews
of certain territories that had been stripped from the country
between 28 June and 30 August 1940 in application of the
German-Soviet pact and of the treaty of Vienna imposed by Hitler and
Mussolini. In the space of two months, northern Transylvania was
annexed by Hungary, Bessarabia and northern Bucovina were annexed by
the Soviet Union and southern Dobruja was annexed by Bulgaria.
Consequently, to impute to Romania responsibility for the fate of
the Jews in all of those regions amounts to a swindle. What is true
is that in 1941 the Romanian government, allied with Germany, was to
recover Bucovina and Bessarabia and then transplant many Jews of
those provinces in Transnistria (the western part of the Soviet
Ukraine) with the intention of sending them to the Urals should
circumstances allow. The project of a transfer and settling of those
Jews was to meet with disaster and, one year on, those of them who
had avoided death from typhus, hunger and the cold - the main
killers in the tragedy - were taken back to Romania. The team of Le
Monde juif specify: "The responsibility of the Romanian government
in these hardships is a heavy one, although it is not easy to
distinguish it from that of the German officials [Romania's allies in
the crusade against the Soviet Union]. Le Monde juif condemns the
existence of ghettos (!) in the rest of the country and the
anti-Jewish laws whilst adding that, on the other hand, there were
no deportations to the camps in Poland or Germany. It goes so far as
to acknowledge that general Antonescu (who became Marshal in August
1941), deputy prime minister Mihai Antonescu (an Anglophile), the
Queen Mother and some high authorities of the orthodox church
responded favourably to the numerous interventions by the chief
rabbi of Romania, Dr Alexandre Safran. As for Iuliu Maniu, former
prime minister and president of the National Peasants' Party, he
played, in his relations with Marshal Antonescu, a decisive role in
favour of his Jewish compatriots.
"Romania saved from the Holocaust"
(the Popescu report itself)
At the time, J. T. Popescu was a practising barrister in Bucharest.
His report is rich in precisions confirming that, thanks in
particular to Marshal Antonescu's government, the Romanian Jews saw
themselves spared all sorts of hardships inflicted on the Jews of
various other European countries. A certain number of these Romanian
Jews showed their sympathy for the cause of the Soviet Union, which
was fighting Romania. At the beginning of the war, in the town of
Iasi, a Romanian military formation, marching to the front and
passing through a narrow street, had been attacked by some Jewish
communists: there ensued an engagement that cost lives on either
side as well as amongst the population; only the Jewish losses,
considerably inflated by legend, have been recorded in history. J.
T. Popescu does not bring up this affair but he does call to mind an
illustration of it: the Romanian Jews were not mobilised in the
Romanian army and thus did not take part in the Russian campaign,
which was to cause Romania terrible losses. As compensation for this
privilege, Marshal Antonescu had foreseen "a special contribution
imposed solely on the Jews, considering that they were not
participating in the military campaign" (p.7). Nonetheless, upon one
of the many interventions of I. Maniu, the projected measure was
abandoned. The Popescu report also mentions an astonishing Jewish
privilege: the granting, with retroactive effect, of an old-age
pension to foreign Jews who, having worked in Romania, had neglected
to satisfy the formalities of naturalisation within the stipulated
time. With illegal Jewish immigrants flocking to the country from
Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, the government in Bucharest
looked to take measures for the internment and forcible repatriation
of such persons but ended up, once again, abandoning the idea. On 23
August 1944, when the fortunes of war had turned, Marshal Antonescu
was arrested by order of King Michael I and handed over to the
Soviets, who executed him in 1946.
The figure of Marshal Antonescu
For their part, the Romanian people after the war were to experience
the rigours of communism (1947-1989). Then, after the fall of
communism, they set about erecting statues here and there of their
former "Conducator". Far from appearing as a "fascist", Antonescu at
the time assumed the traits of a nationalist who, in 1941, had, at
the extreme right, violently put an end to the Iron Guard movement
and, at the extreme left, taken up arms against communism. With
respect to his German allies he had proved to be fiercely independent
both in his refusal to hand over the Jewish communists in his
country for internment in camps in Germany or Poland and also in the
facilities that he accorded to the Jews, at the height of the war,
in order to let them reach Turkey.
Today the Romanian Jewish community and its friends in the
international community protest against the homage paid to the
memory of the Marshal who was shot by the communists. In December
2000, a right-wing leader, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, who received 28% of
the votes cast in the presidential election of that year won by Ion
Ilescu, stated: "I do not dispute the Holocaust, but I don't think
that grief should be exploited as a business. [] In [the case of]
Romania, figures are exaggerated so as to claim a maximum of
financial compensation []. The Jews are asking us to demolish the
statues of Antonescu as the Talibans have done with the Buddha's"
(Mirel Bran, "L'autre mémoire roumaine", Le Monde, 8 March 2002, p.
8).
Romania is a candidate for membership in both the European Union and
NATO. But the first condition imposed on candidate countries is, as
we know, the payment of an entrance fee to benefit the international
Jewish organisations. The amount of the fee is not negotiable: it is
directly proportional to these organisations' tally of Jews who,
they allege, perished during the war in the country in question.
This kosher tax will have to be paid, cash on the nail, as the Swiss
have paid theirs, even though they were not asking anything of
anyone, and certainly not membership in the European Union or NATO.
Kneeling and penitence
The Romanian government has bowed low, got down on its knees and
made its act of contrition. "Under the pressure of the Jewish
community of the United States, Romania, a candidate for NATO, has
ended up reconsidering its past. In March [2002], a new law notably
prohibited [] statues of Marshal Antonescu. Three of these have
already been dismantled", announced Mirel Bran with satisfaction (Le
Monde, 17 July 2002, p. 5). The said law, in its anti-revisionist
provision, punishes "any public denial of the Holocaust" with five
years' imprisonment (in France the tariff is one year). In an open
letter signed by Hillary Clinton, senator from New York, Romania has
been summoned to remove the Marshal's portrait from the gallery of
portraits of all Romanian prime ministers. Octogenarians of Romanian
origin, having become United States citizens since the war, have
been declared former war criminals by American courts, stripped of
their American nationality and handed over to Romania for trial and
conviction there. Elie Wiesel has personally inaugurated a monument
to the "Holocaust" in Romania and warned president Iliescu and
social democratic prime minister Adrian Nastase: "Do not turn your
back on the past. [] Integrate it into your life and you will
flourish. Forget it and you are doomed" (New York Times, 31 July
2002). Slightly less than a year afterwards, on 12 June 2003, the
Romanian government, in an ephemeral movement of rebellion, declared:
"This Government encourages research concerning the Holocaust in
Europe - including documents referring to it and found in Romanian
archives - but strongly emphasizes that between 1940 and 1945 no
Holocaust took place within Romania's boundaries", which was
accurate. Five days later, "yielding to international pressure", to
the wrath of the State of Israel and to the indignation of the Yad
Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, Bucharest rectified its position and,
on 17 June, issued a statement confessing that the Antonescu
government "was guilty of grave war crimes, pogroms, and mass
deportations of Romanian Jews to territories occupied or controlled
by the Romanian army", adding that the wartime regime had employed
"methods of discrimination and extermination that are part of the
Holocaust"
(http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/06/4-SEE/see-180603.asp). On 14
February 2004, the press announced the repentance of the "far-right"
politician C. V. Tudor: "I am asking for forgiveness from all Jews.
I've changed". He stated his intention to "lead a group of [Greater
Romania] party members to the site of the Auschwitz camp in southern
Poland this year. He also promised that if he became president, he
would introduce the study of the Holocaust in schools" (
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1076744701710&p=1008596981749).
Thus, as we have seen, Le Monde of 17 November 2004 was able to
trumpet in a three-sentence headline: "Romania formally acknowledges
having participated in the extermination of the Jews. President Ion
Iliescu assumes 'the full responsibility of the State' for the Shoah
during the Second World War. About 400,000 Jews and 11,000 Gypsies
were killed." The latter figures obviously do not correspond to any
historical truth; they constitute a mere indication of amount of the
bill that will be presented to the Romanian taxpayer. The article
recalled that, in the recent past, Ion Iliescu had tried to "minimise
the tragedy of the Jews in Europe and especially in Romania" to such
a degree that "the Jerusalem Post had called for the isolation of
the Romanian head of State on the international scene, likening him
to the Austrian extremist leader Jörg Haider". The Israeli interior
minister, Avraham Poraz, himself born in Romania, had declared the
Romanian president "persona non grata". The Le Monde piece ended
with the confirmation of three news items: a memorial to the Shoah is
to be built by the Romanian government, then a museum of the
"Holocaust" and, finally, "this dark episode of Romanian history
will be incorporated in the school textbooks".
If Georges Wellers were to return to this world and reiterate in
Bucharest the remarks made in Le Monde juif of March 1982, he
would incur on the spot a five-year prison sentence: the fact stands
as a firm indication that that, year after year and from one country
to another, the conquering character of Shoah Business and the
"Holocaust" industry is growing ever more forceful. Over this
subject there reigns an entente, and a cordial one, of master
blackmailers between the State of Israel, the Jewish diaspora and the
American superpower.
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Note: Today Romania is accused of having killed 400,000 Jews and, if
one is to believe the press, she is also accusing herself. Yet,
according to the most highly regarded Jewish historians, the number
of dead (and not only of the killed) was quite smaller. Gerald
Reitlinger proposes a total of from 210,000 to 220,000 dead, whilst
specifying that "owing to the lack of reliable information at the
time of writing, these figures must be regarded as conjectural" (The
Final Solution, Jacob Aronson, North Vale, New Jersey, 1987 [1956],
p. 497, 501). Lucy Dawidowicz puts forth the figure of 300,000 (The
War against the Jews, 1933-1945, New York, Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1975, p. 403) and Raul Hilberg that of 270,000 (The
Destruction of the European Jews, New York, Holmes and Meier, 1985,
p. 1220). Leni Yahil, for her part, refrains from giving any figure;
her conclusion on the fate of the Romanian Jews is, in certain
places, qualified to the point it amounts, if one may say so, to a
defence of Romania ( The Holocaust, the Fate of European Jewry,
1932-1945, translated from the Hebrew, New York and Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1990 [1987], p. 344-348). For an interesting
debate between two revisionists (Serban C. Andronescu and Mark
Weber) on the subject of the Romanian Jews during the Second World
War and for some quite different mortality figures, one may consult
The Journal of Historical Review (Summer 1982, p. 211-223; Fall
1982, p. 233-238; Winter 1982, p. 357-358, 479).
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