Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
1. The Revisionist claim: The Holocaust is useful postwar propaganda that started as a systematic, insidious campaign already during World War I as one of the tactics employed by Zionists to get the excuse and means to establish the state of Israel. During World War II, moneyed interests succeeded in rallying the troops and engaging the world, specifically America, in what turned out to be, essentially, a fratricidal war.
Sophisticated war-time propaganda about an enemy's alleged "atrocities"
is nothing new. It is an effective psychological weapon, routinely employed
to keep the home-grown troops fired up so that they believe that they are
fighting for a righteous, patriotic cause.
Toward this end, the enemy is demonized with systematic atrocity stories.
The media repeats over and over and over again how cruel and demonic the
enemy is.
This tactic was used by the Allies - extensively! - in World War I, and
even more so in World War II. Here is one piece of evidence:
On February 29, 1944 the British Ministry of Information sent the following
note to the higher British clergy (!) and to the BBC:
"Sir,
I am directed by the Ministry to send you the following circular letter:
It is often the duty of the good citizens and of the pious Christians to turn a blind eye on the peculiarities of those associated with us.
But the time comes when such peculiarities, while still denied in public, must be taken into account when action by us is called for.
We know the methods of rule employed by the Bolshevik dictator in Russia itself from, for example, the writing and speeches of the Prime Minister himself during the last twenty years. We know how the Red Army behaved in Poland in 1920 and in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Galicia, and Bessarabia only recently.
We must, therefore, take into account how the Red Army will certainly behave when it overruns Central Europe. Unless precautions are taken, the obviously inevitable horrors which will result will throw an undue strain on public opinion in this country.
We cannot reform the Bolsheviks but we can do our best to save them - and ourselves - from the consequences of their acts. The disclosures of the past quarter of a century will render mere denials unconvincing. The only alternative to denial is to distract public attention from the whole subject.
Experience has shown that the best distraction is atrocity propaganda directed against the enemy. Unfortunately the public is no longer so susceptible as in the days of "Corpse Factory." the Mutilated Belgian Babies," and the "Crucified Canadians."
Your cooperation is therefore earnestly sought to distract public attention from the doings of the Red Army by your wholehearted support of various charges against the Germans and Japanese which have been and will be put into circulation by the Ministry.
Your expression of belief in such may convince others.
I am, sir, Your obedient servant
(signed)
H. Hewet, Assistant Secretary".
Nice little tactic, nyet? There was even a postscript, as follows:
"The Ministry can enter into no correspondence of any kind with regard to the communication which should only be disclosed to responsible persons.
(Rozek, Edward J., Allied Wartime Diplomacy: A Pattern in Poland, John Wiley and Sons, NY. page 209-210)"
This is quite an astounding document. It was entered into the court records
during one of the Zundel Great Holocaust Trials. This letter is ample evidence
that during World War II, the Allies deliberately used atrocity propaganda
against Hitler Germany to distract their own people from the atrocities
being committed primarily but not exclusively by the Red Army - their "comrades"!
- in the invasion of Europe as World War II drew to an end on the continent.
Note, though, that there was nothing in this letter that talked of "gassing"
people.
Why not? Because foolish atrocity propaganda is something else again.
The gas chamber claim was floated briefly at the time as a propaganda test
kite but was quickly abandoned as too "unbelievable." If atrocity
fiction is found to be so gross, outlandish and implausible that thinking,
feeling people simply cannot swallow it, it is not in an army leader's interest
to peddle such a "crime."
This was the case originally with the "gas chamber" myth.
In point of fact, the British Ministry of Information at first requested
British clergy to help spread the "gas chamber" story which was
planned to be put in circulation by the Ministry.
(Rozek, Edward J., Allied Wartime Diplomacy, pp. 108-110. John Wiley and
Sons, New York )
However, from the start, it was judged to be too problematic and bizarre
and, therefore, it was quickly withdrawn as a potential strategic embarrassment.
Some of the "lesser" so-called "crimes" that people
were willing to swallow did survive and thrive for a while, both during
World War I and World War II - some of them for longer periods than others.
For example, many of the older generation, both in Europe and America, still
vividly remember the macabre World War I Allied propaganda claims of the
German ". . . cadavers-into-soap factories," the ". . . chopped-off
hands of Belgian babies," the ". . . crucified Canadian soldier"
stories - all of which proved to be lies, and for some of which post W.W.I
Allied statesmen even apologized to the Germans.
(The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation took 70 years before they finally
admitted that the "Crucified Canadian" story was a propaganda
lie. 70 years!)
Some even remember the incredible, hysterical claim made by the then-Governor
of New York State, even in 1917-18, (!) that the Germans had been ".
. . exterminating millions of Jews."
Even more telling was the claim about the ". . . six million"!
(Glynn, Martin, The Crucifixion of the Jews Must Stop The American Hebrew,
October 31, 1920.)
So you see - the "six million" story is old. Very old.
It had been peddled before. In a recent book entitled "Keystone of
the New World Order: The Holocaust Dogma of Judaism," the author, Ben
Weintraub (pseud.) makes the point that the number has, in fact, mythical
significance because it is based on cabalistic sources.
(Weintraub, Ben, The Holocaust Dogma: Keystone of the New World Order, Cosmos
Publishers, 1994)
Unfortunately, it took a gullible, systematically miseducated populace such
as we have today, coupled with relentless brainwashing by a corrupt, beholden
lapdog media, to peddle the lie for decades the way it has been peddled.
In World War I, there was no electronic media. After W.W.II, this handy
tale was dusted off and heaved once more against the German people.
The massive psychological onslaught, however, really only started twenty
years ago with the fictitious television series, "Holocaust,"
shown worldwide to an estimated 100 million people in 1977.
Next there was "Shoah" and many others, to be finally topped by
that grotesque anti-German hate film, "Schindler's List." There
were thousands of other books, articles, productions etc. not nearly as
vicious in impact, but cumulatively destructive.
Let us be very clear on one point: There would have been no hesitation to
use the story of the "gassings" even during the war - had it been
plausible. It was not plausible.
Confessions about "gassings" had to be tortured out of hapless
prisoners - foremost, of course, Rudolf Hoess, the man in charge of Auschwitz
- to allow the concocted show trials in Nuremberg after the war, which were
then subsequently used to condition us to believe anything.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Zurich's gnomes are not happy."
(Eric Margolis in "Inside Track on World News," March 2, 1997)