This terrifying article will make you ask the forbidden question:
“Did the victors of WWII deserve to win?”
By Thomas Goodrich
An edited abridgement by Lasha Darkmoon with notes and comments
“Staffed and run by Jews, the prisons were little better than torture chambers.”
— Thomas Goodrich
Part 1: Vai Victis! — Woe to the Vanquished!
Moments after arrival at the prison camp, prisoners were made
horrifyingly aware of their fate. John Sack, himself a Jew, reports on
one camp run by twenty-six-year-old Shlomo Morel.
“I was at Auschwitz,” Shlomo proclaimed, lying to the Germans but,
even more, to himself, psyching himself up like a fighter the night of
the championship, filling himself with hate for the Germans around him.
“I was at Auschwitz for six long years, and I swore that if I got out,
I’d pay all you Nazis back!”
Note by Lasha Darkmoon: Shlomo Morel,
psychopathic torturer and killer of German prisoners of war, later took
refuge in Israel where he was held in high honor and remained beyond
the reach of international law. Here now is this Jewish war criminal in 1945, age 26, commandant of a German prisoner of war camp where torture was practiced for its own sake:
“Schweine!” Shlomo cried. He threw down
his rubber club, grabbed a wooden stool, and started beating a German’s
head. Without thinking, the man raised his arms, and Shlomo, enraged
that the man would try to evade his just punishment, cried, “Sonofawhore!” and slammed the stool against the man’s chest.
The man dropped his arms, and Shlomo started hitting his now undefended head when snap! the leg of the stool split off. Cursing the German birchwood, he grabbed another stool and hit the German with that.
No one was singing now, but Shlomo, shouting, didn’t notice.
The other guards called out, “Blond!” “Black!” “Short!”
“Tall!” and as each of these terrified people came up, they wielded
their clubs upon him. The brawl went on till eleven o’clock, when the
sweat-drenched invaders cried, “Pigs! We will fix you up!” and left the
Germans alone.
Some were quite fixed. Shlomo and his subordinates had killed them
The next night it was more of the same . . . and the next night . . .
and the next and the next. Those who survived the “welcoming
committees” at this and other camps were flung back into their pens.
And so, with the once mighty German Army now disarmed and enslaved in
May, 1945, and with their leaders either dead or awaiting trial for
so-called “war crimes,” the old men, women and children who remained in
the dismembered Reich found themselves utterly at the mercy of the
victors.
Unfortunately for these survivors, never in the history of the world was mercy in shorter supply.
§
Because their knowledge of the language and culture was superb, most
of the intelligence officers accompanying US and British forces into the
Reich after WWII were
Jewish refugees who had fled
Germany in the late 1930s. Although their American and English “aides”
were hardly better, the fact that many of these people became
interrogators, examiners and screeners, with old scores to settle,
insured that no German would be shown any mercy.
One man opposed to the vengeance-minded program of these Americanized Jews was General George Patton.
“Evidently the virus started by Morgenthau and
[Bernard] Baruch of a Semitic revenge against all Germans is still
working,” wrote the general in private. “I am frankly opposed to this
war-criminal stuff. It is not cricket and it is Semitic. I can’t see how
Americans can sink so low.”
Soon after occupation, all adult Germans were compelled to register
at the nearest Allied headquarters and complete a lengthy questionnaire
on their past activities. While many nervous citizens were detained then
and there, most returned home, convinced that at long last the terrible
ordeal was over. For millions, however, the trial had but begun.
Few German adults, Nazi or not, escaped the dreaded knock on the
door. Far from being dangerous fascists, Freddy and Lali Horstmann were
actually well-known anti-Nazis. Lali Horstmann records her encounter
with a Russian commissar from the Russian Zone.
LD: Since a disproportionate number of Russian commissars were
Jews, especially those working for the cheka and other security
services, this particular officer was probably Jewish.
“I am sorry to bother you,” he began, “but I am simply carrying out my orders. Until when did you work for the Foreign Office?”
“Till 1933,” my husband answered.
“Then you need fear nothing,” Androff said. “We accuse you of
nothing, but we want you to accompany us to the headquarters of the
NKVD, the secret police, so that we can take down what you said in a
protocol, and ask you a few questions about the working of the Foreign
Office.”
We were stunned for a moment; then I started forward, asking
if I could come along with them. “Impossible,” the interpreter smiled.
My heart raced. Would Freddy answer satisfactorily? Could he stand the
excitement? What sort of accommodation would they give him?
“Don’t worry, your husband has nothing to fear,” Androff
continued. “He will have a heated room. Give him a blanket for the
night, but quickly, we must leave.”
There was a feeling of sharp tension, putting the soldier on
his guard, as though he were expecting an attack from one of us. I took
first the soldier, then the interpreter, by their hands and begged them
to be kind to Freddy, repeating myself in the bustle and scraping of
feet that drowned my words.
There was a banging of doors. A cold wind blew in. I felt Freddy kiss me.
I never saw him again.
§
“We were wakened by the sound of tires screeching, engines stopping
abruptly, orders yelled, general din, and a hammering on the window
shutters. Then the intruders broke through the door, and we saw
Americans with rifles who stood in front of our bed and shone lights at
us. None of them spoke German, but their gestures said: ‘Get dressed,
come with us immediately.’ This was my fourth arrest.”
So wrote
Leni Riefenstahl, a talented young woman who was perhaps the world’s greatest film-maker.
Because her epic documentaries—
Triumph of the Will and
Olympia—seemed
paeans to not only Germany, but National Socialism, and because of her
close relationship with an admiring Adolf Hitler, Leni was of more than
passing interest to the Allies. Though false rumors also hinted that the
attractive, one-time actress was also a “mistress of the devil”—that
she and Hitler were lovers.
“Neither my husband nor my mother nor any of my three assistants had
ever joined the Nazi Party, nor had any of us been politically active,”
said the confused young woman. “No charges had ever been filed against
us, yet we were at the mercy of the Allies and had no legal protection
of any kind.”
“We were never free from torments [in the American
prison]. For hours on end I rolled about on my bed, trying to forget my
surroundings, but it was impossible. The mentally disturbed woman kept
screaming — all through the night. But even worse were the yells and
shrieks of men from the courtyard, men who were being beaten, screaming
like animals.”
Soon after Leni’s fourth arrest, came a fifth.
The jeep raced along the autobahns until, a few
hours later, I was brought to the Salzburg Prison. There an elderly
prison matron rudely pushed me into the cell, kicking me so hard that I
fell to the ground. Then the door was locked. There were two other women
in the dark, barren room, and one of them, on her knees, slid about the
floor, jabbering confusedly; then she began to scream, her limbs
writhing hysterically. She seemed to have lost her mind. The other woman
crouched on her bunk, weeping to herself.
As
Leni Riefelstahl (pictured) and others quickly discovered, the “softening up” process began soon after arrival at an Allied prison.
When Ernst von Salomon, his Jewish girl friend and fellow prisoners
reached an American holding pen near Munich, the men were promptly led
into a room and brutally beaten by military police.
With his teeth knocked out and blood spurting from his mouth, von
Salomon moaned to a gum-chewing officer, “You are no gentlemen.” The
remark brought only a roar of laughter from the attackers. “No, no, no!”
the GIs grinned. “We are Mississippi boys!”
In another room, military policemen raped the women at will while
leering soldiers watched from windows. After such savage treatment, the
feelings of despair only intensified once the captives were crammed into
cells.
“The people had been standing there for three days, waiting to be
interrogated,” remembered a German physician ordered to treat prisoners
in the Soviet Zone. “At the sight of us a pandemonium broke out which
left me helpless. As far as I could gather, the usual senseless
questions were being reiterated: Why were they there, and for how long?
They had no water and hardly anything to eat. They wanted to be let out
more often than once a day. A great many of them have dysentery so badly
that they can no longer get up.”
“Young Poles made fun of us,” said a woman from her cell in the same
zone. “They threw bricks through the windows, paper bags with sand, and
skins of hares filled with excrement. We did not dare to move or offer
resistance, but huddled together in the farthest corner, in order not to
be hit, which could not always be avoided. . . . We were never free
from torments.”
“For hours on end I rolled about on my bed,
trying to forget my surroundings,” recalled Leni Riefenstahl, “but it
was impossible. The mentally disturbed woman kept screaming—all through
the night. But even worse were the yells and shrieks of men from the
courtyard, men who were being beaten, screaming like animals. I
subsequently found out that a company of SS men was being interrogated.
They came for me the next morning, and I was taken to a
padded cell where I had to strip naked, and a woman examined every
square inch of my body. Then I had to get dressed and go down to the
courtyard, where many men were standing, apparently prisoners, and I was
the only woman.
We had to line up before an American guard who spoke German.
The prisoners stood to attention, so I tried to do the same, and then
an American came who spoke fluent German. He pushed a few people
together, then halted at the first in our line.
“Were you in the Party?”
The prisoner hesitated for a moment, then said, “Yes.” He was slugged in the face and spat blood.
The American went on to the next in line.
“Were you in the Party?”
The man hesitated.
“Yes or no?”
“Yes.”
And he too got punched so hard in the face that the blood ran
out of his mouth. However, like the first man, he didn’t dare resist.
They didn’t even instinctively raise their hands to protect themselves. They did nothing. They put up with the blows like dogs.
The next man was asked: “Were you in the Party?”
Silence.
“Well?”
“No,” he yelled, so no punch.
From then on nobody admitted that he had been in the Party and I was not even asked.
As the above case illustrated, there often was no rhyme or reason to
the examinations. All seemed designed to force from the victim what the
inquisitor wanted to hear, whether true or false. Additionally, most
such “interrogations” were structured to inflict as much pain and
suffering as possible. One prisoner explained:
“The purpose of these interrogations is not to worm out of the people
what they knew—which would be uninteresting anyway—but to extort from
them special statements. The methods resorted to are extremely
primitive. People are beaten up until they confess to having been
members of the Nazi Party. The authorities simply assume that,
basically, everybody has belonged to the Party. Many people die during
and after these interrogations, while others, who admit at once their
party membership, are treated more leniently.”
“A young commissar, who was a great hater of the Germans,
cross-examined me,” said Gertrude Schulz. “When he put the question:
‘Frauenwerk [Women’s Labor Service]?’ I answered in the negative.
Thereupon he became so enraged, that he beat me with a stick, until I
was black and blue. I received about 15 blows … on my left upper arm, on
my back and on my thigh. I collapsed and, as in the case of the first
cross-examination, I had to sign the questionnaire.”
“Both officers who took our testimony were former
German Jews,” reminisced a member of the women’s SS, Anna Fest. While
vicious dogs snarled nearby, one of the officers screamed questions and
accusations at Anna. If the answers were not those desired, “he kicked
me in the back and the other hit me.”
They kept saying we must have been armed, have had pistols
and so on. But we had no weapons, none of us. I had no pistol. I
couldn’t say, just so they’d leave me in peace, ‘Yes, we had pistols.’
The same thing would happen to the next person to testify. The terrible
thing was, the German men had to watch. That was a horrible, horrible
experience. That must have been terrible for them. When I went outside,
several of them stood there with tears running down their cheeks. What
could they have done? They could do nothing.
Not surprisingly, with beatings, rape, torture, and death facing
them, few victims failed to “confess” and most gladly inked their name
to any scrap of paper shown them. Some, like Anna, tried to resist. Such
recalcitrance was almost always of short duration, however. Generally,
after enduring blackened eyes, broken bones, electric shock to
breasts—or, in the case of men, smashed testicles—only those who died
during torture failed to sign confessions.
Alone, surrounded by sadistic hate, utterly bereft of law, many
victims understandably escaped by taking their own lives. Like tiny
islands in a vast sea of evil, however, miracles did occur. As he limped
painfully back to his prison cell, one Wehrmacht officer reflected on
the insults, beatings, and tortures he had endured and contemplated
suicide.
I could not see properly in the semi-darkness and
missed my open cell door. A kick in the back and I was sprawling on the
floor. As I raised myself I said to myself I could not, should not
accept this humiliation. I sat on my bunk. I had hidden a razor blade
that would serve to open my veins. Then I looked at the New Testament
and found these words in the Gospel of St. John: “Without me ye can do
nothing.”
Yes. You can mangle this poor body—I looked down at the
running sores on my legs—but myself, my honor, God’s image that is in
me, you cannot touch. This body is only a shell, not my real self.
Without Him, without the Lord, my Lord, ye can do nothing. New strength
seemed to rise in me.
I was pondering over what seemed to me a miracle when the
heavy lock turned in the cell door. A very young American soldier came
in, put his finger to his lips to warn me not to speak. “I saw it,” he
said. “Here are baked potatoes.” He pulled the potatoes out of his
pocket and gave them to me, and then went out, locking the door behind
him.
§
Horrific as de-Nazification was in the British, French and,
especially the American Zone, it was nothing compared to what took place
in Poland, behind Soviet lines.
In hundreds of concentration camps sponsored by an apparatus called
the “Office of State Security,” thousands of Germans—male and female,
old and young, high and low, Nazi and non–Nazi, SS, Wehrmacht,
Volkssturm, Hitler Youth, all—were rounded up and imprisoned.
While those with blond hair, blue eyes and handsome features were first to go, anyone who spoke German would do.
AMERICAN TORTURE PEN:
A forerunner of Abu Ghraib
“Staffed and run by Jews, with help from Poles, Czechs,
Russians, and other concentration camp survivors, the prisons were
little better than torture chambers where dying was a thing to be
prolonged, not hastened.” — Thomas Goodrich
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“Kill the Germans! Kill the Germans! KILL! . . .
There is nothing more amusing to us than a heap of German corpses!”
— Ilya Ehrenberg (pictured), Stalin’s Jewish war propagandist
Part 2: The Slaughterhouse That Was Germany
This is how the Jewish war criminal, Shlomo Morel, treated his German prisoners of war at an American death camp in Germany after WWII:
“Schweine!” Shlomo cried. He threw down his
rubber club, grabbed a wooden stool, and, a leg in his fist, started
beating a German’s head. Without thinking, the man raised his arms, and
Shlomo, enraged that the man would try to evade his just punishment,
cried, “Sonofawhore!” and slammed the stool against the man’s chest.
The man dropped his arms, and Shlomo started hitting his now
undefended head when snap! the leg of the stool split off, and, cursing
the German birchwood, he grabbed another stool and hit the German with
that. No one was singing now, but Shlomo, shouting, didn’t notice.
The other guards called out, “Blond!” “Black!” “Short!”
“Tall!” and as each of these terrified people came up, they wielded
their clubs upon him. The brawl went on till eleven o’clock, when the
sweat-drenched invaders cried, “Pigs! We will fix you up!” and left the
Germans alone.
Some were quite fixed…. Shlomo and his subordinates had killed them.
The next night it was more of the
same . . . and the next night, and the next, and the next. Those who
survived the “welcoming committees” at this and other camps were flung
back into their pens.
“I was put with 30 women into a cell, which was intended
to accommodate one person,” Gerlinde Winkler recalled. “The narrow
space, into which we were rammed, was unbearable and our legs were all
entangled together. . . . The women, ill with dysentery, were only
allowed to go out once a day, in order to relieve themselves. A bucket
without a cover was pushed into the cell with the remark: ‘Here you have
one, you German sows.’
The stink was insupportable, and we were not allowed to open the little window.”
“The air in the cells became dense, the smell of the excrement filled
it, the heat was like in Calcutta, and the flies made the ceiling
black,” wrote John Sack. “I’m choking, the Germans thought, and one even
took the community razor blade and, in despair, cut his throat open
with it.”
When the wretched inmates were at last pried from their hellish tombs, it was only for interrogation. Sack, Jewish author of
An Eye for an Eye : The Story of Jews who sought Revenge for the Holocaust, continues:
As many as eight interrogators, almost all Jews,
stood around any one German saying, “Were you in the Nazi Party?”
Sometimes a German said, “Yes,” and the boys shouted, “Du schwein! You
pig!” and beat him and broke his arm, perhaps, before sending him to his
cell. . . . But usually a German said, “No,” and the boys … told him,
“You’re lying. You were a Nazi.”
“No, I never was.”
“You’re lying! We know about you!”
“No, I really wasn’t—”
“Du lugst! You’re lying!” they cried, hitting the obstinate man. “You
better admit it! Or you’ll get a longer sentence! Now! Were you in the
Nazi Party?”
“No!”the German often said, and the [Jewish] boys had to beat him and beat him until he was really crying, “I was a Nazi! Yes!”
But sometimes a German wouldn’t confess. One such hard case was a fifty-year-old….
“Were you in the Party?”
“No, I wasn’t in it.”
“How many people work for you?”
“In the high season, thirty-five.”
“You must have been in the Party,” the boy deduced.
He asked for the German’s wallet, where he found a fishing license
with the stamp of the German Anglers Association. Studying it, he told
the German, “It’s stamped by the Party.”
“It’s not,” said the German.
He’d lost his left arm in World War I and was using his right arm to
gesture with, and, to the boy, he may have seemed to be Heiling Hitler.
The boy became violent.
He grabbed the man’s collar, hit the man’s head against the
wall, hit it against it ten times more, threw the man’s body onto the
floor, and, in his boots, jumped on the man’s cringing chest.
A half dozen other interrogators, almost all Jews, pushed the man
onto a couch, pulled off his trousers, and hit him with hard rubber
clubs and hard rubber hoses full of stones.
The sweat started running down the Jews’ arms, and the blood down the man’s naked legs.
“Warst du in der Partei?”
“Nein!”
“Warst du in der Partei?”
“Nein!” the German screamed—screamed, till the [Jewish] boys
had to go to Shlomo’s kitchen for a wooden spoon and to use it to cram
some rags in the German’s mouth. Then they resumed beating him. . . .
The more the man contradicted them, the more they hated him for it.
After undergoing similar sessions on a regular basis, the victim was brought back for the eighth time.
By now, the man was half unconscious due to his many
concussions, and he wasn’t thinking clearly. The boys worked on him with
rubber and oak-wood clubs and said, “Do you still say you weren’t in
the Party?”
“No! I didn’t say I wasn’t in the Party!”
“You didn’t?”
“No!” said the punch drunk man. “I never said it!”
“You were in the Party?”
“Yes!”
The boys stopped beating him. They practically sighed, as if their ordeal were over now. They lit up cigarettes….
“Scram,” one said to the German. The man stood up, and he had his
hand on the doorknob when one of the boys impulsively hit the back of
his head, and he fell to the floor, unconscious.
“Aufstehen, du Deutsches schwein! Stand up, you German pig!”
the [Jewish] boys said, kicking him till he stood up and collapsed
again. Two boys carried him to his cell and dropped him in a corner….
Of course, the boys would beat up the Germans for “Yes”es as well as
“No”s. In Glatz, the Jewish commandant asked a German policeman, “Were
you in the Party?”
“Of course! I was obliged to be!”
“Lie down,” the commandant said, and six weeks later the [Jewish] boys were still whipping the German’s feet.
Some torture sessions lacked even the pretense of an examination. Remembered Eva Reimann:
My cell door opened. The guard, who, because of the foul
smell, held a handkerchief to his nose, cried, “Reimann Eva! Come!” I
was led to a first-floor room.
He shouted at me, “Take off your shoes!”
I took them off.
“Lie down!”
I lay down.
He took a thick bamboo stick, and he beat the soles of my
feet. I screamed, since the pain was very great. . . . The stick
whistled down on me. A blow on my mouth tore my lower lip, and my teeth
started bleeding violently. He beat my feet again. The pain was
unbearable….
The door opened suddenly, and, smiling obligingly, a cigarette in his
mouth, in came the chief of the Office, named Sternnagel. In faultless
German he asked me, “What’s wrong here? Why do you let yourself be
beaten? You just have to sign this document. Or should we jam your
fingers in the door, until the bones are broken. . . ?
A man picked me up by the ankles, raised me eight inches above the
floor, and let me fall. My hands were tied, and my head hit hard. . . . I
lay in a bloody puddle.
Someone cried, “Stand up!” I tried to, and, with unspeakable pain, I succeeded.
A man with a pistol came in, held it to my left temple, and said, “Will you now confess?”
I told him, “Please shoot me.” Yes, I hoped to be freed from all his tortures. I begged him, “Please pull the trigger.”
After barely surviving his “interrogation,” one fourteen-year-old
German boy prisoner of war was taken to the camp infirmary. “My body was
green, but my legs were fire red,” the boy said. “My wounds were bound
with toilet paper, and I had to change the toilet paper every day. I was
in the perfect place to watch what went on….
All the patients were being beaten in their beds. They were
dying everywhere: in their beds, in the washroom, on the toilet. At
night, I had to step over the dead, as if that were normal to do.”
When the supply of victims ran low, it was a simple matter to find more. John Sack continues:
One day, a German in pitch-black pants, the SS’s color,
showed up in Lola’s prison. He’d been spotted near the city square by a
Pole who’d said, “Fascist! You’re wearing black!”
At that, the German had bolted off, but the Pole chased him a mile to
the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, tackled him by a gold mosaic, hit
him, kicked him, and took him to Lola’s prison. Some guards, all girls,
then seized the incriminating evidence: the man’s black pants, pulling
them off so aggressively that one of the tendons tore. The man screamed,
but the girls said, “Shut up!” and they didn’t recognize that the pants
were part of a boy scout uniform.
The “man” was [only] fourteen years old.
The “girls” [female camp guards working for the Americans,
probably Jewish women] decided to torture him with fire. They held down
the German boy, put out their cigarettes on him, and, using gasoline,
set his curly black hair afire.
At the larger prison camps, Germans died by the hundreds daily.
“You pigs!” the commandant then cried, and he beat the
Germans with their stools, often killing them. At dawn many days, a
Jewish guard cried, “Eins! Zwei! Drei! Vier!” and marched the Germans
into the woods outside their camp. “Halt! Get your shovels! Dig!” the
guard cried, and, when the Germans had dug a big grave, he put a picture
of Hitler in. “Now cry!” the guard said. “And sing All the Dogs Are
Barking!” and all the Germans moaned,
All the dogs are barking,
All the dogs are barking,
Just the little hot-dogs,
Aren’t barking at all.
The guard then cried, “Get undressed!” and, when the Germans
were naked, he beat them, poured liquid manure on them, or, catching a
toad, shoved the fat thing down a German’s throat. The German was soon
dead.
Utterly unhinged by years of persecution, by the loss of homes and
loved ones, for the camp operators, no torture, no sadism, no
bestiality, seemed too monstrous to inflict on those now in their power.
Some Germans were forced to crawl on all fours and eat their
own excrement as well as that of others. Many were drowned in open
latrines. Hundreds were herded into buildings and burned to death or
sealed in caskets and buried alive.
Near Lamsdorf, German women were forced to disinter bodies from a Polish burial site.
According to John Sack:
The women did, and they started to suffer nausea
as the bodies, black as the stuff in a gutter, appeared. The faces were
rotten, the flesh was glue, but the guards—who had often seemed
psychopathic, making a German woman drink urine, drink blood, and eat a
man’s excrement, inserting an oily five-mark bill in a woman’s vagina,
putting a match to it—shouted at the women . . . “Lie down with them!”
The women [lay down], and the guards shouted, “Hug them!”
“Kiss them!” “Make love with them!” and, with their rifles, pushed on
the backs of the women’s heads until their eyes, noses and mouths were
deep in the Polish faces’ slime. The women who clamped their lips
couldn’t scream, and the women who screamed had to taste something vile.
Spitting, retching, the women at last stood up, the wet
tendrils still on their chins, fingers, clothes, the wet seeping into
the fibers, the stink like a mist around them as they marched back to
Lamsdorf. There were no showers there, and the corpses had all had
typhus apparently. and sixty-four women died.
Not surprisingly, the mortality rate at the concentration camps was
staggering and relatively few survived. At one prison of eight thousand,
a mere 1,500 lived to reach home. And of those “lucky” individuals who
did leave with their lives, few could any longer be called human.
When a smattering of accounts began to leak from Poland of the
unspeakable crimes being committed by the Allied forces, many in the
West were stunned. “One would expect that after the horrors in Nazi
concentration camps, nothing like that could ever happen again,”
muttered one US senator, who then reported on beatings, torture and
“brains splashed on the ceiling.”
“Is this what our soldiers died for?” echoed a Briton in the House of Commons.
Added Winston Churchill: “Enormous numbers [of Germans] are utterly
unaccounted for. It is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale
is unfolding itself behind the Iron Curtain.”
While Churchill and others in the West were expressing shock and
surprise over the sadistic slaughter taking place in the Soviet Zone,
precious little was said about the “tragedy on a prodigious scale” that
was transpiring in their own backyard.
Lasha Darkmoon comments :
The “Allied Forces” who were responsible
for all these war crimes consisted of four countries : America,
Britain, the Soviet Union and France. Of these four, it is indisputable
that the Soviet Union was responsible for the most horrendous
atrocities, including the mass rape of 2 million German women at the
instigation of Stalin’s Jewish war propagandist Ilya Ehrenberg who
advised the Soviet troops:
“Use force and break the racial pride of these German women! Take them as your lawful booty! Kill!” (See
here)
Was Stalin aware that his troops were
raping German women of all ages in their hundreds of thousands and
putting them to death with the most horrific tortures, such as nailing
them to barn doors and thrusting telephone receivers up their bleeding,
gang-raped vaginas? Of course, though Stalin apologists like to pretend
that their hero, who had his spies and informants just about everywhere,
was blissfully ignorant of all these appalling war crimes committed by
his soldiers.
Stalin’s
easy-going attitude to the mass rape and murder of German women was
revealed in an unofficial, off-the-cuff comment he made to Yugoslav
politician Milovan Djilas who had complained to him about Red Army rapes
in Yugoslavia.
“Understand
it ,” Stalin is reported to have said cynically, “that if a soldier who
has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or
takes some trifle.” On another occasion, when told that Red Army
soldiers had sexually maltreated some German women, he said
dismissively: “We lecture our soldiers too much; let them have their initiative.”
As for the Americans and Brits, though their war crimes (including
rape and torture) were far more muted than those of the Soviet Union,
any pretence that they were unaware of what Uncle Joe and his Asiatic
hordes were up to in Germany, can be dismissed as arrant nonsense.
Churchill’s expression of concern for the horrors of the war that were
leaking out of Germany, and his sly attempt to suggest that the Soviets
were the only culprits—”It is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is unfolding itself behind the Iron Curtain“—has
to be the ultimate in sanctimonious hypocrisy. This, remember, was the
blood-bespattered Destroyer of Dresden speaking, the carpet bomber of
German cities full of fleeing and terrified German civilians. [LD]
(Thomas Goodrich continues)
Among the millions imprisoned by the
Allies were thousands of Germans accused of having a direct or indirect
hand in war crimes. Because the victorious powers demanded swift and
severe punishment, Allied prosecutors were urged to get the most damning
indictments in as little time as possible. Unfortunately for the
accused, their captors seemed determined to inflict as much pain as
possible in the process.
“[W]e were thrown into small cells stark naked,” Hans Schmidt later
wrote. “The cells in which three or four persons were incarcerated were
six and a half by ten feet in size and had no windows or ventilation.”
When we went to the lavatory we had to run
through a lane of Americans who struck us with straps, brooms, cudgels,
buckets, belts, and pistol holders to make us fall down. Our head, eyes,
body, belly, and genitals were violently injured. A man stood inside
the lavatory to beat us and spit on us. We returned to our cells through
the same ordeal. The temperature in the cells was 140 Fahrenheit or
more.
During the first three days we were given only one cup of water and a
small slice of bread. During the first days we perspired all the time,
then perspiration stopped. We were kept standing chained back to back
for hours. We suffered terribly from thirst, blood stagnation and
mortification of the hands. From time to time water was poured on the
almost red-hot radiators, filling the cells with steam, so that we could
hardly breathe. During all this time the cells were in darkness, except
when the American soldiers entered and switched on electric bulbs …
which forced us to close our eyes.
Our thirst became more and more cruel, so that our lips cracked, our
tongues were stiff, and we eventually became apathetic, or raved, or
collapsed.
After enduring this torture for several days, we were given a small
blanket to cover our nakedness, and driven to the courtyard outside. The
uneven soil was covered with pebbles and slag and we were again beaten
and finally driven back on our smashed and bleeding feet.
While out of breath, burning cigarettes were pushed into our
mouths, and each of us was forced to eat three or four of them.
Meanwhile the American soldiers continued to hit us on eyes, head, and
ears. Back in our cells we were pushed against burning radiators, so
that our skin was blistered.
For thirteen days and nights we received the same treatment, tortured
by heat and thirst. When we begged for water, our guards mocked us.
When we fainted we were revived by being drenched with cold water. There
was dirt everywhere and we were never allowed to wash, our inflamed
eyes gave us terrible pain, we fainted continuously.
Every twenty minutes or so our cell doors were opened and the
soldiers insulted and hit us. Whenever the doors were opened we had to
stand still with our backs to the door. Two plates of food, spiced with
salt, pepper, and mustard to make us thirstier, were given us daily. We
ate in the dark on the floor. The thirst was the most terrible of all
our tortures and we could not sleep.
In this condition I was brought to trial.
During the Nazi war crimes trials and hearings, almost any method
that would obtain a “confession” was employed. Eager to implicate
high-ranking German officers in the Malmedy Massacre, [Jewish] American
investigator Harry Thon ordered Wehrmacht sergeant Willi Schafer to
write out an incriminating affidavit:
Next morning Mr. Thon appeared in my cell, read my
report, tore it up, swore at me and hit me. After threatening to have me
killed unless I wrote what he wanted, he left. A few minutes later the
door of my cell opened.
A black hood, encrusted with blood, was put over my head and face and I was led to another room.
In view of Mr. Thon’s threat the black cap had a crushing effect on
my spirits. Four men of my company accused me, although later they
admitted to having borne false testimony. Nevertheless I still refused
to incriminate myself.
Thereupon, Mr Thon said that if I continued to refuse, this would be
taken as proof of my Nazi opinions, and my death was then certain. He
said I would have no chance against four witnesses, and advised me for
my own good to make a statement—after which I would be set free. I still
refused. I told Mr. Thon that although my memory was good, I was unable
to recall any of the occurrences he wished me to write about and which,
to the best of my knowledge, had never occurred.
Mr Thon left but returned in a little while with Lieutenant William
Perl [another American Jew] who abused me, and told Mr Thon that, should
I not write what was required within half an hour, I should be left to
my fate. Lieutenant Perl made it clear to me that I had the alternative
of writing and going free or not writing and dying.
I decided for life.
Lasha Darkmoon comments:
Lt. William R. Perl (
pictured) was another Jew in an
American uniform noted for the delight he took in torturing German
prisoners of war. Perl was also a good friend and associate of the
Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder of the murderous Irgun terrorist
organization in Israel.
Though Perl had lots of German blood on his hands, he was
nevertheless allowed by the Americans to serve as a prosecutor at the
Nuremberg War trials.
The Presiding Judge at that trial was his fellow Jew,
Col. AH Rosenfeld, who cheerfully admitted to torturing German prisoners of war as a matter of policy. [LD]
§
Another Landser [= low-ranking German soldier] who was unable to resist the pressure was Joachim Hoffman:
[W]hen taken for a hearing a black hood was placed over
my head. The guards who took me to my hearing often struck or kicked me.
I was twice thrown down the stairs and was hurt so much that blood ran
out of my mouth and nose. At the hearing, when I told the officers about
the ill treatment I had suffered, they only laughed. I was beaten and
the black cap pulled over my face whenever I could not answer the
questions put to me, or gave answers not pleasing to the officers. I was
beaten and several times kicked in the genitals.
Understandably, after several such sessions, even the strongest
German prisoners of war signed papers incriminating themselves and
others.
“If you confess you will go free,” nineteen-year-old Siegfried
Jaenckel was told. “You need only to say you had an order from your
superiors. But if you won’t speak, you will be hung.”
Despite the mental and physical abuse, young Jaenckel held out as long as he could:
“I was beaten and I heard the cries of the men being tortured in
adjoining cells, and whenever I was taken for a hearing I trembled with
fear. Subjected to such duress, I eventually gave in and signed the long
statement dictated to me.”
Far from being isolated or extreme cases, such methods of extorting
confessions were the rule rather than the exception. American jurist
Edward van Roden was to tell historian Freda Utley about the horrors
being practiced in Germany by the Americans and their mostly Jewish
interrogators:
Beatings and brutal kickings; knocking-out of teeth and
breaking of jaws; mock trials; solitary confinement; torture with
burning splinters; the use of investigators pretending to be priests;
starvation; and promises of acquittal. Judge van Roden said: “All
but two of the Germans in the 139 cases we investigated had been kicked
in the testicles beyond repair. This was standard operating procedure
with our American investigators.”
He told of one German who had had lighted matchsticks forced
under his fingernails by the American investigators to extort a
confession, and had appeared at his trial with his fingers still
bandaged from the atrocity. (See
In addition to testimony given under torture, those who might have spoken in defense of the accused were prevented.
Moreover, hired “witnesses” were paid by the Americans to parrot the prosecution’s charges.
When criticism such as Utley’s and van Roden’s surfaced, and even as
victims were being hung by the hundreds, those responsible defended
their methods.
“We couldn’t have made those birds talk
otherwise,” laughed one Jewish “interrogator,” Colonel AH Rosenfeld. “It
was a trick, and it worked like a charm.”
THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS
“It was a trick, and it worked like a charm.”
KEY TEXTS: BACKGROUND READING
(Selected by Lasha Darkmoon)
— Thomas Goodrich,
Hellstorm : The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947 (2014)
— Thomas Goodrich,
Rape Hate — Sex and Violence in War and Peace (2015)
— JA Sexton and Lasha Darkmoon,
Hellstorm, The Devil’s Cauldron: The Mass Rape of German Women by the Red Army and its Allies
— Mark Weber, Part 2 of “The Nuremberg Trials and the Holocaust”,
On Torture at Nuremberg
— Giles MacDonogh,
After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation (2009)
— Mark Weber (book review of above), “New Book Details Mass
Killings and Brutal Mistreatment of Germans at the End of World War
Two.” (IHR: 2007).
http://www.ihr.org/other/afterthereich072007.html
— James Bacque,
Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944–1950 (2007)
— James Bacque,
Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass
Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans
after World War II (2011)
— Ralph Franklin Keeling,
Gruesome Harvest : The Allies’ Postwar War Against the German People (1992)
— John Sack,
An Eye For An Eye : The Story of Jews who sought Revenge for the Holocaust (2000)
See also : Address by John Sack at IHR conference “Behind An Eye for an Eye : Revenge, Hate and History” (May 2000)
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n1p-9_Sack.html
— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas,
A Terrible Revenge : The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans (2006)
— Benton L. Bradberry,
The Myth Of German Villainy (2012)
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(Left) German defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, 1946-1949. How many of them had their testicles crushed?
Lt. William Perl (pictured left) was an Austrian Jew who had emigrated to America in 1940. He was the chief interrogator of Germans accused of the 
In
a recent private email to me, in response to some of my queries about
torture at Nuremberg, Thomas Goodrich, acclaimed author of 
