Observers indubitably British, such as the late Labour Minister Crossman, the scientist and writer C.P. Snow, and the Earl of Birkenhead, have demonstrated that it was not Germany but Britain that, after May, 1940, unleashed an official policy of unrestricted and unlimited raids on civilian populations under its new Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and his science advisor, Dr. Lindemann. Professor Lindemann, the later Viscount Cherwell, coolly calculated that, by using a force of 10,000 heavy bombers to attack and destroy the 58 largest German cities, one-third of the population of Germany would be "de-housed." The assumption, of course, also was that out of those 25-27 million homeless at least ten percent – 2.5 to 3 million people – would be killed. On this score alone, Winston Churchill and his advisors deserve to rank among the maddest mass murderers in history. In fact, as West German records show, 131 German towns were hit by heavy strategic raids. Only the courage of the Luftwaffe pilots, the effectiveness of the air defense network and the strength of the fire fighting organization worked together to prevent a bloodbath to the extent envisioned by the Prime Minister.
Why is it illegal in 16 countries to doubt the gas chambers when not a single gas chamber has ever been found?
Nothing
has been more effective in establishing the authenticity of the
Holocaust story in the minds of Americans than the terrible scenes that
US troops discovered when they entered German concentration camps at the
close of World War II.
At Dachau, Buchenwald, Dora, Mauthausen,
and other work and detention camps, horrified US infantrymen encountered
heaps of dead and dying inmates, emaciated and diseased. Survivors told
them hair-raising stories of torture and slaughter, and backed up their
claims by showing the GIs crematory ovens, alleged execution gas
chambers, supposed implements of torture, and even shrunken heads and
lampshades, gloves, and handbags purportedly made from skin flayed from
dead inmates.
US government authorities, mindful that
many Americans who remembered the atrocity stories fed them during World
War I still doubted the Allied propaganda directed against the Hitler
regime, resolved to “document” what the GIs had found in the camps.
Prominent newsmen and politicians were flown in to see the harrowing
evidence, while the US Army Signal Corps filmed and photographed the
scenes for posterity. Famous journalist Edward R. Murrow reported, in
tones of horror, but no longer of disbelief, what he had been told and
shown, and Dachau and Buchenwald were branded on the hearts and minds of
the American populace as names of infamy unmatched in the sad and
bloody history of this planet.
For Americans, what was “discovered” at the
camps — the dead and the diseased, the terrible stories of the inmates,
all the props of torture and terror — became the basis not simply of a
transitory propaganda campaign but of the conviction that, yes, it was
true: the Germans did exterminate six million Jews, most of them in
lethal gas chambers.
What the GIs found was used, by way of
films that were mandatory viewing for the vanquished populace of
Germany, to “re-educate” the German people by destroying their national
pride and their will to a united, independent national state, imposing
in their place overwhelming feelings of collective guilt and political
impotence. And when the testimony, and the verdict, of the Nuremberg
Tribunal incorporated most, if not all, of the horror stories Americans
were told about Dachau, Buchenwald, and other places captured by the US
Army, the Holocaust could pass for one of the most documented, one of
the most authenticated, one of the most proven historical episodes in
the human record.
A Different Reality
But it is known today that, very soon after
the liberation of the camps, American authorities were aware that the
real story of the camps was quite different from the one in which they
were coaching military public information officers, government
spokesmen, politicians, journalists, and other mouthpieces.
When
American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the
spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering
and securing any evidence of German war crimes.
Among them was Dr. Charles Larson,
one of America’s leading forensic pathologists, who was assigned to the
US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Department. As part of a US War
Crimes Investigation Team, Dr. Larson performed autopsies at Dachau and
some twenty other German camps, examining on some days more than 100
corpses. After his grim work at Dachau, he was questioned for three days
by US Army prosecutors. [1]
Dr. Larson’s findings? In an 1980 newspaper interview he said: “What we’ve heard is that six million Jews were exterminated. Part of that is a hoax.”
[2] And what part was the hoax? Dr. Larson, who told his biographer
that to his knowledge he “was the only forensic pathologist on duty in
the entire European Theater” of Allied military operations, [3]
confirmed that “never was a case of poison gas uncovered.” [4]
Typhus, Not Poison Gas
If not by gassing, how did the unfortunate
victims at Dachau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen perish? Were they
tortured to death or deliberately starved? The answers to these
questions are known as well.
As Dr. Larson and other Allied medical men
discovered, the chief cause of death at Dachau, Belsen and the other
camps was disease, above all typhus, an old and terrible scourge of
mankind that until recently flourished in places where populations were
crowded together in circumstances where public health measures were
unknown or had broken down. Such was the case in the overcrowded
internment camps in Germany at war’s end, where, despite such measures
as systematic delousing, quarantine of the sick and cremation of the
dead, the virtual collapse of Germany’s food, transport, and public
health systems led to catastrophe.
Perhaps the most authoritative statement of
the facts as to typhus and mortality in the camps has been made by Dr.
John E. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of preventive medicine and
epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health, who was
with US forces in Germany in 1945. Dr. Gordon reported in 1948 that “The
outbreaks in concentration camps and prisons made up the great bulk of
typhus infection encountered in Germany.” Dr. Gordon summarized the
causes for the outbreaks as follows: [5]
Germany in the spring months of
April and May [1945] was an astounding sight, a mixture of humanity
travelling this way and that, homeless, often hungry and carrying typhus
with them …
Germany was in chaos. The destruction of
whole cities and the path left by advancing armies produced a disruption
of living conditions contributing to the spread of the disease.
Sanitation was low grade, public utilities were seriously disrupted,
food supply and food distribution was poor, housing was inadequate and
order and discipline were everywhere lacking. Still more important, a
shifting of populations was occurring such as few countries and few
times have experienced.
Dr. Gordon’s findings are corroborated by
Dr. Russell Barton, today a psychiatrist of international repute, who
entered Bergen-Belsen with British forces as a young medical student in
1945. Barton, who volunteered to care for the diseased survivors,
testified under sworn oath in a Toronto courtroom in 1985 that
“Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
during World War II weren’t deliberately starved to death but died from
a rash of diseases.” [6]
Dr. Barton further testified that on
entering the camp he had credited stories of deliberate starvation but
decided such stories were untrue after inspecting the well equipped
kitchens and the meticulously maintained ledgers, dating back to 1942,
of food cooked and dispensed each day.
Despite noisily publicized claims and
widespread popular notions to the contrary, no researcher has been able
to document a German policy of extermination through starvation in the
German camps.
No ‘Human Skin’ Lampshades
What of the ghoulish stories of
concentration camp inmates skinned for their tattoos, flayed to make
lampshades and handbags, or other artifacts? What of the innumerable
“torture racks,” “meathooks,” whipping posts, gallows, and other tools
of torment and death that are reported to have abounded at every German
camp? These allegations, and even more grotesque ones proffered by
Soviet prosecutors, found their way into the record at Nuremberg.
The lampshade and tattooed-skin charges were made against Ilse Koch, dubbed by journalists the “Bitch of Buchenwald,” who was reported to have furnished her house with objects manufactured from the tanned hides of luckless inmates.
Ilse
Koch, known as “Buchenwälder Schlampe” or the Bitch of Buchenwald. We
are told that “she reveled in torture and obscenity”, making lamp shades
out of human skin showing the tattoos of Jewish camp inmates. The
alleged human skin, upon forensic analysis after WW2, turned out to be
goat skin. Ilse Koch hanged herself in despair at Aichach women’s prison
on September 1, 1967 — yet another innocent victim of Jewish lies which
are still being perpetrated to this day.
But General Lucius Clay, military governor
of the US zone of occupied Germany, who reviewed her case in 1948, told
his superiors in Washington: “There is no convincing evidence that she
[Ilse Koch] selected inmates for extermination in order to secure
tattooed skins or that she possessed any articles made of human skin.”
[7] In an interview General Clay gave years later, he stated about the
material for the infamous lampshades: “Well, it turned out actually that
it was goat flesh. But at the trial it was still human flesh. It was almost impossible for her to have gotten a fair trial.” [8]
Ilse Koch hanged herself in a German jail in 1967.
† Lasha Darkmoon comments:
It is now common knowledge that all the tall stories relating to Jewish
skin being turned into lamp shades are grotesque fabrications. There is
not a single Holocaust scholar in the world today who believes these
fairy tales any longer. Even Jewish Wikipedia asks the question, “Did
the Germans make lamp shades from prisoners’ skin?” and gives the
answer: “No, they didn’t…it seems to be a popular urban legend.”
In spite of
this, “Holocaust survivors” still continue to spread these false stories
in schools across the country, perverting the minds of children with
their vicious lies. One such is Czechoslovakian Jewess Frida Herskovits
who told schoolchildren quite recently that she had learned of Nazi
surgeries in which Jewish “organs were removed and human skin was used to make lamp shades and picture frames.”
Frida had not
only seen Nazi guards throw sick Jews into a ditch and burn them alive
after dousing them with kerosene—“The screams were unbelievable!”—she
had also witnessed with her own eyes a pregnant mother have her baby
ripped out of her womb by German Shepherd dogs!
If you want to see a photo of Frida, looking unusually jolly for a woman so traumatized, click here.
It would be tedious to itemize and refute
the thousands of bizarre claims as to Nazi atrocities. That there were
instances of German cruelty, however, is clear from the testimony of Dr.
Konrad Morgen, a legal investigator attached to the Reich Criminal
Police, whose statements on the witness stand at Nuremberg have never
been challenged by proponents of the Jewish Holocaust story. Dr. Morgen
informed the court that he had been given full authority by Heinrich
Himmler, commander of Hitler’s SS and the dread Gestapo, to enter any
German concentration camp and investigate instances of cruelty and
corruption on the part of camp personnel.
As he explained in sworn testimony at
Nuremberg, Dr. Morgen investigated 800 such cases, resulting in more
than 200 convictions. [9] Punishments included the death penalty for the
worst offenders, including Hermann Florstedt, commandant of Lublin
(Majdanek), and Karl Koch (Ilse’s husband), commandant of Buchenwald.
While German camp commandants in certain
cases did inflict physical punishment, such acts had to be approved by
authorities in Berlin, and it was required that a camp physician first
certify the good health of the prisoner to be disciplined, and then be
on hand at the actual beating. [10] After all, throughout most of the
war the camps were important centers of industrial activity. The good
health and morale of the prisoners was critical to the German war
effort, as is evidenced in a January 1943 order issued by SS General
Richard Glücks, chief of the office that supervised the concentration
camps. It held the camp commanders “personally responsible for
exhausting every possibility to preserve the physical strength of the
detainees.” [11]
Camp Survivors: Merely Victims?
US Army investigators, working at
Buchenwald and other camps, quickly ascertained what was common
knowledge among veteran inmates: that the worst offenders, the cruelest
denizens of the camps, were not the guards but the prisoners themselves.
Common criminals of the same stripe as those who populate US prisons
today committed many villainies, particularly when they held positions
of authority, and fanatical Communists, highly organized to combat their
many political enemies among the inmates, eliminated their foes with
Stalinist ruthlessness.
Two US Army investigators at Buchenwald,
Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, carefully investigated
circumstances in the camp before its liberation. In a detailed report
submitted to their superiors, they revealed, in the words of Alfred
Toombs, their commander, who wrote a preface to the report, “how the
prisoners themselves organized a deadly terror within the Nazi terror.”
[12]
Fleck and Tenenbaum described the power exercised by criminals and Communists as follows:
The [Jewish] trusties, who in time
became almost exclusively Communist Germans, had the power of life and
death over all other inmates. They could sentence a man or a group to
almost certain death … The Communist trusties were directly responsible
for a large part of the brutalities at Buchenwald.
Colonel Donald B. Robinson, chief historian
of the American military government in Germany, summarized the
Fleck-Tenenbaum report in an article published in an American magazine
shortly after the war. Colonel Robinson wrote succinctly of the American
investigators’ findings:
“It appeared that the prisoners who agreed with the Communists ate; those who didn’t starved to death.” [13]
Additional corroboration of inmate
brutality has been provided by Ellis E. Spackman, who, as Chief of
Counter-Intelligence Arrests and Detentions for the US Seventh Army, was
involved in the liberation of Dachau. Spackman, later a professor of
history at San Bernardino Valley College in California, wrote in 1966
that at Dachau “the prisoners were the actual instruments that inflicted
the barbarities on their fellow prisoners.” [14]
† Lasha Darkmoon comments: Another Jewish Holocaust survivor, Yanina Cywinska,
tells us she had witnessed evil Nazis “parade around briefcases and
lamps made of human skin while washing their bodies with soap composed
of Jewish bones.” She is obviously unaware that the human soap story has
been proved every bit as false as the human lamp shade story.
In 1981, professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Times
that “the fact is, the Nazis never used the bodies of Jews, or for that
matter, anyone else, for the production of soap. The soap rumor was
thoroughly investigated after the war and proved to be untrue.”
Shmuel Krakowski, Director of Archives of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Center, confirmed in a Chicago Tribune article titled, “A Holocaust Belief Cleared Up” that: “historians have concluded that soap was not made from human fat.”
This doesn’t
stop Yanina Cywinska and other “Holocaust Survivors” like her from
manufacturing human soap and lampshade stories ad infinitum.
Yanina had seen
some horrible things happen in the concentration camps, including
“nails and eyes pulled out of Jewish people.” This would probably
account for her pessimism and negative attitude toward Yaveh. “If God is
so almighty power,” she asks grimly, “why didn’t he stop the
atrocities?” Good question. We’ll leave that to God.
If you want to see a photo of Yanina, looking particularly jolly for a woman so traumatized, click here.
‘Gas Chambers’
In December 1944 US Army officers Colonel
Paul Kirk and Lt. Colonel Edward J. Gully inspected the German
concentration camp at Struthof-Natzweiler in Alsace. They submitted
their findings to their superiors, who subsequently forwarded their
report to the US War Crimes Division. While, significantly, the full
text of their report has never been published, it has been revealed, by a
historian supportive of Holocaust claims, that the two investigators
were careful to characterize equipment exhibited to them by French
informants as a “so-called lethal gas chamber,” and to claim it was “allegedly used as a lethal gas chamber.” [15] (Emphasis added)
Both the careful phraseology of the
Natzweiler report, and its effective suppression, stand in stark
contrast to the credulity, the confusion, and the blaring publicity that
accompanied official reports of alleged gas chambers at Dachau. At
first, a US Army photo depicting a GI gazing at a steel door marked with
a skull and crossbones and the German words for: “Caution! Gas! Mortal
danger! Don’t open!,” was identified as showing the murder weapon. [16]
Later, however, it was evidently decided
that the apparatus in question was merely a standard delousing chamber
for clothing, and another alleged gas chamber, this one cunningly
disguised as a shower room, was exhibited to American congressmen and
journalists as the site where thousands breathed their last. While there
exist numerous reports in the press as to the operation of this second
“gas chamber,” no official report by trained Army investigators has yet
surfaced to reconcile such problems as the function of the shower heads:
Were they “dummies,” or did lethal cyanide gas stream through them?
(Each theory has appreciable support in journalistic and
historiographical literature.)
Revisionist scholar Robert Faurisson: “Show me a single gas chamber!”
As with Dachau, so with Buchenwald,
Bergen-Belsen, and the other camps liberated by the Allies in western
Germany. There was no end of propaganda about “gas chambers,” “gas
ovens,” and the like, but so far not a single detailed description of the murder weapon
and its function, not a single report of the kind that is mandatory for
the successful prosecution of any assault or murder case in America at
that time and today, has come to light.
Furthermore, a number of Holocaust
authorities have now publicly decreed that there were no gassings, no
extermination camps in Germany after all. (We are now told that
“gassing” and “extermination” camps were located exclusively in what is
now Poland, in areas captured by the Soviet Red Army and made off-limits
to western investigators.)
Dr. Martin Broszat of the Munich-based
Institute for Contemporary History, which is funded by the German
government, stated categorically in a 1960 letter to the German weekly
Die Zeit: “Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen-Belsen nor in Buchenwald were
Jews or other prisoners gassed.” [17] Professional “Nazi hunter” Simon
Wiesenthal stated in 1975 and again in 1993 that “there were no
extermination camps on German soil.” [18]
Dachau “gas chamber” No. 2, which was once
presented to a stunned and grieving world as a weapon that claimed
hundreds of thousands of lives, is now described in the brochure issued
to tourists at the modern Dachau “memorial site” in these words: “This
gas chamber, camouflaged as a shower room, was not used.” [19]
The Propaganda Intensifies
More than 50 years after American troops
entered Dachau, Buchenwald and other German camps, and trained American
investigators established the facts as to what had gone on in them, the
government in Washington, the entertainment media in Hollywood, and the
print media in New York continue to churn out millions of words and
images annually on the horrors of the camps and the infamy of the
Holocaust. Despite the fact that, with the exception of the defeated
Confederacy, no enemy of America has ever so suffered so complete and
devastating defeat as did Germany in 1945, the mass media and the
politicians and bureaucrats behave as if Hitler, his troops, and his
concentration camps continue to exist in an eternal present, and our
opinion makers continue to distort, through ignorance or malice, the
facts about the camps.
† Lasha Darkmoon comments:
The story of Holocaust survivor Rivska Yosselevska is even more
horrific and bizarre than those of Frida Herskovits and Yanina Cywinska
related above. Despite being shot in the head and thrown into a pit with
a mass of Jewish corpses piled on top of her, Rivska managed to claw
her way to the top of the seething heap of limbs and somehow make her
escape under the vigilant eyes of the Nazi guards. It wasn’t an easy
job, given that the “dying victims” in the pit were “biting my legs,
pulling me down.”
Other Jews also
managed to crawl out of the pit and do a bunk for it, but the Nazis
tracked them down and killed them all. Only Rivska survived to tell the
tale. She lay three days by the side of the pit, utterly traumatized,
“and saw blood spurting out of the ground.”
If you want to see a photo of Rivska, looking suitably traumatized, click here.
Time for the Truth
It is time that the government and the
professional historians reveal the facts about Dachau, Buchenwald and
the other camps. It is time they let the American public know how the
inmates died, and how they didn’t die. It is time that the claims of
mass murder by gassing are clarified and investigated in the same manner
as any other claims of murder. It is time that the free ride certain
groups have enjoyed as the result of unchallenged Holocaust claims be
terminated, just as it is time to end the scapegoating of other groups,
including Germans, eastern Europeans, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and
the wartime leadership of America and Britain, either for their alleged
role in the Holocaust or their supposed failure to stop it.
Above all, it is time that the citizens of
this great Republic have the facts about the camps, facts they have a
right to know, a right that is fundamental to the exercise of their
authority and their will in the governance of their country. As citizens
and as taxpayers, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds, of all faiths,
have a basic right and an overriding interest in determining the facts
of incidents that are deemed by those in positions of power to be
significant in determining America’s foreign and educational policy, as
well as its selection of past events to be memorialized in our civic
life.
Today the alleged facts of the Holocaust
are at issue all over the civilized world. The truth will be decided
only by recourse to the facts, in the public forum: not by concealing
the facts, denying the truth, stonewalling reality. The truth will out,
and it is time the government of this country, and governments and
international bodies throughout the world, make public the evidence of
what actually transpired in the German concentration camps in the years
1933-1945, so that we may put paid to the lies, without fear or favor,
and carry out the work of reconciliation and renewal that is and must be
the granite foundation of mutual tolerance between peoples and of a
peace based on justice.
Summary
The conclusions of the early US Army
investigations as to the truth about the wartime German concentration
camps have since been corroborated by all subsequent investigators and
can be summarized:
The harrowing scenes of dead and dying
inmates were not the result of a German policy of “extermination,” but
rather the result of epidemics of typhus and other disease brought about
largely by the effects of Allied aerial attacks.
Stories of Nazi supercriminals and sadists
who turned Jews and others into handbags and lampshades for their
private profit or amusement were sick lies or diseased fantasies;
indeed, the German authorities punished corruption and cruelty on the
part of camp commanders and guards.
On the other hand, portrayals of the newly
liberated inmates as saints and martyrs of Hitlerism were quite often
very far from the truth; indeed, most of the brutalities inflicted on
camp detainees were the work of their fellow prisoners, in contravention
of German policy and German orders.
The
alleged homicidal showers and gas chambers were used either for bathing
camp inmates or delousing their clothes; the claim that they were used
to murder Jews or other human beings is a contemptible fabrication.
Orthodox historians and professional “Nazi-hunters” have quietly dropped
claims that inmates were gassed at Dachau, Buchenwald and other camps
in Germany. They continue, however, to keep silent regarding the lies
about Dachau and Buchenwald, as well as to evade an open discussion of
the evidence for homicidal gassing at Auschwitz and the other camps
captured by the Soviets.
† Lasha Darkmoon comments:
Did you know that that there is a Holocaust memorial center in Cuba
where bars of soap allegedly made from Jewish fat are buried and held in
high honor by endless streams of gullible tourists? The plaque reads:
“Honoring their memory. In this place are buried pieces of soap made
from Jewish human fat, part of 6 million victims of Nazi barbarism of
the 2oth century. Peace to their remains.”
It’s the same
old story in superstitious Rumania. In the town of Targu Mures, pilgrims
pray over bars of soap allegedly made of “pure Jewish fat.” Quite a
brisk trade is apparently done in these soap bars, each inscribed with
the initials ‘RJF’—Reine Jüdisch Fett (pure Jewish fat). Needless to
say, the soap is not meant to be used but to be buried in the
cemetery at Targu Mures where people come to pray over the holy soap.
Forensic analysis of the soap is not permitted; it is too sacred. (See here)
------------------------
Robert
Faurisson formulated this famous “60-word sentence” in 1980. It
constitutes the position of most Holocaust Revisionist scholars today,
in open defiance of the mainstream narrative:
“The
alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews
constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a
gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which
are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal
victims are the German people—but not their leaders—and the entire
Palestinian people.”
Notes
1. John D. McCallum, Crime Doctor [a
biography of Dr. Charles P. Larson] (Mercer, Wash.: The Writing Works,
1978), pp. 44-46, 59, 69; See also: J. Cobden, “The Dachau Gas Chamber
Myth,” The Journal of Historical Review, March-April 1995, pp. 17-18.
2. Jane Floerchinger, “Concentration Camp Conditions Killed Most Inmates, Doctor Says,” The Wichita Eagle, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.
3. J. D. McCallum, Crime Doctor (1978), p. 46.
4. The Wichita Eagle, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.
5. John E. Gordon, “Louse-Borne Typhus
Fever in the European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, 1945,” in Forest
Ray Moulton, editor, Rickettsial Diseases of Man (Washington, DC:
American Academy for the Advancement of Science, 1948), pp. 16-27.
Quoted in: Friedrich P. Berg, “Typhus and the Jews,” The Journal of
Historical Review, Winter 1988-89, pp. 444-447, and in Arthur Butz, The
Hoax of the Twentieth Century (IHR, 1993), pp. 46-47.
6. “Disease killed Nazis’ prisoners, MD
says,” Toronto Star, Feb. 8, 1985, p. A2. On Barton’s similar testimony
in a 1988 Toronto trial, see: Barbara Kulaszka, ed., Did Six Million
Really Die? (Toronto: Samisdat, 1992), pp. 175-180, and, Robert Lenski,
The Holocaust on Trial (1990), pp. 157-160, and, M. Weber,
“Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story,” The Journal of Historical
Review, May-June 1995, pp. 27, 30 (n. 30).
7. “Clay Explains Cut in Ilse Koch Term,” The New York Times, Sept. 24, 1948, p. 3.
8. Interview with Lucius Clay, 1976,
Official Proceeding of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation.
Quoted in M. Weber, “Buchenwald: Legend and Reality,” The Journal of
Historical Review, Winter 1986-87 (Vol. 7, No. 4), pp. 406-407.
9. International Military Tribunal (IMT),
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military
Tribunal (Nuremberg: 1947-1949 [“blue series”]), Vol. 20, pp. 489, 438.
10. Eugen Kogon, The Theory and Practice of
Hell (New York: Berkley Books [pb.], 1984), pp. 108-109. See also:
“Punishment for Mistreating SS Camp Prisoners,” The Journal of
Historical Review, Jan.-Feb. 1995, p. 33.
11. Nuremberg document NO-1523. Published
in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunal (NMT
“green series”), Vol. 4, pp. 372-373.
12. Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum,
Buchenwald: A Preliminary Report, US Army, 12th Army Group, April 24,
1945. National Archives, RG 331, SHAEF, G-5, 17.11, Jacket 10, Box 151.
Quoted in: M. Weber, “Buchenwald: Legend and Reality,” The Journal of
Historical Review, Winter 1986-87, pp. 408-409.
13. Donald B. Robinson, “Communist Atrocities at Buchenwald,” American Mercury, October 1946, pp. 397-404.
14. San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, March 13,
1966. Quoted in: James J. Martin, The Man Who Invented ‘Genocide’ (IHR,
1984), pp. 110-111.
15. “Concentration Camp at Natzwiller
[sic],” RG 331, Records of Allied Operations and Occupation,
SHAEF/G-5/2717, Modern Military, National Archives (Washington, DC).
Quoted in: Robert H. Abzug, Inside the Vicious Heart (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1985), pp. 9-10, 181 (n. 5).
16. John Cobden, Dachau: Reality and Myth
(IHR, 1994), pp. 25-29. See also: The Journal of Historical Review,
May-June 1993, pp. 9-11; The Journal of Historical Review, March- April
1995, p. 16.
17. “Keine Vergasung in Dachau,” Die Zeit
(Hamburg), August 19, 1960. Facsimile reprint, and English-language
translation, in The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1993, p. 12.
18. Letters in Books & Bookmen
(London), April 1975, p. 5, and in The Stars and Stripes (European
edition), Jan. 24, 1993, p. 14. Wiesenthal’s 1993 Stars and Stripes
letter is reprinted in facsimile in The Journal of Historical Review,
May-June 1993, p. 10.
19. Memorial Site Concentration Camp Dachau. Leaflet published by the International Dachau-Committee (Dachau, Germany), no date.
Theodore J. O’Keefe
is the author of numerous published articles, essays and reviews on
historical and political subjects. For some years he served as editor of
the IHR’s Journal of Historical Review.
The Mass Rape of German Women
by the Red Army and its Allies
. . . by JA Sexton and Lasha Darkmoon
Two million German women were savagely raped and tortured at
the tail end of WWII. No one has yet apologized for these horrific war
crimes. Why not?
“In the German race there is nothing but evil. Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill!”
— Ilya Ehrenberg, Jewish propagandist for the Stalin regime
This 6000-word article consists of two parts. Part 1, by Lasha
Darkmoon, sets the scene and provides many factual details about rape
atrocities against German women by Allied soldiers in the 1944-1947
period. Part 2, by JA Sexton, is a review of Thomas Goodrich’s Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany (1944-1947). This brings to life in vivid detail all the horrors defeated Germany had to go through at the hands of the victorious Allies.
If you have a delicate constitution and want to protect your mind
from images of extreme terror, images bordering on the grotesquely
obscene, please read no further. If, on the other hand, you have an
appetite for the gruesome truth and wish to take a peek into the Devil’s
cauldron, then by all means read on.
Part 1: The Devil’s Cauldron by Lasha Darkmoon
RED ARMY RAPISTS (German artist Herbert Smagon)One German woman came to her priest and broke down
in tears. “Father, I can’t go on living! Thirty of them raped me last
night.” (Goodrich, p.158).The German clergy were only too aware of the
rape and mass murder of Catholic nuns, many of them bedridden geriatric
women. One of these priests writes in his diary:
“The girls, women and nuns were raped incessantly
for hours on end, the soldiers standing in queues, the officers at the
head of the queues, in front of their victims. During the first night many of the nuns and women were raped
as many as fifty times.The Russians knocked them down, kicked them, beat
them on the head and in the face with the butt-end of their revolvers
and rifles. The same dreadful scenes were enacted in the hospitals, homes
for the aged, and other such institutions. Even nuns who were seventy
and eighty years old and were ill and bedridden were raped and
ill-treated by these barbarians. (Ibid. p.84)
The Americans and the Brits knew all these atrocities were going on
but did nothing to stop them. They stood by and saw it all happening,
cruel accomplices to crime. Indeed, many of them joined in the bloodbath
of sadistic sexuality: Americans, Brits, French, and French Moroccans
in particular.
“Staggered by what he had seen and heard, a
German officer tried desperately to make sense of the disaster; to
understand the minds of men ‘who find . . . pleasure in raping the same
woman over and over, dozens of times, even while other women are
standing near.’” (Ibid. p.93)
Inflicting savage sex wounds on German women, including their
children in the presence of their parents, was one the perks of war for
these coldhearted killers. “Our fellows were so sex-starved,” a Soviet
major told a British journalist at the time, “that they often raped old
women of sixty, seventy or even eighty — much to these grandmothers’
surprise, if not downright delight.”
This cynical throwaway comment is indicative of the surreal
atmosphere of war fever that possessed so many otherwise sane and
well-balanced people at that time: the bizarre idea that an 80-year-old
German grandmother should actually be flattered and pleased to be raped. Several German women recorded how even Soviet servicewomen watched and laughed while they were being gang-raped.
While the idea that the Russians were largely to blame for this orgy
of mass rape cannot be denied, the overall picture is more nuanced.
“There were Russian freebooters who drank and raped quite shamelessly,”
British historian Anthony Beevor tells us, “but there were also
idealistic, austere communists and members of the Russian intelligentsia
who were appalled by such behaviour.”
“Beria and Stalin, back in Moscow, knew
perfectly well what was going on from a number of detailed
reports….Marshal Rokossovsky issued order No 006 in an attempt to direct
“the feelings of hatred at fighting the enemy on the battlefield.” It
appears to have had little effect. The commander of one rifle division
is said to have “personally shot a lieutenant who was lining up a group
of his men before a German woman spreadeagled on the ground”. But either
officers were involved themselves, or the lack of discipline made it
too dangerous to restore order over drunken soldiers armed with
submachine guns.” — Historian Anthony Beevor, acclaimed author of
“Berlin: The Downfall 1945.”
Drink of every variety, Beevor discloses, including dangerous chemicals seized from laboratories and workshops, was a major factor in the violence.
“It seems as if Soviet soldiers needed alcoholic
courage to attack a woman. But then, all too often, they drank too much
and, unable to complete the act, used the bottle instead with appalling
effect. A number of victims were mutilated obscenely.”
According to Beevor, estimates of rape victims from Berlin’s two main
hospitals ranged from 95,000 to 130,000. One doctor calculated that out
of approximately 100,000 women raped in Berlin, roughly 10,000 died as a
result. Mostly from suicide. The death rate was thought to have been
much higher among the 1.4 million estimated victims in East Prussia,
Pomerania and Silesia. “Altogether at least two million German women are
thought to have been raped,” Beevor concludes, “and a substantial
minority, if not a majority, appear to have suffered multiple rape.”
(See here)
Note that we are talking about 2 million different women being raped,
not about two million rapes. Given that women were often raped several
times a day—sometimes 60-70 times according to one authority—the total number of rapes could well have numbered over 20 million.
Since the Red Army included a substantial number of Jews in it, many
in supervisory positions, there appears to have been an unwritten rule
that Jewish women should be exempt from rape. After all, the Bolshevik
regime whose forces were carrying out most of these rapes was known to
be an essentially Jewish regime, with the cheka or secret police and
other top government functionaries being predominantly Jewish. There is a
curious account, however, of one German Jewess being raped by Soviet
troops. When this was pointed out to the rapists as some kind of anomaly
— “Hey, don’t rape her, she’s Jewish!” — the brutalized soldiers are reported to have sneered, “So what? A woman is a woman. Frau ist Frau.”
Here are some relevant facts which the reader might wish to bear in mind when reading JA Sexton’s chilling review of Goodrich’s Hellstorm that follows in Part 2 of this article:
These acts of sexual violence against German women,
described by Beevor as “the greatest phenomenon of mass rape in
history,” took place mostly in 1944-1945 as the Western Allies and the
Red Army fought their way into the Third Reich. They began in October
1944 and reached their climax in 1945, continuing until the winter of
1947-1948.
Of the 2 million German women who were raped, an estimated 240,000
died in the process after sustaining multiple wounds and being
gang-raped several times—sometimes as many as 100 times in a single day.
A large number of these women are said to have committed suicide.
Stalin knew that these rapes were going on and that the reputation of
the Red Army and the Soviet Union was suffering as a consequence. There
was a notable difference between the official Soviet attitude to these rapes—one of severe disapproval and condemnation—and Stalin’s own laissez-faire
attitude which reflected the view of many around him, especially the
Jews in his entourage who hated the Germans with an unquenchable hatred. Remember that it was Ilya Ehrenberg, Stalin’s Jewish Red Army
propagandist, who had authored and signed several leaflets urging
Soviet troops to kill the Germans without mercy and to take German
women as their “lawful booty.”
In January 1945 Stalin signed an order criminalizing Red Army
misconduct. It stated that civilians “should not be subjected to
violence. The perpetrators will be punished. In liberated territories,
sexual relations with females are not allowed. Perpetrators of violence
will be shot.”
These regulations however were seldom applied with any degree of stringency. Leniency, laissez-faire
and connivance were the rule rather than the exception—exactly as in
Israel today where the IDF and Jewish settlers break Israeli law with
impunity and are seldom punished for their crimes of violence against
the Palestinians.
Nothing changes in this respect. The law says, Thou Shalt Not. But the state-backed criminal does what he pleases.
Stalin’s easygoing 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.”
Boys will be boys. Let the lads have their fun.
According to Oleg Rzheshevsky, a professor and President of the
Russian Association of World War II Historians, 4,148 Red Army officers
and soldiers had been convicted of atrocities. He explained that plunder
and rapine were an inevitable part of war and that other Allied forces
committed such crimes too, not just the Soviets. On the whole, he
believed Soviet servicemen had been well-behaved and treated the German
enemy in a humane and civilized manner.
The German woman who had been raped sixty times in a single day
clearly would not have agreed with this rosy picture of Russian
civility.
This claim of exemplary behavior by “most” Soviets soldiers later
became the refrain among Soviet commentators, too traumatized with guilt
and shame to be able to admit what their own people had done. Russian
soldiers were credited with “feeding the German population, rescuing
children, and helping to restore normal life in the country.” In many
cases this was true. Not all Russians were brutes. Many were indeed kind
and decent, noble and self-restrained, deeply impregnated with the
Christian values of the great race that had given the world Tolstoy and
Dostoevsky.
Indeed one Russian official, Makhmut Gareev, said that “he had not even heard about any sexual violence.” (See here)
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The number of rapes committed by US servicemen in
Germany are officially estimated at 11,040. Many of these were gang
rapes committed by armed American soldiers at gunpoint. The journalist
Osmar White, a war correspondent from Australia who served with American
troops during the war, writes:
“I know for a fact that many women were raped by
White Americans. No action was taken against the culprits. A typical
victimization with sexual assault by drunken American personnel marching
through occupied territory involved threatening a German family with
weapons, forcing one or more women to engage in sex, and putting the
entire family out on the street afterward.”
In May-June 1946, no fewer than five dead German women were found in
American barracks. Maybe they were being kept as trophies or for
continued use after death. Blood-spattered sex dolls. We’ll never know.
Punishment was sporadically meted out to American rapists, the maximum
severity being reserved for black American soldiers by their white
racist officers. Some one had to be singled out for punishment, after all, so why not Jim Crow? (See here) British troopswere also guilty of
raping German women. On a single day in mid-April 1945, three German
women were raped by British soldiers in Neustadt. A senior British army
chaplain was quite matter-of-fact about British participation in rape.
“A good deal of rape is going on,” he admitted, adding somewhat
callously: “The women probably deserved it.”
Let us see what these German women “deserved”. Here are a few grisly quotes from Hellstorm which you will not find in Sexton’s book review below, though you will find other quotes there that are equally horrifying.
“Of all the methods used to express its anger,
the Red Army said it best with rape. From eight to eighty, healthy or
ill, indoors or out, in fields, on sidewalks, against walls, the
spiritual massacre of German women continued unabated. (p.155) The mothers had had to witness how their ten and
twelve-year-old daughters were raped by some 20 men; the daughters in
turn saw their mothers being raped, even their grandmothers. Women who
tried to resist were brutally tortured to death. There was no mercy. (p.
159) When even violated corpses could no longer be of use, sticks,
iron bars and telephone receivers were rammed up their vaginas. (p.
155) The women were raped, not once or twice but ten, twenty,
thirty and a hundred times, and it was all the same to the Russians
whether they raped mere children or old women. (p.79) “Those women who were pregnant, on their menstrual cycle, or
enduring diarrhea, suffered like all the rest. Nothing, it seemed—not
age, ailment or ugliness—could repel the Red rapist. Even death was no defense. ‘I saw some twenty Red Army men standing in line before the
corpse of a woman certainly beyond sixty years of age who had been raped
to death,’ one sickened witness recorded. ‘They were shouting and
laughing and WAITING FOR THEIR SATISFACTION OVER HER DEAD BODY.’”
(Emphasis added, p.84)
The haunting book review that follows in Part 2 will take you to hell
and back. Prepare for a roller coaster ride into a landscape of terror
that neither Dante in his Inferno nor Hieronymus Bosch in his maddest paintings could ever have imagined.
Part 2: Into the Inferno,
by JA Sexton
A review of Thomas Goodrich’s Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany (1944-1947),
What is hell?
I’ve often pondered what the concept “hell” entailed; what it means
to be living in the absence of “God,” the supreme creative force behind
all life. After reading Thomas Goodrich’s breathtaking and physically
nauseating analytical narrative of the burnt offering – Holocaust – of
Germany I now know what hell looks like and how its inhabitants live and
behave.
Relentless, reckless, and senseless hate of a magnitude so profound,
so immense, that I am still unable to understand it. And then the irony
of it all: that former inhabitants of Europe – Europeans – were
responsible for inculcating hell in their own Heimat (homeland).
Who but the Devil itself could make a family turn on
itself, causing it to tear itself apart in such a murderous, inhuman
fashion that the victims are left unrecognizable after all the torture,
abuse, burning, systematic rape, and beatings subsides?
Who or what could inspire such madness? Thomas Goodrich answers this
question silently, subtly, but matter-of-factly : the Jews in Communist
Russia (the former USSR) were to blame — and so, too, were the Jews of
Capitalist America and Britain. Hellstorm is the type of book that changes lives. Goodrich
is the type of author who literally puts you, the reader, there in the
midst of hell. And what is this hell that he forces you to experience
page after page, torture after torture, and rape after rape? One that
has been all but forgotten; the only hell the modern age really knows.
The Allied Holocaust of National Socialist Germany
Goodrich describes the Allied-induced inferno in more detail than
most need to know to gain an understanding of the depths of Allied
criminality and hatred, but the detail is necessary. Without the detail
no one will really know what hell is like. Here’s a taste of it. A German woman has her jaws forced open by the
filthy brutish hands of a Soviet serial rapist. He literally spits into
her mouth and forces her to swallow his salivary filth as he rams her
body again . . . and again . . . and again – until he’s satisfied
fulfilling his oath to Stalin and his chief Holocaust propagandist, Ilya
Ehrenburg.
Stalin officially sanctioned the systematic rape
of German women. Ilya Ehrenburg, for his part as the lascivious
advocator of rape of German women, helped the Red Army perpetrate the
largest gynocide and mass rape in recorded history.
Commissar Ehrenburg’s pamphlet urged Soviet troops to plunder, rape
and KILL. This pamphlet was distributed in the millions among Red Army
troops on the front lines of battle — men who were already intoxicated
with hate and vengefulness as a result of over two decades of Bolshevik
oppression: the collectivization of their farms, the confiscation of
their grain and property, and the mass murder of their families.
Here are the final paragraphs of Ilya Ehrenberg’s pamphlet entitled “Kill”:
“The Germans are not human beings. From now on, the word
‘German’ is the most horrible curse. From now on, the word ‘German’
strikes us to the quick. We have nothing to discuss. We will not get
excited. We will kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day,
you have wasted that day.
If you cannot kill a German with a bullet, then kill him with your
bayonet. If your part of the front is quiet and there is no fighting,
then kill a German in the meantime. If you have already killed a German,
then kill another one — there is nothing more amusing to us than a heap
of German corpses.
Don’t count the days, don’t count the kilometers. Count only one thing: the number of Germans you have killed.
Kill the Germans!… Kill the Germans!…Kill!”
And in another leaflet, this is what the same psychopath has to say:
“The Germans must be killed. One must kill them….Do you
feel sick? Do you feel a nightmare in your breast?…Kill a German! If you
are a righteous and conscientious man, kill a German!. . . Kill!”
Ehrenburg, like any skilled propagandist with a penchant for revenge
and training in human psychology, appealed to the basest instincts of
his men, urging them to rape and wantonly slaughter other human beings
at will. There would be no penalties for this injustice. It was all
officially sanctioned.
Here is Ehrenburg again, rising to new heights of mental derangement,
this time giving Soviet troops the green light to rape and kill as many
German women as they wanted:
“Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing
but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is
evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast
once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of
these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm
onward, KILL, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army!”
There is nothing more amusing to us than a heap of German corpses.” — Ilya Ehrenberg
LASHA DARKMOON: Ilya Ehrenberg’s attitude to
German women—that they should be treated as”lawful booty” by Soviet
troops—is strikingly similar to the attitude attributed by Russian
history professor Alexander Statiev to the average Soviet soldier:
“Avenge! You are a soldier-Avenger! Kill the German, and then jump the
German woman! This is how a soldier celebrates victory!” (See here) Ilya Ehrenberg, directly responsible for the rape, torture
and mass murder of 2 million German women after WWII, is now honored in
Israel, his papers being lovingly preserved by the Yad Vashem Holocaust
museum. In his 6-volume memoirs, Ehrenberg openly boasts about being
aware of the crimes of the Stalin regime, his own included, and actually
admits that a veil of silence has been drawn over these matters. He is buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery where his
tomb is graced with a crude, cartoonish portrait by his close friend
Picasso. One cannot help wondering if the great Spanish painter was
aware that his Jewish pal, who won the absurdly named “Stalin Peace
Prize” in 1952, was a psychopath with a lot of blood on his hands..
(See here).
JA SEXTON (continues) : The thought of being burned alive
is horrific, but the thought of being burned alive because you are
trapped in melted asphalt and literally stuck by your own disfigured
hands and knees and screaming is worse.
What did you do to be burned or boiled alive? What was your crime?
You supported Adolf Hitler, the man who dared to stand up to
international finance and the Jewish system of systematic international
monetary and spiritual enslavement.
THAT was your “crime” and the crime of millions of others in Germany
and Europe who were incinerated, melted, tortured, strafed, raped or
blown into body parts by their own racial and cultural kindred in the
USSR, Britain and America. The core of the firestorms often reached 3,000
degrees Fahrenheit; the flames 1,300 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. A
Holocaust in the truest sense of the word: a burnt offering of the
Germanic race – women, children, refugees, POWs, the elderly, and even
animals at the Berlin Zoo – to the Christian-Jewish “god” Jahve. The
truth is that this was the single largest burnt offering of human flesh
to the Devil in recorded history. And for what? For what did hundreds of
thousands of German victims suffer: international finance Capitalism.
And WHY? This is why: So that a few people, mostly ethnic Jews, could
continue to make money from money and enslave millions of people in the
process.
Eisenhower’s camps were designed with one purpose in mind: mass death. They were, quite literally, death camps.
Millions of German men and boys died from starvation, disease,
exposure, heat exhaustion, thirst, and of course torture, slave labor,
random massacre, and systematic execution.
After having served in the worst war in Western history, and one of
the worst in world history, German men came “home” to nothing more than
rubble. Their wives, girlfriends, and children were dead, enslaved,
mutilated, driven to madness, missing, lost, or had gone with the enemy
to survive and prevent further systematic rape by Polish, Russian, and
Mongolian soldiers.
There were very few “homes” to return to, so thousands of men ended
their lives in despair. They had survived six years of horror and
warfare only to end it all in the rubble-strewn wasteland once called
“Germany.”
Why?
Because their own blood kindred in America and Britain — and even in
much of Europe — had betrayed them: had turned on them to appease their
Jewish overlords.
An older German woman is approached by filthy Soviet
soldiers. She knows what awaits her because Goebbels did not lie. She
tries to talk them out it. She has children with her. They dispose of
the children rapidly, viciously: their heads are rammed into the side of
the building. The woman is gang-raped. What does she recall . . . the
rape? No. The sound of a child’s skull when it is crushed against a
wall. She’ll never forget that sound.
Nor will I because I too can hear it. I too witnessed it. I witnessed it through Goodrich. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER: “God, how I hate the Germans!”And then there were the death camps where over a million German men perished because Eisenhower (pictured) hated Germans: “God, how I hate the Germans,” he confided in a letter to his wife.
His racism and hate became official policy, a policy of genocide—an
American orchestrated Holodomor. Countless thousands of German men were
shipped off to Britain and Siberia to serve as slave laborers for the
“victors”.
Victors of what? Total destruction.
While this horror is unfolding, Roosevelt (and later Truman) and
Churchill cheerfully offer Stalin half of Europe. They are more than
happy to accommodate nearly every demand drafted up by this “Man of
Steel.” The result of these Anglo-Soviet arrangements nearly defies
description:
The greatest mass expulsion and deportation in history (upwards of 13
million); the mass murder of millions of Germans and their allies in
Russian, French, Jewish, and Polish retribution camps and prisons dotted
all throughout Europe and the USSR; the systematic mass rape and murder
of German and collaborator women (an estimated two million); and the
deliberate secret starvation of the Germanic race as spelled out by the
Jewish adviser to Roosevelt and Truman, Henry Morgenthau.
Between 20 and 25 million Germans and collaborators perished in the
years AFTER the war had officially ended. It is a crime that will never
be forgotten, and it is a crime that will forever stain the hands and
national consciences of the former USSR, the United States of America,
Great Britain and her Commonwealth nations, and perhaps more pointedly
the Anglo and Slavic races of the White race.
A little German boy holds a lantern as he sits in a
wagon en route to the Allied lines in the bitter winter snow. He’s with
his mother. She’s bleeding profusely; she’s dying. The German doctor who
the little boy was lucky enough to hunt down is doing his best to
perform a tamponade (a blockage) of her uterus. She was brutally,
viciously raped. Did she survive? Goodrich doesn’t say, but the
prognosis and tone suggests she didn’t make it. She was a German. She
supported Hitler. She was a Nazi. She deserved it.
She deserved it.
So said the Allies in the years following the war: Germany merely got
what she deserved. The ‘morally superior’ White nations of the globe
had smashed ultimate evil: the Nazis; the German race.
GERMAN CHILD VICTIM:
RAPED, TORTURED, AND LEFT TO DIE IN THE WOODS
GERMAN CHILD“She deserved it . . . because she was a Nazi!”Never has a greater lie been told. Never has so much
hatred and vengeance been poured forth onto one people and one nation
that had chosen not to abide by the laws of international bankers and
financiers who wish only to enslave, plunder, steal and when necessary,
kill.
And most of the White races of the world were more than willing and
eager to take up the flag of international Jewish money power and to
smash the one White race that opposed it with such honor, valor and
sheer might — so much so that it took all the best brain-power and
material wealth of the entire White race, and all the monetary power of
its Jewish financiers and overlords, to break its back.
I went into Goodrich’s book expecting to read little
more than I already knew about the worst gynocide and mass rape of
womankind in recorded history, but I was in for a shock. As an
individual who looks out for women’s interests, I was repeatedly
overcome with emotion while reading of the indescribable genital
mutilations, deliberate and systematic terrorism, gang-rape and wanton
mass murder of women.
Here is Brazilian German Leonora Cavoa who was an eyewitness to these sexual atrocities:
“Suddenly I heard loud screams, and immediately two Red Army soldiers brought in five girls. The Commissar ordered them to undress. When they refused out
of modesty, he ordered me to do it to them, and for all of us to follow
him. We crossed the yard to the former works kitchen, which had
been completely cleared out except for a few tables on the window side.
It was terribly cold, and the poor girls shivered. In the large, tiled
room some Russians were waiting for us, making remarks that must have
been very obscene, judging from how everything they said drew gales of
laughter. The Commissar told me to watch and learn how to turn the Master Race into whimpering bits of misery. The horror that ensued nearly defies written description, as
no written description can actually make a reader of either sex feel and
genuinely know the pain and suffering inflicted in this never-ending
horror show. The victims’ pain and suffering must have seemed like hours
and hours . . . an entire lifetime . . . I can’t imagine. I try not to
imagine it because about 2,000 women in the Nemmersdorf area alone
suffered a similar fate. Now two Poles came in, dressed only in their trousers, and
the girls cried out at their sight. They quickly grabbed the first of
the girls, and bent her backwards over the edge of the table until her
joints cracked. I was close to passing out as one of them took his knife and, before the very eyes of the other girls, cut off her right breast. He paused for a moment, then cut off the other side. I have never heard anyone scream as desperately as that girl.
After this operation he drove his knife into her abdomen several times,
which again was accompanied by the cheers of the Russians.”
Stop. Picture it. Imagine it. Live it!
“WE LECTURE OUR SOLDIERS TOO MUCH; LET THEM HAVE THEIR INITIATIVE.” — Josef Stalin
Force yourself to see your
own body mutilated in similar fashion; force yourself to picture a
knife plunging into your abdomen again . . . and again . . . your short
lifetime come to this end: you know you are about to die. You are being
murdered; your body brutally tortured by a mob of brutal sadists. Try to
imagine the horror and the helplessness you would feel as your person
was mutilated and your very life bleeding away on a table.
Can a human being really suffer a worse injustice than this?
Now . . . step back out of the scene and analyze this needless,
inhuman horror with the gift of hindsight. This victim was not just the
victim of these Red Army men, reduced to base animal instinct and
mentality, but she was also the victim of an ideology inspired by
Judaism and a Jewish propagandist named Ilya Ehrenburg.
Brazilian eyewitness Leonora Cavoa again :
“The next girl cried for mercy, but in vain—it
even seemed that the gruesome deed was done particularly slowly because
she was especially pretty. The other three had collapsed, they cried for their mothers
and begged for a quick death, but the same fate awaited them as well. The last of them was still almost a child, with barely
developed breasts. They literally tore the flesh off her ribs until the
white bones showed. Loud howls of approval began when someone brought a saw from a
tool chest. This was used to tear up the breasts of the other girls,
which soon caused the floor to be awash in blood. The Russians were in a
blood frenzy. More girls were being brought in continually. I saw these grisly proceedings as through a red haze. . . . Over and over again I heard the terrible screams when
the breasts were tortured, and the loud groans at the mutilation of the
genitals. . . . It was always the same, the begging for mercy, the
high-pitched scream when the breasts were cut and the groans when the
genitals were mutilated. The slaughter was interrupted several times to sweep the
blood out of the room and clear away the bodies. . . . When my knees
buckled I was forced onto a chair. The Commissar always made sure that I
was watching, and when I had to throw up they even paused in their
tortures. One girl had not undressed completely, she may also have been
a little older than the others, who were around seventeen years of age.
They soaked her bra with oil and set it on fire, and while she
screamed, a thin iron rod was shoved into her vagina . . . . . . until it came out of her navel. In the yard entire groups of girls were clubbed to death
after the prettiest of them had been selected for this torture. The air
was filled with the death cries of many hundred girls” (pp. 156–57).
And this is where I have to stop transcribing . . . “The Commissar told me to watch and learn how to turn the Master Race into whimpering bits of misery.”
LASHA DARKMOON: It is a closely
documented fact that most of the supervisory jobs among the Red Army
Bolsheviks were held by Jews. The sadistic commissar mentioned above is
therefore likely to have been Jewish.
As for the Red army rapists, we have a great deal of circumstantial
evidence that the bulk of these may have belonged to three ethnic groups
with an ancient animosity toward the White race: Mongols, Tatars, and
Asiatic Russian Jews. Remember there were no fewer than 500,000 Jews in
the Red Army, many of them primed for “revenge sex” against white women.
Don’t forget also that these mentally deranged degenerates, some of
them just let out of prison, had been given the green light to rape and
kill with impunity by Stalin’s psychotic Jewish propagandist, Ilya
Ehrenberg: “Use force and break the racial pride of these German women,”
Ehrenberg had instructed. “Take them as your LAWFUL BOOTY! Kill!”
ADDENDUM
Since publishing this article two days ago, I have received further
information from a trusted correspondent that furthers my thesis—and it
is only a thesis at this stage—that Russian Jews were among the most
likely rape perpetrators. Not only were there 500,000 Jews in the Red
Army, there were also regiments in the Red Army consisting entirely of Jews led by Jewish commanders.
Here is a quote from Solzhenitsyn on the Jewish role in the Bolshevik Revolution and later: “In 1918 Trotsky . . . created the Red Army. Jewish soldiers
were numerous in its ranks. Several units of the Red Army were composed
entirely of Jews, as, for example, the brigade commanded by Joseph
Forman. Among the officers of the Red Army, the share of Jews grew in
number and importance…”
It is my contention that Jewish units such as the one mentioned above
were largely responsible for the majority of rapes that took place in
Germany at this time.
Covering up this fact would have been of vital importance to the Stalin regime with its heavy Jewish component.
Note that the execution of 22,000 Polish officers at Katyn in 1943, known as the Katyn Massacre,
was a war crime for which the Nazis were blamed for several decades,
before the shocking truth finally emerged only as late as 2010: that
Stalin had ordered the massacre and that his loyal henchman, the Jew
Lazar Kaganovich, had been the evil genius who had helped to carry it
out — the same man, incidentally, who had been behind the starvation of
7-10 million Ukrainians in 1933, known as the Holodomor Famine.
(See “Russian Lawmakers Say Stalin Ordered Massacre of Polish Soldiers.” CNN, November 27, 2010)
That the rape of 2 million German women was carried out largely by
Jews within the Red Army is, I believe, another of those grisly facts
that have been carefully concealed by the hyper-secretive Stalin regime.
This truth will only emerge into the light of day when Soviet archives
are finally thrown open to public scrutiny.
♣
Never in the history of the world has such an orgy of rape
and mass murder taken place, all of it against the helpless women and
children of a great defeated nation, and all with the full connivance of
the three great leaders of the victor countries: the blood-bespattered
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the coldhearted war criminal Winston Churchill,
and that ultimate psychopath and monster in human form, Josef Stalin. “We must never forget,” Jewish writer Sever Plocker tells us,
“that some of the greatest murderers of modern times have been Jewish.” It is sobering to reflect that the three statesmen pictured
below—Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin—may have been little more than
helpless puppets in the hands of the shadowy puppet masters standing
behind them.
CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, STALIN:
THE THREE STOOGES OF INTERNATIONAL JEWRY?
Conclusion
And yet . . . and yet Germany’s back was not broken . . . Goodrich ends his book on a note of hope.
When all had been destroyed, when all seemed to have been lost forever in Year Zero, the Germans proved once again that such was just not the case.
Brick by brick, and hour by hour, they rebuilt upon the ruins of
God’s Empire a new Germany. No Holocaust by fire, no gynocide, no
viricide, no famine, no other inhuman atrocities, could subdue or quench
the noble Germanic spirit — which is the essence of the White race of
humankind.
Even though Germany today is still an occupied
nation with a hurting people, she still possesses that flicker of life
and spirituality that the other White races and nations lost long ago
when they sold their souls to Judaism and the Jewish “god” of hatred and
revenge.
“Unbowed, unbent, unbroken.”
Such are the words of an album released by a European band named
Hammerfall. And such are the words that describe the German people, the
German folk, the German race.
The only ones who bear the burden of bloodstain and guilt are the
Allies. No crimes in recorded history surpass those inflicted against
Germany and Europe by the United States, Great Britain and the former
Soviet Union—all with the ideological and financial backing of
international Jewry.
The death of National Socialist Germany was the death of Western man and everything he once stood for.
I must thank Thomas Goodrich. Hellstorm has changed my life.
The Destruction of Ethnic Germans and German Prisoners of War
in Yugoslavia, 1945-1953
Tomislav Sunic
From the European and American media, one can often get the
impression that World War II needs to be periodically resurrected to
give credibility to financial demands of one specific ethnic group, at
the expense of others. The civilian deaths of the war's losing side are,
for the most part, glossed over. Standard historiography of World War
II is routinely based on a sharp and polemical distinction between the
"ugly" fascists who lost, and the "good" anti-fascists who won, and few
scholars are willing to inquire into the gray ambiguity in between. Even
as the events of that war become more distant in time, they seemingly
become more politically useful and timely as myths.
German military and civilian losses during and especially after World
War II are still shrouded by a veil of silence, at least in the mass
media, even though an impressive body of scholarly literature exists on
that topic. The reasons for this silence, due in large part to academic
negligence, are deep rooted and deserve further scholarly inquiry. Why,
for instance, are German civilian losses, and particularly the
staggering number of postwar losses among ethnic Germans, dealt with so
sketchily, if at all, in school history courses? The mass media --
television, newspapers, film and magazines -- rarely, if ever, look at
the fate of the millions of German civilians in central and eastern
Europe during and following World War II. [1]
The treatment of civilian ethnic Germans -- or Volksdeutsche
-- in Yugoslavia may be regarded as a classic case of "ethnic cleansing"
on a grand scale. [2] A close look at these mass killings presents a
myriad of historical and legal problems, especially when considering
modern international law, including the Hague War Crimes Tribunal that
has been dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the
Balkan wars of 1991-1995. Yet the plight of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans
during and after World War II should be of no lesser concern to
historians, not least because an understanding of this chapter of
history throws a significant light on the violent breakup of Communist
Yugoslavia 45 years later. A better understanding of the fate of
Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans should encourage skepticism of just how
fairly and justly international law is applied in practice. Why are the
sufferings and victimhood of some nations or ethnic groups ignored,
while the sufferings of other nations and groups receive fulsome and
sympathetic attention from the media and politicians?
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, more than one and a half
million ethnic Germans were living in southeastern Europe, that is, in
Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Romania. Because they lived mostly near and
along the Danube river, these people were popularly known "Danube
Swabians" or Donauschwaben. Most were descendants of settlers who
came to this fertile region in the 17th and 18th centuries following
the liberation of Hungary from Turkish rule.
For centuries the Holy Roman Empire and then the Habsburg Empire
struggled against Turkish rule in the Balkans, and resisted the
"Islamization" of Europe. In this struggle the Danube Germans were
viewed as a rampart of Western civilization, and were held in high
esteem in the Austrian (and later, Austro-Hungarian) empire for their
agricultural productivity and military prowess. Both the Holy Roman and
Habsburg empires were multicultural and multinational entities, in which
diverse ethnic groups lived for centuries in relative harmony.
After the end of World War I, in 1918, which brought the collapse of
the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg empire, and the imposed Versailles Treaty
of 1919, the juridical status of the Donauschwaben Germans was in flux. When the National Socialist regime was established in Germany in 1933, the Donauschwaben
were among the more than twelve million ethnic Germans who lived in
central and eastern Europe outside the borders of the German Reich. Many
of these people were brought into the Reich with the incorporation of
Austria in 1938, of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in
1939, and of portions of Poland in late 1939. The "German question,"
that is, the struggle for self-determination of ethnic Germans outside
the borders of the German Reich, was a major factor leading to the
outbreak of World War II. Even after 1939, more than three million
ethnic Germans remained outside the borders of the expanded Reich,
notably in Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary and the Soviet Union.
In the first Yugoslavia -- a monarchical state created in 1919
largely as a result of efforts of the victorious Allied powers -- most
of the country's ethnic Germans were concentrated in eastern Croatia and
northern Serbia (notably in the Vojvodina region), with some German
towns and villages in Slovenia. Other ethnic Germans lived in western
Romania and south-eastern Hungary.
This first multiethnic Yugoslav state of 1919-1941 had a population
of some 14 million people of diverse cultures and religions. On the eve
of World War II it included nearly six million Serbs, about three
million Croats, more than a million Slovenes, some two million Bosnian
Muslims and ethnic Albanians, approximately half a million ethnic
Germans, and another half million ethnic Hungarians. Following the
breakup of Yugoslavia in April 1941, accelerated by a rapid German
military advance, approximately 200,000 ethnic Germans became citizens
of the newly established Independent State of Croatia, a country whose
military and civil authorities remained loyally allied with Third Reich
Germany until the final week of the war in Europe. [3] Most of the
remaining ethnic Germans of former Yugoslavia -- approximately 300,000
in the Vojvodina region -- came under the jurisdiction of Hungary, which
during the war incorporated the region. (After 1945 this region was
reattached to the Serbian portion of Yugoslavia.)
The plight of the ethnic Germans became dire during the final months
of World War II, and especially after the founding of the second
Yugoslavia, a multiethnic Communist state headed by Marshal Josip Broz
Tito. In late October 1944, Tito's guerilla forces, aided by the
advancing Soviets and lavishly assisted by Western air supplies, took
control of Belgrade, the Serb capital that also served as the capital of
Yugoslavia . One of the first legal acts of the new regime was the
decree of November 21, 1944, on "The decision regarding the transfer of
the enemy's property into the property of the state." It declared
citizens of German origin as "enemies of the people," and stripped them
of civic rights. The decree also ordered the government confiscation of
all property, without compensation, of Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans. [4]
An additional law, promulgated in Belgrade on February 6, 1945,
canceled the Yugoslav citizenship of the country's ethnic Germans. [5]
By late 1944 -- when Communist forces had seized control of the
eastern Balkans, that is, of Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia -- the
German-allied state of Croatia still held firm. However, in early 1945,
German troops, together with Croatian troops and civilians, began
retreating toward southern Austria. During the war's final months, the
majority of Yugoslavia's ethnic German civilians also joined this great
trek. The refugees' fears of torture and death at Communist hands were
well founded, given the horrific treatment by Soviet forces of Germans
and others in East Prussia and other parts of eastern Europe. By the end
of the war in May 1945, German authorities had evacuated 220,000 ethnic
Germans from Yugoslavia to Germany and Austria. Yet many remained in
their war-ravaged ancestral homelands, most likely awaiting a miracle.
After the end of fighting in Europe on May 8, 1945, more than 200,000
ethnic Germans who had remained behind in Yugoslavia effectively became
captives of the new Communist regime. Some 63,635 Yugoslav ethnic
German civilians (women, men and children) perished under Communist rule
between 1945 and 1950 -- that is, some 18 percent of the ethnic German
civilian population still remaining in the new Yugoslavia. Most died as a
result of exhaustion as slave laborers, in "ethnic cleansing," or from
disease and malnutrition. [6] Much of the credit for the widely-praised
"economic miracle" of Titoist Yugoslavia, it should be noted, must go
to the tens of thousands of German slave laborers who, during the late
1940s, helped to build the impoverished country.
Property of ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia confiscated in the aftermath
of World War II amounted to 97,490 small businesses, factories, shops,
farms and diverse trades.
The confiscated real estate and farmland of
Yugoslavia's ethnic Germans came to 637,939 hectares (or about one
million acres), and became state-owned property. According to a 1982
calculation, the value of the property confiscated from ethnic Germans
in Yugoslavia amounted to 15 billion German marks, or about seven
billion US dollars. Taking inflation into account, this would today
correspond to twelve billion US dollars. From 1948 to 1985, more than
87,000 ethnic Germans who were still residing in Yugoslavia moved to
Germany and automatically became German citizens. [7]
All this constitutes a "final solution of the German question" in Yugoslavia.
Numerous survivors have provided detailed and graphic accounts of the
grim fate of the ethnic German civilians, particularly women and
children, who were held in Communist Yugoslav captivity. One noteworthy
witness is the late Father Wendelin Gruber, who served as a chaplain and
spiritual leader to many fellow captives. [8] These numerous survivor
accounts of torture and death inflicted on German civilians and captured
soldiers by Yugoslav authorities adds to the chronicle of Communist
oppression worldwide. [9]
Of the one and a half million ethnic Germans who lived in the Danube
basin in 1939-1941, some 93,000 served during World War II in the armed
forces of Hungary, Croatia and Romania – Axis countries that were allied
with Germany – or in the regular German armed forces. The ethnic
Germans of Hungary, Croatia and Romania who served in the military
formations of those countries remained citizens of those respective
states. [10]
In addition, many ethnic Germans of the Danubian region served in the
"Prinz Eugen" Waffen SS division, which totaled some 10,000 men
throughout its existence during the war. (This formation was named in
honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who had won great victories against
Turkish forces in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.) [11]
Enlisting in the "Prinz Eugen" division automatically conferred German
citizenship on the recruit.
Of the 26,000 ethnic Danubian ethnic Germans serving in various
military formations who lost their lives, half perished after the end of
the war in Yugoslav camps. Particularly high were the losses of the
"Prinz Eugen" division, most of whom surrendered after May 8, 1945. Some
1,700 of these prisoners were killed in the village of Brezice near the
Croat-Slovenian border, while the remaining half was worked to death in
Yugoslav zinc mines near the town of Bor, in Serbia. [12]
In addition to the "ethnic cleansing" of Danube German civilians and
soldiers, some 70,000 Germans who had served in regular Wehrmacht forces
perished in Yugoslav captivity. Most of these died as a result of
reprisals, or as slave laborers in mines, road construction, shipyards,
and so forth. These were mostly troops of "Army Group E" who had
surrendered to British military authorities in southern Austria at the
time of the armistice of May 8, 1945. British authorities turned over
about 150,000 of these German prisoners of war to Communist Yugoslav
partisans under pretext of later repatriation to Germany.
Most of these former regular Wehrmacht troops perished in postwar
Yugoslavia in three stages: During the first stage more than 7,000
captured German troops died in Communist-organized "atonement marches" (Suhnemärsche)
stretching 800 miles from the southern border of Austria to the
northern border of Greece. During the second phase, in late summer 1945,
many German soldiers in captivity were summarily executed or thrown
alive into large karst pits along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. In the
third stage, 1945-1955, an additional 50,000 perished as forced
laborers due to malnutrition and exhaustion. [13]
The total number of German losses in Yugoslav captivity after the end
of the war -- including ethnic "Danube German" civilians and soldiers,
as well as "Reich" Germans -- may therefore be conservatively estimated
at 120,000 killed, starved, worked to death, or missing.
What is the importance of these figures? What lessons can be drawn in assessing these postwar German losses?
It is important to stress that the plight of German civilians in the
Balkans is only a small portion of the Allied topography of death. Seven
to eight million Germans -- both military personnel and civilians --
died during and after World War II. Half of those perished during the
final months of the war, or after Germany's unconditional surrender on
May 8, 1945. German casualties, both civilian and military, were
arguably higher in "peace" than in "war."
In the months before and after the end of World War II, ethnic
Germans were killed, tortured and dispossessed throughout eastern and
central Europe, notably in Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania, the
Sudetenland, and the "Wartheland" region. Altogether 12-15 million
Germans fled or were driven from their homes in what is perhaps the
greatest "ethnic cleansing" in history. Of this number, more than two
million were killed or otherwise lost their lives. [14]
The grim events in postwar Yugoslavia are rarely dealt with in the
media of the countries that emerged on the ruins of communist
Yugoslavia, even though, remarkably, there is today greater freedom of
expression and historical research there than in such western European
countries as Germany and France. The elites of Croatia, Serbia and
Bosnia, largely made up of former Communists, seem to share a common
interest in repressing their sometimes murky and criminal past with
regard to the postwar treatment of German civilians.
The breakup of Yugoslavia in 1990-91, the events leading to it, and
the war and atrocities that followed, can only be understood within a
larger historical framework. As already noted, "ethnic cleansing" is
nothing new. Even if one regards the former Serb-Yugoslav leader
Slobodan Milosevic and the other defendants being tried by the
International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as wicked criminals,
their crimes are trivial compared to those of Communist Yugoslavia's
founder, Josip Broz Tito. Tito carried out "ethnic cleansing" and mass
killings on a far greater scale, against Croats, Germans and Serbs, and
with the sanction of the British and American governments. His rule in
Yugoslavia (1945-1980), which coincided with the "Cold War" era, was
generally supported by the Western powers, who regarded his regime as a
factor of stability in this often unstable region of Europe. [15]
The wartime and postwar plight of Germans in the Balkans also
provides lessons about the fate of multiethnic and multicultural states.
The fate of the two Yugoslavias -- 1919-1941 and 1944-1991 --
underscores the inherent weakness of multiethnic states. Twice in the
20th century, multicultural Yugoslavia fell apart amid needless carnage
and a spiral of hatreds among its constituent ethnic groups. One can
argue, therefore, that it is better for diverse nations and cultures,
let alone different races, to live apart, separated by walls, than to
pretend to live in a feigned unity that hides animosities waiting to
explode, and leaving behind lasting resentments.
Few could foresee the savage inter-ethnic hatred and killings that
swept the Balkans following the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, and this
among peoples of relatively similar anthropological origins, albeit
different cultural backgrounds. One can only speculate with foreboding
about the future of the United States and western Europe, where growing
interracial tensions between the native populations and masses of Third
World immigrants portend disaster with far bloodier consequences.
Multicultural Yugoslavia, in both its first and second incarnations,
was above all the creation of, respectively, the French, British and
American leaders who crafted the Versailles settlement of 1919, and the
British, Soviet Russian and American leaders who met at Yalta and
Potsdam in 1945. The political figures who created Yugoslavia did not
represent the nations in the region, and understood little of the
self-perceptions or ethnic-cultural affinities of the region's various
peoples.
Although the deaths, suffering and dispossession of the ethnic
Germans of the Balkans during and after World War II are well documented
by both German authorities and independent scholars, they continue to
be largely ignored in the major media of the United States and Europe.
Why? One could speculate that if those German losses were more widely
discussed and better known, they would likely stimulate an alternative
perspective on World War II, and indeed of 20th century history. A
greater and more widespread awareness of German civilian losses during
and after World War II might well encourage a deeper discussion of the
dynamics of contemporary societies. This, in turn, could significantly
affect the self-perception of millions of people, forcing many to
discard ideas and myths that have fashionably prevailed for more than
half a century. An open debate about the causes and consequences of
World War II would also tarnish the reputations of many scholars and
opinion makers in the United States and Europe. Arguably, a greater
awareness of the sufferings of German civilians during and after World
War II, and the implications of that, could fundamentally change the
policies of the United States and other major powers.
Notes
1. Mads Ole Balling, Von Reval bis Bukarest (Copenhagen: Hermann-Niermann-Stiftung, 1991), vol. I and vol. II.
2. L. Barwich, F. Binder, M. Eisele, F. Hoffmann, F. Kühbauch, E.
Lung, V. Oberkersch, J. Pertschi, H. Rakusch, M. Reinsprecht, I. Senz,
H. Sonnleitner, G. Tscherny, R. Vetter, G. Wildmann, and others, Weissbuch der Deutschen aus Jugoslawien: Erlebnisberichte 1944-48 (Munich: Universitäts Verlag, Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, 1992, 1993), vol. I, vol. II.
3. On Croatia's armed forces during World War II, and its destruction
after 1945 by the Yugoslav Communists, see, Christophe Dolbeau, Les Forces armées croates, 1941-1945 (Lyon [BP 5005, 69245 Lyon cedex 05, France]: 2002).
On the often critical attitude of German military and diplomatic
officials toward the allied Ustasha regime of the Independent State of
Croatia ("NDH"), see Klaus Schmider, Partisanenkrieg in Jugoslawien 1941-1944
(Hamburg: Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn, 2002). This book includes an
impressive bibliography, and cites hitherto unpublished German
documents. Unfortunately, the author does not provide precise data as to
the number of German troops (including Croat civilians and troops) who
surrendered to British forces in southern Austria, and who were
subsequently handed over to the Yugoslav Communist authorities. The
number of Croat captives who perished after 1945 in Communist Yugoslavia
remains an emotion-laden topic in Croatia, with important implications
for the country's domestic and foreign policy.
4. Anton Scherer, Manfred Straka, Kratka povijest podunavskih Nijemaca/ Abriss zur Geschichte der Donauschwaben (Graz: Leopold Stocker Verlag/ Zagreb: Pan Liber, 1999), esp. p. 131; Georg Wildmann, and others, Genocide of the Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia 1944-1948 (Santa Ana, Calif.: Danube Swabian Association of the USA, 2001), p. 31.
5. A. Scherer, M. Straka, Kratka povijest podunavskih Nijemaca/ Abriss zur Geschichte der Donauschwaben (1999), pp. 132-140.
6. Georg Wildmann, and others, Verbrechen an den Deutschen in Jugoslawien, 1944-48
(Munich: Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, 1998), esp. pp. 312-313.
Based on this is the English-language work: Georg Wildmann, and others, Genocide of the Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia 1944-1948 ( Santa Ana, Calif.: Danube Swabian Association of the USA, 2001).
7. G. Wildmann, and others, Verbrechen an den Deutschen in Jugoslawien, 1944-48, esp. p. 274.
8. Wendelin Gruber, In the Claws of the Red Dragon: Ten Years Under Tito's Heel (Toronto: St. Michaelswerk, 1988). Translated from German by Frank Schmidt.
In 1993 the ailing Fr. Gruber returned to Croatia from exile in
Paraguay, to spend his final years in a Jesuit monastery in Zagreb. I
spoke with him shortly before his death on August 14, 2002, at the age
of 89.
9. Stéphane Courtois, and others, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999).
10. G. Wildmann, and others, Verbrechen an den Deutschen in Jugoslawien (cited above), p. 22.
11. Armin Preuss, Prinz Eugen: Der edle Ritter (Berlin: Grundlagen Verlag, 1996).
12. Otto Kumm, Geschichte der 7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen" (Coburg: Nation Europa, 1995).
13. Roland Kaltenegger, Titos Kriegsgefangene: Folterlager, Hungermärsche und Schauprozesse ( Graz : Leopold Stocker Verlag, 2001).
14. Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam: The Expulsion of the Germans From the East. (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 1989 [3rd rev. ed.]); Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993); Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, A Terrible Revenge: The "Ethnic Cleansing" of the East European Germans, 1944-1950 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994); Ralph F. Keeling, Gruesome Harvest: The Allies' Postwar War Against the German People (Institute for Historical Review, 1992).
15. Tomislav Sunic, Titoism and Dissidence: Studies in the History and Dissolution of Communist Yugoslavia (Frankfurt, New York: Peter Lang, 1995)
Tomislav Sunic holds a doctorate in political science from the
University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an author, translator and
former professor of political science in the USA. Tom Sunic currently
lives with his family in Croatia. An interview with him, "Reexamining
Assumptions," appeared in the March-April 2002 Journal of Historical Review (http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n2p15_sunic.html). His most recent book is Homo americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age (2007), which can be obtained through Amazon books (http://www.amazon.com/Homo-americanus-Child-Postmodern-Age/dp/1419659847). For more by and about him, see his website (http://www.tomsunic.com/).
This article is adapted from Dr. Sunic's address on June 22, 2002, at the 14th IHR Conference, in Irvine, California.
