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Dr. Alex Grobman is the senior resident scholar at the John C. Danforth Society and a member of the Council of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. He has an MA and PhD in contemporary Jewish history from The Hebrew university of Jerusalem. He lives in Jerusalem.
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An essential scholarly volume on the Shoah
The relentless war of delegitimization of the Jewish State generated two very significant defeats for Israel,
If Jewish nationalism was revived and emigration permitted, national separatism would once again become a national issue.
Without Soviet approval, there would have been no Czech arms sales to the Israelis for the War of Independence
The Bolsheviks blamed Russian Jewish sympathy for Zionism and the Balfour Declaration for the decline in their own socio-political and economic system
People becoming accustomed to mass murder surely played a part in this process
The German railroads “were indispensable at the core” of the operation by working in concert with the military, Police, industry and the SS to carry out deportations and transport of millions of Jews to the east to slave labor and extermination camps.
Another group of perpetrators consisted of professionals and experts, who were not involved in politics.
There isn’t the slightest question they understood their actions were “not positive except in the value system of the Third Reich.”
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Occasionally, particularly at the outset of the murderous campaign, some perpetrators were troubled by “pangs of conscience” or “expressed disquiet.” They got over it or were replaced quickly.
Responding to the question of the necessity of murdering every Jewish woman and child. “I did not consider that I had the right to eliminate them—that is to kill them or have them killed--and to let their children grow up to become avengers against our own sons and grandsons. The difficult decision had to be taken to have this people disappear from the face of the earth.”[10]
The ploy to conceal the slaughtering of Jews with the drive to eliminate Soviet anti-partisan sabotage was confirmed in January 1946
The advanced education and culture of the Nazi officers proved no impediment to their murdering innocent civilians.
The accusation that Jews posed a threat to the German army was ludicrous.
Those who served as executioners compensated themselves with money pilfered from their Jewish victims
There were no legal, bureaucratic, administrative, or other obstacles and limitations to impede their mission to annihilate the Jews and other perceived enemies of the Third Reich
As soon as an Einsatzgruppe unit entered a town, it began “a deadly stranglehold” on the Jewish residents murdering thousands of them “...no brutality was too base, no trick to mean, no barbarity too disgusting, if it allowed them to raise their grim tally.”
The goal of the 'War Against the Jews' was to construct “a utopian society organized in accordance with the principles of race.”
The question of how and why the Holocaust occurred in Western civilization remains an issue of concern because it reveals something about the nature of our society and humanity.
Over 13 million women were actively involved in the Nazi Party, providing support and enabling the Reich to perpetrate its crimes in addition to those women committing war crimes
Nazi medicine played a fundamental part in implementing “the racial policy of a powerful, modern state and it enjoyed approval by wide parts of the whole nation.”
Though these comparisons assist us in understanding the Nazi period, they can lead to the wrong conclusion that Nazi's hated all groups equally.all
A number of leading Holocaust historians refute the notion the Germans dealt with the Gypsies in the same manner they did with the Jews
To Germany under Nazi influence, the Jew was a menace, representing the “enemy within.”
According to Nazi ideology, the unique qualities of every race, except for Jews, were to be respected and the Gypsies, though suffering punitive laws and restrictions were not persecuted as were the Jews-at first.
The first time the Gypsies were specifically targeted to be murdered, was when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941
Jews were not the only biologically chosen group to be murdered. They also included the Sinti and Roma. Who were they?
Reports of the mass murder of Russian Jews began to appear in July 1941. By late 1941, it was accepted fact that some Jewish communities were systematically and methodically murdered.
At Hitler’s headquarters, the Germans were discussing “a plan aimed at transferring all the Jews of Europe, from three and a half million people, to the countries of Eastern Europe, in order to annihilate them and thus resolve once and for all the Jewish problem in Europe.”
Significantly, in Roosevelt’s message and the one sent by Winston Churchill, each supportive, there is no mention of rescue.
Due to the unprecedented dimension of what had occurred, historian Yehuda Bauer added another dimension. He said there is a distinction between having received news about the extermination of the Jews of Europe, and accepting the reports as accurate
A Hungarian soldier said at one great tract of land near Kiev, he saw the ground “move in waves.” Why? The Germans had systematically executed thousands of Jews and had buried their victims even before they were dead.
Slanderous lies against the Jews were used by opponents of the administration, including Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D) and Charles A. Lindberg, By virtue of their status, their opposition gave the attacks an air of respectability and legitimacy.
The AJC voiced its outrage that no voice had been raised by either by the US or the British Government expressing the “horror of free humanity at this cold-bloodied extermination of a people.” After all, these massacres were published in the Jewish press and confirmed by the general press in England and America.
To assist the Soviet Union in its war against Germany, American Jews supported aid to Russia
With the Nazi invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941, the Reich began the first systematic efforts to exterminate the Jews. From the beginning of this military campaign, the American Jewish press provided comparatively accurate accounts of the atrocities committed against the Jews.
For the Arabs and their supports throughout the world, Deir Yassin has become a rallying cry against the state of Israel.
“Hitler’s Willing Executioners”
They were murdered because they “could no longer manufacture guns in return for the food which they consumed;"
The Onslaught Against the Jews Continues...
Deir Yassin “was not the peaceful village many later claimed it to be.”
In 1941, the condition of European Jews continued to deteriorate.
Twenty thousand Jews lived in Tarnow before the war, but after Hitler, there were no more 20
To prevent Jews from acquiring significant parcels of land in Palestine the British issued the land law
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and other American Jewish leaders did not deem it prudent for the Agudah and the Vaad to pressure the Roosevelt Administration for more than 500 applications, though there was, ostensibly, no limit to the number of individuals eligible under the program.
During 1941 Jewish suffering defied description, yet by 1942 they had mastered techniques that most likely would have enabled them to survive the war, had the Nazis not launched a systematic campaign to annihilate them.
Lindbergh, one of the most famous and vocal opponents of American assistance to Britain, and a supporter of the antiwar America First Committee, stated in a speech on April 23, 1941: “We have been led toward war by a minority of our people. This minority has power. It has influence. It has a loud voice…" And who do you think that Lindbergh was referring to?
Roosevelt’s attitude toward Jews, which “was complicated,” While he surrounded himself with Jewish advisors, he did little at all to help the Jews in peril
The US State Department, under Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, thwarted Jewish immigration to America by creating a quota system of regulations and obstacles that were practically insurmountable
Historian Ted Morgan wrote that the daily FBI reports Roosevelt received about Nazis and Communists efforts to subvert the US, “some of which were farfetched” still “influenced his thinking.” FBI director J. Herbert Hoover claimed that the National Maritime Union had a Communist on every board.
The fear of the Trojan Horse was echoed by Roosevelt, the Congress, the intelligence community, and a number of members of his administration
Opposition to immigration continued even during wartime prosperity
On the eve of the Nazis assuming power in 1933, Jews continued to believe that their approach to persecution, which had enabled them to endure, would once again allow them to prevail. The conviction that their success in medicine, science, commerce and the arts had made them “indispensable,” since “one does not kill the cow one wants to milk,” turned out to be an illusion. Which continues...
Recognition of Israel as the Jewish State is the only means to ensure that the conflict is actually over
Zionism is described as a “spiritual sister” and “spiritual heir” of Nazi ideology—though Nazi ideology preceded Zionism.
Branding Israel as racist, portrays her as a country that harms civilian populations, oppresses minorities, establishes restrictive immigration laws and religious statutes as part of their ideological raison d’etre. Thus, Israel’s wars, its military response to terror and laws passed by the Knesset are racist.
Israel was created in 1948 in 17% of the area allotted by the Balfour Declaration. The Allies had gained a vast area from the Turks during the war, and the British took 1% of the land the Great Powers acquired from the Turks to establish a Jewish Homeland
Though demography was not an exact science, Jews may have numbered several million in the early Roman Empire. For more than a century before the 70 CE destruction of the Second Temple, most Jews preferred living around the Mediterranean basin, instead of their aboriginal homeland. Still, Jews were the majority in the Holy Land, perhaps […]
Have you ever wondered why the international media is drawn to Israel and how they get their reporting so wrong?
BDS is one of the weapons employed to destroy the liberal democratic state of Israel. For many BDS supporters, Israel is a proxy for West.
One cannot exaggerate the importance of these two volumes to those interested in the Shoah.
When I heard that The Rabbi of Buchenwald had been published, I was delighted, especially since I knew the book would not be just a tribute to Rabbi Hershel Schacter, but a highly significant, meticulously researched work of critical scholarship. And I was right.
The Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict has “tempered” Israeli democracy, providing equal rights even to Arabs and Jews who refute her right to exist.
Why Does Europe Hate Israel? The reasons are numerous, ranging from currying financial or political favor in the UN with the Arab nations or a resentment of Israel stubbornly clinging to life.
The Arabs precipitate a conflict, make explicit demands of the victor and threaten another Intifada unless Israel complies with their ultimatums, yet they have NEVER been criticized for intransigence
Obama's policy on Israel has focused on settlements, which he views as illegitimate and "linkage" the theory that if the Palestinian conflict were solved, all other Middle East conflicts would cease
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