Barnes’ review of the French edition of Paul Rassinier,
The Drama of the European Jews (Les SeptCouleurs, Paris, 1964),
published posthumously in The American Mercury, Fall 1968, 17,
was later anthologized in the Appendix to The Myth of the Six
Million, David Hoggan, editor. The table of contents of the
latter volume is available
here, the text of Barnes’ review
here. I indicate parenthetically where I suspect a typo. An appended “editorial note,”
probably taken from the Hoggan volume, reads: “In a revision of his
statistics in 1966, Rassinier states that the properly corrected figures
given by the “World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation,” claim
that some 1,593,292 European Jews perished from all causes between 1939
and 1945. Revised analysis of the figures given by Hilberg indicates
that the data reveal the death of 1,003,392 Jews from all causes during
this period.” The Goldenhagen calumny that Germans were Hitler’s
“willing executioners” has a long pedigree.
Zionist Fraud
Harry
Elmer Barnes
This is an important
book by the French scholar, professor and writer who was deported by the
Germans and actually lived through grim months in concentration camps of
the Third Reich. To this experience he has consecrated a work of
worldwide interest: The Lie of Ulysses. Rassinier is, indeed, a
unique historian. For him, only facts, figures, and documents carefully
verified, are relevant. But as author, he does not live in an ivory
tower. He is a close observer of the changing international scene. And
what are his main findings about the situation in Europe from 1950 onward? Precisely that a political program is gaining
ground: West Germany must be reintegrated with
Western Europe and fully restored to the concert of democratic nations.
This assumption
deeply disturbs two countries, the U.S.S.R. and
Israel. The Russians fear a strong and united
Western Europe. They had undergone a series of reverses: the Allied airlift rendered
ineffective the
Berlin
blockade; the Greek Communists failed in their subversive activity; NATO
came into being and guaranteed greater military security to the West.
The Israelis have other serious apprehensions. Most important of all
will the Bonn
Republic,
once it is “cleared” and relieved of pressure by the enemies of the
former Third Reich, continue to pour out huge indemnities to Mr. Ben
Gurion’s state?
The counter-offensive
of Russia and Israel was not long delayed, according to Rassinier. Two sources of attack,
so remarkably synchronized that they might well have been contrived in
concert and paired, spearheaded the operations devoted to the
fabrication and falsification of documents. One had the special label
“Committee for the Investigation of War Crimes and Criminals,”
established under Russian auspices behind the Iron Curtain at
Warsaw.
The other was called “World
Center of
Contemporary Jewish Documentation,” set up chiefly at Paris and Tel Aviv.
Paul Rassinier,
analyzing the propaganda campaigns launched by these two organizations,
sees Germany as their target, and their common theme is the horrors and
atrocities committed during the Second World War by Nazism, implied to
be a natural vocation of Germany, including the assertion that the Bonn
government had accepted the chief nationalists and militarists of the
Third Reich. All this meant that the Germans are a people who must be
kept under rigid control, and isolated.
At once an avalanche
of books began to break upon the world: first, Doctor at Auschwitz,
by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, apparently a mythical and invented figure, and
then the Breviary of Hatred,
by Leon Poliakov, both in 1951. Since then, the flood of such books
has not stopped. Rassinier points out that every time there was the
slightest sign of rapprochement between Germany and the other European
nations: European Coal and Steel Commission, Common Market,
Franco-German Treaty, etc., whole libraries of hate Germany books
appeared under the stamp of the “Warsaw Committee,” or of an important
unit of the “World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation,” or the
“Institute of Contemporary History (London),” which is an affiliate of
the latter. Among early examples of these mounting indictments, ever
more horrendous, and all skillfully contrived to make the Bonn Republic
odious to the whole world, we may cite The Third Reich and the Jews
(1953) by Leon Poliakov; The Memoirs of Rudolf Hess (1958),
and the like.
Before referring to
Paul Rassinier’s voluminous documentation, let us state his conclusion
concerning this vast international propaganda scheme of the
USSR and
Israel. When the International Zionist Movement claimed that six million
Jews were exterminated by the Germans in gas chambers, it furnished
Khrushchev with his main argument. This he used and abused by tying it
in with a hypothetical rebirth of Nazism and Prussian militarism in West
Germany, all to the effect that the German people are a nation of
barbarians which it would be dangerous to integrate into Europe. He
thus aimed to kill in embryo that concert of
Europe,
which is inconceivable without
Germany.
On the other side, by
presenting a reparations invoice based on the figure of six million Jews
exterminated, each one representing an indemnity of 5,000 marks, the
International Zionist Movement has been concerned mainly with lightening
the permanent deficit weighing on the bankers of the Diaspora; indeed,
even to get rid of it and transform it into an appreciable profit.
As objectively as
possible I have summarized Paul Rassinier’s thesis. But, foreseeing
that certain defenders of the “universal conscience” will lose no time
in distorting the attitude and import of his book, and that of this
review, I underline emphatically that the author of this volume does
not, for an instant, seek to excuse or to conceal the nameless
atrocities committed by certain brutes in the concentration camps of the
Third Reich, many of whom were Communists, who had infiltrated as
guards.
On the contrary,
Rassinier leaves nothing in shadow. The title of his book alone tells
enough. But the courageous author lays the chief blame for
misrepresentation on those whom we must call the swindlers of the
crematoria, the Israeli politicians who derive billions of marks from
non-existent, mythical and imaginary cadavers, whose numbers have been
reckoned in an unusually distorted and dishonest manner.
With the help of one
hundred pages of statistics, cross-checked and verified by reliable
documents, in difficult but condensed and detailed analysis, Rassinier
offers us two conclusions, between which he refrains from making a
choice.
The first is that,
according to the data available, and correcting the inevitable
duplications and exaggerations, presented by the “World
Center of
Contemporary Jewish Documentation,” there were 17,583,057 Jews alive in
1962. [Sic. I suspect that this is a typographical error.
Perhaps “1952”
was intended.--A.F.] Some 1,485,292 are said to have lost their lives in
some way during the war. The second, from other sources, also checked,
and supplied by Mr. Raul Hilberg, in his Destruction of the European
Jews, is that some 18,265,601 Jews survived, while 896,892 of them
perished during the war.
Whichever of these
conclusions one accepts, although we are horrified when confronted with
these million or more victims, it must be emphasized that we are far
from the figure of six million which shameless propagandists, doubtful
witnesses, and others ill-informed have accepted.
It is instructive
that despite the figures cited, as based on the corrected data, both of
these Jewish sources accept the legend that six million Jews were
exterminated by the Germans during the Second World War.
It is abominable
enough that from a million to a million and a half Jews perished between
1940 and 1945, without having to add vast imaginary slaughter. It only
weakens the case when, with the use of false documents, the weakest sort
of testimony, and statistics outrageously inflated, the State of
Israel claims indemnity for six million dead. This completely inaccurate
figure only serves Communist and other political causes in
Europe, and
outright financial purposes in Tel Aviv.
That is the limit to
place on one’s patience and credulity. Read instead The Drama of the
European Jews by Paul Rassinier, and you will be edified, dear
readers, as I was.
Posted March 9, 2008