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  (http://www.jta.org/1944/11/26/archive/war-refugee-board-releases-report-on-extermination-of-millions-of-jews-in-nazi-camps#ixzz3HEznS5T8)

  N.B. “eye-witness reports,” “eye-witness accounts,” “fragmentary reports” become “trustworthy” and “entirely credible,” and “clearly substantiate the facts” based only on “eye-witness reports.” If “civilized people find” something “difficult to believe,” it probably didn’t occur, except in the imaginations of uncivilized people. The War Refugee Board was run by the notorious Henry Morgenthau of “Morgenthau Plan” fame, so any anti-German information issuing therefrom must be suspect. Besides, Vrba revealed himself as a charlatan during the Zundel trial (1985).

  “26 million fatalities in the Nazi concentration camps. Daily record: 15,000 murdered.” Originally based on “New Chronicle” report of London August 28, 1945 (Reuter). Based on such figures, the sky becomes the limit of course.

  Memo from today: Martin Amis, a ludicrously overrated and self-overrated writer, has published another novel about “the Holocaust” (The Zone of Interest, 2014), his second on the subject. I tried to get through the first, but had to give up, as his desperately unconventional style is an affront to the discerning reader. I revisit his father’s fiction regularly with pleasure. It’s not surprising that Kingsley Amis reportedly refused to read his son’s books because they are not only persistently self-referential, but also because, unlike his father, a fine stylist, he refuses to adhere to basic English usage. (Amis senior about his son’s fiction: “terrible compulsive vividness in his style,” The Guardian, July 22, 2008). If some jumped up, smart alec of a novelist, whose effusions would arguably have been unprintable only a few decades ago, is fortunate enough to have been born into the richest language on earth, a treasure-trove of articulation, in which the exact word can always be found, if he takes the time to look for it-- in which frugality and restraint are not hindrances but learned disciplines -- he need not try to re-invent it. Junior does share one quality with his late father; he likes to wrestle with major political issues, without understanding their nature. His father flirted seriously with Communism at university and then became an unreconstructed Thatcherite (mainly because she once included him for drinks) and then simply a blimp, while remaining ignorant about politics. Senior was a serious novelist of undeniable stature; Junior is just a short writer who takes himself too seriously; a lightweight who tries to engage with weighty subjects. Belatedly, but expediently for a New Yorker, he has discovered “the Holocaust,” a theme of greater interest if of slighter substance than the state of his teeth, one with which he had previously been associated.

  One might have thought the subject rather old hat for a writer striving for originality. As their vocabulary and literacy is, or used to be, immeasurably greater than their American equivalent– while supposedly speaking the same language—British literati are often fêted in the “intellectual” centres of the U.S., where their accents and perceived exoticism allow them to gain an easy foothold and even employment. They are like snake-oil salesmen hawking their wares to rubes. Not only has this one been so long in “Jew” York that he is stuck to the “Holocaust” fly-paper, but he seems unaware that this fiction – sensational and remunerative though it may be-- has been covered innumerable times, from every conceivable angle. Only the coincidence of subject compels me to mention someone so contemptible at all.

  Speaking of wordmongering, there seems to have been some confusion among those affected, whether deliberate or not, between the expressions “emigration” and “extermination.” While the advantages of such psychopathology must be clear in view of subsequent claims, collaborative media, accompanied by Jewish ghetto-hysteria, or simply an inability to distinguish one word from another among the uneducated, may have been conclusive in confirming their belief.

  It is very significant that certain Jews were quick to interpret these policies of internal discrimination as equivalent to extermination itself. An anti-German propaganda book by Leon Feuchtwanger and others entitled Der Gelbe Fleck: Die Ausrottung von 500,000 deutschen Juden (“The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of 500,000 German Jews,” Paris, 1936), presents a typical example. Despite its baselessness in fact, the annihilation of the Jews is discussed from the first pages - straightforward emigration being regarded as the physical “extermination” of German Jewry. (Richard Harwood, Did Six Million Really Die? 2005, p.5).

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  The simple detail that the Yad Vashem memorial site was already being planned in 1942 reveals a functionalist relationship to the Holocaust...Thoughts had turned to the immortalization of the Shoah even while most of the victims were still alive. (taz, daily paper, Berlin, May 24, 1995, p 12)

  A good lie takes time to plan and this was a very good lie; one which a defeated and demoralized enemy was in no position to refute. Misrepresent the purpose of a conventional delousing gas at the concentration camps, inflate the figures of typhus, typhoid and malnutrition deaths in the latter months of the war to match a symbolic figure, support with endless faked and staged photographs, purposely edited films and statistics, “find” a few “eyewitnesses” among the “survivors” – and the improbable becomes fact. Indeed, in the Nineties, it allegedly became “offenkundig” (common knowledge), an expression the German courts use themselves, when condemning courageous disputants to jail sentences of five years or more, for having indulged in Orwell’s “thoughtcrime,” just as the Inquisition convicted Galileo for daring to assert that the earth moves around the sun and not vice versa. Incidentally, it is said that Torquemada shared his ancestry with those who tyrannize Germans today.

  Between 1994 and 2004 there were 117,344 criminal proceedings for thoughtcrime in Germany (Bundesverfassungschutzberichte/reports from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution)

  This “common knowledge” argument stems from Article 21 of the Charter of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, which states: “The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge but shall take judicial notice thereof” (did not apply common rules of evidence). “It’s the law of the victor here that’s being applied in the land of the vanquished” (Robert Faurisson, Teheran interview, 2006).

  In fact, an assertion of common knowledge is not a fact but only an opinion about a fact and so no proof at all.

  However, common sense dictates that these repugnant libels were born and still exist—continually refreshed by a prodigious cottage industry-- only because their claims are profitable to those who devised them. As in the case of the N.Y. tower incidents of 2001 (I refuse to use that ridiculous American abbreviation, whose self-importance assumes that the entire world is fixated on their country), there is any amount of serious material evidence to prove that the official story is a lie (Rassinier, Faurisson, Rudolf, Leuchter, Graf, et al), but the most convincing proof of this can be imputed from the lasting benefits these events have brought their perpetrators and propagandists. (“Cui bono?”)

  The search for beneficiaries is inevitably enlightening. The deaths of 2937 people --Pearl Harbour cost about the same number of sacrificed Americans in the good cause of getting the US into WWII-- in New York on November 9, 2001, allowed the “Global War on Terrorism,” the “Patriot Act,” “Homeland Security,” x-rays and lawful groping at airports to come into being, and the landlord, Mr. Silverstein, to receive a reported $4.5 billion from his insurance.

  After 9/11, US taxpayers shell out $10.5mn every hour to fund war against terror... If you add up the numbers, then US taxpayers pay almost $70 million on security related expenditure per hour and spend around $62 million for the county’s social needs. (Hindustan Times, September 11, 2014)

  “Defence” companies have made profits from “anti-terror” wars: “The Total Iraq and Afghanistan Pricetag: Over $4 Trillion.” (U.S. News and World Report, March 28, 2013)

  Silverstein sought to collect double the face amount (~$7.1 billion) on the basis that the two separate airplane strikes
into two separate buildings constituted two occurrences within the meaning of the policies. Although he was reportedly accustomed to breakfast in the Windows on the World restaurant, he was at his dermatologist at the time of the tragedy (Wikipedia).

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  Every morning after the deal was finalized, Mr. Silverstein held breakfast meetings at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Early on Sept. 11, his wife, Klara, reminded him that he had an appointment with his dermatologist. He tried to wriggle out of it, he said, but Mrs. Silverstein insisted. (“The Hole in the City’s Heart,” Deborah Sontag, New York Times, September 11, 2006)

  Memos from today: More propaganda from the cottage industry: “...on January 9 2014 an ‘historic’ agreement was reached between the Paris Prosecutor’s Office and the French Shoah Memorial that any teenager found guilty of anti-Semitism may be sentenced to undergo a course of ‘sensitivity to the extermination of the Jews’. Studying genocide is supposed to teach them ‘republican values of tolerance and respect for others’.” (Diana Johnstone, Counterpunch online newsletter, January 24-26, 2014).

  In the “Statute of Tolerance” (ECTR) Section 7 seeks to criminalise hate crimes, incitement to violence, group libel and overt approval of a totalitarian ideology, xenophobia, anti-Feminism or anti-Semitism, amongst other offences, and details that “juveniles convicted of committing crimes listed” above “will be required to undergo a rehabilitation programme designed to instill in them a culture of tolerance.” (Wikipedia)

  “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” (Aristotle)

  All NSW (New South Wales) students will be given mandatory lessons on the horrors of the Holocaust under sweeping changes to the school history curriculum. The Board of Studies has confirmed it will roll out a new syllabus that will include studies of the Jewish genocide during World War II. The changes, which will mirror compulsory Holocaust classes in most US states, the UK and many European countries, will come into effect from 2014.The Nazi mass slaughter of more than six million Jews, regarded as the darkest chapter of modern history, has only been available to students in Australia as an optional component in history classes. The Board of Studies will make it mandatory for all history students up to Year 10.

  “The Holocaust is now a mandatory inclusion in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority‘s history overview,” a spokeswoman for the Board of Studies confirmed. It will also be included in deeper history studies on Australians at war as part of “the nature and scope of 20th-century war.” The Australian Jewish community has the largest percentage of Holocaust survivors in the world, with the exception of Israel. (Daily Telegraph, December 8, 2012)

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  In the UK, an organisation called the Holocaust Educational Trust that has cornered the biggest market share. This huge organisation has embarked on one of the largest programmes of social engineering ever seen in Britain. Its main achievement has been in making Holocaust propaganda a central part of the core National Curriculum in England. Now every pupil between 11 and 14 must undergo mandatory Holocaust instruction. More than half of Britain’s schools now take part in the HET’s “Lessons from Auschwitz” programme while it has sent about 15,000 pupils to visit Auschwitz itself. It directs an ambitious “Outreach” indoctrination programme and claims to have recruited 20,000 “Ambassadors” amongst Britain’s young people to spread the word and diligently ensure that Holocaust enthusiasm does not drop to unacceptable levels… While groups such as the HET have ensured that London has become a centre of Holocaust indoctrination, it is only a small part of very much a trans-national effort. The roots of the current boom go back to 2000 and a conference in Stockholm when 31 nations agreed to subject their populations to mass compulsory Holocaust teaching. (Occidental Observer, October 5, 2013)

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  The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) is a British charity, based in London, whose aim is to “educate young people of every background about the Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today.” It was founded by the Labour MP Greville Janner . Its Chairman is Greville Janner... Its Honorary Patrons include Elie Wiesel. One of the Trust’s main achievements was ensuring that the Holocaust formed part of the National Curriculum for history, as it continues to do so. (Wikipedia)

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  Labour peer Lord Janner of Braunstone will escape charges over alleged historical child sex crimes because he is suffering from severe dementia. Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, announced on Thursday that it is not in the public interest to put the QC and former MP on trial. (Guardian, April 16, 2015)

  “Lord Janner will not be forced to attend court when his case appears before the Old Bailey, it has been ruled. The 87-year-old peer, who suffers from severe dementia, is due to make his first Crown Court appearance on Tuesday to face 22 child sex abuse charges spanning three decades. He faces 15 counts of indecent assault and seven counts of a separate sexual offense against a total of nine alleged victims over the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. . . . But sources confirmed that the senior judge would not require Lord Janner to be present for the hearing.” (Daily Telegraph, August 28, 2015)

  Memo from today: April 4, 2015. On a more personal note, as I leafed through the Yehudi Menuhin School’s latest newsletter, with my usual mix of approval and detachment, I was sickened to come across the school’s own contribution to the above-mentioned holocaust propaganda. The YMS is a music school; as such it is concerned with forming young musicians, not with political indoctrination. It was founded by a renowned musician whose legacy stands for forward-looking humanitarianism. YM would turn in his grave if he knew that the pupils at his school are being instrumentalized in this dubious cause. Yet someone clearly influenced two 18-year old children to visit Auschwitz (presumably on a pre-funded trip) and even to lecture their fellow students about their experience. Naturally, the innocence of youth, coupled with the hothouse atmosphere of learning in which they live, denied them a sophisticated response to such brainwashing.

  The Holocaust Educational Trust works with schools, colleges and communities across the UK to educate about the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance. The Trust plays a central role in combating anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice in our society today by delivering innovative educational and teacher training programmes and producing groundbreaking resources such as the BAFTA award-winning Recollections DVD. By partnering with schools, universities, Local Education Authorities and other institutions our work ensures the Holocaust has a permanent place in our nation’s collective memory. (HET online blurb)

  Knowledge is bigotry’s worst enemy. (HET quote)

  Indeed. But who are the bigots? What do they mean by “knowledge”? Important words are being misused again. And what is “our nation”? The UK is only “their” nation in the sense of a property in their grasp. Why should Jews continue to expend so much energy and money on “Holocaust” propaganda? They have already induced most leaders of governments, major companies, and ambitious public personalities to accept their views, but maybe they still fear the few informed voices which persist in exposing the historical truth, especially in education.

  Obviously, their aim is to forge a world in which among future generations no individual survives who questions “the Holocaust.” Will we soon have officially prescribed placards in every township proclaiming “Remember the Holocaust”? The panic betrayed by this ubiquitous and convulsive toilet flush of agitprop only confirms their hysteria: evidently, the whole Jewish edifice stands or falls on the perpetuation of this lie. “No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.” (John F. Kennedy) However, “If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” (Anatole France)

  An aspect which severely undermines the official story is the presence of a vast and seemingly unending abundance of so-called “Holocaust survivors.” The work of Sergio DellaPergola, a Jewish demog
rapher born in Italy who later became a citizen of the Israeli state and works for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem demonstrates the statistical inconsistencies. More than half a century after the end of the war, he was able to locate at least 1,092,000 living people who claimed to be “Holocaust survivors” in 2003. (Professor Sergio Della Pergola, Review of Relevant Demographic Information on World Jewry)

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  The term “Holocaust survivor” originally designated those who suffered the unique trauma of the concentration camps. The figure for these Holocaust survivors at war’s end is generally put at some 100,000. The number of living survivors cannot be more than a quarter of this figure now. Because enduring the camps became a crown of martyrdom, many Jews who spent the war elsewhere represented themselves as camp survivors. Another strong motive behind this misrepresentation, however, was material. The postwar German government provided compensation to Jews who had been in ghettos or camps. Many Jews fabricated their pasts to meet this eligibility requirement. “If everyone who claims to be a survivor actually is one,” my mother used to exclaim, “who did Hitler kill?” (Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry, 2001, p. 81)

  Memo from today: December 8, 2014. “France has signed an agreement with the USA for the compensation of holocaust victims. Paris will accordingly pay a total of 60 million dollars (48 million Euros) to those affected who were brought from France during the National Socialist era into the Nazis’ extermination camps. The document was signed in Washington by Stuart Eizenstat, who had been leading the negotiations for the US side for a long time. Representative for human rights Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay signed for the French side. She said that the agreement must still be confirmed by the French parliament. As Undersecretary, Eizenstat negotiated with Swiss banks, in the matter of unclaimed assets. Out of the money, holocaust survivors are to be compensated respectively with 100,000 dollars. Under compulsion by the Vichy-Regime, the French national railways SNCF brought about 76,000 Jews from 1942 to 1944, in freight cars, into the extermination camps. Only about 3,000 of them survived the Holocaust. With the agreement, France wishes to prove its readiness also to compensate deportees who, because of their nationality, have not yet received any money.” (www.tagblatt.ch, SDA/DPA) N.B. Seventy years after the event – when these alleged figures are impossible to prove.