Jedwabne and the race hucksters

A couple of days ago the BBC News website informed us that a “Romanian mayor has been strongly criticised by Jewish groups after appearing dressed in a Nazi uniform at a local fashion show.” Radu Mazare is mayor of Constanţa, the Black Sea port and the oldest living city in Romania (having been founded around 600 BC).  He was, he explained, inspired to wear the costume by the film Valkyrie.  But it’s not an explanation that the “offended party” requires:

Dr Efraim Zuroff, a Holocaust historian and the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, expressed “insult and outrage” at the mayor’s appearance.

In a letter to Mr Mazare, he wrote: “It would be hard to adequately describe the depth of the pain that your appearance caused, not only to Jews and other victims of Nazism, but to any person of moral integrity who knows the history of World War II.

“Today it is well-known that the Wehrmacht played an active role in the mass murder of European Jewry and many other innocent victims.

“By dressing in a Wehrmacht uniform, you are expressing totally unwarranted support and nostalgia for an army which committed the most terrible war acts of genocide.”

Dr Zuroff suggested Mr Mazare could make amends for his “incredible lack of judgement” by bringing an exhibition on the crimes of the German army to Romania.

So, is this the speech of a beautiful but tortured Jewish soul lying flayed and bleeding on the ice-cold alter of German history?  Is he making manifest that great testament to human evil which is the G-d-given lot of all Jews?  Or does he merely have a practical mind?  Never mind the insult and outrage, and even the “pain” of a depth “it would be hard to adequately describe”, is all he really wants to keep Christian Europe’s head-down in the moral mire?  Might one conclude that, far from being a Chosen vessel of Man’s redemption from evil, Dr Zuroff is a ruthlessly opportunistic race huckster ... the kind of man who might not be above employing that indescribable Jewish “pain” in a trick:

(Thanks to reader KD who sent me the link to this video.)

We saw something very like opportunistic trickery with Prince Harry’s fancy dress back in January 2005:

Jewish groups last night reacted with fury at Harry’s ‘insensitivity’ at a time when they are remembering the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Labour peer Lord Janner, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: “I hope that on reflection Prince Harry will regret what was an insensitive and tasteless act.”

A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews said: “It’s not a joke to dress up as a Nazi, especially as we come up to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

“It is important that everybody remembers the evil that the Nazis were responsible for.” A million Jews were killed at Auschwitz, the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, before it was liberated by Allied forces in January 1945. Many thousands of Jews were gassed.

An essential element to the trick is to put a number, at every opportunity, to the vastness of Jewish suffering:

An international commission chaired by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel concluded in 2004 that the Romanian authorities had killed up to 380,000 Jews in territories under their control.

This numerical tradition began with a Soviet prosecutor’s claim at Nuremburg of 4 million killed at Auschwitz, not all of them Jews though.  This total bounced like a pin-ball from 3 million to 2.5 million to 1.1 million before it finally won official blessing at 1 million Jewish mortalities.

This is the figure that German Law, having from the outset made itself an attack dog for Jewish ethnic interests, codifies with the overt objective of jailing people for an inadequate level of belief.  Not every poor soul, though.  In 2002 a study by Fritjof Meyer, a mainstream journalist in Germany, cut the 1 million figure by half, and no one has attempted to jail him.  By this oversight the German legal authorities reveal their true objective of jailing political opponents.  It’s about the absolute duty of German liberal democrats to punish the German past.  Liberal democracy was imposed on post-war Germany by violence and its legitimacy will always return to that.

For the Jewish Holocaust Establishment, of course, there are no legitimacy worries.  Plain tribalism is enough.

But such motives leave us with a problem.  Who and what, then, are we hapless believers to believe?  For instance, how much belief are we to accord to the claim of 380,000 Jews killed by Romanians?  Are their resting places known, their bodies identified, the causes of death established?  Of course not.  Our belief is mandated by the implied authoritativeness, respectability and neutrality of “an international commission chaired by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel” - a man whose reputation was attacked by Robert Faurisson thus:

In an autobiographical book that supposedly describes his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he nowhere mentions the gas chambers.  He does indeed say that the Germans executed Jews, but ... by fire; by throwing them alive into flaming ditches, before the very eyes of the deportees!

… In his memoir, Night, which is a version of his earlier Yiddish testimony, Wiesel reports that at Auschwitz there was one flaming ditch for the adults and another one for babies. He writes:

Not far from us, flames were leaping from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load—little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it—saw it with my own eyes ... Those children in the flames. (Is it surprising that I could not sleep after that? Sleep has fled from my eyes.)

So what if we fail to find Elie Wiesil and his commission authoritative, respectable or neutral?  What if we find the Nobel Prize-winning Mr Wiesil to be less than noble, indeed very like an opportunistic race huckster?  Is this the same in law as “belittling” the narrative itself?  Possibly so, since the moral and professional stature of court witnesses is intimately tied to the credibility of their evidence.  Mr Wiesil’s personal probity would, therefore, be underwritten by legislation.

Well, with this in mind and, of course, never for one moment wishing to cast aspersions upon the Asiatic ladies and gentlemen who have so lovingly attached to newborn European babies an essential, irrational anti-Semitism – oh, that trick again - and never for one moment seeking to lift that blood libel and offend of Mr Wiesel’s law-conforming, Talmudically-decreed perfect soul, I am going to look at one instance of this clash between the legalised claims of Jewish “experts” and the ignored truths of Europeans and the memories of those who were there, damn it.

So, from the Guardian, also earlier this week:

Rabbi urges Tories: cut link to Polish MEP

One of the most respected figures in the British Jewish community has called on David Cameron to cut all links with the Polish MEP chosen to lead the new centre-right group in the European Parliament, which includes the UK Conservative party, because of his attitude towards a massacre of 1,600 Jews in Poland during the Second World War.

Rabbi Barry Marcus, of the Central Synagogue in London, who has studied the fate of Jews in the north-west Polish town of Jedwabne, said he had “watched in horror” at the appointment last week of Michal Kaminski as chairman of the new European Conservative and Reformist Group (ECR), which now includes the 25 Tory MEPs.

The rabbi told the Observer that he had known for some time that Kaminski, who was Jedwabne’s local MP, was involved in 2001 in a campaign to oppose a national apology for the massacre on its 60th anniversary in July 2001.

... Over recent years a series of investigations have shown that Polish residents of Jedwabne, along with some German troops, rounded up the Jewish population in July 1941 and herded them into a barn which was set on fire. At a ceremony in Jedwabne on 10 July 2001, the then president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, called for the country to confront its past and apologised. But many in Jedwabne opposed the ceremony and apology, claiming that the Germans were mainly to blame and that Poland should not say sorry because Polish Jews had “collaborated” with the Soviet occupiers.

So here is a race huckster rabbi whining about a Polish politician because he won’t do what is expected of him and press his constituents’ faces deeper into the mire.  This particular race huckster is South African.  In addition to his pastoral duties he sits on the board of the Holocaust Education Trust, indeed he pioneered the now statutory day-trips to Auschwitz-Birkenau for at least two children from every class in every state secondary school in Britain.  Of this little wheeze he says:

“Even if it changes the focus of one person. Even if it helps one person understand a little bit more about sensitivity, understanding kindness and what happens when you allow hatred to run away with them. Then its worth all the effort in bringing people out here.”

Of course, perfect souls know no hate.  Not that I am saying Baz ain’t perfect or is a liar or anything, but here you can read his account of how near to certain death he was as he cycled across Tavistock Square one fine morning in July 2005.  It makes you wonder.

Anyway, the Guardian link explains that Baz has also become an expert in the terrible events of Jedwabne 10th July, 1941.  What that means, I imagine, is that he has found time in his busy life to read Jan T. Gross’s Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Jedwabne, Poland:

In the small town of Jedwabne in Northeast Poland, Jews lived side by side with local Poles for over two centuries; by the outbreak of the Second World War, they constituted more than half of the town’s 2,500 inhabitants. Relations were peaceful for the most part until July 10, 1941 when, just days after the Germans occupied Jedwabne, almost the entire Jewish population of the town was murdered. Beginning in the morning, Jews were chased, beaten and killed with clubs, knives and iron bars. Women were raped; a small girl’s head was cut off and kicked about. Jews were rounded up from their homes and brought to the market square where the town rabbi and others were forced to carry the statue of Lenin and to sing, “The war is because of us.” At the end of the day, all remaining Jews were forced into a nearby barn that was then doused with gasoline and set on fire. Music was played to drown out their cries. No Jewish witnesses were meant to survive, but seven managed to escape.

A memorial plaque that was erected at the site of the barn after the war read: “Here is the site of the massacre where the Gestapo and Hitler’s gendarmes burned alive 1600 Jewish people. 10.VII. 1941.” Such was the official version of history for almost 60 years, until the appearance of the book Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community of Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross, a Polish-born Professor at NYU.  In the course of his research, Gross discovered that, in fact, it was not the recently arrived Nazis, but local Polish residents who had carried out this massacre. The book, first published in Polish in May 2000, caused a painful and far-reaching public debate. The dispute was fueled by the realization that the book would soon appear in English, making the story widely known beyond Poland’s borders.

On July 10, 2001, the 60th anniversary of the massacre, a nationally televised commemoration ceremony was held during which the President of Poland apologized for the massacre in Jedwabne and for other crimes committed by Poles against Jews. Earlier that year, Polish bishops held a mass in which they did the same.

The above copy, by the way, is blurb connected to a 2001 film about the pogrom.  Titled Neighbours, it was funded by George Soros through his Batory Foundation in Poland.  Jan T Gross is a director of the Batory Foundation, and now lives in America.  The book and the film are, therefore, very likely Soros creations.  The book was translated into English, which was a clear statement of intent.  The media in Poland gave blanket coverage to its claims, and around the world the pogrom was presented as a Polish national crime.  Polish leftists and the Polish political and cultural Establishment immediately capitulated and supported Gross’s account.  The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) took evidence from Herman Schaper, the former Einsatskommando officer who had twice been found responsible for the massacre by German authorities, once in 1964 then again ten years later.  Schaper, the IPN said, “had confirmed the facts” as presented by Gross.

In the face of this all too familiar, high-powered pro-Jewish ramp an attempt to restore balance has been mounted.  Jan Moor-Jankowski, professor of forensic medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, Charles Chotkowski, director of research for the Polish American Congress Holocaust Documentation Committee, and survivor Boleslaw Domitrz have all provided evidence of Gross’s distortions of the facts.  Dr. M. J. Chodakiewicz, of the University of Virginia showed in his study that during the war more Christians than Jews were killed in the town during the course of the war.  Jerzy Robert Nowak authored a book titled “100 Lies By Gross”.  It was published solely in Poland.  Among those “lies” was the non-corroborated claim that a cut off head of a Jewish female was kicked around the streets of the town.  Every available Polish eye-witness account - people who were there, damn it - has been gathered, and all tell the tale of a German massacre with the assistance of few if any local Poles.

Tellingly, a 2001 investigation by government experts found bodies of the victims buried in two graves.  Some one hundred and seventy test cores were drilled in the vicinity, but located no other graves of Jews executed in Jedwabne.  Now we come to the numbers.  The estimation by partial exhumation was that two to three hundred victims were in the graves.  However, a rabbi attending the proceedings demanded an end before the graves were fully researched, preserving for posterity Gross’s soon-to-be inviolable myth of sixteen-hundred Jewish dead.  Plus ça change.

The capacity for Jews to successfully dictate the history of the Second World War rests on money power, not on the unique rightness of Jewish historical recall.  It’s as simple as that.  Not many politicians are loyal hearts like Aleksander Kwasniewski.  Most are slaves to the power of money and to conformity and safety, and for that reason alone the histories of all the Jedwabnes of Europe have been successfully turned into a stubborn blood libel against Christian Europe.

But money power doesn’t explain everything.  The busy media lives and relentless opportunism of the likes of Rabbi Barry have their arising elsewhere … in the religious conviction that abides in every Jewish fibre and every Jewish bone that the degradation of Christian Europe is synonimous with the cause of tribal ascendency.  To the Jew, moral perfection is the Jew.  No gentile moral stop touches that.  Thus the Jew is free to create what he needs for himself and his tribe, and if he needs there to have been sixteen-hundred dead at Jedwabne or fire pits at Auschwitz or 380,000 Jews murdered by Romanians, so be it.  The gentile will fear too much to protest and will, beyond all irony, end-up persecuting even those who would testify to his own goodness.

The Jewish race huckster could not hope for a more convenient subject on which to practise his art.

Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 12:44 AM in That Question Again
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