In late 1943, Roy Publishers, a Communist Jewish operation, produced the 343-page The Black Book of Polish Jewry, replete with sixty photos, which Time magazine, of January 10, 1944, described as “an account of the Nazis’ systematic extermination of the Polish Jews.” Time said that the book used numerous sources—Jewish entities, the Polish government in exile, and the German government. The Nation, of May 20, declared that it was the “appalling story” of depopulation “through starvation, epidemics, and wholesale slaughter” of over two million Jews, out of a purported 3,250,000, living in Poland. I. F. Stone (Isidor Feinstein), writing for The Nation, wrote the article, dated June 10, For the Jews—Life or Death? He claimed that the Germans killed between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 Jews since August, 1942, when the alleged extermination campaign began. In December 1942, propagandists claimed that the Germans had exterminated 1,000,000 Polish Jews. The Germans are efficient but to kill that many people in four months seems logistically impossible. Socialist publisher Victor Gollancz, of the Left Book Club in London, published Escape from Berlin, written by Jewess Catherine Klein. The Times Literary Supplement, of March 4, 1944, gave a predictably positive review of her book. 1381
The IJA book Hitler’s Ten-Year War on the Jews embellished the Soviet’s Jewish deportation (to the Soviet Union) statistics by increasing the figure to 1,800,000. On June 9, 1945, Collier’s weekly magazine published Freling Foster’s Keeping up with the World in which he revealed that “Russia has 5,800,000 Jews, 41% of the present Jewish population of the world, of whom 2,200,000 have migrated to the Soviet Union since 1939 to escape the Nazis.” He did not cite his source and never retracted the information. A month later, Meyer Levin, known for his creation of the stage version of the Anne Frank story, in The Nation, claimed that the Germans murdered seven million people just because they were Jews. 1382
Despite all of the claims about Germany’s mass extermination of the Jews, no one has provided the kind of evidence that the Germans did when they conducted their mass exhumations at Katyn. Perhaps, the entire Jewish community needs to call upon the Germans, the first people in the modern age to emancipate them and give them equal opportunities and rights, to help them in their quest for dead bodies to prove their claims. Lacking such empirical evidence, they resort to rhetoric. In 1946, the Yiddish Scientific Institute published Max Weinreich’s Hitler’s Professors in which he claims that Germany killed “tens of thousands” of Jews at a time at Vilna, Kaunas, Riga, and Minsk and in other towns in that area. Weinreich, in a Yiddish weekly, claimed that there are 20,000 Jews in a mass grave near the town of Konin, in central Poland. Unlike the undertaking of evidence at Katyn, no one seemed interested in exhuming any bodies. 1383
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter convened a commission, headed by Elie Wiesel in anticipation of establishing the official United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC on government-donated land. One of the stipulations that the commission demanded was the “recognition of the sanctity of the physical remains of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and the right of the dead to a final resting place,” monitored by the State Department. 1384 In other words, officials would not allow researchers to investigate any alleged burial sites as it would purportedly desecrate sacred ground.
In 1971, Scribners published Louis FitzGibbon Katyn: A Crime without Parallel. Meanwhile the Soviet propaganda agencies and others who make boatloads of money with their atrocity stories failed to exhume the bodies at Babi Yar to provide empirical evidence for their allegations. In the late 1940s, they claimed that the Germans shot between 75,000 and 100,000 Jews. In 1949, Ukrainian Jewish poet Sawa Golovanivski made this claim about Babi Yar. A few decades later, Professor Salo Baron of Columbia University wrote The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets and gave the figure 33,771. The numbers grow with the decades. Ultimately, the claimants have had to reevaluate their body count and their charges or produce proof. Given the “sanctity of the physical remains” 1385 request by the Holocaust commission, people may now exploit the numbers for maximum memorialization. Andrew Sorokowski, in an article in the Denver Post, dated April 23, 1981, claimed that the Germans killed 166,000, some non-Jews in the vicinity of Kiev. He also claimed that they killed 33,700 Jews on September 29-30, 1941. Purportedly, they buried all of the bodies at Babi Yar. The city of Denver then created a memorial Babi Yar Park on public land and dedicated the memorial on October 2, 1983. 1386
Manipulating the Numbers for Maximum Exploitation
According to author James J. Martin, Raphael Lemkin, in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, misrepresents what is actually a very biased narrative account as a lengthy legal brief, along with his preconceived conclusions. Lemkin maligned the accused while omitting all exculpatory evidence regarding Germany and its Axis partners. He quite obviously ignored the allies’ devious provocations for war, the Zionist’s nefarious attempts to seize Palestine, the allies’ firebombing of Germany and their postwar ethnic cleansing of Germans. He dismissed the culpability of the Jews, Poland and Soviet Russia and the devised economic circumstances of the 1930s. Instead, he focused on Germany and its alleged transgressions, alluding to the “ultimate destiny of the European Jews,” perpetrating the idea that the Germans had killed most of them. 1387
During warfare in the German-occupied urban territory in Russia, according to Soviet statistics, Jewish partisans killed at least 500,000 German soldiers, in violation of international law. In retaliation, sanctioned by those same laws, German soldiers captured and shot many hostages which accounts for the large number of civilian deaths among the Jews who regularly engaged in murderous partisan activities. Local residents, under the protective cover of warfare, participated in violent pogroms against the Jews, contributing to a slightly higher proportion of Jewish deaths as opposed to non-Jewish deaths.1388
In early 1946, according to Lev K. Zinger, tens of thousands of Soviet Jewish refugees survived in the Ukraine, White Russia, Moldavia, Latvia and Lithuania, areas that Germany occupied during the war. In just seven such communities, he cited a population of 237,000 Soviet Jews. In three additional towns, Gerald Reitlinger added another 120,000 Jews, totaling 357,000. People tabulated these figures during the period when refugees began trekking homeward from Russia’s interior. We can assume that thousands of homeward-bound Jews were Soviet deportees that they evacuated before Germany invaded the western part of Russia. In as much as they tabulated the Jews in just a few towns where they settled them, then perhaps, given the warfare, pogroms, natural attrition rate of an aged population and the deaths of Jewish partisans, perhaps as many as 590,000 out of 720,000 evacuees survived the war under German jurisdiction.1389
The Soviets relocated 750,000 Jews from Poland to the Soviet interior. Between 150,000 and 250,000 perished during the train ride east. They sent the survivors to Siberian labor camps where the death rate was very high. The JDC June 1943 bulletin reported that the Soviets provided each camp inmate with only one/half to one pound of bread per day. From 1941 to 1945, the people worked twelve to fourteen hours a day “under the open sky,” often in rain and snow. They lived in tents or sod huts, and had insufficient clothing. Of the 750,000, only 157,500 Polish-Jewish refugees returned to Poland in 1945/1946. Presumably, 600,000 Jews perished, either on their way to or in Siberia. Those that returned soon emigrated from Poland to the west. 1390
The Soviets deported the other group, 2,877,000, to Siberia where they did not fare any better than the Polish-Jewish refugees. They forced them to work in coal mines, cutting wood and in other heavy labor. According to survivors, the Soviets shot thousands of people during the deportation and evacuation. They arrested people, separated families, isolating children from their families, loaded them in cattle cars in batches of fifty to sixty without food or water and they nailed the doors shut. The refugees lacked ventilation and had no place to sit. Those who survived the trip, with only the clothes on their back, were soon reduced to wearing filthy rags. They worked
in the harsh Siberian cold with little food, scant shelter and no medical care. Undernourished and overworked, huge numbers perished. 1391
Between 1939 and 1942, at least 200,000 Jewish soldiers perished while fighting in the Allied forces. During World War II, 550,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the United States. Conceivably, from 100,000 to 150,000 Jewish soldiers perished while fighting in the Red Army during the first 1.5 years of the Soviet-German battles. In 1971, the Judaica reported that 200,000 Soviet Jews perished in those battles. However, they may have been counting the 157,000 Jewish refugees who returned to Poland following the war as part of that 200,000. Certainly, the Soviets drafted these young Polish Jews to fight against Germany. 1392
Counting the deportations, the battle, civilian and partisan war deaths and the loss of returning refugees to their pre-war homes, we have the following Jewish deaths and other losses:
Killed while fighting in the Red Army or in partisan activities: 200,000
Civilian war-related deaths:130,000
Concentration and Deportation deaths:700,000
Jewish refugees returning to Poland in 1945:157,000
Total:1,187,000
After the war, at least 65,500 Hungarian Jews vanished into the Soviet Union. In 1945, the Soviets annexed Ruthenia with approximately 86,000 Jews.
Additions:
Hungarian Jews remaining in the Soviet Union:65,500
Annexation of Ruthenia with its Jews:86,000
Compensating for the 157,000 Polish Jews, Total:151,500
The post-war Jewish population in the Soviet Union was 4,301,500 out of 1939/1940 total of 5,337,000 under Soviet domination. 1393
However, the majority of the post-war rhetoric, like the American Jewish Year Book, published by the AJCm, claim that only 2,032,000 Jews survived the war in the Soviet Union while other Zionist sources declared that 1,500,000 survived which would imply that officials deported all Jews under Soviet jurisdiction before Germany’s “surprise” attack. This does not make sense, given that 200,000 Jews of the 600,000 in the Red Army perished. The Soviets drafted a majority of the 860,000 young male Jews available to them and all but 200,000 of them failed to return. If the Soviets only had a total population of two million, as some claim, then it would have been improbable for them to draft 600,000. Some people claim that the Soviets only evacuated the military-age males and left the rest to suffer at the hands of the Nazis. If that were true, the number of post-war males would have greatly exceeded females (presumably killed by the Nazis) but that is not the case according to the 1959 Russian census male/female ratio of 45.4% to 54.1%. The Soviets completed a mass evacuation of the Jewish population in 1941. 1394
One might question the accuracy of Russian census records. While the ratios, numbers and population distribution are probably correct, it likely minimalizes the number of Soviet Jews. Before 1959, numerous, unofficial academic sources, the court historians fabricated estimates that obliging publishers printed. Editors at the prestigious American Jewish Year Book legitimized these authors and their sources by including them.
Jacob Lestschinsky, in a hypothetical analysis, arrived at his calculations, 1,500,000 remaining Jews, via unofficial Soviet information which The New Leader printed on March 8, 1947. Using the number 5,500,000 Jews at the war’s beginning, he then, minus due-diligence, claims that 4,000,000 Jews were missing. He concurs with the 200,000 missing in action, and 500,000 deportee deaths in Siberia. Then he concludes that the Germans must have slaughtered more than 3,000,000. Yet, Zionist publications also admit the information on Soviet Jewry is fragmentary and guesswork and that “the numbers supposedly killed by the Nazis is unknown.” Authors base their fabricated history creations on a combination of two theories 1) the Nazis killed the Jews who remained in German-occupied territory; or 2) only a small number of Jews escaped. 1395
The American Jewish Year Book admitted that, among knowledgeable Jews in Russia, there were up to 4,000,000 Jews in the Soviet Union. The New York Times of January 22, 1975 reported similar figures. Dr. Nahum Goldmann even spoke of there being three to four million Jews in the Soviet Union in 1970. Leon Shapiro, a regular contributor to the American Jewish Year Book for thirty-five years wrote, “The estimate of the emigrants is also important since all of them (with whom Sanning spoke) suggest a more or less similar figure, which they say is current among the Jews in Russia.” After the war, because of anti-Semitism, Jews, while maintaining their ethnicity and ideology, used statistical assimilation by denying their Jewishness in official records. They try to avoid having people count them. Hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Soviet Union in the 1970s. In 1980, Goldmann, former head of the WJC, said that about three to 3.5 million Jews were in the Soviet Union, even after mass migration of the 1970s. 1396
The Red Army lost 13.6 million men while the Soviet civilian population suffered 18.4 million deaths totaling thirty-two million, or 15.8 percent out of a 202 million population. The corresponding numbers for the Soviet Jewish population were 200,000 and 830,000 totaling 1,030,000 or 19.4 percent out of 5.3 million, a much higher ratio. Relatively few Jews remained in the territory that Germany would occupy. There were 65 million Soviets in German-occupied territory while there were 137 million Soviet residents and 4.61 million Jews outside of German jurisdiction. The massive death tolls occurred under Soviet jurisdiction. Thirty-two million deaths represent 23.4 percent of 137 million; 1,030,000 Jewish deaths out of 4.61 million were 22.3 percent, which was comparable percentage-wise. In 1940, with the evacuation eastward, tens of thousands died, many of them children. Many people also died in the camps from cold, hunger, and physical exhaustion. Stalin’s evacuation program was the single greatest cause of death for Soviet Jewry. 1397
The Soviets wounded and killed thousands, women and children froze to death and millions starved. They court-martialed and shot thousands in the campaigns of collectivization and industrialization. 1398 The construction in the regions around Magnitogorsk and Kuznetsk was such that millions of men and women starved to death, or froze, while the inhuman labor and incredible living conditions brutalized the people. 1399
When the war time famine occurred, it primarily afflicted Russia’s rural areas and a few urban areas, except for Moscow and a few other select cities. Starvation was rampant in the villages, forcing many peasants to towns where they begged for food. The police drove them away but hundreds collapsed and died on the city streets. These pathetic peasants, disinherited men, women and children, besieged the Kharkov tractor plant, located ten miles outside the city. The peasants and workers, young and old, dug into the garbage and fought like animals over scraps of food. The workers, using a ration card, subsisted on a meager portion of cabbage soup, a slice of bread, and a few ounces of barley gruel. The foreign workers had a similar starvation diet. They worked alongside starving, stupefied, and dazed Russian workers. Only highly-paid specialists could afford food, even on the black market.1400 In the winter of 1942, fuel, food and clothing were almost unknown in millions of Russians homes. Women and children as young as eight or nine worked in the war factories and were running farms, taking the place of men who were in the army or working in heavy industry. 1401
Czech politicians, headed by Edvard Beneš, then in England worked with the British, who airdropped two assassins into German-occupied Czechoslovakia in order to kill General Reinhard Heydrich. On May 27, 1942, the assassins, working with Czech partisans, attacked a car he was in and he died on June 4. The German police and soldiers had a shoot-out with the conspirators a few days later. Czech citizens in Lidice, the home of the partisans, retaliated, and then the Germans demolished the town and shot some of its male residents for having harbored the assassins. Jews, never allowing a crisis go to waste, exploited the Heydrich-Lidice drama. Delegates from the WJC met in London in late June and increased the number of Jews that the Nazis had killed to one million.1402
By October 1942, because of t
he Heydrich-Lidice incident, Lord Simon, Stalin, Roosevelt and Molotov facilitated the creation of a UN Court of Justice to try “war crimes” and “war criminals.” According to Time, the Soviets wanted to start these procedures immediately “by trying, and hanging, Nazi Arch-Criminal Rudolf Hess.” They wanted to impose punitive actions against every German, Italian and Japanese leader, and even the “the members of their political organizations, for their Jewish persecutions.” Representative Emanuel Celler devised a list of several individuals, not yet under Allied control, that he deemed merited execution. He praised the Soviets for initiating an investigation in Russia to supply evidence for the ultimate massive retaliation. In October 1942, after Hitler heard of this desire for mass executions of Axis leaders, he delivered a speech in which he said that they had to fight hard to win the war or face extermination when it ended. David Lawrence, editor of the American Newsweekly magazine ridiculed Hitler for his remarks. Regarding Hitler’s speech, Newsweek reported the halt of all business in New York City for fifteen minutes at 10a.m. that day, so that half a million Jews could pray “that the killers be brought to retribution after the war.” 1403
The British Ministry of Economic Warfare became a “sounding board”for additional Zionist claims. It announced that the Germans sent another half million Jews to Eastern Europe, and raised the death toll of Jews in Poland and occupied Russia to 2,000,000 since the start of the war. Francis Neilson, in his booklet Hate, The Enemy of Peace (1944) stated that the hate campaigns interfered with the re-establishment of peace. In late December, the UN, representing the Allies announced that the eight governments in exile in London, and the French National Committee, led by General Charles de Gaulle, vowed “to punish this bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination” after the war. Anthony Eden read this UN release before the House of Commons. Further, they broadcast the figures to the world in twenty-three languages. Almost two years later, Raphael Lemkin cited the Lidice incident and the UN claims as evidence for his claim of genocide. By then, people had largely forgotten about Lidice. His inclusion of the Lidice event and the UN claims served to corroborate additional claims. 1404
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