[Why is Hitler the historical foundation to the modern educational socialization process? Because of the vast social engineering process of Judeocentrism: the Holocaustization of Western culture, wherein Hitler was the greatest modern enemy of the Jews. In America, how many school kids can declare two things about the historical context to the "Holocaust": World War II?]
'Hitlerisation' is damaging pupils' historical knowledge,
Independent (UK), February 17 February 2003
"History lessons for secondary pupils are now dominated by the study of Adolf Hitler and the Second World War, the Government's school inspectors have found. A report by Ofsted, the school inspection body, warned that the 'Hitlerisation' of courses threatened to damage understanding of history, and could result in pupils leaving school ignorant of key events. Of all the history lessons monitored during the last school year, more lessons focussed on Hitler's Germany than on any other topic. Although the study of Hitler was 'properly treated' in secondary school lessons for the youngest pupils, the danger for older children was that they are forced to repeat the topic at latter stages of their education. The inspectors' warning echoes the concerns of eminent historians and the Prince of Wales who recently called for the 'narrow and fragmented' school syllabus to be abandoned."

THE HOLOCAUST YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT:

(Tens of millions of people were killed by Soviet Union communism. The Jewish dimension in the communist elite was great, including extraordinary prominence in the early terrorist communist secret police: the "Cheka." Information about Jewish influence in the hierarchy of this mass murder system is here).

Lethal Politics, by R.J. Rummel, University of Hawaii
"Probably 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party--the government--of the Soviet Union. This is about 178 people for each letter, comma, period, digit, and other characters in this book. Old and young, healthy and sick, men and women, and even infants and infirm, were killed in cold-blood. They were not combatants in civil war or rebellions, they were not criminals. Indeed, nearly all were guilty of ... nothing. Some were from the wrong class--bourgeoisie, land owners, aristocrats, kulaks. Some were from the wrong nation or race-- Ukrainians, Black Sea Greeks, Kalmyks, Volga Germans. Some were from the wrong political faction--Trotskyites, Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries. Or some were just their sons and daughters, wives and husbands, or mothers and fathers. And some were those occupied by the Red Army--Balts, Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Rumanians. Then some were simply in the way of social progress, like the mass of peasants or religious believers. Or some were eliminated because of their potential opposition, such as writers, teachers, churchmen; or the military high command; or even high and low Communist Party members themselves. In fact, we have witnessed in the Soviet Union a true egalitarian social cleansing and flushing: no group or class escaped, for everyone and anyone could have had counter-revolutionary ancestors, class lineage, counter-revolutionary ideas or thought, or be susceptible to them. And thus, almost anyone was arrested, interrogated, tortured, and after a forced confession of a plot to blow up the Kremlin, or some such, shot or sentenced to the dry guillotine--slow death by exposure, malnutrition, and overwork in a forced labor camp. Part of this mass killing was genocide, as in the wholesale murder of hundreds of thousands of Don Cossacks in 1919, the intentional starving of about 5,000,000 Ukrainian peasants to death in 1932-33, or the deportation to mass death of 50,000 to 60,000 Estonians in 1949. Part was mass murder, as of the wholesale extermination of perhaps 6,500,000 "kulaks" (in effect, the better off peasants and those resisting collectivization) from 1930 to 1937, the execution of perhaps a million Party members in the Great Terror of 1937-38,5 and the massacre of all Trotskyites in the forced labor camps.6 And part of the killing was so random and idiosyncratic that journalists and social scientists have no concept for it, as in hundreds of thousands of people being executed according to preset, government, quotas."

UWC President Responds to Anti-Ukrainian Article,
August 7, 2002, The New Pathway (Ukrainian newspaper; Toronto) p. 7
"On Sunday July 14, 2002 the well known 'The New York Times' magazine carried an article by Daniel Mendelson, a Jewish writer, in which he portrays his attempts to discover what happened to his uncle in Ukraine during World War II. Although several times he refers to the people he met in Ukraine as being plesant, what resonates throughout the articles are words fixed in his memory, 'the Ukrainians were the worst'. At one point he writes that '...after the Soviets took over that part of Galicia in 1939 -- there Jews there had two years of relative security thanks to the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact...' Askold Lozynsky, President of the Ukrainian World Congress responded to this article in a letter to the magazine dated July 16, 2002 briefly describing Jewish-Ukrainian relations during that time. 'The Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine in 1939 brought the arrests and internments of tens of thousands of Ukrainians accused of patriotic activity. When the Soviets were forced to retreat from the Nazis in June 1941, they slaughtered their prisoners. This was accomplished with the assistance of local Communists, primarily of Jewish ethnicity. Unfortunately, this slaughter was not an aberration of Soviet activity in Ukraine or Jewish complicity. Earlier in 1932-33 the Soviets murdered some 7 million Ukrainian men, women and children through a strategically planned forced famine-genocide. The man entrusted by Joseph Stalin to carry out this crime was a Jew, Lazar Kaganovich.' Norman Davies, the renowned British historian has concluded that no nation lost more people in the 20th century than the Ukrainians. To a large degree this was a result of both Communist and Nazi activity in Ukraine. The Russians and the Germans were savage. But the Jews were the worst. They betrayed their neighbors and did it with such zeal!"

Who chooses the righteous gentiles? Court enters row about non-Jews honoured for Holocaust heroism,
Guardian (UK), November 14, 2002
"The Avenue of the Righteous records 19,141 names of gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews from Hitler's murderers ... But this week the Israeli courts waded into the process of selecting who to include on the list of righteous gentiles at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem amid a campaign to add two Germans - one of them a convicted war criminal who was at the centre of a recent Hollywood film - and to strike off a Ukrainian who Jewish survivors say has no place among heroes. The court case centres on Yad Vashem's refusal to proclaim a German Protestant minister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a righteous gentile. The lawsuit was brought by the world body of reform Jews which claims that Bonhoeffer publicly criticised the Nazis and helped save Jews by sending them to Switzerland, ostensibly as spies for Germany, before he was arrested and executed in 1945 ... Yad Vashem's refusal to make public the information and discussions on which it selects righteous gentiles has prompted unusual legal challenges that threaten to taint the image of the organisation responsible for preserving the memory of the Jewish people's darkest hours. This week, a judge ruled that the memorial council is accountable to the Israeli public and that it must open its files under the country's freedom of information law ... Yad Vashem is facing a second, potentially more embarrassing lawsuit, to strip someone of their place among righteous gentiles. Stefan Wrzemczuk submitted his own application for recognition on the grounds that when he was a child he helped his mother lead Jews from Ludmir ghetto - then in Ukraine, now in Poland - to the protection of partisans in the surrounding forests. After Wrzemczuk had his name added to the wall of Righteous Among the Nations he emigrated to Israel in 1995 and received a regular government stipend. Four years ago, a group of Ludmir survivors denounced the story as a fabrication."

Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing,
[Note the Jewish dimensions to this crime, again, here]

Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution,
The Guardian (UK), January 25, 2003
"Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges. In his latest book Solzhenitsyn, 84, deals with one of the last taboos of the communist revolution: that Jews were as much perpetrators of the repression as its victims. Two Hundred Years Together - a reference to the 1772 partial annexation of Poland and Russia which greatly increased the Russian Jewish population - contains three chapters discussing the Jewish role in the revolutionary genocide and secret police purges of Soviet Russia. But Jewish leaders and some historians have reacted furiously to the book, and questioned Solzhenitsyn's motives in writing it, accusing him of factual inaccuracies and of fanning the flames of anti-semitism in Russia. Solzhenitsyn argues that some Jewish satire of the revolutionary period 'consciously or unconsciously descends on the Russians' as being behind the genocide. But he states that all the nation's ethnic groups must share the blame, and that people shy away from speaking the truth about the Jewish experience. In one remark which infuriated Russian Jews, he wrote: 'If I would care to generalise, and to say that the life of the Jews in the camps was especially hard, I could, and would not face reproach for an unjust national generalisation. But in the camps where I was kept, it was different. The Jews whose experience I saw - their life was softer than that of others.' Yet he added: 'But it is impossible to find the answer to the eternal question: who is to be blamed, who led us to our death? To explain the actions of the Kiev cheka [secret police] only by the fact that two thirds were Jews, is certainly incorrect.' Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, spent much of his life in Soviet prison camps, enduring persecution when he wrote about his experiences. He is currently in frail health, but in an interview given last month he said that Russia must come to terms with the Stalinist and revolutionary genocides - and that its Jewish population should be as offended at their own role in the purges as they are at the Soviet power that also persecuted them ... Solzhenitsyn's book has caused controversy in Russia, where one Jewish leader said it was 'not of any merit'. 'This is a mistake, but even geniuses make mistakes,' said Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress ... Professor Robert Service of Oxford University, an expert on 20th century Russian history, said that from what he had read about the book, Solzhenitsyn was 'absolutely right'. Researching a book on Lenin, Prof Service came across details of how Trotsky, who was of Jewish origin, asked the politburo in 1919 to ensure that Jews were enrolled in the Red army. Trotsky said that Jews were disproportionately represented in the Soviet civil bureaucracy, including the cheka. 'Trotsky's idea was that the spread of anti-semitism was [partly down to] objections about their entrance into the civil service. There is something in this; that they were not just passive spectators of the revolution. They were part-victims and part-perpetrators. It is not a question that anyone can write about without a huge amount of bravery, and [it] needs doing in Russia because the Jews are quite often written about by fanatics. Mr Solzhenitsyn's book seems much more measured than that.'"

MURDERS OF POLES IN KATYN,
Polish Defense League [The article below was published by "The Barnes Review", December 1997. "Ethnic Cleansing and Soviet Crimes Against Humanity", by Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski]
"The infamous Soviet inner state of Gulag (the acronym of Glavnoye Upravlenye Ispravitelno-Trudovikh Legerei, or the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) established in 1934, had a special branch of the security policy called Smersh composed mainly of Jewish commissars who murdered thousands of captives during the war of 1941-1945. The Soviet technology of mass execution was primitive, cheap but deadly efficient. In 1941, in the prison cells of the Soviet steamer Dzhurma, 12,000 captives had been frozen to death near Wrangel Island. A whole trainload of 1,650 Polish deportees died in the wintertime of 1940-1941 in unheated and overcrowded cattle cars near the death camp of Kolyma. Of the estimated 2,000,000 Polish civilians deported to the Russian Arctic regions of Gulag in the terrible railway convoys of 1939-1940, at leaat one half were dead within a year of their detention. More than 15,000 interned Polish officers, intellectuals, teachers and doctors disappeared in the Okchotzk Sea. They were transferred in April 1940 from three large Soviet detention camps located in Ostashkov, Kozielsk and Starobielsk ... When the German soldiers disclosed in 1943 the killing fields of Katyn to the shocked world, American President Franklin Roosevelt declared it all to be "a Nazi lie and Hitler's plot". The Soviet mass murder in Katyn was well-known to the British and American Intelligence services. Information passed to the Soviet Union by Eduard Pfeiffer, Jewish homosexual double agent and his British lover Maclean about a French plan of sending the fifteen thousand Polish officers from the Soviet detention camps to Syria - where Gen. S. Kopanski formed a new Polish Carpathian Brigade, certainly influenced Stalin's decision on "liquidation" of the intellectual elite of the Polish army defeated in 1939 by the German and Soviet armies. Six thousand Polish captives from Ostashkov and Starobielsk were transported to the Ukrainian town of Dergachi near Kharkov and executed in a similar way as in Katyn. Others were relocated to the coast of White Sea, placed on board two vessels and sunk in the icy waters. The mass executions of the Polish captives were organized by Y. Raichman, a Jewish commissar of NKVD under direct commands of Lavrentyi Beria ... After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Red Army committed several horrifying war crimes in the city of Lviv (Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg, Leopolis). But Rockwell Kent, an American tourist and "humanist", who was in the eastern Poland (western Ukraine) during the Soviet attack, greeted the Red Army because "the Jews would be safe". The local Jewish minority warmly welcomed the invading Soviets, who immediately appointed many prominent Jewish-origin members of the communist Party of Poland (KPP) as the commissars and executives of the newly created "Soviet Socialist Republic of United Ukraine".

[Jews apparently own copyright on the term "Nazi," and -- for that matter -- human suffering generally.]
Scotland Fury Over Loyalist's Nazi Comparison,
Scotland on Sunday, February 21, 2003
"A leading Orangeman has caused outrage by comparing the treatment of Loyalists in Scotland with that of Jews in Nazi Germany. Jim MacLean, grand master of the East of Scotland lodge, said Orangemen were treated as pariahs whose views could be dismissed out of hand. He claimed that First Minister Jack McConnell's crackdown on sectarianism was targeting the Orange Order in an attempt to 'marginalise and demonise' its members. MacLean's remarks have angered Jewish groups, one of which said last night that no-one was suggesting 'rounding up Orangemen and setting up factories to kill them'. However, MacLean's comments follow the recent trend among Loyalists to fly the Israeli flag. They see parallels between Israel's struggle for survival and the situation in Northern Ireland. Republicans, meanwhile, have identified themselves with the Palestinians, sympathising with what they see as their struggle against oppression. Now MacLean has taken the historical parallels to even greater extremes. He told Scotland on Sunday: 'Being a Loyalist in Scotland today is to some degree like being a Jew in Nazi Germany or in the last days of the Weimar Republi ... Professor Barry Kosmin, executive director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research, said: 'The Jewish community is disturbed by constant references in the media and in political rhetoric whereby any perceived discrimination, prejudice or violent behaviour is automatically associated with Nazi Germany. There are many other historical events, regimes and analogies that could and should be drawn on for comparisons, rather than this constant harping on a unique tragedy, which has hurtful and emotive resonance.'"

[Jewish Totalitarian "Holocaustomania" as an integral part of the American architectural landscape:]
Ground Zero as a Laboratory For 'Jewish Architecture',
[Jewish] Forward, February 21, 2003
"The recent selection of Daniel Libeskind as one of two finalists in the competition to redesign the site of the former World Trade Center in lower Manhattan is, at the most obvious level, a personal triumph that testifies to his status as one of the world's most respected architects. But it also highlights the unprecedented rise to prominence in the last generation of Jews in the Western architectural profession. Until recently, Jewish achievements in the field of architecture paled in comparison with those attained in other cultural fields, such as literature, film, music and even painting. Although scattered figures such as Erich Mendelsohn, Richard Neutra and Louis Kahn gained notable recognition as masters of modern architecture in the first half of the century, it has really only been since the rise of postmodernism in the 1970s that Jewish architects have attained notable visibility and prominence as a group. Thus, any survey of contemporary architecture today would be incomplete without mentioning — besides Libeskind — such Jewish architects as Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, James Ingo Freed, Eric Owen Moss, Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern and Zvi Hecker, among others. Further still, the Jewish architectural productivity of recent years has been more manifestly 'Jewish' in orientation and expression than in earlier generation ... But even if no monolithically 'Jewish' style of architecture can be identified, it is nevertheless significant that Jewish concerns have increasingly begun to inform both the theoretical and aesthetic agendas of Jewish architects. The best evidence of this trend — and the most significant in light of the current competition to shape the future form of Ground Zero — is the architectural movement known as deconstructivism. Emerging in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in no small part due to the efforts of two of its leading proponents, Libeskind and Eisenman, deconstructivism was a radical movement that cited the massive rupture in Western civilization caused by the Holocaust as grounds for rethinking and 'deconstructing' the entire discipline of Western architecture. Sharing the postmodern belief that the Holocaust's specifically modern origins require the abandonment of the 'project of modernity,' Libeskind and Eisenman in their many theoretical writings argued that the Nazi genocide provided compelling reason to abandon traditional architectural practice and to instead embrace an architecture of fragmentation, de-centeredness and loss that reflected the reality of the postmodern, post-humanist, post-Holocaust world. For more than a few years, deconstructivism's theoretical and aesthetic demands remained consigned to the drafting table. But since the turn of the millennium, deconstructivist projects have begun to be realized in physical form — most prominently Libeskind's recently completed Jewish Museum in Berlin (not by chance the same location for Eisenman's current work in progress, Germany's national Holocaust memorial). Given deconstructivism's theoretical roots in the Nazi genocide of the Jews, it is no surprise that it has lent itself well to serving as a commemorative form of architecture in Germany. But this same commitment to commemorating loss has made it uniquely poised to offer a compelling solution to the question of how to reconstruct Ground Zero in the wake of September 11. Significantly, Libeskind and Eisenman both provided separate entries to the initial competition to redesign the site of the former World Trade Center ... Should Daniel Libeskind succeed in gaining the commission, his design will represent the timely application of an architectural philosophy molded by the paradigmatic rupture of modern Jewish history — the Holocaust — to an architectural challenge unprecedented in American history. In the end, the traumas of Jewish memory may help to shape the future contours of American memory."

IMPERFECT JUSTICE Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II. By Stuart E. Eizenstat. Illustrated. 401 pp. New York: PublicAffairs. $30,
By SAMANTHA POWER, New York Times Review of Books, February 23, 2003
"Stuart E. Eizenstat, an ambassador to the European Union and an under secretary in the Clinton administration's State and Commerce Departments, is the American official most responsible for drawing attention to their [Holocaust survivor] fates, and for providing them a measure of reparative justice. As an American Jew, Eizenstat was upset by the Roosevelt administration's wartime denial of entry to Jewish refugees and its refusal to bomb Nazi train tracks leading to the death camps. He believed that like the Swiss bankers, German car manufacturers and Austrian art dealers, he needed to make amends for the sins of his nation. ''For me, this was not just another public policy challenge but a chance to help remove a cloud over the history of the United States,'' he writes in ''Imperfect Justice,'' a dense but readable memoir on his experiences negotiating the 'unfinished business' of the Holocaust. Eizenstat's efforts began in 1995, when he was assigned the 'limited mission' of helping bring about the return of Nazi-confiscated religious property in Eastern Europe ... Eizenstat describes how Swiss bankers were pressed into setting up a billion-dollar fund for holders of dormant bank accounts. This precedent then helped him broker deals with the Germans, Austrians and French ... Crucially, globalization was rendering European companies with branch offices in the United States far more vulnerable than ever before ... Just as Richard Holbrooke did with the Bosnian peace negotiations in 'To End a War,' Eizenstat provides readers with a look at how a gritty American negotiator can drive home a deal nobody especially likes but all learn to live with."

[Insights into the Jewish government cartel:]
First chapter of 'Imperfect Justice',
By Stuart E. Eizenstat, New York Times, February 23, 2003
"On a typically dreary, wet winter day in Brussels in January 1995, I was working in my office at the United States Mission to the European Union. Carolyn Keene, my longtime assistant, told me that Richard Holbrooke, assistant secretary of state for European affairs, was on the line. Dick and I had been friends and colleagues for almost twenty years. I had brought him to Atlanta in 1976 as a foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign, for which I was the chief policy adviser. After Carter's victory, I helped Dick become the youngest assistant secretary of state in modern history. I respected his boundless energy, creativity, and dedication to public service. And I recognized his ambition for higher office. This call would change my life. It would also help propel onto the world's agenda many shameful events that had long been buried in memory, often deliberately, and that only now were coming to light. Dick asked if I would undertake a special 'limited mission' that he assured me would take only a few months. He offered me the position, in addition to my regular duties in Brussels, of the State Department's special envoy to encourage the return of property confiscated from religious communities by the Nazis and then nationalized by Eastern European Communist governments. I would concentrate primarily on the Jewish communities facing the greatest barriers ... There was a special twist to Holbrooke's call. The previous spring, I had expected to be promoted to Holbrooke's position. He had hosted a dinner for Fran and me at his residence in Bonn, where he was serving as U.S. ambassador to Germany. Dick took pride in showing us the small framed picture of his grandfather, a German Jew, in full World War I military regalia, steel-pointed helmet and all, prominently displayed on an end table in his living room. He wanted his German guests to know that his grandfather had fought for the Kaiser-and by extension, to recognize the contributions that Jews had made to their country before, as he privately put it, 'they killed them all' in the Holocaust. As always, Dick was one step ahead of the news. He startled me by saying the post of assistant secretary of state for European affairs would soon fall vacant and that I would be asked by his other guest of the evening, Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff, to return to Washington and take the job. Sure enough, Peter pulled me off in a corner after dinner and made the offer ... Holbrooke's call did not arise from a sudden brainstorm. He was under political pressure from Edgar Bronfman, a friend of President Clinton's and the president of the World Jewish Congress; Israel Singer, its flamboyant, creative general secretary; and Elan Steinberg, a gifted publicist and the head of the congress's North American division, who were already deeply involved in encouraging property restitution in Eastern Europe. All three were leaders of the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO); Bronfman was also its president. Singer, joined by Steinberg and Maram Stern, the World Jewish Congress' European director, had met with Holbrooke to seek the administration's support in restoring confiscated Jewish property. Holbrooke, whose highly developed political antenna could not let him forget Bronfman's close relationship with President Clinton, agreed and asked who should lead the government's effort. Stern, based in Brussels, had already briefed me on the problem. Without advising me in advance, he told Holbrooke I was the right person. This is a perfect example of a nongovernmental organization pushing its cause at the right time and using the levers of power to influence government policy. The leaders of the WJRO knew that they needed the U.S. government's help to accomplish anything in the former Communist lands."

ADL Denounces Peta for its 'Holocaust On Your Plate' Campaign; Calls Appeal for Jewish Community Support 'The Height Of Chutzpah' New York, NY, Anti-Defamation League, February 24, 2003
"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights for its 'Holocaust on Your Plate' project for trivializing the murder of six million Jews and called its appeal for approval by the Jewish community 'outrageous, offensive and taking chutzpah to new heights.' Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued the following statement: 'The effort by PETA to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent. PETA's effort to seek 'approval' for their 'Holocaust on Your Plate' campaign is outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights. Rather than deepen our revulsion against what the Nazis did to the Jews, the project will undermine the struggle to understand the Holocaust and to find ways to make sure such catastrophes never happen again. Abusive treatment of animals should be opposed, but cannot and must not be compared to the Holocaust. The uniqueness of human life is the moral underpinning for those who resisted the hatred of Nazis and others ready to commit genocide even today."

Fugitive director Roman Polanski has picked up top honors in Europe for his Holocaust film "The Pianist,"
New York Post, February 27, 2003
"It looks like Hollywood may be ready to forgive fugitive director Roman Polanski - who confessed to having sex with a ninth grader - and give its top laurels to a man who can't even enter the United States without being arrested. A month ago, the idea would have seemed far-fetched - but an extraordinary plea from Polanski's victim, coupled with surprise victories at film awards in Paris and London over the weekend, have suddenly positioned Polanski and his Holocaust drama, 'The Pianist,' for upset wins at next month's Academy Awards ... Martin Scorsese had widely been considered the top pick for 'Gangs of New York,' but Polanski is now viewed as picking up momentum. Many in Hollywood believe that the tragedies in Polanski's life may make it easier for Oscar voters to overlook his 25-year-old statutory rape conviction. Like the hero of 'The Pianist,' Polish-born Polanski is a Holocaust survivor who hid from the Nazis as his mother perished in a concentration camp ... 'The feeling out here is that the man may have suffered enough for what he did,' said one Tinseltown insider. 'You have businessmen who steal millions of dollars getting off with a slap on wrist, so why not forgive and forget, as even his victim is asking?' As show business historian Neal Gabler put it, 'What we may be dealing with is: Can the Holocaust trump child molestation?'"

Court OKs Holocaust Suit vs. U.S.,
New York Post, February 28, 2003
"A federal judge has cleared the way for thousands of Holocaust survivors to collect treasure stolen from them in the final days of World War II that was later confiscated by the U.S. Army. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz [Jewish?] this week threw out the Army's bid to get her to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by Hungarian Jews. The government had argued that the class-action claims are too old, but Seitz told the Justice Department's attorney to produce an inventory of what was taken. 'Your superiors are dragging their feet,' she said. 'Their conduct is unacceptable.'"

["Holocaust writing contest!" What else do kids know about World War II in Jewry's massive social engineering project, but groveling to Judeocentrism and its declared justifications for racist Israel? The fruit of Jewish Totalitarianism: children in 2003 "promise" to "protect and listen" endlesssly to Jewish whining and demands about a fragment of a world war sixty years ago across the world. Question: What is the purpose of life, child? Answer: To protect Jewish ethnocentrism -- and never challenge it.]
Ink not yet dry on Nazi horrors. Holocaust writing contest inspires students to learn about the mistakes of the past,
Orange County Register (California), March 15, 2003
"The students had earned the chance to meet the survivors through a special knowledge of the Holocaust. They and nearly 70 Holocaust survivors filled the room as firsthand stories of that period brought tears to Goldstein's eyes. The students came from 59 junior high and high schools from Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles counties for Chapman University's fourth annual Holocaust Writing Contest. Two representatives from each school had been chosen for writing outstanding essays and poems about the Holocaust, and eight winners were chosen. ... First-place poem Jennifer Thompson, St. Columban School "The terrors of this life seem unbearable / But this child bears it / She prepares to speak of all the horrors / She prays the new generations will listen carefully / Generations that need to protect those / Criticized for their religion or race / And I, the child of the newest generation / Promise to protect and listen ..."

[Endless Jewish suing. Over half a century later, no stone is left unturned to sue someone about the Holocaust. Jews are also suing the U.S. government for not bombing Auschwitz, the U.S. Army, the whole country of Iran, etc. etc. etc. Isn't it time the state of Israel -- and all the Jews that support it -- are subjected to a class action suit on behalf of the displaced and murdered Palestinian people?]
French railway is sued by son of death camp Jews
Times Online (UK), March 17,2003
"Kurt Schaechter ... will take the SNCF, the French railway network, to court for an unprecedented hearing into its role in transporting French Jews to Nazi concentration camps between 1942 and 1944. M Schaechter, 82, is suing the state-owned railway for deporting his father, Emil, to the Sobibor concentration camp in 1943 and his mother, Margaret, to Auschwitz a year later. Neither returned ... Although this is by no means the first case to be brought against the SNCF over deportation, it is the first to have come to court. Previous criminal cases against the railway network failed because France did not adopt legislation enabling organisations as well as individuals to be prosecuted until 1994. Judges ruled that the legislation was not retroactive. M Schaechter is bringing a civil action, saying that the conditions in which his parents had been forced to travel were inhuman. 'If they had been taken in normal trains, it would have been difficult to sue the SNCF because it could have argued that it knew nothing about the extermination camps at the end of the journey. But when people were travelling like cattle and dying along the way, it is a different matter,' he said."

Daniel in the Deniers' Den,
by John Sack, (Written for Esquire, February 2001)
"The people who say the Holocaust didn’t happen asked me to speak at their recent international conference. The invitation surprised me, for I am a Jew who’s written about the Holocaust and (for Chrissakes, I feel like adding) certainly hasn’t denied it. To my eyes, however, the invitation, which came from the Institute for Historical Review, in Orange County, California, the central asylum for the delusion that the Germans didn’t kill any Jews and that the Holocaust is, quote, unquote, the Hoax of the Twentieth Century, was not just a wonderment: it was also a golden opportunity, a golden-engraved temptation ... Who are the Holocaust deniers? What are they like behind closed doors? And why are they motionless stones as avalanches of evidence crash onto them roaring, You’re wrong, you’re wrong? ... Until then I hadn’t known, for the Institute feared that I might divulge it to the Jewish Defense League, the Jews the FBI has called active terrorists, and that the League might initiate violence. It had done so at other conferences to other speakers than me. One had been punched, punched by a fist also holding a cherry pie, one had been beaten up, and one had been beaten up in Paris, Vichy, Lyon and Stockholm. A man who’s older than me—I’m seventy—he had been maced, thrown to the ground, and kicked in the head because of his imprudent belief that the Holocaust didn’t take place. For six weeks his jaw had been wired and he’d eaten through a soda straw ... All in all, the deniers that day and that weekend seemed the most middling of Middle Americans. Or better: despite their take on the Holocaust, they were affable, open-minded, intelligent, intellectual. Their eyes weren’t fires of unapproachable certitude and their lips weren’t lemon twists of astringent hate. Nazis and neo-Nazis they were certainly not. Nor were they antisemites. I’m sure many antisemites say the Holocaust didn’t happen (even as they take delight that it really did) but I met none that weekend."

[More Jewish hypocrisy: Jewish "Holocaust" deniers, as an institution, Armenian style:]
Armenia - Genocide Denied,
International Current Affairs, October 09, 2002
"This year an expected 500,000 people will visit the Holocaust Museum in Auschwitz, Poland. Israel, quite rightly, wants the world to remember the attempted extermination of European Jewry. But that wasn't the first genocide of the 20th century. Though few remember, in 1915 the Ottoman Turkish empire slaughtered its minority Armenian population. But the Turkish Government maintains the Armenian genocide never happened and it dismisses countless eyewitness testimonies as propaganda. Turkey receives endorsement from an unlikely source - it's Middle Eastern ally - Israel. But now prominent intellectuals in both Turkey and Israel are speaking out against their governments' policies of denial.
HALIL BERKTAY: That is why it is so important. It is a question of, it is a question of democracy and freedom of conscience and freedom of scientific research and all that, academic freedom, democracy and academic freedom in Turkey, and of the gradual maturing and relaxation of tensions in Turkish society. One place where you might expect the Armenians to find compassion and refuge is Israel. Both races have suffered the horrors of genocide. But, despite this common history, the opposite has happened. On this Armenian genocide poster in the old city of Jerusalem is scrawled in Hebrew, 'You deserve it.' The Israelis have become vocal deniers of the Armenian genocide and, worse still, they have colluded with other states to ensure it remains denied.
DR YAIR AURON, OPEN UNIVERSITY, TEL AVIV: Because, unfortunately, more and more Israel took sides with the Turkey side and, today, Israel in one way or another says that the Armenian genocide had not happened and this is unacceptable morally for me and, of course, it's incorrect historically speaking. GEORGE HINTILIAN, ARMENIAN HISTORIAN: To hear it from the Israeli people that our, we didn't have a genocide. or our genocide is simply 'atrocities' or 'tragedy', this is very painful for us and this is very artificial. The Armenians also feel the Israelis are forcing them out of Jerusalem. Armenia was the first territory in the world to convert to Christianity and in 500 AD, they established a community in the Holy City. They've been here ever since. A section of the old city is named the Armenian Quarter. In Jerusalem, the Armenians have been survivors, but since the creation of Israel in 1948, their community has shrunk to a fifth of its size. This church was to be a memorial to the Armenian holocaust but, in 1975, the Israelis stopped the community from building it, claiming they had no approval. For 27 years, it's remained skeleton-like, a half-built monument to a holocaust denied. And there is little the Armenians can do about it. The Israelis don't allow them any representation on the Jerusalem Municipality ...
Yair Auron is the author of the book, 'The Banality of Indifference'. It details the Israeli denial of the Armenian genocide. Auron is one of the few pushing for recognition of the Armenian genocide in Israel.
DR YAIR AURON: Unfortunately, there are segments in this society who want to keep the monopoly of the fact that we were victims. They think, wrongly in my opinion, that by recognising other genocides, maybe our monopoly will be damaged in one way or another. Samuel Avyatar says, in the future, the church will be built, but the Armenians remain sceptical, with good reason. Since Israel took control of their quarter in 1967, they haven't been granted a single building licence [in Jerusalem]. This also means no housing can be constructed. Like most Armenian youth, Hargot Kirkorian is preparing to emigrate. He doesn't see a future under Israeli administration. Despite having top grades, he can't find a job or a place at university.
HARGOT KIRKORIAN: The Israelis doesn't want you to advance in your life more than a certain limit. They draw a red line and that's where you can go, that is as far as you can reach. And I think that's really bad because they are, they are people that passed discrimination and they are doing it the same towards us and towards the Arabs. The Armenians have never challenged or opposed the state of Israel, but they are treated with the same suspicions and restrictions as the Palestinians ... For Israelis, if you're not a Jew, then you're an Arab. It doesn't matter what you are. That's how it works here in the Middle East. That's what they do to everybody. In my ID, it's written 'Armenian' but the policeman doesn't even care to look at it. He says, 'You're not Jewish. Then you're an Arab, probably.'
... The senior Israeli politician leading the denial is Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In a trip to Turkey in April 2000, Peres stated, 'We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to a holocaust occurred. It was a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide.' Yair Auron sees Peres's position as pure political expediency, downgrading Armenian suffering to appease Turkey, Israel's only ally in a hostile region ...
CONGRESSMAN IN US CONGRESS: There reaches a point, my colleagues, when we must put people before politics. The American Congress was set to pass a resolution recognising the Armenian genocide. Both Israel and Turkey lobbied hard to stop the resolution and, at the last minute, it was dropped. GEORGE HINTILIAN: When we had the majority in the Senate and in the Congress, it was the Israeli Embassy and the Jewish lobby, and Mr Shimon Peres in person, who really influenced the decision not to be taken on the recognition of the Armenian genocide. The Israelis have demanded that the world never forget their holocaust, and deniers like David Irving are routinely vilified. Yair Auron says the contradiction with the Israeli attitude to the Armenian genocide is dangerous hypocrisy."

[Jewish convention: "Holocaust deniers" and "anti-Semites" = Nazism.]
Jewish Scholar: Holocaust Denial Poses Future Danger,
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register, April 2, 2003
"A prominent Jewish scholar and author believes the biggest threat posed by those who deny the Holocaust is a future danger - when few Holocaust survivors remain to speak the truth. Deborah Lipstadt, an Emory University professor, spoke at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling Tuesday night about researching the Holocaust denial movement and defending her written conclusions in a British courtroom. After a six-and-a-half-year legal fight and a three-month trial in London, Lipstadt won a libel case brought by an author whom she had labeled as a Holocaust denier. She visited Wheeling as part of the Holocaust Remembrance Series of West Liberty State College's Hughes Lecture Series. The West Virginia Humanities Council provided financial support for the program. 'Denial is a form of anti-Semitism. Many of the deniers are also virulent racists,' she charged. When deniers claim that the Holocaust is a myth, 'it is not a clear and present danger; it is a clear and future danger,' she commented. 'The ability of people to deny it becomes stronger as there are fewer people around to give first-hand accounts.' Offering a composite portrait, she said Holocaust deniers are anti-Semites and 'many are racists; many are supporters of national socialism (Nazism)."

The Holocaust in North Africa,
by Seth Ward, University of Denver, May 10, 1999
"Holocaust memory plays a central role in the narrative history of the Jewish People in our times. The destruction of European Jewry seems to be growing in its importance to Jewish identity. Almost every community has monuments, memorial services; thousands of youth go on the "March of the Living" from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Indeed, given the presence of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, of Holocaust units in the schools, of public memorials in cities and states—it is a part of the American narrative as well, and it is often argued that it speaks to all humanity. Why or whether this should be is beyond our scope here. But clearly the telling of the Holocaust is and ought to be a crucial part of the Jewish heritage."

Breaking News: Italy to get Shoah museum,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 10, 2003
"The Italian government granted $16 million for a national Holocaust museum."

[www.michelthomas.org]
Survivor fights L.A. Times in mock trial to clear his name,
Jewish Bulletin, April 11, 2003
"Michel Thomas barely escaped deportation to Auschwitz, fought in the French Resistance and captured the 'Hangman of Dachau.' But he has failed to get his day in court. In October 2001, Thomas filed a libel suit against the Los Angeles Times, alleging the newspaper defamed him and his accomplishments. The suit was dismissed, and appeals denied. In an attempt to achieve restitution, Thomas, 89, made his case before U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall last Friday, in a mock trial co-sponsored by the university's schools of law and journalism. It was an effort to reclaim his honor and good name, both of which Thomas felt were lost in the April 2001 Times article, 'Larger than Life,' by Roy Rivenburg. Thomas, who grew up in Germany and France and lost his family in the Holocaust, came trom New York to attend the trial. After the war he resided for many years in Los Angeles ... In his suit, Thomas alleged that the Times cast doubt on his accomplishments during World War II -- among them his presence at the liberation of Dachau, his discovery of 10 million Nazi Party membership cards and his service as an agent in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) ... Martha Goldstein, the Times' vice president of communications, indicated Monday that the university had not invited the Times to participate."

[By the same token, we await the multi-government commission that will investigate what kinds of reparations will be paid non-Jews for the Jewish Collective crimes of history.]
France told it owes Jews millions Commission submits findings on World War II reparations,
Toronto Star, April 16, 2003
"The French government and banks owe at least $94.7 million (U.S.) in reparations to Jews whose assets were seized by France's pro-Nazi regime during World War II, a commission said today. However, the finding by the Commission for the Indemnity of Victims of Despoliation, or CIVS, is not binding. It will be submitted to the government — which created the commission in 1999 — for a final review. The commission's announcement today was based on analyses of 5,500 requests by French Jews seeking restitution. Some 8,800 requests remain. Based on the initial requests, the commission recommended that the government pay $91 million in compensation and banks pay $3.7 million (all figures U.S.). During World War II, occupied France's collaborationist Vichy regime passed a series of laws ordering financial institutions to block Jewish accounts and sell off Jewish-owned stocks and bonds. The measures, which made Jews vulnerable to persecution and deportation, banned them from many professions and from owning businesses and property. A 2000 report by another government commission called the extent of wartime looting "stunning." That commission, headed by former French resistance fighter Jean Matteoli, said the Vichy regime confiscated $1.3 billion in assets from Jews during the war. Those assets included 50,000 businesses and property including bank accounts, insurance policies, art works and pianos. However, most property and money was returned to survivors or their heirs."

The Holocaust: A club to batter today's Jews?,
By Bradley Burston, Haaretz (Israel), May 2003
"Nearly six decades after the fires of Nazi extermination factories were extinguished, two and a half years of unrelenting Arab-Jewish bloodshed have lent an often perverse immediacy to the Holocaust, as both sides routinely draw parallels to an episode without parallel in human history. Appropriated to peddle causes as far afield as animal rights, has the Holocaust also become a club with which today's anti-Semites can batter today's Jews? ... [W]hen does criticism of Israel and Israeli actions cross the line into outright anti-Semitism. In the view of some, the widespread use of the image of the Jew-occupier as Nazi - a staple of portions of the Palestinian, Arab and pan-Muslim press - has led to a situation in which the Holocaust has become a tool to attack today's Jewry, both in Israel and throughout the world. But many critics of Israeli policy, including many Israelis and Jews abroad, counter that Israel itself has fostered anti-Semitism. They contend that hardline Israeli military and diplomatic policies toward the Palestinians have in turn hardened world opinion toward Israel and, by extension, Jews worldwide. Moreover, they say, rather than confront their critics with substantive arguments, Israel and its supporters worldwide have come to cry anti-Semitism whenever the Jewish state is being taken to task. The sides can no more agree on the lessons of the Holocaust than they can on what constitutes anti-Semitism ... While there are widespread debates over the definition of anti-Semitism - as in contentions that neo-conservative Jews advising the Bush administration enjoy undue influence and single-handedly pushed the White House into war against Saddam - there is little debate over cold statistics showing a significant rise in violent attacks against Jews last year when compared to the year before. The target of attacks is shifting from Jewish institutions like cemeteries and synagogues, to personal attacks against Jews or people believed to be Jews by their attackers, most of whom were Muslim, the study showed. The geographical focus of the attacks had also shifted, with a large number now taking place in Western Europe, especially in France, Great Britain and Belgium. 'There seems to be an attempt by Europeans to shrug off responsibility for the Holocaust, by claiming that the Jews in Israel use the same tactics against the Arabs that the Nazis employed against the Jews,' said World Jewish Congress Secrtetary-General Avi Becker. 'The rise is very worrying. We have reached a situation where even the publisher of Der Spiegel compared [Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon to Hitler. I don't think it would be right to speak in terms of a new Holocaust at this stage, but there is no doubt that Jewish communities are at war.'"

Iraqi-Jewish expats to seek compensation for assets left behind,
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz (Israel), May 16, 2003
"In the wake of the war in Iraq, Iraqi Jews residing in the United States and Europe are weighing the possibility of filing class-action suits demanding compensation in lieu of property and assets that they were forced to leave behind. Prominent members of the Jewish community in New York report that since the end of the war, they have seen a wave of requests from Iraqi Jews seeking an organized appeal for compensation for property and assets confiscated by the Baghdad regime when they left the country in the 1950s. The requests have begun to come in at an increased rate recently to the main New York offices of the World Jewish Congress. The WJC is the organization that led the international campaign against Swiss banks and achieved a global agreement under which compensation was paid out to relatives of holders of dormant bank accounts who perished during the Holocaust. WJC director Dr. Avi Becker said Thursday that an Iraqi-Jewish lawyer from San Francisco had informed him that she intended to file a class-action suit and demand compensation for property and assets that had been in her family's possession and had been confiscated by the Iraqi government in 1951. She will be seeking the compensation from Iraqi funds currently frozen in the U.S. As a result of the plethora of requests, a conference has been scheduled in London next month to discuss the issue of 'the property of the Iraqi Jewish refugees' ... The matter of compensation for the Jews who formerly lived in Iraq will also be discussed at a session of the executive of the WJC [World Jewish Congress], due to be held next week in Jerusalem. The meeting is expected to be attended by Jewish delegates from the U.S. and Europe. The organization was treating the issue with 'much caution,' the WJC's Becker told Haaretz. 'The Congress will not deal with the matter without close coordination with the government of Israel,' he said."

The Other Side of Holocaust Denial,
By Henry Makow, Save the Males, May 19, 2003
"Although I am the grandson of Holocaust victims, I am embarrassed by some Jewish organizations that want to make the Jewish Holocaust the defining event of World War Two. This is seen in the boom in Holocaust Studies Programs, Holocaust Museums and Hollywood movies like 'The Pianist.' Canadian Media mogul Izzy Asper is behind a new $200 'Holocaust and Human Rights Museum' in Winnipeg. The very title equates Jewish persecution with all 'human rights.' The Second World War was a human calamity. Over 55 million people died. Why focus on the Jewish experience? This is the cause of anti Semitism in the first place. Jewish power brokers are perpetuating a vicious cycle. I am also troubled by the attempt to classify people like Ernst Zundel as a 'hate criminal.' Zundel's website claims only one million Jews were murdered, there were no gas chambers, and Hitler didn't intend genocide. Zundel's claims are repugnant, but he has a right to be wrong. Society needs people to dispute the historical record. One may be right. If spreading false information is a crime, shouldn't we also lock up Tom Brokaw? Canada has locked up Ernst Zundel. According to his wife, he is being mistreated in prison. He risks deportation as a 'security risk.' Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress concedes Zundel doesn't 'actually wield the stick' but 'provides oxygen' to extremists. That definition would curb everyone's freedom of speech. When questioning 'what is the truth' becomes 'hate', we have entered Orwell's '1984' era of thought crime. Don't kid yourself. This is the slippery slope to tyranny and Jewish organizations are partly to blame. We must stand up in defiance. The charge of hate is used selectively to disarm legitimate opposition. The definition of 'hatred' is very selective. For example lesbians spew hatred of men but they are never arrested. Feminists teach impressionable girls that all males are potentially violent sexual predators. That's OK. The Talmud is full of hatred against Christ and Christians, but that doesn't count either. Canadian MP Svend Robinson wants to make 'gay bashing' a hate crime. He isn't talking about violence against gays, which is a genuine crime. He would prevent society from defending itself from activists who teach children that heterosexual roles are not natural but homosexuality is. 'Hate' is a bogus charge anyway. Many so-called 'Anti Semites' have written me and most are not hateful or racist in the least. They are trying to defend their legitimate interests from a real and insidious attack. The arch anti-Semite Henry Ford, author of 'The International Jew' employed thousands of Jews in his factories. He worked closely with a Jew, Mme. Rosika Schwimmer on his Peace Ship crusade. Ford's Jewish architect Albert Kahn designed hundreds of buildings for him. Jewish powerbrokers use anti Semitism to disarm opposition to their political agenda. The promotion of the Jewish Holocaust maintains the Jews' status as the world's premier 'victims.' This gives them immunity from criticism. It makes people feel more favourable to them and more willing to accede to their direction and influence."

[Jews hold patent on a depcition of the "Holocaust."]
Exhibit comparing Holocaust, animals decried,
By Donovan Slack, Boston Globe, May 25, 2003
"Jewish groups yesterday angrily denounced a controversial animal rights campaign that compares the slaughter of animals for food to the Holocaust, calling an exhibit with photographs of emaciated Nazi death camp prisoners a 'horrific' publicity stunt. Gathered at the New England Holocaust Memorial -- less than a block from City Hall Plaza, where People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals erected a display of billboard photographs -- Jewish leaders took turns at a lectern, some of them recounting images of friends or family in camps. 'This outrageous campaign trivializes the memory of millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust and insults those who survived,' said Geoffrey H. Lewis, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. PETA's exhibit, which made its way to Boston yesterday after evoking similar reactions in 22 other cities, consists of several 6-by-10-foot billboards depicting pictures of Holocaust victims next to photos of masses of chickens and turkeys in warehouses. Known for radical stances and shock campaigns, PETA leaders yesterday were unapologetic. The images may be 'uncomfortable,' said 21-year-old PETA organizer and campaign creator Matt Prescott, but ''we need to get past our grief and begin to use it to teach lessons.' 'We need to use it as a context for teaching lessons of compassion and kindness,' he said. On the plaza, Prescott and two other PETA employees stood by the billboards set up next to the Government Center T stop and handed out fliers to anyone who would take them. A few enthusiastically took pamphlets. But passersby largely reacted negatively. 'I don't take things from insane people,'' snapped one man as he scurried into the station. 'This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!' exclaimed Mark Vespucci, a federal employee on his lunch break, visibly flustered. 'I understand why you're doing this, but I think it's demoralizing.' Prescott tried to appeal to him. 'I'm Jewish,' Prescott said, adding that his mother's second cousins perished in Buchenwald ... Officials from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which initially gave Prescott permission to use its Holocaust images for a 'project comparing the atrocities of the Holocaust to other forms of oppression throughout history,' said yesterday they were considering taking legal action against PETA."

Shadow of Shame,
CBS (60 Minutes), June 1, 2003
"The Holocaust. It’s constantly on television, at the movies, on stage, in countless relics and monuments, in the country's museums and in its schools. It is recalled every year on Nov. 9, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 assault on Germany's Jews. Even Germany's tiny Jewish community is a living emblem of what happened in that country. Half a million strong before the war, it’s a fraction of that now. As Morley Safer reports, most of Germany's Jews live quietly and see that country as one of the safest places in the world to raise their children. But one of the leaders of that community is anything but quiet. Michel Friedman, a television star with his own talk show and a Jew who gets on the nerves of a lot of Germans, never lets them forget that they must be careful about what they say. Friedman is the subject of a lot of German hate mail, a focal point for anti-Semitism. He acknowledges that Germans have tried to make up for their past, but adds 'I am not responsible that Germany invented the Holocaust. They are responsible, and that's a part of their life.' Most Germans would not argue the point. Even young Germans, born decades after the war, bear the burden. 'It's not always that we think about it. It's, we know it, we have this responsibility and we think about it when we make any decisions,' says Carsten Schneider who, at 27, is the youngest member of the German parliament. Young Germans live in a society devoted mostly to life, liberty and the pursuit of a good time, but psychologically they still carry the sins of their grandparents. In most German public schools, reckoning with the past is an academic requirement ... Is there a danger in raising generation after generation with this shame as the central characteristic of their society? 'No, not at all,' says Friedman ... More and more Germans are fed up with all this self-flagellation, and no one more fed up than 75-year-old Martin Walser, one of the country's most revered authors and a man who has been writing about the legacy of the Holocaust for 40 years. Like most everyone of a certain age in Germany, Walser has to grapple with his own personal history. His mother was an ardent member of the Nazi party, and at the age of 17, in 1944, Walser joined the German army. Walser is in no way a Holocaust denier, but he says that the constant dredging up of German history, on television, for instance, has become absurd. 'Hitler's doctors, Hitler's dogs, Hitler's fools, Hitler's generals,' he says. 'You know, and I said that's an abuse.' And another abuse, says Walser, is the way that other countries help to keep alive the image of Germany as a recovering Nazi. 'They treated a whole nation as a criminal on probation,’ he says.'And you have to keep alive this state of mind that you are not yet accepted, and that you are not yet a normal man or a normal nation.' A lot of Germans feel they've done everything in their power to face up to that past -- paying reparations, apologizing. What more, they ask, can they do? ... Last year, Walser published a novel that many considered to be a blatant anti-Semitic tract. It set off an agonizing debate about just how far a German writer, even an eminent literary figure, can go. Walser's detractors say that he crossed the line. His novel is a thinly disguised and very ugly portrait of the most powerful literary critic in Germany - Marcel Reich-Ranitzky - a Jew and a Holocaust survivor, and a television star with a brutal way of reviewing books. He trashed Walser's work, so Walser trashed him. In Walser's novel, the critic is portrayed as an all-powerful, lecherous, and abusive Jew - a figure that recalled for many the brutal anti-Semitic caricature of Jews in the years leading up to the Nazi period. The leading German newspaper refused to serialize the novel, calling it a document of hatred against Jews. Walser is outraged at the accusation and its repercussions. 'You just state it's anti-Semitic, and basta - that's like a death sentence,' he says. For Walser’s reputation, perhaps, but not for the book. The scandal turned the novel into a number one bestseller."

Holocaust Documentaries: Too Much of a Bad Thing?,
By BARRY GEWEN, New York Times, June 15, 2003
"'When I began exploring how films have grappled with the Holocaust in 1979, there were merely a few dozen titles to warrant attention,' Annette Insdorf writes in her encyclopedic study 'Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust.' But for the book's third edition, published this year, she lists, together with the fiction films, 69 documentaries made since 1990 alone — a rate of almost one every two months. Elsewhere she estimates that there are at least six completed Holocaust documentaries that do not get distribution for every one that does. And the stream has continued at flood tide into 2003. Last month "Secret Lives," Aviva Slesin's emotionally complex film about Jewish children hidden by gentile families during the Nazi era, opened in New York. Shortly after, PBS showed Charles Guggenheim's "Berga: Soldiers of Another War," about Jewish-American soldiers captured by the Germans. "Bonhoeffer," Martin Doblmeier's intellectual, spiritually suffused account of the anti-Nazi German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is opening on June 27, two days before A & E broadcasts Liz Garbus's "Nazi Officer's Wife," the biography of a Jewish woman who survived by assuming an Aryan identity and marrying a Nazi party member. But simply listing these new films raises a troubling question: Are too many Holocaust documentaries now being made? Has supply outstripped demand? It's a question that makes people uncomfortable. Who would want to appear callous in the face of such suffering, or, worse, anti-Semitic? Yet there are definite signs of Holocaust fatigue. Perhaps because she is a survivor, Ms. Slesin is more forthright than most. 'I can't bear to see evil over and over again,' she says. 'Even I roll my eyes when I hear about another Holocaust documentary" — but then she quickly adds, "until I see what it's about." Stephen Feinstein, the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, has sat on a selection committee for a Jewish film festival when more than 15 Holocaust documentaries were submitted. With each year bringing still more films, he says, 'you can't see them all.' Many of the films have become formulaic, using the same German footage, the same static interviewing techniques. "Get out of the talking-head format," Mr. Feinstein advises. Raye Farr, the director of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, says that filmmakers are too often taking the easy way out, showing an 'increasing inclination to go for sentimentality." With an undertone of exasperation in her voice, she says, "Crying is not very edifying.' Why do filmmakers have such an abiding interest in the Holocaust? In part, they are simply reflecting the extraordinary phenomenon that the Holocaust has become in American life. Publishers churn out books on the subject in voluminous numbers, state governments legislate the teaching of the Holocaust in public schools, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington greets millions of visitors each year. It would be odd if filmmakers didn't share this general fascination. And yet many of them feel a particular urgency about their work. As the documentarian Joseph Dorman observed in a recent interview, anyone with a relative who went through the Holocaust has a 'natural desire' to tell that story. Most of these films are made not for any commercial reason, and not really with an educational intent. They are works of moral witness ... Sometimes, it seems that Holocaust documentaries have a lock on all the awards: they have won five Oscars over the last eight years ... There has been a tendency of late among documentary filmmakers to concentrate on the more 'positive' side — gentiles who opposed Hitler or rescued victims; Jewish resisters in the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere; and of course the survivors themselves. These individuals are often presented as inspirational (although, with the millions of victims who are not here to go before the camera, there is nothing inspirational about the Holocaust) ... Yale's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has a collection of more than 4,000 testimonies. The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, established by Steven Spielberg in 1994 following the success of "Schindler's List," is by far the largest. It houses more than 50,000 testimonies ... Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, speaks with the confidence and ebullience of a man who knows he sits astride a well-oiled machine. The center has its own movie division, Moriah Films, and it turns out a film about once every two years (not all of them about the Holocaust). Two, "Genocide" and "The Long Way Home," have won Oscars. Unlike everyone else involved in making Holocaust documentaries, Rabbi Hier says raising money has been "very easy," and since 1989 Moriah Films has collected about $15 million. The minimum gift the center accepts is $100,000 spread over five years, and Hollywood celebrities like Orson Welles, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Douglas have volunteered their services as narrators for the films. The scrambling documentarians clustered on the East Coast can only stare across the continent with envy at this odd coupling of Hollywood star power and the awesome atrocity of the Holocaust. But rich or poor, every Holocaust documentarian is working the same territory, and some critics complain that the basic plot line of the Holocaust has become too familiar by now to permit genuinely original work."

Fury as MPs compare Palestinians' treatment to Nazi ghettos,
By Marie Woolf, Independent (UK), June 2003
"Two MPS caused outrage yesterday by comparing the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza to the Nazi segregation of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto."

Democratic Party official resigns over e-mail,
Palm Beach Post, June 24, 2003
"A local Democratic Party functionary has quit after it was revealed he once offered friendly legal advice to a historian who was later branded an "active Holocaust denier" by a British court. Rob Ross, a Boca Raton attorney who in March was named finance committee chairman for the Palm Beach County Democratic Party, resigned during the weekend. Ross said he did not know about British historian David Irving's controversial views on the Holocaust when he sent Irving a 1998 e-mail. In the e-mail, which landed in several Democratic in-boxes in recent weeks, Ross called Irving critic Deborah Lipstadt a "pawn" of Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League and suggested that Irving file a racketeering complaint "alleging that there has been a long-standing international conspiracy by the ADL to ruin your reputation and spread false allegations regarding the quality of your research and writings." At the time, Irving was pursuing a libel suit in British court against Lipstadt, an Emory University professor whose 1994 book called Irving a Holocaust denier. When the suit went to trial in 2000, Irving called the gassing of millions of Jews in death camps a "big lie" during cross-examination. A judge ruled against Irving, calling him "anti-Semitic and racist" and "an active Holocaust denier." But Ross said that in 1998, two years before the trial, the Holocaust was never mentioned when he heard Irving give a lecture in Fort Lauderdale. After the lecture, Ross said he spoke briefly to Irving and Irving said that he was involved in a legal dispute, but did not say what it was about. Ross said he followed up with an e-mail a few weeks later. Although Ross' e-mail mentions Lipstadt by name, he said he did not know that the Holocaust was the central issue in the dispute between Irving and Lipstadt."

French Editor Jailed For “Questioning” Holocaust. Plantin, editor of Akribeia magazine was fined and jailed for questioning Holocaust,
By Hadi Yahmad, Islam Online, June 26, 2003
"An appeals court on Wednesday, June 25, upheld the six-month prison sentence of an editor who published works that called into question the scope of the Jewish Holocaust. Jean Plantin, editor of a magazine called Akribeia, the Greek word for "exactitude", was fined and given the sentence by a Lyon court for “doubting the occurrence of some crimes against humanity”, when it was "discovered" that Plantin had been awarded a Masters’ degree by the University of Lyon for a thesis which, in fact, denied the Holocaust. The lawyer for publisher Jean Plantin said he will appeal the decision to a higher court. A lower court found Plantin guilty in June 2000 and gave him a six-month suspended sentence for publishing materials challenging some aspects of the Holocaust, including the use of gas chambers to kill vast numbers of Jews during the war. The court also ordered Plantin to stop his activities. But prosecutors say Plantin continued to publish similar works, thus violating a condition of his suspended sentence ... On 13 January 1999, Plantin was arrested at his home and taken to a police station in Lyon, France where, for 24 hours, he was subjected to ignominious treatment. Then, back at his house, he saw his two computers and the disks containing his archives seized by French police, who also turned his collection of books and documents upside down, said The Campaign for Radical Truth in History website. Some journalists then set about launching "the Plantin affair", revealing that Jean Plantin had in 1990 obtained a master's degree in history for his paper entitled, "Paul Rassinier (1906-1967), socialiste, pacifiste et révisionniste" ("Socialist, Pacifist and Revisionist"). In the following year he earned the prestigious "diplôme d'études approfondies" ("diploma of advanced studies", known as the "DEA"), with his thesis, "Les Epidémies de typhus dans les camps de concentration nazis" ("The Typhus Epidemics in the Nazi Concentration Camps"). Neither of the two works exhibited a revisionist character. But suddenly, in 1999, certain organizations, particularly Jewish ones, have made it known that they consider that fact to be immaterial and that two professors who supervised J. Plantin's work, were guilty of revisionism (of "negationism", as they derisively term it), the website said. At first, the professors who were implicated, Régis Ladous and Yves Lequin, protested their good faith. Fallen prey to panic, both dodged their responsibilities. R. Ladous, for his part, went so far as to say that, if he had graded Plantin's thesis as "Très bien" (very good), it was only to show his scorn for a job which, in his eyes, was, it seems, "grotesque", it added. Then, the professors spontaneously tendered their resignations from their posts as overseers of the "DEA" studies program. These resignations were immediately accepted by the presidents of their respective universities. The judges of the Lyon court were to deliberate for five weeks before handing down their verdict of guilty. The computers and archives on disks seized at his house have been apparently permanently confiscated."

I Won't,
Irish Times, July 3, 2003
"Norman Finkelstein is the nearest you can get to a Jewish heretic. He is a Jew but an anti-Zionist; the son of Holocaust survivors but a ceaseless critic of what he terms "the Holocaust industry"; a left-wing historian whose views are often praised by revisionist right-wingers such as David Irving. He is a pugilist by inclination, never missing an opportunity to fire insults at his enemies among Jewish organisations in the US and Israel. They, it must be said, are not slow to respond in kind. Insults flew within minutes when Finkelstein appeared recently with an Israeli government spokesman on RTE Radio 1's Morning Ireland, and Cathal Mac Coille, the presenter, had to call the two off each other and beg for calm. "You're supposed to lie down and take the insults, and I'm not going to do it," Finkelstein says. "The level of arrogance of these people just boggles the mind." He believes Jewish organisations are "huckstering" the Holocaust by extracting huge sums in compensation that never get to the survivors. "What they have done, by turning the central tragedy of Jews in the 20th century into a weapon for shaking down people for money is pretty disgusting; it's wretched." He denounces some of the campaigns for reparations against Swiss banks and claims that more than $20 billion (E17.5 billion) has been collected in compensation claims arising from the Holocaust. Because he is Jewish, Finkelstein gets away with the kind of language others would never be allowed to use. He accuses Jewish organisations, for example, of conducting themselves "like a caricature from Der Sturmer", the notorious Jew-baiting magazine of the Nazis [see samples on the right]. He repeatedly refers to the organisations as "crooks" and has even called Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the "resident clown" of the Holocaust circus. The roots of his anger lie in his parents' experience. Finkelstein's father survived the Warsaw ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp; his mother lived in the ghetto and ended up in Majdanek camp. He describes both as confirmed atheists. His father received compensation from the German government. "I still remember the blue envelopes that came in every month. At the end of his life he was getting $600 a month, or a grand total of about $250,000. Even though there was no love lost between my father and the Germans - he hated them all - there was never any complaint about the money. The Germans were always very competent and efficient." In contrast, his mother's compensation was channelled through American Jewish organisations. "Even though they went through the same experiences, she got a grand total of $3,000 and no pension. That's what you get from Jewish organisations."

[Everyone knows World War II was only a Jewish tragedy, right? And the tens of millions of others who died don't count. The "Holocaust" has become the secular Jewish religion: if Jews aren't the Chosen People by religious consensus, then by damn they must be "unique" by virtue of their Holocaust.]
Romanian's Holocaust Remark Upsets Israel,
Earthlink (from Associated Press, July 25, 2003
"Israel issued a stern rebuke Friday to Romania after its president was quoted by a newspaper as saying the Holocaust was "not unique to the Jews." Israel summoned the Romanian ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, ministry spokesman David Saranga said. At the same time, Israel directed its ambassador in Bucharest to submit a strong protest to that government. This is the second time in two months that Romanian ambassador Valeria Mariana Stoica has received an official protest over a statement about the Holocaust. On June 13, the Romanian government denied there was a Holocaust within its borders. Following protests from Israel and Romania's Jewish community, the government acknowledged that its former leaders deported and exterminated Jews during World War II. In an interview with Israel's Haaretz newspaper published Friday, Romanian President Ion Iliescu said "the Holocaust was not unique to the Jewish population in Europe. Many others, including Poles, died in the same way." Iliescu noted his father, a communist, was sent to a camp and died a year after his release. "In the Romania of the Nazi period both Jews and communists were treated equally," he said. Dorel Dorian, a Romanian lawmaker who represents the Jewish community, said the Holocaust has a precise meaning as the attempted mass destruction of the Jews. "It's true that tens of millions of Poles, Ukrainians, communists and others also died, but for Jews it was a planned process of extermination," Dorian said. Israel asked the Romanian ambassador to clarify whether Iliescu's statements reflected the view of the Romanian government or just the president, Saranga said. Iliescu later said he was surprised by Israel's response to his comments. "I don't understand the reaction. I said the Holocaust was a phenomenon that affected the entire Europe. There is no Romanian, or German or Polish Holocaust. It was a general process, and some of its European components happened on Romania's territory," Iliescu told Romania's Mediafax news agency."

Romanian ambassador summoned over Holocaust remarks,
By Grig Davidovitz and Haaretz Service, Haaretz (Israel), July 27, 2003
"The Foreign Ministry has summoned the Romanian ambassador in Israel to find out whether the Romanian president's comments that the Holocaust was not unique to Jews reflect the position of his country's government, Israel Radio reported Friday. Romanian President Ion Iliescu's comments were "insensitive," Justice Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid said Friday ... In an interview with Haaretz, Iliescu compared the Jewish experience in the Holocaust to that of Poles and communists, said reparation suits should be postponed or rejected, and acquitted the Romanian people (though not the leaders) of wrongdoing during the Holocaust. The Romanian government last month denied its role in the Holocaust and then retracted the denial. "The Holocaust was not unique to the Jewish population in Europe. Many others, including Poles, died in the same way," Iliescu said. According to the president, "in the Romania of the Nazi period, Jews and communists were treated equally. My father was a communist activist and was sent to a camp. He died at the age of 44, less than a year after he returned" ... The Romanian president believes that in view of the country's current dire economic situation, the restitution suits demanding the return of Jewish property must be either postponed or rejected. "People are struggling with shortages, and at the same time, people are coming forward with claims because in Romanian history during World War II and afterward, property was nationalized. Does that mean the wretched Romanian citizen of today has to pay for what happened then? Is it worth it to skin those who are living today in distress? And just to compensate others? I don't find that appropriate."

"Dr Thomas Fudge's suppressed article is published: ... Holocaust, history and free speech: Part I Canterbury University history lecturer Thomas Fudge has resigned in protest at the university's refusal to publish this article defending a young academic against the charge of holocaust denial. It appears in two instalments, today and tomorrow. The Fate of Joel Hayward in New Zealand Hands: From Holocaust Historian to Holocaust? By Thomas A. Fudge, Focal Point Publications (originally from New Zealand Herald, July 23, 2003)
"For the past three years, newspapers, national periodicals and television programmes have provided coverage about the Joel Hayward affair, a story of a New Zealand student who wrote a controversial thesis. Contestable work and arguable conclusions are not uncommon in modern universities, but Hayward's unpublished work as a student seems to remain, after ten years, a point of unusual and continuing interest. Does Canterbury University support holocaust denial? The university answers no. Is Hayward a denier? He claims he is not. Does his thesis constitute holocaust denial? His critics say yes (some without having read it); others (who have read it) answer in the negative. In June 2002, Joel Hayward resigned as senior lecturer in history at Massey University where he had been respected as an effective teacher and productive scholar. His departure generated applause from some quarters. Others lamented academe's loss. What brought Hayward, a year and a half after the Hayward affair, still in the early stages of a potentially distinguished career, to this act of professional extinction? In 1993 Hayward was awarded a master of arts degree with first class honours in history by the University of Canterbury for a thesis ['The Fate of Jews in German Hands'] on the historiography of the Holocaust. He later wrote a PhD thesis, and in 1996 was appointed to a lectureship at Massey University. In late 1999, the MA thesis was publicly denounced. The New Zealand Jewish Council alleged that the work amounted to historical revisionism constituting Holocaust denial, and called on the University of Canterbury to revoke the degree. Hayward repeatedly apologised for any harm or distress his thesis might have caused, agreed to the extraordinary step of including an appendix to his thesis modifying his findings, co-operated with the subsequent investigation and appears to have made efforts to distance himself from Holocaust denial. Under pressure, the university appointed an independent working party to investigate the claims against the thesis. This committee consisted of retired High Court judge Sir Ian Barker and academics Professor Ann Trotter and Professor Stuart Macintyre. Their lengthy report concluded that the thesis was seriously flawed, and that Hayward should not have essayed a judgment in such a controversial area. The report did not recommend withdrawal of the thesis by the university and did not agree with the allegations that Hayward's argument was racist or motivated by malice. While the opinion that the thesis did not deserve the high marks it received was widely publicised in the media, no fewer than six serving or retired members of the history department persisted in their own judgment that it was a first-class effort. Notwithstanding the apparent finality of the report and its qualified exoneration of Hayward, during 2000, 2001, and 2002 Hayward received hundreds of pieces of hate mail, abusive telephone calls, threats against himself, his wife and small children, harassment at Massey University and continued negative media attention. Further attempts to publish, as well as efforts at finding other employment, have been unsuccessful. The issue therefore goes beyond the apparent concern over allegedly flawed (but unpublished) research. Is this issue really about academic values and freedom? ... The Barker inquiry found no evidence of malicious intent, dishonesty or deliberate efforts to circumvent the truth on Hayward's part. Is it possible that the outrage over the thesis itself was also a device for attacking Hayward? One of the complexities of the Hayward affair is its apparent relation to issues of academic freedom and intellectual fashions. Hayward's detractors claim that he is wrong in terms of both. One of his critics stated that academic freedom could exist without academic responsibility. However, considered legal opinion concluded that the interpretation being applied in the Hayward affair permitted a very limited right to academic freedom. Proponents of academic freedom insist that universities should be great storehouses of wisdom and learning, and students ought to be able to go there, learn and choose. Academic freedom implies there are no taboo subjects, no off-limits topics. The fuss made about this obscure piece of work fits rather awkwardly with the position taken by New Zealand academic libraries. Official statements read, "No library materials should be excluded ... because of the ... views of their authors [and] no library materials should be censored, restricted or removed from libraries because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval or pressure" ... The Jewish Holocaust is one of those delicate topics about which certain beliefs have become so fashionable as to be unassailable regardless of intellectual considerations. The Hayward affair elicited the pronouncement that at least in this country anyone wanting to question received notions about the Holocaust is controlled by accepted truth standards. The danger in this thinking lies in the ambiguity of the term "truth standards". What did Hayward say? The major issue appears to be the belief that Hayward rejected well-established facts about the Holocaust. His thesis examined the writings of some of those who question the Holocaust industry, which has reached significant political proportions in the past 30 years. Setting aside the question of whether Hayward's conclusions were really so exceptional, is it not the duty of universities and researchers to challenge conventional understandings? In his MA thesis, The Fate of Jews in German Hands: An Historical Enquiry into the Development and Significance of Holocaust Revisionism, Joel Hayward investigated Holocaust historiography, especially that branch of it regarded as revisionist. He concluded that some of the revisionist literature was unworthy of sustained scholarly consideration. Other approaches he found to be significant and worthy."

The memorial that betrays itself,
by Andrew Gumbel, The Independent (UK), August 7, 2003
"The Museum of Tolerance has problems nearer home to tackle but is driven by a pro-Zionist passion. For years, I've been hearing good things about the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. It has been lauded as one of the most innovative museums in the world, making ingenious use of state-of-the-art interactive tools to force visitors to confront their own prejudices and make them feel, not just understand, what it is like to be on the receiving end of rank bigotry. It is a favourite destination for school field trips, politicians wishing to flash their PC credentials, and liberal-minded movie stars looking for a good cause to endow. Recently, a judge in Orange County made a mandatory visit to the Museum of Tolerance part of the punishment he meted out to a white miscreant who had physically threatened his Iranian boss. Since the museum is about to open branches in New York and Jerusalem (the latter in a building designed by Frank Gehry), a visit seemed long overdue. So I went earlier this week. Only instead of the great educational experience I was expecting, I was bewildered, even angered by what I found. The exhibits, from start to finish, were manipulative, ideologically loaded and politically partisan in ways that utterly belie the museum's ostensibly disinterested educational purpose. First of all, there's the name. The museum chronicles slavery, race- baiting, blanket discrimination, murder and genocide - not only egregious instances of intolerance, but events which by their nature are also intolerable. Who exactly is supposed to tolerate what here? Then there is the museum's in-your-face presentation. Right at the start, visitors are invited to choose between a door marked "Prejudiced" and another marked "Unprejudiced", depending on the way they regard themselves. But the door marked "Un- prejudiced" is kept locked at all times - because, as the museum guide explains, there is bigotry in all of us. This is merely a harbinger of the hectoring tone to come - a tone that presupposes we all need to understand how hateful thoughts can lead to hateful words, and hateful words to hateful actions. The message wouldn't be so objectionable if it weren't so facile, if it weren't so far from a satisfactory explanation of why genocide occurs, and if it weren't rammed down your throat during the carefully orchestrated tour. At times I felt as if my group was being huddled together and bludgeoned into thinking: "You will be more tolerant! You will be more tolerant!" The museum's driving mission becomes clear as the panels and video screen displays devoted to the Ku Klux Klan, the 1992 LA Riots, the Rwandan genocide and the Yugoslav wars of secession fall away to make way for the subject that truly excites the passions of the curators, the Holocaust. Since the museum is run by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, whose LA headquarters are across the street, it is hardly surprising the Holocaust looms large. As a subject, it is of course entirely legitimate. But this is the Holocaust retold from a very specific pro- Zionist, religious Jewish perspective, and the politics become intrusive enough to seem both dishonest and downright vulgar. In the museum's over-simplistic version of events, no Jews were collaborators with the Nazis and all Germans were. The rest of the world is divided between the "righteous among nations" (who lobbied for the creation of the state of Israel after the war) and the ignominious others. Palestine is referred to as "the Jewish homeland", without regard for the Palestinians. The rise of Nazism is explained, in absurdly ahistorical terms, as the result of an anti-Semitism that "is never far beneath the surface when times are hard" - the implication being, as all pro-Israeli groups like to argue, that it is as dangerous now as it was then. I yearned for the more reflective, unabashedly moving Holocaust narratives of a Viktor Frankl or a Primo Levi (neither of whom, incidentally, feature in a bookstore filled with titles such as Meir Wagner's The Righteous of Switzerland and the inevitable Schindler's Ark). This is a museum that ignores its own purported message of tolerance, preferring to tell you what to think at every turn. As such, it betrays its own historical mission and reduces the deepest of human tragedies to mere propaganda. Its visitors deserve much better."

Poles Open Probe Into Jewish Role In Killings. Group Fingers WWII Partisans,
By MARC PERELMAN, [Jewish] FORWARD, August 8, 2003
"Poland's official National Institute of Remembrance, created to investigate historic crimes of the Nazi and communist eras, is currently investigating allegations that Jewish partisans participated in a massacre of civilians in Poland in early 1944. The institute launched the investigation in February 2001 at the request of the Canadian Polish Congress. Robert Janicki, deputy commissioner for prosecution of crimes against the Polish nation, told the Forward in a written statement that the institute was interviewing witnesses, including both victims and perpetrators, and was gathering archival material from several countries, but that no date had been set for the conclusion of the investigation. Still, the institute has issued some preliminary reports, which contain allegations that some 50 to 60 Jewish partisans were part of a 120-strong Soviet partisan unit that attacked the village of Koniuchy on January 29, 1944. At least 35 civilians were killed, and the village, now located in Lithuania and called Kaniuakai, was burned to the ground, according to the reports. The investigation, which has not been reported in the United States and was unknown to a series of scholars interviewed for this article, is creating unease among Jews because of its possible political motives ... Although relations between Poland and Israel have improved over the past decade, the affair is likely to fuel further acrimony in Polish-Jewish relations, which have been soured in recent years by disputes over the 1941 massacre of Jews by Poles in the village of Jedwabne, which some Poles blamed on German soldiers. The tensions spilled over into this country when a Polish-American leader made antisemitic remarks on the issue last year. While some observers expressed concerns about the intentions of the Canadian group, they said the Polish remembrance institute was a solid and reliable institution ... The fighting at Koniuchy is described in several Jewish accounts of partisans' battles, including "The Avengers," a book by Rich Cohen, published in 2000. The Jewish partisan units were part of a brigade commanded by the former Vilna ghetto fighter Abba Kovner, who went on to become a leading Israeli poet. In its letter to the institute calling for an investigation, the Canadian group cited several accounts by Jewish partisans to back up its allegations."

[Agree with Jews, that's kosher. Question Jews, that's forbidden -- even in a democracy. Criticize Jewish convention about the Holocaust, that's a "Nazi." There can be no debate about this.]
Freedom stops when denial starts,
by Dov Bing, New Zealand Herald, August 8, 2003
"In a democracy, academic freedom is a precious commodity. Protected by the 1989 Education Act, it cannot exist in New Zealand universities without matching responsibilities. Dr Thomas Fudge, in his article on Dr Hayward's Holocaust denial thesis, has fallen well short of academic responsibility, not only by incorrectly representing Hayward's thesis conclusions but by failing to distinguish between Holocaust revisionism and Holocaust denial. Revisionism is an honest endeavour undertaken by many academic historians. Each year there are thousands of new publications on Holocaust history. Many of these can be termed academic Holocaust revisionism. Holocaust denial is not history at all. Although Holocaust deniers may often deceptively refer to themselves as revisionists, they cannot be regarded as professional academic historians. Finding against David Irving in his unsuccessful suit for libel against historian Deborah Lipstadt (April 2000), Mr Justice Gray provides a clear and compelling definition of Holocaust denial. In his report on the Hayward thesis, undertaken for the University of Canterbury in 2000, Sir Ian Barker also concludes that Holocaust deniers are polemicists with an antipathy to the status of the Holocaust as a unique and defining phenomenon of the modern era. Many are anti-Semites with links to racist and extremist politics, observes the Barker report. According to Winston Smith, leader of the National Socialist White Peoples Party - formerly known as the American Nazi Party - the real purpose of Holocaust revisionism (or denial) is to make National Socialism an acceptable alternative again. If they can make people believe that the main features of the Holocaust are based on Allied war propaganda, the Nazis can rise again. Deniers operate on the fringes of society and have been trying for many years to gain a foothold in universities to make themselves respectable. Canterbury University is the only Western university that has awarded an MA to a Holocaust denial thesis. In defending Joel Hayward, Dr Fudge prefers to ignore the extent to which careful, recent definitions of Holocaust denial apply to Hayward's MA thesis, the flawed methodology referred to in the Barker report, and Hayward's failure to consider the dangerous implications of Holocaust denial's pseudo-academic facade, as noted in the Barker Report. If Holocaust denial has demonstrated anything, it is the fragility of memory, reason and history. Deniers try to project the appearance of being committed to the values they, in truth, adamantly oppose - reason, critical rules of evidence and historical distinction."

Germany starts laying the Holocaust to rest,
by Kate Connolly, Telegraph (UK), August 16, 2003
"A plot of prime land the size of three football pitches in the heart of Berlin will begin its transformation today into Germany's first memorial to the Jews from all over Europe who perished in the Holocaust. The stretch of land in the heart of what was once the capital of Hitler's Third Reich is now valued at around £200 million for its development potential alone. A model of the memorial is unveiled to the media The area will be "planted" with a field of 2,752 concrete slabs varying in height to resemble a "waving cornfield", according to the memorial's designer, the American architect Peter Eisenman. When the first slab is set in the ground today it will end 15 years of tortuous debate and deliberation. The memorial to the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust will dominate the city centre, will be visible from the air and is likely to become one of Berlin's most popular tourist attractions ... The project's backers courted controversy from the start by choosing as the memorial plot a swathe of land that is soaked in Berlin's dark 20th century history. When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the plot - now located between the Brandenburg Gate and the new glass skyscrapers of Potsdamer Platz - became part of the so-called no-man's land between east and west Berlin. But far more contentious was what still lies beneath the site, the existence of which city officials prefer to deny. The bunker of the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, and that of Adolf Hitler - reached by an underground passageway from his Chancellery which stood in nearby Voss Strasse - are situated respectively in the north-east and south-east corners of the memorial plot, identifiable only by the initiated few. "We wanted to put the memorial on the graves of the Third Reich, effectively covering up forever, putting a lid on their centre of power, however provocative that might sound," Mr Schulze-Rohr told The Telegraph. The group later provoked the ire of both politicians and Jewish groups when it attempted to jolt the public into taking an interest in the project by giving their own donations, with an advertising campaign in which huge billboards depicting idyllic Alpine landscapes read: "The Holocaust never happened". The aim was to suggest that this notion, widely shared in far-Right circles, would spread if the Holocaust was not commemorated with such memorials. An earlier suggestion put forward by artists to get each German citizen to pay for the name of one Holocaust victim to be engraved on the blocks of concrete was rejected by Ignatz Bubis, the late former head of Germany's Jewish community. He argued that it would create the idea that "Germans were paying off their guilt" for the Holocaust. Instead the names of four million Holocaust victims collected by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial centre in Tel Aviv will be displayed on an electronic ticker in an information centre which will stand next to the memorial, and will be read continuously over a loud speaker."

[Pass me another $200 chocolate-covered marshmellow over those dead Palestinians, please ...]
DRAINED POND'S NEIGHBORS THINK ONE AMONG THEM IS SCUM, By JEFFREY SLONIM, New York Post, August 17, 2003
"A benefit hosted by Spielberg's Shoah Foundation at former Sony America CEO Mickey Schulhof's Egypt Lane manse last month, raised $750,000 for his project of recording the testimony of Holocaust survivors. But Spielberg now reveals he didn't get much sleep the night before the event - he and wife Kate Capshaw were awoken by a 1:30 a.m. telephone call. "It was our daughter [Jessica Capshaw] calling to tell us she was engaged," Spielberg said. The event was a blast and after dinner, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker and Barry Levinson retired to the Shulhofs' lavishly decorated living room (Paola Schulhof owns an antiques store in town). On his return later this year to "The Producers," Broderick said, "Nathan remembers the entire play, every line, every song. At best, I remember three songs."

CATHOLIC BREAKS WITH POLISH-JEWISH DIALOGUE GROUP,
SFPOL (from Polonia Media Network/PMN)
"On May 5, 2003, Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride delivered her resignation to the National Polish American-Jewish American Council (NPAJAC), of which she had been a member for about seven years. She stated, “I can no longer serve as a member of an organization that excludes five million people [non-Jewish Poles] as victims of the Holocaust.” On March 18, 2003, Urbanowicz Gilbride received a letter from the above Council stating: "That definition [of the Holocaust], in its specificity, recognizes the reality of the differences between the treatment of Jews and non-Jews under the Nazi occupation of Poland.” It adds, “This definition is a critical and central part of the belief system of the Jewish community and the Council has always and still does accept it.” That letter was in response to a November 18, 2003, presentation “Teaching the Holocaust in U.S.A.” given by Urbanowicz Gilbride and referring to herself as a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor and what she had learned in the past 13 years of teaching about the Holocaust in schools, temples, churches and universities in U.S. and abroad. It was signed by the two co-chairs, John Pikarski and Martin Bresler. Urbanowicz Gilbride says, “The body of my presentation was dismissed as if my saying that I am a Catholic Holocaust survivor, everything I said is invalid.” After reading her resignation at the Council meeting, Rev. John Pawlikowski, NPAJAC member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), responded to her “That the USHMM recognizes only the six million Jews as victims of the Holocaust. The five million others have a ‘special place’ in the Museum.” Urbanowicz Gilbride responds, “I know that special place. It is in back of the room, where you are to sit quietly and speak only when you are spoken to. As a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor, I do not wish to be separated from my fellow co-victims, be they Jew or Gentile.” She recalls that the Council spent much time on Father Jankowski’s homily given in Poland, but discussion of Rabbi Friedman, who called the Pope a “dumb Pollack” and advised “do not hire Poles as maids, do not patronize Polish doctors, lawyers ...” barely took two minutes ... She adds that Polish NPAJAC members tried to bring up the story of Koniuchy, where Jews killed Poles during the war, but it was quickly dismissed by other members. In 1998, David Harris of American Jewish Committee, NPAJAC’s organization, wrote an emotional essay about Polish youth who were laughing as March of the Living students walked the streets near Auschwitz. He was also offended at Polish shops displaying holy pictures “deliberately,” instead of “welcome” signs. Harris wrote that this constitutes a sort of “holy war.” Urbanowicz Gilbride responded in a prepared statement at the next NPAJAC meeting in Chicago that Harris is quite conceited to want people to stop everything and “Welcome” him with signs when he passes by the window. Urbanowicz Gilbride states that “Copies of any article that appears in e-mails from the Council to praise Poles always seems to include ‘even though Poles are anti-Semites’ or ‘Poland is the most anti-Semitic country.’ We Poles could not write anything but compliments about Jews. Anything else would constitute anti-Semitism. Is that fair?” But what angered Urbanowicz Gilbride most was NPAJAC’s refusal to acknowledge Poles and others as co-victims of the Holocaust. She calls it “the final blow to any human being who wants unity, peace, and acknowledgement in history.” Urbanowicz Gilbride was born in Leonowka, Poland in 1934, the oldest of four children. She was interned in two slave labor camps. Her mother was also in two concentration camps. Her father and four children came to America in 1947. In 1989 she became a member of the Nassau County Holocaust Commission and served on its Educational Committee. In 1991 Urbanowicz Gilbride collected an “Oral History” of Polish Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the U.S. and donated the work to the U.S. Holocaust Museum."

New 'House of Terror' raises fear for Hungary's Jews,
by MICHAEL J. JORDAN, Jewish Bulletin (from Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
"Five months after it opened, Budapest's controversial "House of Terror" has emerged as one of the capital's most popular destinations among both young and old, regularly drawing crowds that endure two-hour lines in sweltering heat. However, rather than achieving its aim of memorializing the victims of totalitarian terror -- of both Hungarian wartime fascism and postwar communism -- critics say the lavish museum symbolizes the charged, right-wing atmosphere that has swept Hungar ... Hungary's Jews, though, are deeply troubled by the museum. They have several concerns: By presenting all victims as equal and all victimizers as equal, the museum diminishes the uniqueness of the Holocaust, not to mention the communist era; by painting Hungary as one of Germany's victims rather than an accomplice, it continues a trend in which right-wing Hungarian historians are whitewashing Hungary's role in the death of some 550,000 Hungarian Jews; and by devoting only one of nearly two dozen rooms exclusively to the Holocaust, it implies that communism was far worse than the Holocaust. Finally, though Jews are mentioned nowhere in the communist portion of the museum, the fact that the Hungarian right wing -- especially its media -- routinely highlights the Jewishness of some of Hungary's most notorious communists means that many visitors to the House of Terror receive an implicit message that Hungarian Jews are to blame for communism. "For several years, it's been in the air: They hint that communism was Jewish revenge for the Holocaust," said Gyorgy Litvan, a renowned Hungarian historian who as a teenaged Holocaust survivor was himself drawn to the Communist Party ... It opened in February, with two months left in a heated election campaign. The main opposition party was the Socialists, the increasingly centrist heirs of the Communist Party. Together with the small, liberal Alliance of Free Democrats, they attracted the vast majority of Jewish voters."