I guess I'll brave the snow, it's snowing again, and go see Sooner. He's having a little New Years Eve party. OU plays today so he may be three sheets to the wind by the time I see him. Maybe I can even get a pic of an intoxicated Sooner to post tomorrow.
Happy New Years everybody!
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Two U.S. Bloggers Interrogated
“Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source that provided the TSA document.” writes Kim Zetter on the Threat Level section of the Wired website.
“They’re saying it’s a security document but it was sent to every airport and airline,” blogger Steven Frischling told Wired. “It was sent to Islamabad, to Riyadh and to Nigeria. So they’re looking for information about a security document sent to 10,000-plus people internationally. You can’t have a right to expect privacy after that.”PP
“They’re saying it’s a security document but it was sent to every airport and airline,” blogger Steven Frischling told Wired. “It was sent to Islamabad, to Riyadh and to Nigeria. So they’re looking for information about a security document sent to 10,000-plus people internationally. You can’t have a right to expect privacy after that.”PP
“RELEASE THE VIDEO"
“Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain."
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On the Jewish Funding, Control, and Leadership of the Third Reich
Source: Willie Martin Archive
When Adolph Hitler began attracting attention beyond Germany with his anti-Jewishness, the Jew Cahilla in America selected James P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb, & Co. to finance him so as to build up a Nationalist Germany, then push Anglo-Saxondom into attacking Germany and thus, break the back of Christianity in Central Europe so as to pave the way for Jewry to seize all of Europe in the name of Russia in the final prelude to the destruction of the White Race and the establishing of Satan’s World Empire.
Major Robert H. Williams reported in his “Williams Intelligence Summary” for February, 1950, about James P. Warburg’s part in the plot against Christendom. He said:
“Last November, the widow of the late General Ludendroff, on trial at Nuremberg, explained why her husband broke with Hitler, confirmed the reports in convincing detail.
She stated that, ‘...as early as the summer of 1929, James P, Warburg had undertaken an assignment from financial circles in America, which desired to exercise solitary influence on Germany in the unleashing of a national revolution. Warburg’s task was to find the suitable man in Germany, and he entered into contract with Adolph Hitler who subsequently received sums of money amounting to 27 million dollars up to January 30, 1932, and still another seven million dollars thereafter, enabling him to finance his movement.’”
After the 1919 German Revolution, Jewry took over the country lock, stock, and barrel. Jewry retained power until Hitler came on the scene. Then why was international Jewry so anxious to foment a NATIONALIST revolution in Germany? Because they desired to destroy the Royal Judah tribe of Israel (the Nordic Germans) because Jewry could not absorb them in mongrelization; and to destroy Christianity in Central Europe.
After Adolph Hitler received the financial assistance he disenfranchised the Jews in Germany, then set up a banking system of his own. Nevertheless, Anglo-American Intelligence Services learned that Hitler, Jew Rudolph Hess, and Von Papen secretly called on Jew Baron Kurt von Schroeder in Cologne and obtained his guarantee to further finance Hitler’s schemes.
Schroeder agreed to the proposition after bribing Hitler to place Jews in strategical positions to direct the very heart beat of National Socialism. Hitler made Jew Hjalmar Schachet the Director of the Reich Bank. Rudolph Hess became Deputy Fuhrer. He is the son of an Egyptian Jewess. General von Haushofer was made Geopolitical Minister. He is a Jew. General Milh became head of the Luftwaffe. He is a Jew. Goebbels was with Hitler to the end. He was a Jew. All of which is in accordance with Jewry’s protocol No. 15 which says:
“But, if there should arise in its midst a plot, then at the head of that plot will be no other than one of most trusted servants.”
Baron Kurt von Schroeder was related to Baron von Schroeder of J.H. Schroeder & Co., Ltd., London, England, which, together with Messrs. N.M. Rothschild & Sons’ Rutgers, Ltd., and the Imperial Chemical Industries assisted James P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., finance Hitler in accordance with protocol No. 9, which says:
“Nowadays, if any State raises a protest against us, it is only ‘pro forma’ at our direction and at our discretion, for their anti-Semitism is indispensable to us for the management of our lesser brethren.”
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
FBI Silent On Plane Bomber’s Accomplice
Feds won’t even admit existence of Indian man arrested after discovery of possible second bomb.
Flight 253 eyewitness Kurt Haskell has astoundingly revealed how the FBI are deliberately hiding the existence of a second man who was arrested following the Christmas Day plane bombing incident after bomb-sniffing dogs detected a possible second explosive device in his luggage.
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Flight 253 eyewitness Kurt Haskell has astoundingly revealed how the FBI are deliberately hiding the existence of a second man who was arrested following the Christmas Day plane bombing incident after bomb-sniffing dogs detected a possible second explosive device in his luggage.
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French Revolution - Carbon tax ruled unconstitutional
This new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 14 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $20). In a stunning move, and surely a blow to warmists everywhere, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out.
France’s Constitutional Council has struck down a carbon tax that was planned to take effect on January 1st. The council, which ensures the constitutionality of French legislation, said too many polluters were exempted in the measure and the tax burden was not fairly distributed.
It was estimated that 93 percent of industrial emissions outside of fuel use, including the emissions of more than 1,000 of France’s top polluting industrial sites, would be exempt from the tax, which would have charged 17 euros per ton of emitted carbon dioxide.
Viva la France!
France’s Constitutional Council has struck down a carbon tax that was planned to take effect on January 1st. The council, which ensures the constitutionality of French legislation, said too many polluters were exempted in the measure and the tax burden was not fairly distributed.
It was estimated that 93 percent of industrial emissions outside of fuel use, including the emissions of more than 1,000 of France’s top polluting industrial sites, would be exempt from the tax, which would have charged 17 euros per ton of emitted carbon dioxide.
Viva la France!
America+Israel+India+Al Qaeda and Target is Pakistan
America+Israel+India+Al Qaeda and Target is Pakistan
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Worst and Best Holiday Fashion Commercial 2009
Worst - My feelings about this commercial were well known around here. I often got the sarcastic "Hey, your favorite commercial is on!"
Best - I know this commercial isn't "kick ass" or anything, just such a pleasing contrast to the Gap commercial.
Best - I know this commercial isn't "kick ass" or anything, just such a pleasing contrast to the Gap commercial.
Twenty five to Thirty thousands unemployed due to Karachi Violence
According to report of Geo news around Twenty five to Thirty thousands people are unemployed due to the Violence of yesterday after the Suicide Bombing on M.A Jinnah Road Karachi. In Rs estimated loss is Rs 30 Billion.
After the attack of Karachi Violence took place in different places after which many plaza,s and shops where burnt which destroyed businesses of many people. the people watched their shops burning in front of their eyes. in the yesterday attack more than 40 people where martyred. Government must take quick steps now to help these Twenty five to Thirty thousands to again grow their businesses again and also take hard steps to counter the terrorism and the Violence.
After the attack of Karachi Violence took place in different places after which many plaza,s and shops where burnt which destroyed businesses of many people. the people watched their shops burning in front of their eyes. in the yesterday attack more than 40 people where martyred. Government must take quick steps now to help these Twenty five to Thirty thousands to again grow their businesses again and also take hard steps to counter the terrorism and the Violence.
No Passport - No Problem
Is nothing as it seems?
THE SHARP-DRESSED MAN
“Laurie and I were sitting near the boarding gate, sitting on the floor, there weren’t any seats to sit in. And I saw two men. They caught my eye because they seemed to be an odd pair. One was what I would describe as a poor-looking black teenager around 16 or 17, and the other man, age 50-ish, wealthy looking Indian man. And I was just wondering why they were together– kinda strange. And I watched them approach what I would call the ticket agent, the final person that checks your boarding pass before you get on the plane. And I could hear the entire conversation. The only person that spoke was the Indian man, and what he said was: ‘This man needs to board the plane, but he doesn’t have a passport.’ And the ticket agent responded, ‘Well, if he doesn’t have a passport, he can’t get on the plane.’ To which the Indian man responded back, ‘He’s from Sudan. We do this all the time.’ And the ticket agent said, ‘Well, then you’ll have to go and talk to my manager.’ And she directed them down a hallway. And that was the last time I saw the Indian man, and the black man I didn’t see again until he tried to blow up our plane hours later.”
THE CAMERAMAN
Richelle Keepman, said she noticed the mysterious cameraman at the beginning of the flight, believing the man might have been simply excited about a first flight, or etc. Later when the ‘bombing’ incident took place, she says the cameraman was the only one standing up, and intently filming the entire incident.
If he had help getting on the flight with no passport after having been reported to U.S. authorities by his own father, what is the true explanation for the man seen filming the entire flight?
The latest accused ‘terrorist’ Abdulmutallab was very likely the fall-guy in a pattern-drill– handled by wealthy, mismatched associates, allowed to board without required credentials, and videotaped by a cameraman with an unknown connection. Was Abdulmutallab involved with these figures through a drill which ended with an intentionally-failed bombing meant to incite great fear of terrorism?
Put this together with new focus on Yemen ‘in the fight against Al Qaeda’, including calls from Sen. Lieberman to pre-emptively attack, the media’s immediate hype of the event, and the ready-made Body Scanners and other ‘enhanced’ Airport security, it is clear that this is a contrived incident intentionally unleashed to goad renewed support for ever-expanding terrorism-related warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and now Yemen.
How long will we allow deliberately-provoked terror incidents to frighten us to death, invade our privacy, erode our liberties, restrict our travel and perpetuate an ever-expanding string of wars?
THE SHARP-DRESSED MAN
“Laurie and I were sitting near the boarding gate, sitting on the floor, there weren’t any seats to sit in. And I saw two men. They caught my eye because they seemed to be an odd pair. One was what I would describe as a poor-looking black teenager around 16 or 17, and the other man, age 50-ish, wealthy looking Indian man. And I was just wondering why they were together– kinda strange. And I watched them approach what I would call the ticket agent, the final person that checks your boarding pass before you get on the plane. And I could hear the entire conversation. The only person that spoke was the Indian man, and what he said was: ‘This man needs to board the plane, but he doesn’t have a passport.’ And the ticket agent responded, ‘Well, if he doesn’t have a passport, he can’t get on the plane.’ To which the Indian man responded back, ‘He’s from Sudan. We do this all the time.’ And the ticket agent said, ‘Well, then you’ll have to go and talk to my manager.’ And she directed them down a hallway. And that was the last time I saw the Indian man, and the black man I didn’t see again until he tried to blow up our plane hours later.”
THE CAMERAMAN
Richelle Keepman, said she noticed the mysterious cameraman at the beginning of the flight, believing the man might have been simply excited about a first flight, or etc. Later when the ‘bombing’ incident took place, she says the cameraman was the only one standing up, and intently filming the entire incident.
If he had help getting on the flight with no passport after having been reported to U.S. authorities by his own father, what is the true explanation for the man seen filming the entire flight?
The latest accused ‘terrorist’ Abdulmutallab was very likely the fall-guy in a pattern-drill– handled by wealthy, mismatched associates, allowed to board without required credentials, and videotaped by a cameraman with an unknown connection. Was Abdulmutallab involved with these figures through a drill which ended with an intentionally-failed bombing meant to incite great fear of terrorism?
Put this together with new focus on Yemen ‘in the fight against Al Qaeda’, including calls from Sen. Lieberman to pre-emptively attack, the media’s immediate hype of the event, and the ready-made Body Scanners and other ‘enhanced’ Airport security, it is clear that this is a contrived incident intentionally unleashed to goad renewed support for ever-expanding terrorism-related warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and now Yemen.
How long will we allow deliberately-provoked terror incidents to frighten us to death, invade our privacy, erode our liberties, restrict our travel and perpetuate an ever-expanding string of wars?
Karachi the city of lights will live on whatever our enemy do
Karachi the city of Lights will live on whatever our enemy do but our Karachi will keep on shinning. The Raw funded TTP terrorists has targeted Shia Muslims this time on MA Jinnah Road on day of Ashura to get multiple objectives. one of the big objective they tried to get was creating Sectarian Violence between Shia and Sunni,s but Alhamdulilah they are not succeeded in it.
As we have discussed before as well that the main reason of these attacks Is American Presence in Afghanistan and Indian presence as well under the Umbrella of Americans who are heavily funding these TTP terrorists. These TTP terrorists takes name of Islam but they kills Muslims they have never attacked any American or Indian. They are using 18 to 22 years boys by brain washing them to do suicide attacks with Indian weapon and Money. Pakistan need to look towards its Foreign Policy of Afghanistan to counter Terrorism.
As we have discussed before as well that the main reason of these attacks Is American Presence in Afghanistan and Indian presence as well under the Umbrella of Americans who are heavily funding these TTP terrorists. These TTP terrorists takes name of Islam but they kills Muslims they have never attacked any American or Indian. They are using 18 to 22 years boys by brain washing them to do suicide attacks with Indian weapon and Money. Pakistan need to look towards its Foreign Policy of Afghanistan to counter Terrorism.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Susan Cernyak-Spatz's Holo tale- Ate "sawdust salami", jews went to gas chambers "willingly", "whole German nation clothed by clothing from dead jews"
Susan is an Austrian jew who became a university Professor and self-styled expert on the Holyhoax.
As the story goes, Susan was taken to Auschwitz at 18 years old, where she ate "sawdust salami", and had to eat and poop out the same bowl. Sometimes, she ate grass and frogs.
She claims the Nazis had killed 2 million Polish jews by 1941, and that holocausting jews by bullets was too costly because they needed the bullets for the war, so the Germans built the "death camps."
Cernyak-Spatz says the Germans were so determined to kill every last jew that "trains carrying Jews to the death camps were given priority even over troop trains carrying soldiers to battle." Is that a contradiction from her claim about not holocausting by bullets due to the priority of the war effort?...moving on.
The Germans told the Jews to wear lots of clothes for work, and then they gassed them, and stole the Jews' clothes. According to Susan, "for the years during the war, the whole German nation was clothed from the clothing of dead Jews."
Death in the Birkenau gas chambers took only 8 minutes, says Susan, and the Nazis used jew hair to "stuff mattresses, for insulation, and wove it into cloth." Between 1,500 and 2,000 Jews died in the chambers at Birkenau every day. Some jews even volunteered and went to the gas chambers willingly!
Then Susan almost died from typhus. Susan also survived scabies, scarlet fever, and hepatitis. It's a miracle she survived. Because the Nazis gassed everyone who got sick.
When they abandoned the camp with the Soviets advancing, for some reason Susan can not explain, the camp commandant opened up the warehouse, and told the Jews to take the warmest clothes they could find. Even though the Germans were trying to kill all the Jews.
Then they Death Marched Susan to Berlin. But Susan didn't die, so they Death Marched her again. Then the Nazi's turned the Jews over to the Allies.
Susan tells us the sacred 6 million will "die again if they are forgotten."
As the story goes, Susan was taken to Auschwitz at 18 years old, where she ate "sawdust salami", and had to eat and poop out the same bowl. Sometimes, she ate grass and frogs.
She claims the Nazis had killed 2 million Polish jews by 1941, and that holocausting jews by bullets was too costly because they needed the bullets for the war, so the Germans built the "death camps."
Cernyak-Spatz says the Germans were so determined to kill every last jew that "trains carrying Jews to the death camps were given priority even over troop trains carrying soldiers to battle." Is that a contradiction from her claim about not holocausting by bullets due to the priority of the war effort?...moving on.
The Germans told the Jews to wear lots of clothes for work, and then they gassed them, and stole the Jews' clothes. According to Susan, "for the years during the war, the whole German nation was clothed from the clothing of dead Jews."
Death in the Birkenau gas chambers took only 8 minutes, says Susan, and the Nazis used jew hair to "stuff mattresses, for insulation, and wove it into cloth." Between 1,500 and 2,000 Jews died in the chambers at Birkenau every day. Some jews even volunteered and went to the gas chambers willingly!
Then Susan almost died from typhus. Susan also survived scabies, scarlet fever, and hepatitis. It's a miracle she survived. Because the Nazis gassed everyone who got sick.
When they abandoned the camp with the Soviets advancing, for some reason Susan can not explain, the camp commandant opened up the warehouse, and told the Jews to take the warmest clothes they could find. Even though the Germans were trying to kill all the Jews.
Then they Death Marched Susan to Berlin. But Susan didn't die, so they Death Marched her again. Then the Nazi's turned the Jews over to the Allies.
Susan tells us the sacred 6 million will "die again if they are forgotten."
Woman captivates students with tales of life in Nazi death camp
BY SCOTT JENKINS
Salisbury Post
May 13, 2000
LANDIS — “My number is 34042.”
Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz can never forget that number. Living through two years in a Nazi death camp during World War II carved it on her mind like Adolf Hitler’s Nazis tattooed it in blue on her left forearm.
Cernyak-Spatz survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Germany’s five death camps, where Hitler’s soldiers carried out what they called “The Final Solution” and what the world knows as the Holocaust.
Six million European Jews died at the hands of Hitler’s minions. At Birkenau, one of three main camps at Auschwitz, they perished mostly in gas chambers made up to look like large shower buildings, their bodies burned in one of four crematoria.
The Nazis killed 5.5 million non-Jews as well, including gypsies, homosexuals and Christians who opposed Hitler. But with no group did they deal so calculatedly as Jews.
Cernyak-Spatz was, she says, lucky. When she arrived at Birkenau in 1943, she was 18 years old and childless, good for labor. Preteen girls, women past their mid-30s and women with children went straight to the gas chamber, she said.
It began on a platform where the Nazis forced Jews out of train box cars into which they’d been packed like cattle for travel to the camp. There, Jews experienced the first of what they would come to know and fear as daily “selections.”
To the sixth-graders to whom she spoke at Corriher-Lipe Middle School on Thursday, the Holocaust may seem as historically distant as this country’s Civil War, Cernyak-Spatz said. But in her memory, the horror of it is “just like yesterday.”
No reason
Cernyak-Spatz, a small woman with a big voice and short-cropped brown hair, is a retired language professor. She still teaches one course a year on the Holocaust at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and travels extensively speaking about it.
She stressed to Corriher-Lipe students on Thursday that the Holocaust was not a single event, but an efficiently conceived and executed process that began “the minute Adolf Hitler came to power” as Germany’s dictator in 1933.
To rally the German people, pull the country out of depression and set the nation on a path toward realizing his own dreams of Aryan conquest, Hitler needed a scapegoat, she said. He chose the Jews, who he called a race, not the religious group they are.
“He didn’t exterminate a race,” Cernyak-Spatz said of Hitler. “He exterminated innocent babies, old people, young people, brilliant writers, brilliant artists, brilliant scientists ... for no other reason than he wanted it.”
The label didn’t matter. Hitler had found his sacrifice. And beginning with a propaganda machine that cranked out anti-Semitic tracts emblazoned with the motto “The Jews Are Our Undoing,” he set out to slaughter that scapegoat.
Because they were Jews
Cernyak-Spatz lived with her family in Vienna, Austria, until 1938, when the Nazis marched into the city. The invading army “mercilessly beat and mistreated the Jews,” she said. Eventually, the Germans told the Jews to leave immediately.
The family fled, leaving almost everything they owned behind — from the clothes in their closets to the food in their refrigerator. They landed in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
But the Germans followed. And this time, they had a list of every Jew in the city and had begun the mass killings, murdering nearly 2 million Jews in Poland by 1941, Cernyak-Spatz said.
The invaders ordered the Jews in Prague to turn over their property, because “from the Jews, they could rob without anybody stopping them,” Cernyak-Spatz said. And they robbed them of everything, down to gold fillings.
Then the soldiers started killing them. At first, German SS soldiers forced Jews to dig a pit, then lined them up and knocked them into the pit with bullets from their machine guns — line after line of Jews.
“But that got a little too traumatic for the poor SS men,” Cernyak-Spatz said, her slightly-drawn mouth curling sarcastically. “I felt very sorry for them.”
It also cost a lot of ammunition, which the German army decided it couldn’t afford with a war going on. So the Nazis looked for a more efficient means of mass murder.
They settled first on trucks, into which they packed Jews and ran carbon monoxide exhaust. But they could only kill about 150 people at a time that way, so they built the death camps.
The first selection
So fierce was Hitler’s hatred, trains carrying Jews to the death camps were given priority even over troop trains carrying soldiers to battle, Cernyak-Spatz said. When she stepped off the train and onto the platform at Birkenau, the results assaulted her senses.
“The first thing you noticed was an absolutely incredible stink,” she said. The noxious, sickly sweet odor hung in the air with a dusky vapor billowing from smokestacks and staining the distant sky, she said.
Then, the selection began. The Nazis separated families, those who could work to one side, those who couldn’t to another. The second group loaded onto trucks.
The women on the trucks asked where they were going. Don’t worry the drivers told them, you will be reunited with your families.
After a nice hot shower.
“Then they took them directly in the direction of that smoke,” Cernyak-Spatz said. Soon, those who survived learned what burned in those buildings.
Guards led prisoners into the large buildings, told them to take off their clothes, hang them on hooks. And remember, tie your shoe laces together, they said, so you don’t lose a shoe.
The Nazis had told Jews to dress in their warmest clothes for the journey to the “work” camps, Cernyak-Spatz said. After the gas chambers, they gathered those clothes for their own use.
For the years during the war, “that is how the whole German nation was clothed ... in the clothing and property of dead Jews,” she said.
Inside Birkenau
The mass killings in the gas chambers took only about eight minutes, Cernyak-Spatz said. For those not selected to die right away, death could come more slowly, usually after a couple of months of hard labor and near starvation.
At Birkenau, the Nazis took their prisoners’ clothes and gave them the uniforms of dead Russian soldiers to wear. The uniforms had bullet holes in them and were spattered with blood.
They gave them one pair of shoes that, like the uniform, would be the only pair most got. Unlucky women got clogs, Cernyak-Spatz said, because those were easily lost in the always-muddy camp and tended to rub blisters that became infected sores.
“Infection in Birkenau went directly into gangrene,” she said. “And you were ready for the gas.”
The Nazis shaved their prisoners and stuffed the hair into mattresses, used it for insulation and wove it into cloth.
Then they tattooed the Jews’ forearms with the numbers that replaced their names, became their identities.
Newly arrived prisoners got a bowl — only a bowl, no utensils. They used it to eat and drink. And when they had to, when a guard wouldn’t let them use a bucket outside at night, to eliminate their own bodily waste.
When they had to do that, they dumped the waste out beside their bunks, which were stacked three high. Cernyak-Spatz said one of the first lessons at Birkenau was “to find a top bunk.”
The barracks were built to hold 300 women, but at any given time they housed between 600 and 800, sleeping two or three to a bunk, she said. If they could sleep through the constant moaning, crying, screaming and pain.
The camps provided a steady flow of slave labor for factories that German companies convinced the army to build near the camps, she said. When one worker gave out, he or she went straight to the gas chamber, and another took his or her place.
Men or women, it usually took two to three months for a person to give out under the strain of the labor, little sleep, sickness and near starvation.
Prisoners got a meager bread ration, “sawdust salami” and little else. “Interesting things looked edible ... some grasses, some weeds, live frogs,” Cernyak-Spatz recalled.
‘Dying was easy’
Each day, the prisoners lined up outside their barracks. Each day brought a new selection. The sick and prisoners too weak to march in line went to the gas chamber.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 Jews died in the chambers at Birkenau every day. Some went willingly, Cernyak-Spatz said.
“Dying was so easy,” she said.
But she was determined not to die. Other women carried her when she couldn’t walk with typhoid fever. All she could do was keep her eyes wide open, because the Nazis looked for “apathetic eyes” in the selections.
She also survived scabies, hepatitis, scarlet fever and probably other illnesses, she said.
She met a woman in her barracks who worked inside the camp’s administrative building. She helped Cernyak-Spatz get a job there, too.
Because the officers didn’t want to be exposed to the vermin and disease rampant in the camp, they gave the women who worked for them a set of clothes once a month and let them shower a couple of times a week, she said.
It also kept the women from walking through the selection every morning, she said. And that gave them hope.
“Maybe another month, another month, the war would end,” she said. “Regardless, if you didn’t have to walk through the selection in the morning, you were possible for survival.”
She worked in the offices for two years, from January 1943 until January 1945, when the Nazis told all the prisoners they were leaving the camp. With the Russian army advancing, they went on a forced march through deep snow and no roads deeper into Germany.
“The order of the day for that march was a bullet in the head for anyone who couldn’t walk,” she said.
For a reason Cernyak-Spatz can’t explain, the camp commandant told the prisoners to take the warmest clothes they could find from the warehouse for the march. About 500 prisoners survived.
Cernyak-Spatz also survived a second march from another camp near Berlin, where the Nazis turned her over with other Jews to the advancing Allied armies.
Remember
After the war, she found her father in Brussels, Belgium. He had been protected by a camp commandant because of his status as a World War I officer in the German army, she said.
Her mother did not survive the death camps.
In 1946, she came to the United States and began a new life. But she’ll never forget the life she led, and the death she escaped, in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
She doesn’t want others to forget the horrors of the Holocaust.
That’s why, though some survivors of Auschwitz had their tattoos removed, she never will.
That’s why she stood patiently on Thursday pulling up her shirt sleeve to show the sixth-graders the blue tattoo on her left forearm: 34042.
“We can’t allow them to be forgotten,” she said of the 6 million, “and die again by being forgotten.”
Americans only allowed to land on one Airport in Pakistan
Government of Pakistan has banned the enterance of Americans in Pakistan from all the air ports except Benazir Bhutto International Airport of Islamabad. American can now only Enter into Pakistan from this Airport. It was reported by The Nation.
This step is taken by Government of Pakistan after the increasting anger in Public on the report of Intelligence agencies. This may be due to pressure of Pakistan army and ISI that Goverment has taken this step. Pakistani public anger towards America is increasing due to Americans wrong activities in Pakistan and also due to Increasing Terrorism.
This step is taken by Government of Pakistan after the increasting anger in Public on the report of Intelligence agencies. This may be due to pressure of Pakistan army and ISI that Goverment has taken this step. Pakistani public anger towards America is increasing due to Americans wrong activities in Pakistan and also due to Increasing Terrorism.
Indian Nuclear Weapons a big danger to the world
International media keeps on speaking about the Nuclear Weapons of Pakistan that they are unsafe but they never talked about the safety of Indian nuclear weapons are they safe? Check the video Indian Nuclear Weapons a big danger to the world.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Zaid Hamid Youm Allama Iqbal Special on Dunya News
Pakistan released 100 Indian fisherman
Pakistan has released 100 Indian fisherman yesterday who where caught for violating the Pakistani sea space. These Fisherman are released on humanitarian grounds by Pakistan but India not shown any positive response to it yet. there are thousands of innocent Pakistani's in Indian Jails who are in jails from decades some even from 1965. i watched tv interview of a mother whose son went to India for watching Cricket series but never came back as he was arrested in India. watching that mother condition even brought tears in my eyes.
Even if sometimes some people are released by India they are so much torchered that they become mentally ill. many times dead bodies comes back from India. while releasing the terrorist Kashmir Singh and stopping the death orders of Terrorist Sarbjeet Singh are signs of Pakistan big heart. India must also think about it.
Even if sometimes some people are released by India they are so much torchered that they become mentally ill. many times dead bodies comes back from India. while releasing the terrorist Kashmir Singh and stopping the death orders of Terrorist Sarbjeet Singh are signs of Pakistan big heart. India must also think about it.
Indian army attacks Muharram Jalooses in Occupied Kashmir
Indian army attacks different Muharram Jalooses in Kashmir that where held on 7th and 8th Muharram. Indian Soldiers attack the Jalooses in Sri Nagar, Kupvara, Hundvara and many other places and torchered the people and detained hundred of Kashmiri,s. People raised slogans of La ilaha illallah when Indian army attacked the Jaloos in Sri Nagar.
Indian army fired in air and tear gases to break the Jalooses. Jalooses of 9th and 10th Muharram are also banned by Indian Puppet Government of Occupied Kashmir which is also a slap on face of Indian so called democracy that they have actually attacked the religious freedom of Kashmir.
Indian army fired in air and tear gases to break the Jalooses. Jalooses of 9th and 10th Muharram are also banned by Indian Puppet Government of Occupied Kashmir which is also a slap on face of Indian so called democracy that they have actually attacked the religious freedom of Kashmir.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Indian Home Minister Chidambaram Declares Jihad = Terrorism
Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram has declared Jihad as Terrorism. He was addressing to Indian Intelligence Bureau and in his lecture of 40 minutes he made very objectionable comments against Jihad. He said that Jihad objective is war against non Muslims.
He declared Jihad the main reason and inventing of Terrorism speaking against Islamic point of view about Jihad. The word comes from the word Jahda which means to strive and struggle and in Islamic context it means to struggle in way of Islam. Jihad never means killing any non muslim. Holy Quran also makes clear that killing any innocent is Haram whether he is Muslim or Non Muslim. Jihad with sword means to fight against Injustice not to kill innocents. Holy Quran says Whoever kills any innocent human being its like he killed the whole of humanity. i can show you hundreds of verses like it in Quran and sayings of Prophet Muhammad saw.
Mr Chidambaram you must read the Quran and Sayings of Holy Prophet Saw about Jihad before passing any comments against Jihad. and try to watch the main reasons of terrorism instead of blaming Islam.
He declared Jihad the main reason and inventing of Terrorism speaking against Islamic point of view about Jihad. The word comes from the word Jahda which means to strive and struggle and in Islamic context it means to struggle in way of Islam. Jihad never means killing any non muslim. Holy Quran also makes clear that killing any innocent is Haram whether he is Muslim or Non Muslim. Jihad with sword means to fight against Injustice not to kill innocents. Holy Quran says Whoever kills any innocent human being its like he killed the whole of humanity. i can show you hundreds of verses like it in Quran and sayings of Prophet Muhammad saw.
Mr Chidambaram you must read the Quran and Sayings of Holy Prophet Saw about Jihad before passing any comments against Jihad. and try to watch the main reasons of terrorism instead of blaming Islam.
Brasstacks with Zaid Hamid on Quaid Azam
Special Episode of Brasstacks with Zaid Hamid on Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. who was Quaid azam, his achievements and did he wanted to make Pakistan an Islamic state?
Friday, December 25, 2009
China says sale of arms to Pakistan is not a big Deal
China is defending its warships submarines sale to Pakistan. Chinese Officials has said that when India is getting the military equipment support from Russia, US and Israel then what is wrong in providing military equipment to Pakistan.
Indian are as usual showing concerns on these Pak China military cooperation while it is seeking equipments from three big countries.So India must watch towards its own Face before pointing fingers at others. China is a true friend of Pakistan which is providing Pakistan with complete help in field of Defense and many other fields as well.
Indian are as usual showing concerns on these Pak China military cooperation while it is seeking equipments from three big countries.So India must watch towards its own Face before pointing fingers at others. China is a true friend of Pakistan which is providing Pakistan with complete help in field of Defense and many other fields as well.
Merry Christmas Everybody
I'm so much like a kid, I can never sleep late on Christmas morning. We got about a foot of snow yesterday, so we are having a very white Christmas.
Celebrating the Quaid Azam day 25 December
Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born on 25 December 1876. Mohammad Ali Jinnah with qualities of his leadership fought to get the independence from British and Hindus to make a separate state for Muslims of Sub-continent where they can live with freedom.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah said:
Pakistan means not just freedom and the independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which we hope other will share with us. Pakistan is proud of her youth, particularly the students, who are nation builders of tomorrow. They must fully equip themselves by discipline, education, and training for the arduous task lying ahead of them.
Janoon se aur Ishq se milti hai Azadi
Anti Pakistan and anti Muslim party Bjp's leader Jaswant Singh words for Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Vijay Lakshmi Pundit's statement: if Muslim league had one hundred Gandhi,s and two hundred Abul Kalams and congress had only one MUHAMAD ALI JINNAH India would have never been partitioned.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah said:
Pakistan means not just freedom and the independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which we hope other will share with us. Pakistan is proud of her youth, particularly the students, who are nation builders of tomorrow. They must fully equip themselves by discipline, education, and training for the arduous task lying ahead of them.
Janoon se aur Ishq se milti hai Azadi
Anti Pakistan and anti Muslim party Bjp's leader Jaswant Singh words for Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Vijay Lakshmi Pundit's statement: if Muslim league had one hundred Gandhi,s and two hundred Abul Kalams and congress had only one MUHAMAD ALI JINNAH India would have never been partitioned.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
More Than 1 Lakh private security constructor working in Afghanistan: Riz Khan
There are more then 1 lakh private security constructor black water, Xe Services etc are operating inside Afghanistan. Barack Obama has doubled the numbers of private security constructor as compared to Bush in Afghanistan. These private security constructor are working as a parallel CIA in Afghanistan. These security constructor do secret operations to eliminate Alqeda and Taliban leaders and members in Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan.
Riz Khan speaks to Aljazeera on this topic
Riz Khan speaks to Aljazeera on this topic
MUST READ: "Blueprint for Bondage" by Scott D. McQuate
I read this book almost two years ago, and it is probably the most eye-opening and important book (aside from the Bible), I've read. It is from the "Christian Identity" perspective and for the serious truthseeker, with stunning insights into the true meanings of the Scriptures (which have been hidden by deceptive translations), including much information that will be new and challenging even to those immersed in CI (eg, exposing a certain false apostle). I would also highly recommend it for those who are agnostic or irreligious, as the book provides key knowledge regarding the origin of the "NWO conspiracy" (ie, the Edomite Jews who are the sons of Cain, who was the son of Satan). The author is "on target" on virtually every issue, covering a wide range of topics critical to the "Christian" truly seeking to obey YHWH.
Info on the book from the official website:
Blueprint For Bondage Has Already Been Highly Acclaimed And Heralded As A Classic By Readers All Around The World. It Is The Result Of Years Of Painstaking Research By A PhD Candidate From Ohio Who Stunned His Professors By Uncovering An Ancient Coded Message, Written By Freemasons, Within The Ancient Hebrew Language Of The Bible, Exposing The Intentional Deception And Destruction Of The Unwitting Masses During What The Bible Refers To As The Last Days.
Reviews:
"A HIGHLY INTERESTING AND POWERFULLY ILLUMINATING WORK. Sin, the breaking of God's Law on the national level, as well as the personal, has shattering effects which move out into the world like ripples on a pond and form the bonds of our own slavery. Everything from economic laws to the consequences of multiculturalism are discussed on the literal level with a fascinating symbolic examination of the Song of Solomon. AN ABSOLUTELY EYE-OPENING BOOK! McQUATE HAS HIT ONE OUT OF THE PARK. A MUST READ!"
- Scott Michaels
Geophysicist, Theologian, Teacher, Author of How We Should Then Live and The Mid-Night-Morning Trilogy
"THIS IS A MUST READ BOOK for serious Bible researchers who are seeking a deeper understanding of the real events of the Garden in Eden. For many, the Song of Solomon was only an interesting curiosity without any importance or significance outside of its own content. Not only has McQuate shared his new insights on the Song of Solomon but he has also joined the ranks of other pioneers in exposing the apostasy of the false prophet in the Bible in the process."
- Tom Miller
Writer, Researcher, Theologia
"I DON'T HAVE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS BOOK, EXCEPT THAT IT IS A MUST READ for any member of the Bride of Yashua that wants to know the truth. McQuate exposes the lies that the majority of the members of Yashua's Bride don't even know about.Thank you for writing such a life changing book and YHWH bless you.
- Wessel H.
IN BLUEPRINT FOR BONDAGE YOU WILL LEARN:
* What actually happened in the Garden in Eden and why it's been covered up!
* What secret society has infiltrated the church (yes, YOUR church) for the Bride's destruction
* The real reasons for the disease of division in the Church and in America
* How God's people and Americans in general have been intentionally deceived for their planned destruction
* The real reasons for Global Warming . . . they're not what you think!
* Why the movie War Of The Worlds is not just fantasy!
* Why aliens are real and who those about to arrive on our world truly are!
* Why the financial climate in America will only get worse - quickly!
* Why you need to prepare for the collapse of America and the world . . . and how!
* That there is a false prophet who has infiltrated the Bible and who he is . . . you will be shocked!
* How this false prophet's destructive doctrines are almost exclusively taught by the church today
* Who God's chosen people are in the Bible and today . . . they're not who you think!
* The never-before-seen hidden message of Solomon, now uncovered by the author!
* How to avoid the devastating and soul-stealing lies preached in today's churches
* How to protect yourself and your family in the coming chaotic days . . .
* And how all of these topics fit together for the endtime plan to destroy God's people and those living with her in Mystery Babylon!
Here is an excerpt from the book:
In the Aramaic Targum, pseudo-Jonathan, which shows us that Genesis 4:1 has obviously been tampered with at some point by these evil infiltrators. It should actually be read as follows; And Adam knew his wife Eve, who was pregnant by Sammael (Satan), and she conceived and bare Cain, and he was like the heavenly beings, and not like the earthly beings, and she said, I have gotten a man from the angel of the Lord. Lest there be any doubt in the readers mind as to the identity of Sammael in this passage, we read in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, according to Jewish theology…the destroyer or angel of death appears under the name Sammael (i.e. the poison of God), who was once an arch-angel before the throne of God, and who caused the serpent to tempt Eve. According to Weber, he is not to be distinguished from Satan.
These and other aberrations of our nearly worshipped King James translation of the Bible are not surprising however, as there has been a concerted effort to thwart the purposes of YHWH throughout scripture. This situation is no different. The Holy Scriptures of YHWH seem to be vulnerable to these evil men’s tactics, just as are his people.
We can read where YHWH warns us of such an infiltration, when we read in Jude verse 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares (secretly), who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness (literally unbridled lust, as in the garden), and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
For further support of this idea of Biblical tampering, we read Sir Thomas Moore’s words in reference to Tyndale, in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, (Tyndale) was guilty of intentionally mistranslating the Bible. And Tyndale’s translations were one thing that eventually led to his death at the stake!
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, in their book entitled The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception also support this idea of deception and tampering by saying, There is virtually unanimous agreement among all the concerned parties … that the history of Dead Sea Scroll scholarship does constitute a scandal. And there would seem to be little doubt that something irregular … lurks behind the delays, the procrastinations, the equivocation, the restrictions on material.
According to UN Pakistan is ahead of India in literacy rate
UNFPA is an agency of United Nations which has issued a report recently that Pakistan is far ahead of India in literacy rate while Indian literacy rate is really bad.
But still the literacy rate in our country is not very high. we must take some strong steps in increasing literacy rate. But for this Government will have to work seriously and also realize the people how important education is.
But still the literacy rate in our country is not very high. we must take some strong steps in increasing literacy rate. But for this Government will have to work seriously and also realize the people how important education is.
White Stuff Falls From Sky
We've got a fire going in our little cabin in the woods. It's suppose to snow, up to 8", but Oklahoma Weather Forecasters are notorious for not being able to forecast snow very well. We hardly ever have a white Christmas but looks like we will this year. I'll try to get some pics, maybe the duct tape will hold for a little longer on the camera. (I'm hoping Santa will bring me a new one.)
More Than 90% Women of Delhi Feels Unsafe
India is a country in which there is high rate of Rape and Sexual harassment with women. Millions of Girls are aborted after identifying that they have female child due to which the women population is less than men which is resulting in rapes, Sexual harassment, unsafety and many other problems for women in India.
In a latest survey done by famous Indian News Channel Ndtv it was reported that More than 90% women of Indian Capital Delhi Feels unsafe.
In a latest survey done by famous Indian News Channel Ndtv it was reported that More than 90% women of Indian Capital Delhi Feels unsafe.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Pakistani Hockey Team in Argentina Disco with Fahash Girls
Hockey Is National Sports of Pakistan and was invented in Pakistan. There was a time when Pakistan was so strong in Hockey that it was even unthinkable to defeat the Pakistani Hockey team. Pakistan was winning world cup on world cups and big tournaments. Pakistan won first four Hockey world cup. but what is the condition of our Hockey today? World cup is a big think we even not won any big tournament in last 15 years.
As Pakistani Hocky Team was in Argentina for Champions cup but few days ago our Hocky Players where found in a disco of Salta a city of Argentina dancing, smiling, hugging and taking photos with Fahash bar girls who where in half naked dresses. its a shameful act.
First question is how a team representing a Muslim country can do this? and secondly they where enjoying for what? for losing to India in Champions cup? what great work they did for which they where enjoying? Pakistani Officials must take hard notice on this matter so that no player ever think of doing this again.
its one of the Photo of Goal Keeper Mohammad Arshad sitting with a Girl in Disco. Sharam magar tum ko nahi aati.
As Pakistani Hocky Team was in Argentina for Champions cup but few days ago our Hocky Players where found in a disco of Salta a city of Argentina dancing, smiling, hugging and taking photos with Fahash bar girls who where in half naked dresses. its a shameful act.
First question is how a team representing a Muslim country can do this? and secondly they where enjoying for what? for losing to India in Champions cup? what great work they did for which they where enjoying? Pakistani Officials must take hard notice on this matter so that no player ever think of doing this again.
its one of the Photo of Goal Keeper Mohammad Arshad sitting with a Girl in Disco. Sharam magar tum ko nahi aati.
50 Years of Cooling Predicted
Andrew Bolt Blog
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Who said the science was settled?
Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper.
In his paper, Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy, shows how CFCs – compounds once widely used as refrigerants – and cosmic rays – energy particles originating in outer space – are mostly to blame for climate change, rather than carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. His paper, derived from observations of satellite, ground-based and balloon measurements as well as an innovative use of an established mechanism, was published online in the prestigious journal Physics Reports.
”My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global warming seen in the late 20th century,” Lu said. “Instead, the observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely caused both the Antarctic ozone hole and global warming….”
In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.
If Lu is right, the US can expect more winters like this one, with more than half the country now covered in snow:
"After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation" by Giles MacDonogh
About the book
Description
When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, the Allied powers converged on Germany and divided it into four zones of occupation. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. Rape was rampant. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, Germany was literally starving to death. Over a million German prisoners of war died in captivity, where they were subjected to inadequate rations and often tortured. All told, an astounding 2.25 million German civilians died violent deaths in the period between the liberation of Vienna and the Berlin airlift. A shocking account of a massive and vicious military occupation, After the Reich offers a bold reframing of the history of World War II and its aftermath. Historian Giles MacDonogh has unearthed a record of brutality which has been largely ignored by historians or, worse, justified as legitimate retaliation for the horror of the Holocaust. Drawing on a vast array of contemporary firstperson accounts, MacDonogh has finally given a voice to tens of millions of civilians who, lucky to survive the war, found themselves struggling to survive a hellish peace.
Reviews
Throughout time it has been the victor who has written history, but here historian MacDonogh examines the darker side of the Allied occupation of defeated Germany . . . Of interest to students of modern Europe, complementing W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction (2003) and other studies of history from the point of view of the vanquished.
— Kirkus Reviews
MacDonogh has written a grueling but important book. This unhappy story has long been cloaked in silence since telling it suited no one. Not the Allies, because it placed them near the moral nadir of the Nazis; nor the Germans, because they did not wish to be accused of whitewashing Hitler by highlighting what was, by any standard, a war crime. Giles MacDonogh has told a very inconvenient truth.
— Nigel Jones Sunday Telegraph (London)
VE Day on May 8, 1945 mocked the subsequent condition of Europe. As crowds in London, Paris and New York celebrated the declaration of peace, much more misery and death lay ahead. Two, perhaps three million Germans perished in the years that followed: in captivity; from hunger and casual violence; and above all, during the expulsions of ethnic Germans from the east, which the western Allies had agreed with the Russians before hostilities ended. Giles MacDonogh's book chronicles this saga from the liberation of Vienna to the 1948 Berlin Airlift and 1949 formation of Konrad Adenauer's government in Bonn. It makes grimmer reading than most war stories, because there is little redemptive courage or virtue. Here is a catalogue of pillage, rape, starvation, inhumanity and suffering on a titanic scale.... [AFTER THE REICH] book brings together many stories that deserve to be much better known in the West.
— Max Hastings Sunday Times (London)
Full book online
Review of the book (with mention of the work of others in this area, including Ralph Franklin Keeling and James Bacque). Lengthy, but very good read.
Revisiting the "Good War's" Aftermath: Emerging Truth in an Ocean of Myth
Dwight D. Murphey
Wichita State University, retired
[This article was published in the Spring 2009 issue of The Journal
of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 95-110.]
Part I
Those who honestly chronicle human events, present or past, are a rare and honorable breed. We should certainly ennoble them within the pantheon of our earthly gods. As we do so, we will no doubt include those who, not out of alienation against the West or the United States or its people but out of a thirst for truth, are bringing to light the awful events that followed in the wake of World War II (as well as the enormities that were committed as part of the way in which the war was fought against civilian populations, although that is a subject we won't be exploring here).
That war has been known among Americans as "the good war," and those who fought it as "the greatest generation." But now, slowly, we are hit by the realities so commonplace to a complex human existence: there was much that was not good, and along with the self-sacrifice and high intentions there was much that was venal and brutal. These realities are coming to the surface because there are some scholars, at least, who are aware that an ocean of wartime propaganda spawns a myth that continues for several decades and who have a commitment to truth that overrides the many inducements to conform to the myth.
This article began as a simple review of Giles MacDonogh's book that is identified above. His book is largely of the myth-breaking sort I have just praised. Because, however, there is valuable additional material that I am loath to leave unmentioned, I have expanded it to include other information and authors, although leaving it primarily a review of After the Reich.
MacDonogh's is a puzzling book, both brave and craven, mostly (but not entirely) worthy of the high praise we must give to incorruptible scholars. As we have noted, the American public has long thought of the Allied effort in World War II as a "great crusade" that pitted good and decency against Nazi evil. Even after all these years, it is likely that the last thing the public wants to learn is that vast and unspeakable wrongs were committed by both the Western Allies and the Soviet Union during the war and its aftermath. It flies in the face of that reluctance for MacDonogh to tell "the brutal history" at great length.
That willingness is commendable for its intellectual bravery. In light of it, it is puzzling that even as he does so he puts a gloss over that history, in effect continuing in part a cover-up of historic proportions that has been fixed in place by the overhang of wartime propaganda for almost two-thirds of a century.
The great value of his book thus cannot be found in its completeness or its strict candor, but rather in its providing something of a bridge-albeit quite an extensive one-that can start conscientious readers toward further study of an immensely important subject.
For this article, it will be valuable to begin by summarizing the history MacDonogh relates (and to add somewhat to it). It is only after doing this that we will discuss what MacDonogh obscures. All of this will then lead to some concluding reflections.
In his Preface, MacDonogh says his purpose is to "expose the victorious Allies in their treatment of the enemy at peace, for in most cases it was not the criminals who were raped, starved, tortured or bludgeoned to death but women, children and old men." Although this suggests the tone of the book will be one of outrage, the narrative is in the main informative rather than polemical.
MacDonogh's scholarly background includes several books of German and French history and biography (as well as four books on wine).
The expulsions (today called "ethnic cleansing").
At the end of the war, MacDonogh tells us, "as many as 16.5 million Germans were driven from their homes." 9.3 million were expelled from the eastern portion of Germany, which was made a part of Poland.
(Both the eastern and western boundaries of Poland were drastically shifted westward by agreement of the allies, with Poland taking an important part of Germany and the Soviet Union taking eastern Poland.) The other 7.2 million were forced from their ancestral homes in Central Europe where they had lived for generations.
This mass expulsion was settled upon in the Potsdam Agreement in mid-1945, although the Agreement did make it explicit that the ethnic cleansing was to take place "in the most humane manner possible." Churchill was among those who supported it as conducive "to lasting peace."
In fact, the process was so inhumane that it amounted to one of history's great atrocities. MacDonogh reports that "some two and a quarter million would die during the expulsions." This is at the lower end of such estimates, which range from 2.1 million to 6.0 million, if we take only the expellees into account. Konrad Adenauer, very much a friend of the West, found himself able to say that among those expelled "six million GermansS are dead, gone."[1] We will be seeing MacDonogh's account of the starvation and exposure to extreme cold to which the post-war population of Germany was subject, and it is worth mentioning at this point (even though it goes beyond the expulsions) that the historian James Bacque says that "the comparison of the censuses has shown us that some 5.7 million people disappeared inside Germany between October 1946 [a year and a half after the war ended] and September 1950S."[2]
What MacDonogh calls "the greatest maritime tragedy of all time" occurred when the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff, carrying Germans from Danzig in January 1945, was sunk with "anything up to 9,000 people,S many of them children." In mid-1946, "pictures show some of the 586,000 Bohemian Germans packed in box cars like sardines." At another point MacDonogh tells how "the refugees were often packed so tightly that they could not move to defecate and emerged from the trucks covered with excrement. Many were dead on arrival." [This calls to mind the scenes described so vividly in Volume I of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.] In Silesia, "streams of civilians were forced from their homes at gunpoint." A priest estimated that a quarter of the German population of one Lower Silesian town killed itself, as entire families committed suicide together.
The condition of the German population--starvation and extreme cold. Germans refer to 1947 as Hungerjahr, the "year of hunger," but MacDonogh says that "even by the winter of 1948 the situation had not been remedied." People ate dogs, cats, rats, frogs, snails, nettles, acorns, dandelion roots and wild mushrooms in a feverish effort to survive. In 1946, the calories provided in the U.S. Zone of Germany dropped to 1,313 by March 18 from the mere 1,550 provided earlier. Victor Gollancz, a British and Jewish author and publisher, objected that "we are starving the Germans."[3] This is similar to the statement made by Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana in a speech to the U. S. Senate on February 5, 1946: "For nine months now this administration has been carrying on a deliberate policy of mass starvationS."[4] MacDonogh tells us that the Red Cross, Quakers, Mennonites and others wanted to bring in food, but "in the winter of 1945 donations were returned with the recommendation that they be used in other war-torn parts of Europe." In the American zone of Berlin, "it was American policy that nothing should be given away and everything should be thrown away. So those German women who worked for the Americans were fantastically well fed, but could take nothing home to their families or children." Bacque says "foreign relief agencies were prevented from sending food from abroad; Red Cross food trains were sent back to Switzerland; all foreign governments were denied permission to send food to German civilians; fertilizer production was sharply reducedS The fishing fleet was kept in port while people starved."[5]
Under the Russian occupation of East Prussia, MacDonogh sees "striking similarities" to Stalin's "deliberate starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks in the early 1930s." As in the Ukraine, "cases of cannibalism were reported, with people eating the flesh of their dead children."
The suffering from extreme cold mixed with the starvation to create misery and a heavy death toll. Even though the winter in 1945-6 was a normal one, "the terrible lack of coal and food was acutely felt." Abnormally cold winters struck in 1946-7 ("possibly the coldest in living memory") and 1948-9. In Berlin alone, 60,000 people were thought to have died within the first ten months after the end of the war; and "the following winter killed off an estimated 12,000 more." People lived in holes among the ruins, and "some Germans-particularly refugees from the east-were virtually naked."
In his book Gruesome Harvest: The Allies' Postwar War Against The German People, Ralph Franklin Keeling cites a quote from a "noted German pastor": "Thousands of bodies are hanging from trees in the woods around Berlin and nobody bothers to cut them down.
Thousands of corpses are carried into the sea by the Oder and Elbe Rivers-one doesn't notice it any longer. Thousands and thousands are starving in the highwaysS Children roam the highways aloneS."[6]
In his The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas told how in Yugoslavia Marshal Tito used camps as extermination centers to starve Germans.[7]
Mass rape-to which one must add the "voluntary sex" obtained from starving women.
The onslaught of rape by invading Russian forces is, of course, infamous. In the Russian zone of Austria, "rape was part of daily life until 1947 and many women were riddled with VD and had no means to cure it." MacDonogh tells us that "conservative estimates place the number of Berlin women raped at 20,000." When the British arrived in Berlin, "officers later recalled the shock of seeing the lakes in the prosperous west filled with the corpses of women who had committed suicide after being raped." The age of the victim made little difference, with those raped ranging from 12 to 75. Nurses and nuns were among the victims (some as many as fifty times). "The Russians were particularly hard on the nobles, setting fire to their manor houses and raping or killing the inhabitants." Although "most of the unwanted Russian children were aborted," MacDonogh says "it is estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 'Russian babies' survived." The Russians raped wherever they went, so that it wasn't just German women who were raped, but also women of Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, and Yugoslavia even though it was on the same side.
There was an official policy against rape, but it was so commonly ignored that "it was only in 1949 that Russian soldiers were presented with any real deterrent." Until then, "they were egged on by [Ilya] Ehrenburg and other Soviet propagandists who saw rape as an expression of hatred."
Although there was a "widespread incidence of rape by American soldiers," there was an enforced military policy against it, with "a number of American servicemen executed" for it. Criminal charges brought for rape "rose steadily" during the final months of the war, but declined sharply thereafter. What did continue was arguably almost as bad: the sexual exploitation of starving women who "voluntarily" sold sexual services for food. In Gruesome Harvest, Keeling quotes from an article in the Christian Century for December 5, 1945: "The American provost marshalS said that rape represents no problem for the military police because 'a bit of food, a bar of chocolate, or a bar of soap seems to make rape unnecessary.'"[8]
The extent of this is shown by the figure MacDonogh provides of an "estimated 94,000 Besatzungskinder or 'occupation children' [who] were born in the American zone." He says that in 1945-6 "many female children resorted to prostitution to survive. Boys, too, performed a service for Allied soldiers."
Keeling, writing for the 1947 publication of his book [which explains his use of the present tense], said there was "an upsurge in venereal diseases which has reached epidemic proportions," and went on to say that "a large proportion of the contamination has originated with colored American troops which we have stationed in great numbers in Germany and among whom the rate of venereal infection is many times greater than among white troops." In July 1946, he says, the annual rate of infection for white soldiers was 19%, for black troops 77.1%. He reiterated the point we are making here when he pointed to "the close connection between the venereal disease rate and availability of food."[9]
If MacDonogh mentions rape by British soldiers, it has escaped me. He does tell, however, of rape by Poles, the French, Tito's partisans, and displaced persons. In Danzig, "the Poles behaved as badly as the RussiansS It was the Poles who liberated the town of Teschen in the north [of Czechoslovakia] on 10 May. For five days they raped, looted, torched and killed." He writes of "French soldiers' behaviour in Stuttgart, where perhaps 3,000 women and eight men were raped," says "a further 500 women [were] raped in Vaihingen," and reports "three days of killing, plunder, arson and rape" in Freundenstadt. Of the displaced persons, he says that "there were around two million POWs and forced labourers from Russia who had formed into gangs and robbed and raped all over central Europe."
Part II
Treatment of the prisoners of war. In all, there were approximately eleven million German prisoners of war. One and a half million of these never returned home. MacDonogh expresses an appropriate outrage here: "To treat them with so little care that a million and a half died was scandalous."
The Red Cross had no role vis a vis those held by the Russians, since the Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva Convention. MacDonogh says the Russians made no distinction between German civilians and prisoners of war, although we know that a KGB report does sort them out for deaths and other purposes. At war's end, they held approximately four to five million within Russia (and here, again, the KGB archives are worth consulting, as historian James Bacque has done; they show a figure of 2,389,560). Large numbers were held for over ten years, being sent back to Germany only after Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow in 1956. Nevertheless, in 1979-34 years after the end of the war!-"there were believed to be 72,000 prisoners still alive in-chiefly Russian-custody." Some 90,000 German soldiers were captured at Stalingrad, but only 5,000 made it home.
The Americans made a distinction between the 4.2 million soldiers captured during the war, who were entitled to the shelter and subsistence called for by the Hague and Geneva Conventions, and the 3.4 million captured in the West at its end. MacDonogh says the latter were classified as "Surrendered Enemy Persons" (SEPs) or as "Disarmed Enemy Persons" (DEPs), and were denied the protections of the Conventions. He doesn't give a total figure for those who died in American custody, saying "it is not clear how many German soldiers died of starvation." He tells, however, of several situations: "The most notorious American POW camps were the so-called Rheinwiesenlager." Here, the Americans allowed "anything up to 40,000 German soldiers to die from hunger and neglect in the muddy flats of the Rhine." He says "any attempt to feed the prisoners by the German civilian population was punishable by death." Although the Red Cross was empowered to inspect, "the barbed wire surrounding the SEPs and DEPs was impenetrable."
Elsewhere, at "the Pioneers' Barracks in WormsS there were 30,000-40,000 prisoners sitting in the courtyard, jostling for space. With no protection from the rain they froze." The prisoners were starved at Langwasser, and at a "notorious camp" at Zuffenhausen where "for months lunch was turnip soup, with half a potato for dinner."
It would be a mistake to think that a world food shortage caused the United States to be unable to feed its prisoners. Bacque writes that "Captain Lee Berwick of the 424th Infantry who commanded the guard towers at Camp BretzenheimS told me, 'Food was piled up all round the camp fence.' Prisoners there saw crates piled up 'as high as bungalows.'"[10]
What MacDonogh tells us about Britain's treatment of German POWs seems conflicting. It had 391,880 prisoners working in Britain in 1946, and a total of 600 camps there in 1948. He says "the regime was not so hard, and in terms of percentages the number of men who died in British custody is strikingly low compared to the other Allies." Elsewhere, however, he tells how "the British could evade [the Geneva Convention's stipulation]S that they provide 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day," so that "for most of the time levels fell below 1,500 calories." The British had a camp in Belgium that "was meant to be particularly grueling." There, "conditions for the 130,000 prisoners were reported to be 'not much better than Belsen'S When the camp was inspected in April 1947 there were found to be just four functioning lightbulbsSthere was no fuel, no straw mattresses and no food apart from 'water soup.'"
A Reuters report in December 2005 adds an important dimension: "Britain ran a secret prison in Germany for two years after the end of World War II where inmates including Nazi party members were tortured and starved to death, the Guardian says.
Citing Foreign Office files that were opened after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, the newspaper says Britain had held men and woman [sic] at a prison in Bad Nenndorf until July 1947S 'Threats to execute prisoners, or to arrest, torture and murder their wives and children were considered "perfectly proper" on the grounds that such threats were never carried out,' the paper reports."[11]
The French wanted German labor to help rebuild the country, and for this purpose the British and Americans transferred about a million German soldiers to them. MacDonogh says "their treatment was particularly brutal." Not long after the war, according to the Red Cross, 200,000 of the prisoners were starving.
We are told of a camp "in the Sarthe [where] prisoners had to survive on 900 calories a day."
The stripping of the German economy. Allied leaders disagreed among themselves about the Morgenthau Plan to strip Germany bare of industrial assets and turn it into an agrarian country. The opposition of some and hesitation of others did not, however, prevent a de facto implementation of the plan. By the time the confiscation was ended, Germany was largely bereft of productive assets.
MacDonogh says that under the Russians "Berlin lost around 85 percent of its industrial capacity." Every machine was taken from Vienna. The ships were taken from the Danube, and "one Soviet priority was the seizure of any important works of art found in the capital [Vienna]. This was a fully planned operation." But "worse than the full-scale removal of the industrial base of the land was the abduction of men and women to develop industry in the Soviet Union."
Under the Americans, the dismantling of industrial sites continued until General Lucius Clay stopped it a year after war's end. Until Clay acted, Clause 6 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Order 1067 embodied the Morgenthau Plan. MacDonogh says that where "American official theft was carried out on a massive scale" was in "seizing scientists and scientific equipment."
The British took much for themselves and passed other industrial property on to "client states" such as Greece and Yugoslavia. The British royal family received Goering's yacht, and the British zone of Germany was stripped of "plants that might later offer competition with British industries." MacDonogh says "the BritishS had their own brand of organized theft in [something called] T-Force, which sought to glean any industrial wizardryS."
For their part, the French asserted "the right to plunder." "The FrenchS made no bones about pocketing a chlorine business in Rheinfelden, a viscose business in Rottweil, the Preussag mines or the chemicals groups Rhodia,"S and much more.
If the Plan had been fully implemented over a longer period of time, the effects would have been calamitous. Keeling, in Gruesome Harvest, says that by seeking "the permanent destruction of Germany's industrial heartland" it would have had as an "ineluctable consequenceS the death through starvation and disease of millions and tens of millions of Germans."[12]
The forced repatriation of Russians to Stalin. MacDonogh's book limits itself to the Allied occupation, but there are, of course, many other aspects of the aftermath of the war that deserve mention, although here we will limit ourselves to just one of them. (MacDonogh does give some details about it.) It is the Allied repatriation of captured Russians to the Soviet Union. In The Secret Betrayal, Nikolai Tolstoy tells how between 1943 and 1947, a total of 2,272,000 Russians were returned. The Soviets harvested 2,946,000 more from the parts of Europe taken by the Red Army. Those sent to the Soviet Union by the Western democracies included thousands of people who were Tsarist emigres and had never lived under the Soviet regime. Tolstoy says that even though there were many who did want to return to Russia (while many others desperately did not, and were sent back, in effect, kicking and screaming), they were uniformly brutalized, executed, raped or made into slaves. Some of the repatriates were Russians who had volunteered to fight for Germany against the Soviet Union and who were led by General Vlasov. Some were Cossacks, many of whom were not even Soviet citizens. The violent repatriations began in August 1945. Tolstoy recounts how deception, clubbings, bayonets, and even threats from a flame-throwing tank were employed to force the removal.[13]
Victors' justice. When the war was over, there was a consensus among the Allies' leaders that the top Nazis should be put to death. Some wanted immediate execution, others "a drumhead court martial." There was an odd virtue in the insistence by the British on following "legal forms," which is what was decided upon. The result was a series of trials with the trappings of normal judicial proceedings, but that were actually a travesty from the point of view of the "rule of law," lacking both the spirit and particulars of "due process." In two chapters, MacDonogh gives an account of the main Nuremberg trial and of the series of trials that continued for years afterwards. Among these, the Americans conducted several trials in Nuremberg after the main one; thousands of cases were brought before "denazification courts"; the German courts, after they were operational, continued the process; and of course we know of Israel's trial and execution of Eichmann.
There are many reasons to call it "victors' justice."
For it to have been otherwise, a truly impartial tribunal would have had to have been convened somewhere in the world (if such a thing had been possible in the aftermath of a world war), and war crimes committed by all sides prosecuted. But, of course, we know that such impartial justice was not in contemplation. In the Nuremberg indictment, the Nazis were charged with the mass killing of the Polish officer corps at the Katyn Forest, a charge that was discretely (and with great intellectual and "judicial" dishonesty) overlooked in the final judgment after it became clear to all that the Soviet Union had done the killing.[14] Another of the many possible examples would be that Nazi deportations were charged as both a war crime and a crime against humanity at Nuremberg. By contrast, no one was ever "brought to justice" for the Allies' expulsion of the millions of Germans from their ancestral homes in central Europe.
A source readers will find instructive. Because of the credibility of its source, the account given by U.S. Air Force Major (retired) Arthur D. Jacobs in his book The Prison Called Hohenasperg will be useful to readers as they absorb (and assess) the information contained in MacDonogh's book and those of the other authors referred to here. It is valuable as a story both of American brutality and American compassion.
Jacobs spent 22 years in the Air Force, retiring in 1973, and then became a member of the faculty at Arizona State University for another twenty years. His book tells the following personal story: His German parents emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1928 and 1929. They had two sons born in Brooklyn (who were hence U.S. citizens), one of them Arthur Jacobs. The boys lived their early years in Brooklyn, attending elementary school.
The family was taken and held for some time at Ellis Island near the end of the war, and was then interned for seven months at the Crystal City Internment Camp in Texas, where they were well treated. They were "voluntarily repatriated" to Germany (after being threatened with deportation) in October 1945, several months after Germany's surrender.
When they arrived in Germany, Jacobs' mother was sent to one camp, the father and two sons to another. The latter reached an internment camp in Hohenasperg after a 92-hour journey locked inside a boxcar in freezing weather with mostly women and children, fed only bread and water, and "without heat, without blankets, and without toilets, except for an open, stinking bucket." Jacobs himself was twelve, and turned thirteen during his week at Hohenasperg before he was sent to another camp at Ludwigsburg. At the Hohenasperg prison, he was placed under strict discipline as a prisoner, and guards threatened him repeatedly with hanging if he disobeyed.
The camp at Ludwigsburg was in effect a holding center pending release. It is informative that Jacobs tells us of the meager diet: "At breakfast we received one glass of 'gray' milk and one slice of black bread. There was no lunch meal." At supper, "each person received one bowl of soup..., mostly water flavored by bouillon. There were no second helpingsS I always had hunger pangs." While he and his brother were at Ludwigsburg, they were forced to watch films of German death camps.
The mother, father and brothers were released from their respective camps in mid-March 1946, and went to live with Jacobs' grandparents in the British Zone. They weren't welcomed by Germans they met, because "we were four more mouths to feed." Jacobs saw that "Germany was war-torn and starving." He was befriended by an American soldier, who got him a job with Graves Registration. He lost his job when the soldier was transferred, and it became a struggle to "live through this starvation period-the winter of 1946-1947." After much knocking about, he got another job with the American Army, this time in a motor pool. An American woman took an interest in him who knew of a ranch couple in southwest Kansas who would bring them to America to live with them. Accordingly, Jacobs and his brother left for the United States in October 1947. They had been in Germany for 21 months. It was eleven years before Jacobs saw his parents again. He went on, as we have said, to become a career officer in the U.S. Air Force. After obtaining his MBA at Arizona State University, he became an industrial engineer and later a member of the ASU faculty.
Part III
Germans
If MacDonogh wrote all that we have reported (and more) from his book, how can it be said that in important ways he continued the cover-up of such horrors, a cover-up that since 1945 has consigned them to a memory hole? This brings us to the book's deficiencies, which are of such a nature as to give readers a lessened realization of the extent of the atrocities and of who was responsible for them.
Most egregious is MacDonogh's treatment of the work of Canadian historian James Bacque, author of Other Losses and Crimes and Mercies. When he refers to the first of these books, he says that Bacque "claimed the French and Americans had killed a million POWs," a claim that "was called a work of 'monstrous speculation' and was dismissed by an American historian as an 'absurd thesis.'"
According to MacDonogh, "it has since been proved that Bacque misinterpreted the words 'other losses' on Allied charts to mean 'deaths'S." Accordingly, he speaks of "Bacque's red herring." So greatly does he dismiss Bacque that in a section on "Further Reading" at the end of the book, MacDonogh apparently forgets about Bacque entirely, saying that "on the treatment of POWs there is nothing in English, and the leading American expert-Arthur L. Smith-publishes in German."
I thought it fair to ask Bacque what his response is to MacDonogh's dismissal. Bacque replied that "the word speculation describes my critics well, because it is they who have not been in all the relevant archives and who have not interviewed the thousands of survivors who have written to newspapers, TV journalists and other authors about their near-death experiences in the camps of the Americans, French and Russians."
Far from admitting that he had misinterpreted the category of "Other Losses," Bacque says that "the meaning of the termS was explained to me by Colonel Philip S. Lauben, United States Army, who was in charge of movements of prisoners for SHAEF in 1945. I have the interview on tape and Lauben's signature on a letter confirming this. Lauben has never denied what he told me."
Lauben later told the BBC that he was "mistaken," but the likelihood of a mistake is slight since he was a responsible officer on the ground and saw both the camps and the reports.
The difference between MacDonogh's and Bacque's treatment of the subject of German prisoners of war in American hands is apparent when we compare the attention each gives to the cutting off of food. MacDonogh reports in one sentence that "any attempt to feed the prisoners by the German civilian population was punishable by death." This is astounding in itself and certainly deserves explication. Bacque tells us considerably more: "General Eisenhower sent out an 'urgent courier' throughout the huge area that he commanded, making it a crime punishable by death for German civilians to feed prisoners. It was even a death-penalty crime to gather food together in one place to take it to prisoners." He says "the order was sent in German to the provincial governments, ordering them to distribute it immediately to local governments.
Copies of the orders were discovered recently in several villages near the RhineS." On pages 42-3 of Crimes and Mercies, Bacque publishes a German and an English copy of a letter dated May 9, 1945, by which district officials were notified of the prohibition.
Bacque provides evidence such as that of Professor Martin Brech of Mahopac, NY, who was a guard at the U.S. camp at Aldernach in Germany. Brech said that "he fed some loaves of bread through the wire, and was told by his superior officer, 'Don't feed them. It is our policy that these men not be fed.'" "Later, at night, Brech sneaked some more food into the camp, and the officer told him, 'If you do that again, you'll be shot.'"
Thus, we find in Bacque a much sharper description and attribution of responsibility than we do in MacDonogh. In light of the immense detail given in MacDonogh's book, this would be forgivable were it not for his attempt to blot out the work of a major scholar who has studied the subject exhaustively.
A similar cutting-short diminishes a reader's comprehension of other important subjects, which MacDonogh touches on so briefly that the reader is hardly able to form a full mental picture. For example, MacDonogh tells how in the execution of Joachim von Ribbentrop at Nuremberg "the hangman botched the execution and the rope throttled the former foreign minister for twenty minutes before he expired." In his book Nuremberg: The Last Battle, historian David Irving tells considerably more, including the fact that the gallows had been designed in a way that allowed the trapdoor to swing back and smash "every bone" in the faces of Keitel, Jodl and Frick. He says that Goering's body (after Goering had committed suicide by taking poison) "was dragged into the execution chamberS [where] the army doctors [made] frantic attempts to revive him so that he could be hanged."
There are a number of places at which MacDonogh half-tells about something important, only to leave it incomplete. We've already noted his mention of "30,000-40,000 prisoners sitting in the courtyard [at the Pioneers' Barracks in Worms]S With no protection against the rain they froze." We are left to guess the consequences of their freezing. At another place, he reports that "the Americans maintained camps for up to 1.5 millionS Nazis or members of the SS." That is his only mention of those camps, which one might suppose were even more punitive than the others. Was MacDonogh too overloaded with other detail to pursue such matters further? Did he deliberately refrain from exploring certain things? Or was the failure due a scatter-gun recital of fragmentary details?
A reader will need to assess the degree to which After the Reich is a work of scholarship as distinguished from a narrative for popular reading. MacDonogh includes many pages of endnotes, citing a large number of sources. Very occasionally, he speaks critically of a given source. But for the most part he accepts whatever a given source has to tell. The book would profit greatly from a bibliographical essay in which he would evaluate the principal sources, sharing with the reader a careful analysis of the evidentiary basis for his narrative.
An example of where a critical evaluation is essential comes with his reference, say, to Ilse Koch's "lampshades and trophies made from human skin and organs," which MacDonogh says the psychologist Saul Padover claims to have been shown. We need to know what MacDonogh would conclude if MacDonogh were to consider the counter-evidence that calls the lampshade collection a "legend."
The same holds true for MacDonogh's many citations to Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews. There is a vast scholarly literature questioning every aspect of the Holocaust. One would never know that that literature exists from reading MacDonogh, who either doesn't know of it or finds it prudent, as so many do, not to mention it.
Notwithstanding the book's limitations, After the Reich accomplishes much when it provides another link in the chain of disclosures that, over time, are providing conscientious readers with a more complete understanding of modern history.
The fact that, at the time of the events and for so many decades thereafter, enormities of the greatest importance have been scrubbed clean by propaganda suggests implications far beyond the events themselves. The British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli observed that "all great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed," and went on to say that "If the history of England is ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage, the world would be astonished."[15] The implications suggest profound questions, which we would be remiss not to mention:
How is it that a certain version of reality can, on so many subjects, hold almost total sway, while the voices of millions and of a good many serious scholars are marginalized into nothingness? (Fortunately, so far as Bacque's work is concerned, it is available in twelve languages in 13 countries, even though it has long been unavailable in the United States.)
Do we really know the truth about much of anything? Or are countless subjects veiled in a miasma of omission and distortion?
Where are our academic historians? Most historians like to give us pleasing myths, which is something expected of them and for which they are rewarded with medals, prizes and high sales.
How pervasive is a cravenness that will put almost anything ahead of a search for truth? Does mankind care very deeply about truth?
To what extent is a society or an age "democratic" if its citizens' minds are filled with phantoms, so that most of the judgments they make are either vacuous or manipulated?
And to what extent is it "democratic" if those citizens don't even have a vital say in decisions of the gravest importance?
It is significant that Keeling says that "the people of no nation in modern history, including ourselves, have ever enjoyed an important voice in the making of the great decisions either of going to war or of framing the peace arrangements."[16]
Dwight D. Murphey
[1] Adenauer is quoted in James Bacque, Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950
(Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited, 1997), p. 119.
Readers may wish also to consult Theodore Schieder, ed., The Expulsion of the German Population from the Territories East of the Oder-Neisse-Line (Bonn: Federal Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims, 1958). Alfred-Maurice de Zayas is the author of three additional books on this subject: The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986); A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944-50 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994); and Nemesis at Potsdam: The Expulsion of the Germans from the East (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).
[3] See two books by Victor Gollancz on the treatment of refugees: Our Threatened Values and In Darkest Germany.
[4] Capehart is quoted in Ralph Franklin Keeling, Gruesome Harvest: The Allies' Postwar War Against The German People (Torrance, CA: Institute for Historical Review edition, 1992), p. 64. The book was first published in 1947 by the Institute of American Economics in Chicago.
[5] Bacque, Crimes and Mercies, p. 91.
[6] Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. 64.
[7] Zayas, de, The German Expellees, p. 97.
[8] Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. 64.
[9] Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, pp. 62, 63.
[10] Bacque, "A Truth So Terrible," Abuse Your Illusions; article sent to me by author.
[11] "Britain Ran Torture Camp After WWII: report http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsite.
[12] Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. VI.
[13] Nikolai Tolstoy, The Secret Betrayal (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977), pp. 371, 24, 315, 40, 183, 242, 343.
Readers will do well to read, as well, Julius Epstein, Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present (Old Greenwich, CN: 1973) and Nicholas Bethell, The Last Secret: Forcible Repatriation to Russia 1944-7 (London, 1974).
[14] See the discussion of the Katyn Forest killings in Bacque, Crimes and Mercies, pp. 74-5, 135.
[15] Disraeli is quoted in Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. 135.
[16] Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. 134.
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