Holocaust Reality
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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I have seen many different statists write many different comments, but Tom Metzger denying the Holocaust might be the most statist comment I have ever come across. Now, I am not going to challenge any of his statistics, because he’s missing part of the story.
Let’s start in the beginning in 1933. The main method was the pogrom or riots against Jews with the most well known being Kristallnacht in 1938. The problem for the Nazi government was that the numbers were too small to really accomplish what the Nazis wanted. During Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Einsatzgruppen (SS Killing Squads) went behind the main German forces to round up and kill all the Jews throughout the Soviet Union. SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski reported to Himmler that it was causing psychological strain. The Nazi hierarchy realized that they needed to “step up” their efforts to achieve Hitler’s dream of eliminating the Jews of Europe without psychological strain on soldiers. They met in secret in the suburb of Wannsee to answer, “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” They eventually set up a series of eight extermination camps that killed approximately half of the 6 million Jews killed throughout Europe.
Now where Mr. Metzger makes his mistake is he assumes that the Nazis cremated every person killed. That is not true at all. During the invasion of Barbarossa, the SS Killing Squads forced the Jews to dig their own graves and shot them into those graves. At the extermination camps throughout Europe, the Nazis did not fully cremate everybody because they knew that the process would take too long. If anyone Google Image searches Holocaust ovens, there are stacks of bodies that are not fully cremated in ovens. The Nazis burned the bodies beyond recognition and buried them in mass graves. In fact, in January of this year, a mass grave has been found at Treblinka in Poland using ground penetrating radar. They will not be exhumed because Jewish law forbids it.
Now Mr. Metzger is not the first to deny the Holocaust. The first that started the Holocaust denial movement was George Lincoln Rockwell – which he never set foot in Europe (because he was in the U.S. Navy). Another one is Frank Collins who took the village of Skokie, Ill., to court to protest in a village that had a large Jewish population. However, there are nearly 1 million survivors who will gladly disagree with you. They spent time at places such as Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka seeing their mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers and other family members burned and discarded as if they do not deserve an existence.
Any person who has studied history knows that the Holocaust happened. People have gone to jail and have been executed for their crimes. There is no logical argument that can be made. Mr. Metzger is not the first to try this argument, and he probably won’t be the last. Tom Metzger has shown himself to be the biggest statist I have ever come across.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” –Edmund Burke.
Gary Eppenbaugh
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
I have seen many different statists write many different comments, but Tom Metzger denying the Holocaust might be the most statist comment I have ever come across. Now, I am not going to challenge any of his statistics, because he’s missing part of the story.
Let’s start in the beginning in 1933. The main method was the pogrom or riots against Jews with the most well known being Kristallnacht in 1938. The problem for the Nazi government was that the numbers were too small to really accomplish what the Nazis wanted. During Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Einsatzgruppen (SS Killing Squads) went behind the main German forces to round up and kill all the Jews throughout the Soviet Union. SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski reported to Himmler that it was causing psychological strain. The Nazi hierarchy realized that they needed to “step up” their efforts to achieve Hitler’s dream of eliminating the Jews of Europe without psychological strain on soldiers. They met in secret in the suburb of Wannsee to answer, “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” They eventually set up a series of eight extermination camps that killed approximately half of the 6 million Jews killed throughout Europe.
Now where Mr. Metzger makes his mistake is he assumes that the Nazis cremated every person killed. That is not true at all. During the invasion of Barbarossa, the SS Killing Squads forced the Jews to dig their own graves and shot them into those graves. At the extermination camps throughout Europe, the Nazis did not fully cremate everybody because they knew that the process would take too long. If anyone Google Image searches Holocaust ovens, there are stacks of bodies that are not fully cremated in ovens. The Nazis burned the bodies beyond recognition and buried them in mass graves. In fact, in January of this year, a mass grave has been found at Treblinka in Poland using ground penetrating radar. They will not be exhumed because Jewish law forbids it.
Now Mr. Metzger is not the first to deny the Holocaust. The first that started the Holocaust denial movement was George Lincoln Rockwell – which he never set foot in Europe (because he was in the U.S. Navy). Another one is Frank Collins who took the village of Skokie, Ill., to court to protest in a village that had a large Jewish population. However, there are nearly 1 million survivors who will gladly disagree with you. They spent time at places such as Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka seeing their mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers and other family members burned and discarded as if they do not deserve an existence.
Any person who has studied history knows that the Holocaust happened. People have gone to jail and have been executed for their crimes. There is no logical argument that can be made. Mr. Metzger is not the first to try this argument, and he probably won’t be the last. Tom Metzger has shown himself to be the biggest statist I have ever come across.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” –Edmund Burke.
Gary Eppenbaugh
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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