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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
When I became interested in trying to understand the chronology of the Holocaust because of various controversies over Revisionist claims, I found two connected but distinct mass murders of Jews during WW2.
The Slavic mass murders of Jews started first, but this time sequence did not become common if unassimilated knowledge until Gross published Sąsiedzi (Neighbors). Many members of the various Slavic populations in Eastern Europe were afraid of or angry with co-territorial ethnic Ashkenazi populations
- because of the mass murders in which ethnic Ashkenazi Communist officials took part in the early consolidation phases of the Soviet Union and
- because of the aid that Eastern European Ashkenazim outside the Soviet Union provided in the creation of the Soviet Economy.
Nazi leaders probably only began to realize genocide was feasible when they saw the willingness of Slavic and other populations in the region
- either to engage in unjustified but somewhat understandable collective revenge
- or to undertake inexcusable preventative attacks and mass murder on ethnic Ashkenazim.
This sort of behavior is a pattern of evil that we see in Eastern Europe and the Balkans to this day and in which Israel -- which is after all a transplanted Eastern European culture (Umpflanzung and Umvolkung all in one so to speak) -- engages before our eyes.
The focus on Western transports of Jews in Zionist Holocaust narrative should be analyzed.
There were not many Jews in Western Europe. Most of the murdered Jews were from the East. I can speculate that a narrative that included the murders of Eastern European Ashkenazim might mention the crimes in which many ethnic Ashkenazim engaged during the teens, twenties and thirties and thus might interfere with the idea of justifying the theft of Palestine as compensation to victims of the "worst" crime in history.
When Meyer Levin read Anne Frank's diary, he immediately recognized its value as a means to create sympathy for Jews and the State of Israel. (See An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary by Lawrence Graver.)
US cold war propaganda needed to portray captive nations during the Cold War as pure victims. Rallying support against the Soviet Union might have been more difficult if the role of Slavic and other Eastern Europeans in murdering ethnic Ashkenazim without incitement from Germans was better known. It made sense to blame all the crimes of the period on defeated Germans.
The propaganda needs of both Zionism and also US foreign policy have worked together to create a very distorted Holocaust historiography. Serious scholars have become unwilling to confront the issue because no one really wants to expend the effort to overcome ethnic Ashkenazi prejudice, bigotry and racism.
The focus on Western transports of Jews in Zionist Holocaust narrative should be analyzed.
There were not many Jews in Western Europe. Most of the murdered Jews were from the East. I can speculate that a narrative that included the murders of Eastern European Ashkenazim might mention the crimes in which many ethnic Ashkenazim engaged during the teens, twenties and thirties and thus might interfere with the idea of justifying the theft of Palestine as compensation to victims of the "worst" crime in history.
When Meyer Levin read Anne Frank's diary, he immediately recognized its value as a means to create sympathy for Jews and the State of Israel. (See An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary by Lawrence Graver.)
US cold war propaganda needed to portray captive nations during the Cold War as pure victims. Rallying support against the Soviet Union might have been more difficult if the role of Slavic and other Eastern Europeans in murdering ethnic Ashkenazim without incitement from Germans was better known. It made sense to blame all the crimes of the period on defeated Germans.
The propaganda needs of both Zionism and also US foreign policy have worked together to create a very distorted Holocaust historiography. Serious scholars have become unwilling to confront the issue because no one really wants to expend the effort to overcome ethnic Ashkenazi prejudice, bigotry and racism.
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