[DAWN] Holocaust Indoctrination via Polish Comic

Because I am trying to liquidate my comic book collection to support the EAAZI website, this story entitled Polish comic books to raise Holocaust awareness caught my attention because it indicates the importance of comics in creating popular consciousness. Here is the key point of this new Holocaust indoctrination effort:

Rabbi Schudrich, who is American, told AFP ‘the important thing is it engages young people,’ noting ‘this is a problem in an age where often you don't catch young people in the first few seconds in the world of instant everything’.

He hailed the work's ‘educational’ message in not only helping teenagers ‘to understand what the Nazi genocide against the Jews meant’ but in showing that the Nazis were also targetting others, including non-Jewish Poles, gypsies and political opponents.

I looked at the Episodes from Auschwitz material online. As a graphic novel, it is interesting but the reader will probably learn only as much or even less about the history from these comics as one might learn from Maus by Art Spiegelman. At least in Maus under the psychological drama, there is a clear suggestion in the burning of the first wife's diaries of a history that has been vanished, but the history is so personalized and so stereotypical that the reader never learns about the German, Polish, Jewish and Soviet history that underlies the Holocaust (and Zionism).

The effort to erase the real history is so thorough and so universally praised by the reviewers that it must be purposeful.

In contrast Joe Sacco's comic Palestine really does address a lot of the history and nuance of the conflict over Palestine even though the author is obviously pro-Palestinian. Yet Sacco received all sorts of ridiculous responses: Joe Sacco's Palestine: Some Unanswered Questions.

In order to create the false limited consciousness necessary to propagating and perpetuating Holocaust religion throughout the world and even in Poland, where the people really should know better, the comic medium is hard to beat.

Maus and Episodes from Auschwitz create reflexive sympathy for their protagonists by depicting them as victims of outrageous and incomprehensible misfortune. Israel advocacy uses this type of narrative to demand unthinking irresponsible support for all Jews by extension and to deflect reasonable scrutiny from Zionists despite the crimes they have committed, are committing, or intend to commit.

By breaking the Pavlovian paradigm and providing context, Sacco is guilty in his comics of providing real intellectual content that blasphemes the Zionist belief system of which Holocaust mythology is a significant component. Everyone should read Sacco's Palestine comics.

[If I have the time, I will try to add cover graphics and titles to the information available on Sacco's work from Comic Book DB through my collection link.]

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