12. Was this before or after the rumors of the "death camps"
began?

Ernst
Zündel Replies:

Rebuttal # 12

The purpose of this pamphlet item was to state that atrocity propaganda preceded
the WWII by 6 years. Nizkor turns this emphasis around, babbling on and on
(here and elsewhere) about "internal inconsistencies" by
"documenting" that anti-Semitism existed in Germany many years before
the war and even before Hitler came to power.

Nobody argues that - but that is not the point.

As already amplified in previous segments of this rebuttal, international Jewry
- which included Jews still living relatively undisturbed in Germany when
Hitler came to power and long after he was in power - were seen as a corroding
influence, and as the fledgling Hitler regime tried to rebuild its culture and
its economic base, both of which had been so viciously and wantonly destroyed,
it was only natural that heated rhetoric picked up.

Let us re-focus # 12, however:

Did atrocity propaganda - what the Germans called Greuelpropaganda -
precede the concentration camps - and if so, according to whose writings?

In point of fact, it started during World War I and hasn't stopped as yet, with
Nizkor's frantic efforts one prime source of evidence. Fifty years after the
Second World War, has anything or anybody changed? Aren't you still at it
yourself - prattling on and on about the "Six million", the "gas
chambers", the "soap",
the "lamp shades" - despite all evidence to the contrary?

Aren't largely Jewish writers, authors, film makers and TV producers from
William Shirier, to Goldhagen, to Kaufmann to Green and Speilberg etc.,
responsible for what is being forced down our throats - day after day, and hour
after hour? Not even over 100 billion DM in hush money the Germans paid to
Jewish individuals, groups and to the State of Israel since WWII has satisfied
Jewish interests and stopped this hate and vilification against the German
people and the German nation. When will it ever end?

Now Nizkor can and, no doubt, will make the argument that it is in the German
interest to highlight evidence in support of unfair and excessive atrocity
propaganda. It will be a bit harder, however, to argue that same point against
the Jewish pen.

Probably the strongest admission of the real dimensions and corrosive influence
of this systematic hate propaganda many years prior to World War II came from
Edwin Black, a Jew, in The Transfer Agreement, page 23:

"Hitler
attributed the stories of Germany's wartime atrocities to an international
Jewish conspiracy, using newspapers Jews secretly controlled. And so the Nazis
held a special fear of what they called "Greuelpropaganda" or
atrocity tales.

In Nazi thought, it was Greuelpropaganda that distorted Germany's valor
into Hun-like savagery. Greuelpropaganda was a mighty weapon the Jews
knew how to use to harness the German nation into bondage."

And on page 25:

"The Nazis . . . believed in the legendary, almost supernatural
economic power of the Jews. When they promulgated the motto: .The Jews are our
bad luck,' they meant it. . . . in the Nazi mind, the Jewish-led, anti-nazi
boycott would reduce exports and foreign currency below the viable threshold.
By Nazi thinking, a second prong of the Jewish offensive would be publicizing
German atrocities to undermine confidence in the new regime and turn the
non-Jewish world against Germany."

In this instance, Nazi fears approximated the reality. (emphasis added)

As an overindustrialized nation dependent upon exports, Germany was especially
prone to boycott. Therefore, as the American Jewish War Veterans escalated
their anti-Reich agitation in late March 1933, a primary order of Nazi
business would now be to end the atrocity claims and stop the boycott. (emphasis
added)

On March 28, 1933, the German-based Berliner Tageblatt, still
Jewish-edited, said this:

Firstly, the new hate propaganda is employed by a foreign economic
element that has always fought German exports. It believes it has now found a
convenient means which, with some popular trimming or other, will enable it to
pursue its self-serving ends.

Secondly, as we have already pointed out, the atrocity propaganda is the last
hope of the anti-Revisionists in Europe. There is still an indiscriminate hunt
for means by which to thwart the dawning restoration of Europe to health, and
it is precisely the irreconcilable foes of a just integration of Germany into
post-war Europe who make use of the new hate-propaganda for purposes that have
nothing at all to do with the ostensible aims of this propaganda, which is
directed against Germany itself.

On March 30, 1933, the Central Verein Zeitung of Berlin, the
newspaper of the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, carried
the following editorial:

"An unbridled atrocity-propaganda campaign against Germany is raging
about the world. By every word that is spoken or written against our
Fatherland, by every call for an anti-German boycott, we German Jews are
wounded just as deeply as is every other German.

Not under duress nor out of fear, but because certain foreign elements are
slandering the honor of the German name, harming the land of our fathers and
the land of our children, we have risen at once to protest that, before the
country and before the outside world, we have branded the reports about Germany
and the new German government as lies.

Against these monstrous accusations, we 565,000 German Jews protest solemnly
before all Germany and before the world."

The next day, March 31, 1933, Dr. Max Naumann, Honorary Chairman of the
Association of National German Jews, in the Neues Wiener Journalof
Vienna wrote:

"I need not first tell you that I oppose absolutely the atrocity
campaign against Germany. I see in this campaign nothing but a new edition of
the war time hate campaign against Germany and its former allies.

Even the methods and the details are exactly the same as at that time, when the
stories were of children's hands hacked off, eyes put out, even of the rendering
of cadavers, obtaining fatty substances from human corpses.

The leading authorities of the NSDAP, and the entire government of the Reich,
have declared, constantly, and with the greatest energy, that in any such case
that comes to their knowledge they would intervene ruthlessly.

It is also known to me that in such cases the intervention really was ruthless.

At all events, we German Jews, regardless of any differences of emotional
inclination, are thoroughly convinced that the government, and the leadership
of the NSDAP, are earnestly resolved to maintain calm and order.

We have therefore been protesting this foreign atrocity propaganda very
energetically for quite some time - not, as I wish explicitly to emphasize,
because of being under any kind of compulsion, but because we were convinced
that our Germany is being hurt, and is intended to be hurt badly, by this
hate-campaign.

Once more, the Berliner Tageblatt of April 1, 1933:

A horrendous wave of filth surges around Germany. The beneficiaries of
the Versailles Diktat, who unwillingly had begun to acknowledge the collapse of
their policy of force against Germany, draw new hope. In reply to the manifest
will to freedom of the German people, they unleashed an atrocity propaganda
campaign that lags only slightly behind their lying stories during the last
war.

It cannot be denied that German Jews with well-known names also have a leading
part in that atrocity hate campaign which in an irresponsible manner defames
the German people.

Please note that these quotes come precisely six years before the War, as
stated in the original pamphlet.

For comparison's sake, let's now ask this: What did the situation look like,
once war had broken out? Fast-forward six years! On 5 September 1939, two days
after England's and France's declaration of war against Germany - Mr. Chaim
Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency, wrote a letter to Mr. Chamberlain,
First Minister of His Majesty the King of England, in which he informed him
that

". . . we Jews stand shoulder to shoulder with Great Britain and
will fight for Democracy" and further stipulating that "the
mandatories of the Jews were ready immediately to sign an agreement allowing
the employment of all their manpower, their technology, their material aid and
all their capabilities".

Published
in the Jewish Chronicle of 8 September 1939, this letter constituted an
authentic declaration of war by world Jewry against Germany. As pointed out by
many writers, the most recent one being Roger Garaudy of France, this declaration
of war legitimized the problem of the internment of all German Jews in
concentration camps as 'representatives of a people in a state of war with
Germany' in the same way as the Americans justified the internment of their own
citizens of Japanese origin, as soon as the USA entered into war against Japan.

Ian Macdonald, a
former Canadian diplomat now in retirement, has summarized a similar point
in a "Time Magazine Letters" submission of May 20, 1996 in response
to the recent prime sample of atrocity propaganda that can be found in the
unsavory Goldhagen book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, the latest in
some 70 years of systematic ethnic smears.

Here are Macdonald's thoughts:

Vilification of a Nation

During World War I, in order to bolster support for the war effort, the British
public was inundated with stories of atrocities allegedly committed by the
"barbarous
Hun". There were "eye witness" reports
of the bayoneting of Belgian
babies, the crucifixion
of Allied prisoners and the boiling of soldiers' corpses to make soap.

Several years after the war, a commission was established by the British
Government to investigate the charges. The commission found the stories to be
untrue.

After World War II, there was no such impartial investigation. Instead, the
anti-German propaganda was further embellished and intensified. Far from being
exposed as fraudulent, the atrocity stories were given credence through
repetition and the Nuremberg Trials (described by one prominent American jurist
at the time as "nothing more than a high class lynching party"). In
order to conceal the truth, hearsay was accepted as "evidence",
confessions were obtained through brutal torture and trickery, critical documents
were withheld from the defense, effective cross-examination was not permitted
and the basic principles of Western justice violated in order to gain
convictions.

The Jewish-orchestrated Trials became an instrument of vengeance for the
viciously unscrupulous refugees from Nazism who constituted most of the staff.
The judges were all drawn from the ranks of the victors, prompting a prominent
anti-Nazi German to comment that "only God can save him who is judged by
his accusers".

Some day, if there is indeed a God in Heaven, the truth about the origin and
events of World War II will emerge. It will not be a happy day for the
diabolical schemers who defamed the German nation and contrived the fratricide
among Christians so serve their own selfish purposes. It will however be a
happy day for mankind, and Germans will no longer need to apologize for doing
the right thing."

There is a lesson there it would behoove Nizkor to learn. There has to come
a time when atrocity propaganda against the people and nation of Germany must
stop. A fine time would be now. In the interest of international good will,
Nizkor could even lead the way.