" The position the Jewish people occupy today in the world -- despite the enormous losses -- is ten times stronger than what it was twenty years ago.."

(Dr. Max Nussbaum, former rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin, 11 April 1953.)

Whether the Jewish people have multiplied their power in the last two decades by nine or by ten is not to be calculated with exactitude. But it may not be disputed that they have considerably expanded it. The 17-million-strong Jewish people, their number is of no moment, with a miniature country, which as yet does not deserve the name, virtually without military power nor the technical means of power, stands head and shoulders at the peak above all other peoples of the world, and not even relatively, but absolutely.

How can they have won this exalted status, almost unnoticed?

The answer is quite simple: because they grasped the essential nature of power. Genuine power cannot be exercised through force; it is granted to the powerful by those who subject themselves to it. True power arises from its acknowledgment by the powerless. As soon as it is necessary to employ naked force to cling to power just then it has been lost. For this reason, the Jews have always sought ways and means to move non-Jewish humanity to voluntary subjugation, to move to recognition, and they were in a position to find and employ such means without arousing awareness on the part of the subjugated of the position they were adopting.  They disguised the outward appearance of power by applying it to human needs or, where these were not present, creating them. The Jews did nothing other than—quite peaceably—taking such things into their own hands. He who had the gold (or just controlled it) ruled over the fate and well-being of the peoples. The independence and the character of the smoker is broken with the cigarette. He submits of his own volition. He who takes on debt acknowledges the right to interest. If he does not, he places himself in the wrong and as such loses all power.  Christ recognized the Jewish people as unique, because that is a central tenet of their religion. The stealthy route to power lies in the needs of the people.

Hitler Blew Their Cover

Now, power itself is also a necessity. People don’t readily enslave themselves on their individual initiative, but prefer to retain their free will, while if the group he considers himself part of is subjugated, then he prefers this to be by force, rather than by subornment.  As soon as he becomes aware that another person or group is trying to reduce his power, he automatically raises his defenses. He resists and simply by doing so, limits his enemy’s reach for power, even if he is the underdog. So long as his resistance, whether open or secret, is maintained, the enemy’s power remains insecure, and can be broken with any change in circumstances. Where power therefore is sought by means of violence, this is quite blatant and provokes the resistance of those against whom violence is directed. The Jews, familiar from the get-go with the psychology of man, have largely avoided the use of force in order to avoid the resistance that comes from using it. Their surgical seizure of power was extraordinarily well camouflaged and almost impossible to discern as a combative action. Thus the success of this power struggle, the increase in power, remained unseen to the majority of people. The Jews gained control of the levers of power almost unnoticed.

Finally Hitler and his National Socialists tore away the beguiling democratic veil concealing reality and revealed to all the dungeon in which they had just been walled up. Resistance awoke and drove a surge of anti-Judaism through the world, which threatened to wipe out the hard-won successes of Jewry. After the first shock, Jewry acted logically: it provoked violence, and it claimed victimhood from the violence wherever possible. All the power it had gained up to then, it ruthlessly used to brand the mark of violence—the mark of Cain—on Hitler. For only in the glare of violence could he be made to appear to humanity as a threat and arouse its fears, this time in behalf of the Jews. Although Judaism dominated almost the entire apparatus of influence by art, press, sport, film, theatre, broadcasting, its conspiracy gained little ground for a long time. Hitler's ideas spread farther and deeper. The need to push Hitler into a war, a war he had to be seen to cause, as proof of his brutality, was recognized by many Jews as early as 1934.

When this war came and was finally lost to Hitler, it became clear that it was by no means suitable to prove the intended points. Certainly, they had succeeded (with rather transparent ruses) in drawing half of humanity into war, but in doing so they had resorted to the same violence that they accused Hitler of, indeed, the unbiased observer soon gained the impression that the violence used against the Germans and the Japanese by comparison had reached a much higher degree of cruelty and devastation, a degree that went beyond the necessity of war and called into question the original goal of the war, the elimination of violence.

Murder of Millions Required

The Allies were in danger of losing the justification of this war, this 'crusade', by the way they had waged it. Prominent Jewish leaders in Washington realized that this right could not be upheld simply by forcing Germany (as 25 years earlier) to accept guilt for the war. On the initiative of Henry Morgenthau, the first plans to prove Hitler conducted a large-scale genocide appeared at the end of 1943. The 'War Crimes Working Group' was created, which initially contented itself with proving the intention of genocide from published Nazi writings. But even before the invasion, several thousand Jews were trained as 'interrogators' in crash courses and enrolled in the US Army with commissions as officers. Their task was to 'hear' a certain category of Germans according to predetermined guidelines and to form an indictment against National Socialism with a torrent of 'statements' and 'confessions' that should arouse and horrify the entire world. Initially, the Nazi crimes to be investigated were to affect all peoples equally, but in the course of time Chaim Weizman and leading Zionists succeeded in so deflecting the investigations that they above all a yielded a tremendous blood sacrifice of Jews. In March 1945, the number of eleven million Jews was established, under whose auspices the first interrogations actually began. Objections to this obviously impossible figure came from the ranks of Judaism itself and eventually led to a decline to SIX MILLION. This is where the first directorial mistakes arose, which initially made fools of individual personalities around the world and subsequently led to critical investigations of the Jewish claims. The irredeemably gullible part of Jewry, personified in the Bavarian State Commissioner Philipp Auerbach, stubbornly held to the 11 million figure relying on the seemingly complete victory over Germany. The interrogation machine that had been launched achieved a total result of more than 190 million people killed. When the results of the 'witness statements' were compiled for the first time in the evaluation center and this figure was reached, it was outrageous. Hitler would have to have destroyed virtually the entire European population subject to German occupation. But this population remained present and alive.  Although the overall result was immediately classified Top Secret, it leaked out. Investigations by congressional and senate committees were the result and later led to the dismissal of the 'interrogators'. Well-known Jewish columnists such as Blau and Lippman wisely stepped out and - as they hoped, in time - began to walk it back. Blau spoke of ‘a slick swindle’. But it was apparently already too late, the suspicion of an outrageous fraud had arisen.

Before the War

During the Weimar Republic, which had hardly brought security and prosperity to the Germans, the number of Jews doubled (through immigration) and Jewish wealth increased a hundredfold. This was one of the reasons for the anti-Jewish nature of the National Socialist Party, which took over the government in Germany in 1933. Of course, anti-Semitism existed at this time and not only among the National Socialists, but anywhere and everywhere where Jews appeared. It often took on quite bloody forms in the Middle East, Spain, France and Eastern Europe. But not in Germany. Even the rise to power of the National Socialists was not accompanied by a bloody pogrom. Even in the so-called Kristallnacht of 1938, which followed on the Jewish murders of Gustloff and vom Rath, no blood flowed.

The anti-Jewishness of the National Socialist government was implemented politically in a completely different way. It was made clear to the Jews in Germany that their public influence would be foreshortened. They would not enjoy all the rights of a German citizen, but at the same time should not suffer any damage to body and property. They were tacitly encouraged to emigrate and received the best possible support. Hitler himself negotiated with leaders of Judaism to encourage emigration

One recalls  Dr. Alosoff, Tel Aviv, who wanted to settle 250,000 German Jews in the Jordan Valley in 1934 after consultation with Hitler. On the eve of his trip to jordan, he was shot on the beach at Jaffa. The shots were fired from a British military vehicle. A minute after the murder, a British police car was at the scene. And 12 minutes later, the British Broadcasting Company sent a report of the murder out to the world. The perpetrators were never identified. Steps taken by Hitler to secure the island of Madagascar for the Jews met with consistent resistance everywhere..

The treatment of the Jews in Germany in the years 1933-39 was nowhere cruel. There were a number of boycotts, but there was no public (lynching) murders as in the US nor mysterious deaths and strange accidents as in many other countries. It is obvious that no one finds it pleasant to have their influence and business opportunities limited. On the other hand, from their experience with the Jews, the Germans believed they had a right to introduce these restrictions. In the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, they created the legal basis for this. There was no sign of any intention to exterminate the Jews by genocide. This would have required altogether other measures and preparations..

Of the 540,000 Jews living in the area of the Altreich, 320 000 had emigrated by the beginning of the war, plus another 65,000 during the war. Of the 280,000 Jews in Austria, 220,000 emigrated. Of the 340,000 Jews of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 260 000 Jews emigrated, only a small part of these illegally. As a rule, emigration was legal and conducted in the way that those affected wished. In the early years, they were allowed to take out the monetary value of their possessions and movable goods. It was only after the deterioration of the foreign-exchange situation of the Reich that restrictions were imposed on the transfer of assets, but not on the assets themselves. The fact that, in the case of sales, especially of the immovable property of firms, etc., considerable tax evasion often occurred, which led to fines, is an exception to these rules. There is no doubt that many emigrants suffered losses, because they could not in the circumstances obtain full market selling prices. But who indeed has not found, after being accused of a crime, that one had to flee across the border by night and fog with 30 or 50 kilograms of luggage? It does not speak against the legal intentions of the German government that until 1938 it paid the Jews released from public service their full salaries even abroad. After the (1938) murder of E. vom Rath, the normal pensions were paid - until the end of the war. The fact that the Jews who stayed behind were subjected to many insults and reductions should not go unmentioned. But that is still a far cry from extermination. By the way, the Jews abroad made up for this with a grossly disproportionate campaign of hate propaganda. It should also be noted that until well into the war no Jew was ever sent to a concentration camp because he was a Jew.

They Made War

The part of world Jewry in the bringing about of the last world war need not be particularly proven (Emil Ludwig [Cohn] 1938 in 'The New Holy Alliance', Straßburg: "… For although Hitler may want at the last moment to avoid the war that can devour him, he will still be forced to war…") Jewry does not deny it. The fact that it acted as a belligerent power in this war, although not with its own troops, does not require any proof either. A few days before the official outbreak of war, Chaim Weizman made the official declaration of war on Germany at the 25th Zionist Congress in Geneva in the name of world Jewry. In the first week of September 1939, the rabbis of the British Mandate of Palestine declared a 'holy war' against Germany and notified the king of England thereof. Similar declarations followed from all over the world.

1.2 million Jews served as soldiers in the Allied forces during the war, and some 200,000 (mainly members of the Red Army) died in combat. In fact, Even without its own state, Jewry appeared as a belligerent power (consequently it bases its claims for reparations on it!), and this entitled the German government to regard and treat every Jew as a national of a hostile power, that is to say, to confiscate his property and to intern him itself, as was done to the Germans in the Allied countries. Oddly enough, the German government made use of this right only very late and often very partially. This must be wondered at all the more because Jewry applied the laws of total war, according to which everyone, whether man or woman, soldier or civilian, had to take part in the war as far as he could, from the outset.

Let the Numbers Speak

As already mentioned, 1,160,000 Jews lived. in the territory of the Reich (including the Protectorate). Of these, 865,000 emigrated by the end of the war, only a small percentage illegally. Surveillance intensified during the war. The Jews had to wear badges and sometimes periodically report to the police, but a general internment under martial law took place only in the last years of the war. Of the 295,000 who remained in the country, a total of 90,000 Jews died as a result of age, illness, deprivation and bombing attacks; of these only 28% were in internment. Around a thousand Jewish people were sentenced to death and executed. The relatively high mortality rate can be explained by the fact that the people who stayed behind were predominantly older-generation people who were vulnerable to the increasing deprivation and hardships of war because of their age, in addition to the emotional strains of their situation and mostly towards the end of the war the internment, which in the last months was particularly hard due to the disruptions of supply. However, comparisons show that the mortality rate of this cohort of the German population, especially in the big cities, was almost as high. Of course, there were severe hardships in the camps, but they certainly do not correspond to the image that has been put about since the war.

204,000 Jews from the territories of the Reich should have been present at the end of the war. In fact, the Allies said they found more than 200,000. In the course of 1945, another 22,000 people who had been interned in the occupied eastern territories came forward. Of these 222,000 Jews from the Reich, who came through the end of the war, some emigrated to Israel, Canada, Australia, South America and the USA in the first years after the war.

In Europe Overall

Of these emigrated in the years 1933-1945:

That makes 1,440,000 persons in total. The division of Poland and the occupation of the countries of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Bessarabia brought 1,300,000 Jews into the Soviet Union.

In the German sphere of influence (excluding the later-occupied territories of the Soviet Union), remained around

2,350,000 Jews.

The total number of deaths of European Jewry is therefore

365,000 Persons.

The total number of survivors is then

1,985,000 Persons.

According to the Reich Security Main Office, in October 1944 there were 2,200,000 Jews in the German sphere of power. The Allies said they found 2,100,000 Jews after Germany's surrender. In 1952, the American Palestine Committee estimated 1,600,000 Jews in this area. There are no reliable figures on the emigration of Jews in the years 1945-1952, but it should compare with the difference above.

Not only these conservative figures, but also the emigration promoted by the German side during all years of the war, confirm that the intention for a 'final solution of the Jewish question' in the sense of the extermination claimed was never undertaken nor at any time even existed in any sense. For example, in 1942/43, the Reich government ordered more than 20,000 Hungarian Jews to emigrate to Switzerland. As early as 1940, several ships carrying Jews left France to go to Palestine, including the French passenger steamer 'Patria', which, pursued and shelled by British warships, ran itself aground on the beach off Haifa on 25 November 1940 and caught fire. Of the 3,800 Jewish passengers, 2,875 died. Between 1941 and 1943, more than 20 emigrant ships left Romanian and Bulgarian ports bound for Palestine. Six of them were sunk in the eastern Mediterranean, killing some of the passengers. As late as 1944, under difficult transport conditions, the Reich government evacuated 2,900 Jews to Sweden.

The Jews in the Soviet Union

There were about 3,000,000 Jews living in the Soviet Union before the war. Their number increased by a further 1,300,000 after the partition of Poland and the occupation of the Baltic countries and a part of Romania. There are only Jewish sources on the fate of these Jews, which do not consistently agree. According to the New York Times, 500,000 Jews have been settled in Siberia, and about 450,000 are said to live in the southern Urals. David Berkelman reports that during the winter of 1941/42 alone, some 1,200,000 Jews were frozen or starved to death on the transports. This information cannot be verified. One can only say with certainty that these Jews were not killed by Germans. According to Ohlendorf's testimony before his execution, 90,000 Jews were executed by German Einsatzkommandos in the course of securing German supply routes for partisan activity, sabotage, espionage or aiding and abetting such acts. However, this claim loses value in that Ohlendorf was a prisoner of the Allies and was treated in the way that the Allies treated their prisoners at that time. Assuredly, it is no underestimate.

The Great Jewish Migration

The fighting of the war was hardly over when a stream of Eastern Jews poured into Germany and Austria. Some of them came directly from the Soviet territories; many of them had been in Siberia. In 1946 and 1947 this migration reached its peak. Every day more than 1000 Jewish people crossed the zone borders; on some days up to 10,000 were counted. They stayed for some time, did their business and then moved on, amply aided from every direction. At times, as many as one million Eastern Jews were in West Germany and Austria. The total number of Eastern Jews smuggled through German-Austrian territory alone is given by Jewish sources as 1.5 million, by American as 2 million. Among them were a high percentage of children aged 1 to 5 years. Officially, these people who left the Soviet realm went under the term 'Displaced Persons', but the rumor dubbed them the 'gassed'. They were of course no such thing and were completely ignorant. Behind them lay long hard years on the road works of the East. They knew nothing of concentration camps with gas chambers and incinerators; they were healthy and vital, and focused their attention on stock-market prices and the Promised Land. A hardy, child-heavy portion of them set out for Israel.

The Result - Relieving and Tragic

The 'gassed' are still alive and raising the next generation. Despite all the dangers and strains, internments and migrations, the hardships of war and bombing, the Jewish population has continued to rise.

This overview, the figures of which—with the exception of one—come from Jewish sources, and which are now generally available, supports the following conclusions:

1. There was no systematic plan for exterminating Jews.

2. There were in no concentration or internment camps inside or outside Germany any gas chambers, gaswagen, or incinerators for the extermination of human beings. All publications on these are fakes. Pictures and films showed gas vans used by the Wehrmacht to delouse clothes, crematoria, as are common in any big city with a normal capacity, heating systems, specially prepared for filming after the war, concrete gallows platforms erected after the war, piles of corpses cut out from German newsreels of the victims of the bombings of Dresden, Hamburg, Kassel, and skeletal remains that were 300 years old. The gold and jewelry troves found in the Reichsbank branch in Frankfurt do not come from murdered people, but from people who died in internment.

3. The mortality rate of the Jews was no higher than that of the corresponding age groups of the peoples who lived in the same areas and under the same conditions (Germans, Poles, Soviet Russians).

4. The war losses of the Jewish people (including partisan warfare, air raids, military executions, pogroms in eastern and south-eastern European countries) are less than a third those of the German people, one-sixth those of the Polish, and just over a quarter of the Soviet losses. The war losses of the Jews do not reach the number of so-called fascists and collaborators murdered by the Communists in Italy, France, Belgium and Holland. They do not reach the number of Sudeten Germans murdered by the Czechs. They do not even reach a fifth of the East Germans murdered by the Soviets during the occupation.

5. IN THE END, JEWRY ACHIEVED BY FAR THE GREATEST INCREASE IN POWER WITH THE SMALLEST SACRIFICE OF HUMAN BEINGS, MAKING THEMSELVES THE REAL VICTORS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Sources

New York Times - Daily Herald - Aufbau/Reconstruction - World Almanac 1942 - World Almanac 1947 - American Jewish Conference - Brockhaus/Knauer - The American Palestine Committee - The Statistical Office of Synagogues of the USA - Joint Distr. Com. ­ Encyclopedia Britannica - Encyclopedia Universal Illustrada - Dir. Lindeman, New York ­ Bruno Blau, New York - Paul Goodman - David Berkelman - General Lucius Clay.