Did Six Million Really Die:
Truth at Last - Exposed:

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2.GERMAN POLICY TOWARD THE JEWS AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF WAR With thecoming of the war, the situation regarding the Jews altered drastically.It is not widely known that world Jewry declared itself to be a belligerentparty in the Second World War, and there was therefore ample basis underinternational law for the Germans to intern the Jewish population as a hostileforce. On September 5, 1939 Chaim Weizmann, the principle Zionist leader,had declared war against Germany on behalf of the world's Jews, statingthat "the Jews stand by Great Britain and will fight on the side ofthe democracies . . . The Jewish Agency is ready to enter into immediatearrangements for utilizing Jewish manpower, technical ability, resourcesetc . . ." (Jewish Chronicle, September 8, 1939).

DETENTION OF ENEMY ALIENS All Jews had thus been declaredagents willing to prosecute a war against the German Reich, and as a consequence,Himmler and Heydrich were eventually to begin the policy of internment.It is worth noting that the United States and Canada had already internedall Japanese aliens and citizens of Japanese descent in detention campsbefore the Germans applied the same security measures against the Jews ofEurope. Moreover, there had been no such evidence or declaration of disloyaltyby these Japanese Americans as had been given by Weizmann. The British,too, during the Boer War, interned all the women and children of the population,and thousands had died as a result, yet in no sense could the British becharged with wanting to exterminate the Boers. The detention of Jews inthe occupied territories of Europe served two essential purposes from theGerman viewpoint. The first was to prevent unrest and subversion; Himmlerhad informed Mussolini on October 11th, 1942, that German policy towardsthe Jews had altered during wartime entirely for reasons of military security.He complained that thousands of Jews in the occupied regions were conductingpartisan warfare, sabotage and espionage, a view confirmed by official Sovietinformation given to Raymond Arthur Davis diat no less than 35,000 EuropeanJews were waging partisan war under Tito in Yugoslavia. As a result, Jewswere to be transported to restricted areas and detention camps, both inGermany, and especially after March 1942, in the Government- General ofPoland. As the war proceeded, the policy developed of using Jewish detaineesfor labour in the war-effort. The question of labour is fundamental whenconsidering the alleged plan of genocide against the Jews, for on groundsof logic alone the latter would entail the most senseless waste of manpower,time and energy while prosecuting a war of survival on two fronts. Certainlyafter the attack on Russia, the idea of compulsory labour had taken precedenceover German plans for Jewisb emigation. The protocol of a conversation betweenHitler and the Hungarian regent Horthy on April 17th, 1943, reveals thatthe German leader personally requested Horthy to release 100,000 HungarianJews for work in the "pursuit-plane programme" of the Luftwaffeat a time when the aerial bombardment of Germany was increasing (Reitlinger,Die Endlösung, Berlin, 1956, p. 478). This took place at a time when,supposedly, the Germans were already seeking to exterminate the Jews, butHitler's request clearly demonstrates the priority aim of expanding hislabour force. In harmony with this programme, concentration camps became,in fact, industrial complexes. At every camp where Jews and other nationalitieswere detained, there were.large industrial plants and factories supplyingmaterial for the German war-effort - the Buna rubber factory at Bergen-Belsen,for example, Buna and I. G. Farben Industrie at Auschwitz and the electricalfirm of Siemens at Ravensbruck. In many cases, special concentration campmoney notes were issued as payment for labour, enabling prisoners to buyextra rations from camp shops. The Germans were determined to obtain themaximum economic return from the concentration camp system, an object whollyat variance with any plan to exterminate millions of people in them. Itwas the function of the S.S. Economy and Administration Office, headed byOswald Pohl, to see that the concentration camps became major industrialproducers.

EMIGRATION STILL FAVOURED It is a remarkable fact, however,that well into the war period, the Germans continued to implement the policyof Jewish emigration. The fall of France in 1940 enabled the German Governmentto open serious negotiations with the French for the transfer of EuropeanJews to Madagascar. A memorandum of August, 1942 from Luther, Secretary-of-Statein the German Foreign Office, reveals that he had conducted these negotiationsbetween July and December 1940, when they were terminated by the French.A circular from Luther's department dated August 15th, 1940 shows that thedetails of the German plan had been worked out by Eichmann, for it is signedby his assistant, Dannecker. Eichmann had in fact been commissioned in Augustto draw up a detailed Madagascar Plan, and Dannecker was employed in researchon Madagascar at the French Colonial Office (Reitlinger, The Final ,Solution,p. 77). The proposals of August 15th were that an inter-European bank wasto finance the emigration of four million Jews throughout a phased programme.Luther's 1942 memorandum shows that Heydrich had obtained Himmler's approvalof this plan before the end of August and had also submitted it to Goering.It certainly met with Hitler's approval, for as early as June 17th his interpreter,Schmidt, recalls Hitler observing to Mussolini that "One could founda State of Israel in Madagascar" (Schmidt, Hitler's lnterpreter, London,1951,p.178). Although the French terminated the Madagascar negotiations in December,1940, Poliakov, the director of the Centre of Jewish Documentation in Paris,admits that the Germans nevertheless pursued the scheme, and that Eichmannwas still busy with it throughout 1941. Eventually, however, it was renderedimpractical by the progress of the war, in particular by the situation afterthe invasion of Russia, and on February 10th, 1942, the Foreign Office wasinformed that the plan had been temporarily shelved. This ruling, sent tothe Foreign Office by Luther's assistant, Rademacher, is of great importance,because it demonstrates conclusively that the term "Final Solution"meant only the emigration of Jews, and also that transportation to the easternghettos and concentration camps such as Auschwitz constituted nothing butan alternative plan of evacuation. The directive reads: "The war withthe Soviet Union has in the meantime created the possibility of disposingof other territories for the Final Solution. In consequence the Führerhas decided that the Jews should be evacuated not to Madagascar but to theEast. Madagascar need no longer therefore be considered in connection withthe Final Solution" (Reitlinger, ibid. p. 79). The details of thisevacuation had been discussed a month earlier at the Wannsee Conferencein Berlin, which we shall examine below. Reitlinger and Poliakov both makethe entirely unfounded supposition that because the Madagascar Plan hadbeen shelved, the Germans must necessarily have been thinking of "extermination".Only a month later, however, on March 7th, 1942, Goebbels wrote a memorandumin favour of the Madagascar Plan as a "final solution" of theJewish question (Manvell & Frankl, Dr. Goebbels, London, 1960, p. 165).In the meantime he approved of the Jews being "concentrated in theEast". Later Goebbels memoranda also stress deportation to the East(i.e. the Government-General of Poland) and lay emphasis on the need forcompulsory labour there; once the policy of evacuation to the East had beeninaugurated, the use of Jewish labour became a fundamental part of the operation.It is perfecdy clear from the foregoing that the term "Final Solution"was applied both to Madagascar and to the Eastern territories, and thattherefore it meant only the deportation of the Jews. Even as late as May1944, the Germans were prepared to allow the emigration of one million EuropeanJews from Europe. An account of this proposal is given by Alexander Weissberg,a prominent Soviet Jewish scientist deported during the Stalin purges, inhis book Die Geschichte von Joel Brand (Cologne, 1956). Weissberg, who spentthe war in Cracow though he expected the Germans to intern him in a concentrationcamp, explains that on the personal authorisation of Himmler, Eichmann hadsent the Budapest Jewish leader Joel Brand to Istanbul with an offer tothe Allies to permit the transfer of one million European Jews in the midstof the war. (If the 'extermination' writers are to be believed, there werescarcely one million Jews left by May, 1944). The Gestapo admitted thatthe transportation involved would greatly inconvenience the German war-effort,but were prepared to allow it in exchange for 10,000 trucks to be used exclusivelyon the Russian front. Unfortunately, the plan came to nothing; the Britishconcluded that Brand must be a dangerous Nazi agent and immediately imprisonedhim in Cairo, while the Press denounced the offer as a Nazi trick. WinstonChurchill, though orating to the effect that the treatment of the HungarianJews was probably "the biggest and most horrible crime ever committedin the whole history of the world", never- theless told Chaim Weizmannthat acceptance of the Brand offer was impossible, since it would be a betrayalof his Russian Allies. Although the plan was fruitless, it well illustratesthat no one allegedly carrying out "thorough" extermination wouldpermit the emigration of a million Jews, and it demonstrates, too, the primeimportance placed by the Germans on the war-effort.

3. POPULATION AND EMIGRATION Statistics relating to Jewishpopulations are not everywhere known in precise detail, approximations forvarious countries differing widely, and it is also unknown exactly how manyJews were deported and interned at any one time between the years 1939-1945.In general, however, what reliable statistics there are, especially thoserelating to emigration, are sufficient to show that not a fraction of sixmillion Jews could have been exterminated. In the first place, this claimcannot remotely be upheld on examination of the European Jewish populationfigures. According to Chambers Encyclopaedia the total number of Jews livingin pre-war Europe was 6,500,000. Quite clearly, this would mean that almostthe entire number were exterminated. But the Baseler Nachrichten, a neutralSwiss publication employing available Jewish statistical data, establishesthat between 1933 and 1945, 1,500,000 Jews emigrated to Britain, Sweden,Spain, Portugal, Australia, China, India, Palestine and the United Sutes.This is confirmed by the Jewish journalist Bruno Blau, who cites the samefigure in the New York Jewish paper Aufbau, August 13th, 1948. Of theseemigrants, approximately 400,000 came from Germany before September 1939.This is acknowledged by the World Jewish Congress in its publication Unityin Dispersion (p. 377), which states that: "The majority of the GermanJews succeeded in leaving Germany before the war broke out." In additionto the German Jews, 220,000 of the total 280,000 Austrian Jews had emigratedby September, 1939, while from March 1939 onwards the Institute for JewishEmigration in Prague had secured the emigration of 260,000 Jews from formerCzechoslovakia. In all, only 360,000 Jews remained in Germany, Austria andCzechoslovakia after September 1939. From Poland, an estimated 500,000 hademigrated prior to the outbreak of war. These figures mean that the numberof Jewish emigrants from other European countries (France, the Netherlands,Italy, the countries of eastern Europe etc.) was approximately 120,000.This exodus of Jews before and during hostilities, therefore, reduces thenumber of Jews in Europe to approximately 5,000,000. In addition to theseemigrants, we must also include the number of Jews who fled to the SovietUnion after 1939, and who were later evacuated beyond reach of the Germaninvaders. It will be shown below that the majority of these, about 1,250,000,were migrants from Poland. But apart from Poland, Reitlinger admits that300,000 other European Jews slipped into Soviet territory between 1939 and1941. This brings the total of Jewish emigrants to the Soviet Union to about1,550,000. In Colliers magazine, June 9th, 1945, Freiling Foster, writingof the Jews in Russia, explained that "2,200,000 have migrated to theSoviet Union since 1939 to escape from the Nazis," but our lower estimateis probably more accurate. Jewish migration to the Soviet Union, therefore,reduces the number of Jews within the sphere of German occupation to around3-1/2 million, approximately 3,450,000. From these should be deducted thoseJews living in neutral European countries who escaped the consequences ofthe war. According to the 1942 World Almanac (p. 594). the number of Jewsliving in Gibraltar, Britain, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Irelandand Turkey was 413,128.

3 MILLION JEWS IN EUROPE A figure, consequently, of around3 million Jews in German- occupied Europe is as accurate as the availableemigration statistics will allow. Approximately the same number, however,can be deduced in another way if we examine statistics for the Jewish populationsremaining in countries occupied by the Reich. More than half of those Jewswho migrated to the Soviet Union after 1939 came from Poland. It is frequentlyclaimed that the war with Poland added some 3 million Jews to the Germansphere of influence and that almost the whole of this Polish Jewish populationwas "exterminated". This is a major factual error. The 1931 Jewishpopulation census for Poland put the number of Jews at 2,732,600 (Reitlinger,Die Endlösung, p. 36). Reitlinger states that at least 1,170,000 ofthese were in the Russian zone occupied in the autumn of 1939, about a millionof whom were evacuated to the Urals and south Siberia after the German invasionof June 1941 (ibid. p. 50). As described above, an estimated 500,000 Jewshad emigrated from Poland prior to the war. Moreover, the journalist RaymondArthur Davis, who spent the war in the Soviet Union, observed that approximately250,000 had already fled from German-occupied Poland to Russia between 1939and 1941 and were to be encountered in every Soviet province (Odyssey throughHell, N.Y., 1946). Subtracting these figures from the population of 2,732,600,therefore, and allowing for the normal population increase, no more than1,100,000 Polish Jews could have been under German rule at the end of 1939.(Gutachen des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, 1956, p.80). Tothis number we may add the 360,000 Jews remaining in Germany, Austria andformer Czechoslovakia (Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia) after the extensiveemigration from those countries prior to the war described above. Of the320,000 French Jews, the Public Prosecutor representing that part of theindictment relating to France at the Nuremberg Trials, stated that 120,000Jews were deported, though. Reitlinger estimates only about 50,000. Thusthe total number of Jews under Nazi rule remains below two million. Deportationsfrom the Scandinavian countries were few, and from Bulgaria none at all.When the Jewish populations of Holland (140,000), Belgium (40,000), Italy(50,000), Yugoslavia (55,000), Hungary (380,000) and Roumania (725,000)are included, the figure does not much exceed 3 million. This excess isdue to the fact that the latter figures are pre-war estimates unaffectedby emigration, which from these countries accounted for about 120,000 (seeabove). This cross-checking, therefore, confirms the estimate of approximately3 million European Jews under German occupation.

RUSSIAN JEWS EVACUATED The precise figures concerning RussianJews are unknown, and have therefore been the subject of extreme exaggeration.The Jewish statistician Jacob Leszczynski states that in 1939 there were2,100,000 Jews living in future German-occupied Russia, i.e. western Russia.In addition, some 260,000 lived in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latviaand Lithuania. According to Louis Levine, President of the American JewishCouncil for Russian Relief, who made a post-war tour of the Soviet Unionand submitted a report on the status of Jews there, the majority of thesenumbers were evacuated east after the German armies launched their invasion.In Chicago, on October 30th, 1946, he declared that: "At the outsetof the war, Jews were amongst the first evacuated from the western regionsthreatened by the Hitlerite invaders, and shipped to safety east of theUrals. Two million Jews were thus saved." This high number is confirmedby the Jewish journalist David Bergelson, who wrote in the Moscow Yiddishpaper Ainikeit, December 5th, 1942, that "Thanks to the evacuation,the majority (80%) of the Jews in the Ukraine, White Russia, Lithuania andLatvia before the arrival of the Germans were rescued." Reitlingeragrees with the Jewish authority Joseph Schechtmann, who admits that hugenumbers were evacuated, though he estimates a slightly higher number ofRussian and Baltic Jews left under German occupation, between 650,000 and850,000 (Reitlinger, The Final Solution, p. 499). In respect of these SovietJews remaining in German territory, it will be proved later that in thewar in Russia no more than one hundred thousand persons were killed by theGerman Action Groups as partisans and Bolshevik commissars, not all of whomwere Jews. By contrast, the partisans themselves claimed to have murderedfive times that number of German troops.

'SIX MILLION' UNTRUE ACCORDING TO NEUTRAL SWISS It is clear,therefore, that the Germans could not possibly have gained control overor exterminated anything like six million Jews. Excluding the Soviet Union,the number of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe after emigration was scarcelymore than 3 million, by no means all of whom were interned. To approachthe extermination of even half of six mfilion would have meant the liquidationof every Jew living in Europe. And yet it is known that large numbers ofJews were alive in Europe after 1945. Philip Friedmann in Their Brother'sKeepers (N.Y., 1957, p. 13), states that "at least a million Jews survivedin the very crucible of the Nazi hell," while the official figure ofthe Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is 1,559,600. Thus, even if oneaccepts the latter estimate, the number of possible wartime Jewish deathscould not have exceeded a limit of one and a half million. Precisely thisconclusion was reached by the reputable journal Baseler Nachrichten of neutralSwitzerland. In an article entitled "Wie hoch ist die Zahl der jüdischenOpfer?" ("How high is the number of Jewish victims?", June13th, 1946), it explained that purely on the basis of the population andemigration figures described above, a maximum of only one and a half millionJews could be numbered as casualties. Later on, however, it will be demonstratedconclusively that the number was actually far less, for the Baseler Nachrichtenaccepted the Joint Distribution Committee's figure of 1,559,600 survivorsafter the war, but we shall show that the number of claims for compensationby Jewish survivors is more than double that figure. This information wasnot available to the Swiss in 1946.

IMPOSSIBLE BIRTH RATE Indisputable evidence is also providedby the post-war world Jewish population statistics. The World Almanac of1938 gives the number of Jews in the world as 16,588,259. But after thewar, the New York Times, February 22nd, 1948 placed the number of Jews inthe world at a minimum of 15,600,000 and a maximum of 18,700,000. Quiteobviously, these figures make it impossible for the number of Jewish war-timecasualties to be measured in anything but thousands. 15-1/2 million in 1938minus the alleged six million leaves nine million; the New York Times figureswould mean, therefore, that the world's Jews produced seven million births,almost doubling their numbers, in the space of ten years. This is patentlyridiculous. It would appear, therefore, that the great majority of the missing"six million" were in fact emigrants - emigrants to European countries,to the Soviet Union and the United States before, during and after the war.And emigrants also, in vast nunibers to Palestine during and especiallyat the end of the war. After 1945, boat-loads of these Jewish survivorsentered Palestine illegally from Europe, causing considerable embarrassmentto the British Government of the time; indeed, so great were the numbersthat the H.M. Stationery Office publication No. 190 (November 5th, 1946)described them as "almost amounting to a second Exodus." It wasthese emigrants to all parts of the world who had swollen the world Jewishpopulation to between 15 and 18 millions by 1948, and probably the greatestpart of them were emigrants to the United States who entered in violationof the quota laws. On August 16th, 1963 David Ben Gurion, President of Israel,stated that although the official Jewish population of America was saidto be 5,600,000, "the total number would not be estimated too highat 9,000,000" (Deutsche Wochenzeitung, November 23rd, 1963). The reasonfor this high figure is underlined by Albert Maisal in his article "OurNewest Americans" (Readers Digest, January, 1957), for he reveals that"Soon after World War II, by Presidential decree, 90 per cent of allquota visas for central and eastern Europe were issued to the uprooted."Reprinted on this page is just one extract from hundreds that regularlyappear in the obituary columns of Aufbau, the Jewish American weekly publishedin New York (June 16th, 1972). It shows how Jewish emigrants to the UnitedStates subsequently changed their names; their former names when in Europeappear in brackets. For example, as below: Arthur Kingsley (formerly Dr.Königsberger of Frankfurt). Could it be that some or all of these peoplewhose names are 'deceased' were included in the missing six million of Europe?

4. THE SIX MILLION: DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE From the foregoingit would seem certain that the figure of six million murdered Jews amountsto nothing more than a vague compromise between several quite baseless estimates;there is not a shred of documentary evidence for it that is trustworthy.Occasionally, writers narrow it down to give a disarming appearance of authenticity.Lord Russell of Liverpool, for example, in his The Scourge of the Swastika(London, 1954) claimed that "not less than five million" Jewsdied in German concentration camps, having satisfied himself that he wassomewhere between those who estimated 6 million and those who preferred4 million. But, he admitted, "the real number will never be known."If so, it is difficult to know how he could have asserted "not lessthan five million." The Joint Distribution Committee favours 5,012,000,but the Jewish "expert" Reitlinger suggests a novel figure of4,192,200 "missing Jews" of whom an estimated one third died ofnatural causes. This would reduce the number deliberately "exterminated"to 2,796,000. However, Dr. M. Perlzweig, the New York delegate to a WorldJewish Congress press conference held at Geneva in 1948 stated: "Theprice of the downfall of National Socialism and Fascism is the fact thatseven million Jews lost their lives thanks to cruel Anti-Semitism."In the Press and elsewhere, the figure is often casually lifted to eightmillion or sometimes even nine million. As we have proved in the previouschapter, none of these figures are in the remotest degree plausible, indeed,they are ridiculous.

FANTASTIC EXAGGERATIONS So far as is known, the first accusationagainst the Germans of the mass murder of Jews in war-time Europe was madeby the Polish Jew Rafael Lemkin in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe,published in New York in 1943. Somewhat coincidentally, Lemkin was laterto draw up the U.N. Genocide Convention, which seeks to outlaw "racialism".His book claimed that the Nazis had destroyed millions of Jews, perhapsas many as six millions. This, by 1943, would have been remarkable indeed,since the action was allegedly started only in the summer of 1942. At sucha rate, the entire world Jewish population would have been exterminatedby 1945. After the war, propaganda estimates spiralled to heights even morefantastic. Kurt Gerstein, an anti-Nazi who claimed to have infiltrated theS.S., told the French interrogator Raymond Cartier that he knew that noless than forty million concentration camp internees had been gassed. Inhis first signed memorandum of April 26th, 1945, he reduced the figure to25 million, but even this was too bizarre for French Intelligence and inhis second memorandum, signed at Rottweil on May 4th, 1945, he brought thefigure closer to the six million preferred at the Nuremberg Trials. Gerstein'ssister was congenitally insane and died by euthenasia, which may well suggesta streak of mental instability in Gerstein himself. He had, in fact, beenconvicted in 1936 of sending eccentric mail through the post. After histwo "confessions" he hanged himself at Cherche Midi prison inParis. Gerstein alleged that during the war he passed on information concerningthe murder of Jews to the Swedish Government through a German baron butfor some inexplicable reason his report was "filed away and forgotten".He also claimed that in August 1942 he informed the Papal nuncio in Berlinabout the whole "extermination programme", but the reverend personmerely told him to "Get out." The Gerstein statements abound withclaims to have witnessed the most gigantic mass executions (twelve thousandin a single day at Belzec), while the second memorandum describes a visitby Hitler to a concentration camp in Poland on June 6th, 1942 which is knownnever to have taken place. Gerstein's fantastic exaggerations have donelittle but discredit the whole notion of mass extermination. Indeed, EvangelicalBishop Wilhelm Dibelius of Berlin denounced his memoranda as "Untrustworthy"(H. Rothfels, "Augenzeugenbericht zu den Massenvergasungen" inVierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, April 1953). It is an incrediblefact, however, that in spite of this denunciation, the German Governmentin 1955 issued an edition of the second Gerstein memorandum for distributionin German chools (Dokumentation zur Massenvergasung, Bonn, 1955). In itthey stated that Dibelius placed his special confidence in Gerstein andthat the memoranda were "valid beyond any doubt." This is a strikingexample of the way in which the baseless charge of genocide by the Nazisis perpetuated in Germany, and directed especially to the youth.

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