In addition to the German Jews who served in the Wehrmacht, there were those Jews who guarded the Jewish ghettos, and then, together with the Germans, Lithuanians and Latvians, destroyed their own brethren.

Moreover, currying favor with the Germans, they showed even greater cruelty to the Jews than the most ...

Frostbitten Balts. Having occupied Poland, the Baltic States, Ukraine and Belarus - the traditional area for the resettlement of Jews, the Germans created ghettos in large cities, to which they moved Jews in order to isolate them from the non-Jewish population.

Unlike ordinary policemen, Jewish policemen received neither rations nor salaries, and therefore the only ways to feed themselves were robbery and extortion.

It's like in that joke - they gave a gun, spin as you want. True, pistols were not issued to ordinary policemen - only the heads of detachments and commandants had them. Rifles were issued to the police only for the duration of the executions.

The Jewish police detachments were quite large. In the Warsaw Ghetto, the Jewish police numbered about 2,500; in the ghetto of the city of Lodz - 1200; in Lviv up to 500 people; in Vilnius up to 250 people.

Head of the Jewish Police in Krakow Shapiro

The head of the Jewish police of the Warsaw ghetto, Jozef Sherinsky, receives a report from the head of one of the detachments, Yakub Leikin. Sherinsky was later caught stealing, and Leikin took his place.

Many Jewish policemen made pretty decent fortunes on this by the end of the war, but the largest fortunes were made by members and heads of the Judenrats - Jewish self-government bodies created by the Germans, the heads of which most often became kahal elders. Firstly, they took bribes for the right to join the police, and secondly, the policemen brought them a share of the loot. They also took bribes from ordinary Jews for the right to delay sending them to a concentration camp. Thus, the richest Jews, as a rule, survived, and the leadership of the Judenrats not only survived, but became even richer as a result of the war. They stole wherever they could. Even the 229 grams of rations set by the Germans for the Jews, they managed to reduce to 184.

Jewish police armband

When creating the Judenrats, the Germans, as a rule, relied on the top of the kahal. The fact is that since ancient times, each Jewish community had its own kahal - a self-government body that acted as an intermediary between the Jews and the authorities of the state on whose territory this community lived. At the head of the kahal were four elders (roshi); they were followed by "persons of honor" (tuvas). The qahal always had a detachment of the qahal fear led by the shamesh. Having driven the Jews into the ghetto, the Germans simply renamed the kahals into Judenrats, and the shameshs became police chiefs.

Some of the former members of the Jewish police of Vilnius, Kaunas and Siauliai were arrested by the NKVD in the summer of 1944 and convicted of collaborating with the Germans. The same policemen and members of the Judenrats that did not fall into the hands of the NKVD were safely repatriated to Israel, and enjoyed honor and respect there. Their "exploits" were justified even in the Talmud, calling by any means to save at least a drop of Jewish blood. The Jews reasoned as follows: if the policemen had not gone into the service of the Germans, then the Germans would have killed them along with the rest of the Jews, and by killing their fellow tribesmen, whom the Germans would have killed anyway, they saved at least part of the Jews - themselves from destruction.

Bicycle detachment of the Jewish police in the Warsaw Ghetto

150,000 Jews served in the Wehrmacht

Among the 4 million 126 thousand 964 prisoners of various nationalities taken by us there were 10 thousand 137 Jews.
Are there really such Jews who fought on the side of Hitler.

Imagine, there were many such Jews.

The ban on the admission of Jews to military service was first introduced in Germany on November 11, 1935. However, as early as 1933, the dismissal of Jews who bore officer ranks began. True, many veteran officers of Jewish origin were then allowed to remain in the army at the personal request of Hindenburg, but after his death they were gradually sent off to retire. Until the end of 1938, 238 such officers were escorted from the Wehrmacht. On January 20, 1939, Hitler ordered the dismissal of all Jewish officers, as well as all officers who were married to Jewish women.

However, all these orders were not unconditional, and Jews were allowed to serve in the Wehrmacht with special permits. In addition, the layoffs took place with a creak - each boss of the dismissed Jew zealously proved that his subordinate Jew was irreplaceable in his place. The Jewish quartermasters held on to their places especially tightly. On August 10, 1940, only in the VII military district (Munich) there were 2269 Jewish officers who served in the Wehrmacht on the basis of a special permit. In all 17 districts, the number of Jewish officers amounted to about 16 thousand people.

For feats in the military field, Jews could be Aryanized, that is, appropriated with German nationality. In 1942, 328 Jewish officers were Aryanized.

Checking for Jewish affiliation was provided only for officers. For the lower rank, only his own assurance was provided that neither he nor his wife were Jews. In this case, it was possible to grow up to a staff sergeant major, but if someone was eager to become an officer, then his origin was carefully checked. There were also those who, upon entering the army, recognized Jewish origin, but they could not get a rank higher than a senior shooter.

It turns out that the Jews sought to join the army in droves, considering it the safest place for themselves in the conditions of the Third Reich. It was not difficult to hide Jewish origin - most German Jews had German names and surnames, and the nationality was not written in the passport.

Checks of ordinary and non-commissioned officers for belonging to the Jews began to be made only after the assassination attempt on Hitler. Such checks covered not only the Wehrmacht, but also the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and even the SS. Until the end of 1944, 65 soldiers and sailors, 5 soldiers of the SS troops, 4 non-commissioned officers, 13 lieutenants,
one Untersturmführer, one Obersturmführer of the SS troops, three captains, two majors, one lieutenant colonel - battalion commander in the 213th Infantry Division Ernst Bloch, one colonel and one rear admiral - Karl Kühlenthal. The latter served as a naval attaché in Madrid and carried out assignments for the Abwehr. One of the identified Jews was immediately Aryanized for military merit. The fate of the rest of the documents are silent. It is only known that Kühlenthal, thanks to the intercession of Dönitz, was allowed to retire with the right to wear a uniform.

There is evidence that Grand Admiral Erich Johann Albert Raeder also turned out to be a Jew. His father was a school teacher who converted to Lutheranism in his youth. According to these very data, it was precisely the identified Jewry that became the true reason for the resignation of Raeder on January 3, 1943.

Many Jews called their nationality only in captivity. So, Wehrmacht Major Robert Borchardt, who received the Knight's Cross for a tank breakthrough of the Russian front in August 1941, was captured by the British near El Alamein, after which it turned out that his Jewish father lives in London. In 1944, Borchardt was released to live with his father, but in 1946 he returned to Germany. In 1983, shortly before his death, Borchardt told German schoolchildren: "Many Jews and half-Jews who fought for Germany in World War II believed that they should honestly defend their fatherland by serving in the army."

Another Jewish hero was Colonel Walter Hollander. During the war years, he was awarded the Iron Crosses of both degrees and a rare distinction - the Golden German Cross. In October 1944, Hollander was captured by us, where he declared his Jewishness. He remained in captivity until 1955, after which he returned to Germany and died in 1972.

A very curious case is also known, when for a long time the Nazi press placed on their covers a photograph of a blue-eyed blond in a steel helmet as a standard representative of the Aryan race. However, one day it turned out that Werner Goldberg, placed in these photos, turned out to be not only blue-eyed, but also blue-backed.

Further elucidation of Goldberg's identity revealed that he was also a Jew. Goldberg was fired from the army, and he got a job as a clerk in a company that sews military uniforms. In 1959-79 Goldberg was a member of the West Berlin Chamber of Deputies.

The highest-ranking Nazi Jew is Goering's Deputy Inspector General of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Erhard Milch. In order not to discredit Milch in the eyes of ordinary Nazis, the party leadership stated that Milch's mother did not have sex with her Jewish husband, and Erhard's true father was Baron von Beer. Goering laughed for a long time about this: "Yes, we made Milch a bastard, but an aristocratic bastard."

On May 4, 1945, Milch was caught by the British at Sicherhagen Castle on the Baltic coast and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court. In 1951, the term was reduced to 15 years, and by 1955, he was released ahead of schedule.
Some of the captured Jews died in Soviet captivity and, according to the official position of the Israeli National Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Yad Vashem, are considered victims of the Holocaust.

Historians, sociologists, political scientists, philosophers, religious scholars, theologians, psychologists - dozens of scientists are struggling to unravel the question "what are the causes of the Holocaust." Perhaps they can give the closest answer to the truth - then - and - if they can ever unite. Now the Holocaust is considered by each of them from their own narrow-profile point of view.

Questions, questions, questions...

Is anti-Semitism the main reason? Or maybe the “strangely” interpreted economic “necessity” is an asymmetric response to the countries that won the First World War? Or a perverted understanding of medical scientific research? Or does the fault lie with the people themselves, who have left their God, thereby violating God's chosenness? Or was the Holocaust a consequence of the struggle against the Bolshevik-Communists? Or maybe everything is simpler: the evil will of one psychopath who seized power, who nurtured in himself a shameful irrational hatred, found support from people like him - “like-minded people”, with a psychologically related sadistic pathology?

In any case, the ideologists and perpetrators of the Holocaust for some reason thought that they had justified themselves before their descendants at least twice: by adopting the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and fixing them in 1942 in the program plan of genocide at the Wannsee Conference.

However, none of the war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg and Israeli trials, from Kaltenbrunner to Eichmann, was helped by reference to any of the adopted laws, orders, doctrines, decisions or decrees requiring the destruction of Jews, Gypsies and other peoples, since there is also a simple human, and difficult legal concept - "criminal order".

Anti-Semitism as a precondition for the Holocaust

Irrational hatred of the Jewish people has been rooted in the earth since time immemorial. The origins of this hatred can be found in the denseness of the crowds, subject to the militant influence of the first Christian priests, and many, many other things. This hatred has long become the archetype of attitudes towards foreigners in general, and towards those who are not like everyone else, in particular. Therefore, there is no need to talk about any special German anti-Semitism. Many times in any of the centuries from the birth of Christ, here and there, from the darkness, they surfaced, and still emerge, gnashed with malice of the physiognomy of fighters for the purity of the nation: whether Spanish, American, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Arab Islamists and they have no number. When their critical mass accumulates, then waiting for pogroms becomes a common activity of the Jewish people.

It will not be difficult to replace the descendants of foreigners. A lot of countries are now offering to get a view on and for repatriation. The most massive and well-known "consumer" is, of course, the State of Israel. If your mother, father, grandfather or grandmother were Jews, you will easily get the opportunity to settle in this country. In addition to Israel, Germany provides the opportunity to emigrate as compensation for the Holocaust.

If you are convinced that you have no opportunity to leave on a work visa, and your ancestors come from the peoples of Russia, you can go as a migrant. Previously, a view on the basis of "business" could easily be obtained in the Czech Republic, than hundreds of thousands of ours. Then whole cities began to speak, and business visas almost ceased to be issued.

Spain is no less popular among emigrants. It is a country with a great climate and friendly people. True, for the happiness of basking in the Spanish sun, you will have to pay about thirty thousand euros and compete with local bureaucrats.

The sweetest state to the Russian heart is, of course, Bulgaria. You can get a residence permit by opening a representative office of a foreign company or by hiring ten Bulgarian citizens. Visas are readily granted, the attitude towards Russian speakers is excellent, the climate is mild, the script is Cyrillic, and crime is low. That is why several hundred thousand Russian citizens permanently live in Bulgaria.

If you want summer all year round, exotics and adventures, but you don’t want to overpay for all this, you can go to Southeast Asia. The most popular among Russians is Thailand. So, in the city of Pattaya, Russian speech can be heard almost more often than Thai. The only inconvenience of living in Thailand is the need to cross the border every month to extend the visa. Now Thailand is competing with Cambodia.

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Advice 4: How many people died in the Great Patriotic War

The question of the human losses of the USSR and Germany during the Great Patriotic War was repeatedly raised in print media and television programs, but the researchers of this issue did not come to a consensus. Currently, there are many sources of literature and network resources, thanks to which you can find out additional information about the Great Patriotic War, which was previously a mystery.

USSR losses

According to the population census in 1939, 170 million lived in the USSR. Before the outbreak of World War II, the population of the USSR had a high mortality rate and low life expectancy, but it helped to stabilize the situation in the state. The irretrievable loss of the Red Army was not talked about at all for a long period. In 1947, the first data began to appear that more than 7 million Soviet citizens were in the Great Patriotic War, while prisoners of war and militias were not taken into account. Later, Khrushchev, Solzhenitsyn and many other prominent personalities were involved in the assessment of human losses, based on data. So, for example, Solzhenitsyn in his writings claimed 20 million Soviet citizens. Boris Sokolov, candidate of historical sciences and doctor of philology, using the calculation method, found out that only the armed forces of the USSR lost about 26 million people. Based on official statistical reports, it became known that a significant proportion of the dead is occupied, namely, 13.6 million people.
On the basis of documents published in the first half of the 1990s, it can be argued that the true value of the losses of the Soviet Union amounted to almost 27 million people, which exceeds the losses of the Eastern Front.

German losses

Despite the fact that many years have passed since the end of World War II, there are countries that have not calculated all the demographic losses. Germany is one of these countries. Foreign historians have made several attempts to make unofficial estimates of casualties, but the results were not at all true. The study nevertheless revealed that about 4.270 million military personnel died at the front, not taking into account those who died in captivity and the civilian population. According to official sources, the total human losses in Germany during the Great Patriotic War amounted to about 11.5 million people, but this information does not show the whole reality. None of the statistical services will show the true extent of the tragedy of the German people. In addition, some of the archival documents about the deaths of people have been lost, so it will be very difficult to calculate the exact losses.

It is also worth mentioning the terrible tragedy in life that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. Germany created death camps, where they tried to forcibly take away the entire Jewish population, including children and elderly citizens. The racial persecution began with the fact that Jews were not allowed to visit public places, use vehicles and walk along the streets. Fascism did not stop there. Very soon, Jews began to be marked with a label - a yellow six-pointed star on their clothes. During the Second World War, 6 million Jews died, which is one third of the Jewish population of the whole world.

There are many versions that tell us about the reasons why the once terrible Second World War was unleashed. The undoubted fact remains that Germany was the instigator of it, in particular its leader, Adolf Hitler.

His biography has been written and rewritten hundreds of times. An attentive reader, having studied it, will understand some of the Fuhrer's motives, and also answer the question of why Hitler hated Jews, gypsies, other peoples and races.

Other reasons include the following:

1. Hitler had the idea of ​​conquering the world and dividing it into three races. To the first and highest he attributed the "true Aryans", i.e. native Germans. They were supposed to rule the world. He attributed the Slavs to the second group, who were assigned the role of slaves. The third group consisted of Jews, Gypsies, and so on. They were planned to be completely destroyed. This is one of the most popular and plausible answers to the question of why Hitler hated the Jews.
2. After that, Germany experienced a strong economic downturn. People lived quite poorly and hard. At the same time, most banks and profitable enterprises were owned by Jews. Hitler considered this humiliating and found, in his opinion, the right way out of the situation. In addition, he was convinced that the defeat in the war was also the work of the capitalists, especially the Jews.
3. Hitler's mother was seriously ill. Many historians believe that she died as a result of an unsuccessful operation performed by a Jewish doctor. And this awakened in the young Hitler hatred for these people. However, this version is quite controversial. Considering that the woman was sick with cancer, and the medicine of that time was not well developed, it can be assumed that the fault of the doctor here is minimal.
4. Hitler blamed the Jews for the revolution that took place in Russia, for the emergence of Bolshevism, and so on. He sought to destroy the capitalists.
5. According to one version, in the years of turbulent youth, Hitler was “awarded” with syphilis by one of the Jewish prostitutes. The realization that the disease was incurable strengthened his hatred of the Jews.
6. During his school years, little Hitler had a Jewish teacher who inspired fear in the boy.
7. Eva Braun's father was Jewish. Before the wedding, he promised the future father-in-law a considerable amount as a dowry. However, things did not go beyond promises. This fact reinforced the growing hatred and dislike for this race.
8. The genocide of Jews began from the first days of the war. This clearly shows another version. In order to raise thousands of people and force them to fight, motives are also needed. Germany fought to establish world domination. To keep up the morale of the soldiers, victories were necessary. For this, it was necessary to kill someone. Since the Slavs were chosen as future slaves, the role of victims was assigned to Jews and Gypsies. These peoples are small, and it seemed to Hitler that they would simply be destroyed. The realization that it was in their power to wipe out an entire nation from the face of the earth raised the morale of the soldiers.

Which of the versions of why Hitler hated the Jews, to choose and which one to believe, everyone decides for himself. Any one can try to prove or disprove.

Many historians and psychologists have studied the personality of Hitler. Most of them came to the conclusion that he was not quite mentally healthy. His acquaintances and teachers noted some aggressiveness, unsociableness and detachment. He was very quick-tempered and harsh in his judgments. He remained a mystery to posterity and a monster that destroyed millions of people. Many of them, including women, children and the elderly, did not die on the battlefield, but were tortured in concentration camps and gas chambers. The terrible experiments that were performed on civilians still excite the imagination. The real reasons why Hitler hated the Jews are not known for certain.

And of course we all know about his great hatred for Jewish blood. But why did Hitler not like the Jews and what is the reason for this? Let's figure it out.

According to some sources, during the years of existence of Nazi Germany, about 6 million Jews were destroyed. The ultimate goal was the complete extermination of an entire nation. This is confirmed by the well-known book "My Struggle", in which he explains his theory of the superiority of the Germans, belonging to the Aryan race, only representatives of which can be masters of the world.

The situation in the country.

From an early age, Adolf Hitler adhered to the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe greatness of his own nation, this idea was planted in his young head by one of his school teachers. But the beginning of the 20th century was not the best period in the life of Germany, especially after the First World War. At the same time, Jews occupied most of the key positions in the financial and political sphere, during the economic crisis, many of them amassed huge fortunes.

The overwhelming number of bankers were representatives of the hated race, and the leading positions in the field of commerce and culture were also occupied by them.

In fairness, it should be noted that not all Jews were rich, but even with a small income, they did not want to engage in hard physical labor, preferring usury, tailoring and other activities. This did not sit well with the Germans, most of whom had to work for pennies doing hard work.

In addition, the number of Germans in Berlin was significantly less than the size of the Jewish community. It was on the hatred of the representatives of this nation that the policy of Nazi Germany was built, in other words, the internal enemy was found, the culprit of all the failures, because the economic devastation and political failures of Germany could most easily be explained by the greed of the Jews who profited from it.

The current situation explains why the Nazi leader hated them so much, subsequently calling them the most useless and shameless people on Earth, who sought to work less and live better than others.

uncleanliness

Accustomed from early childhood to neatness and cleanliness, Hitler became irritated by people who were alien to personal hygiene. In his opinion, the Jews did not like to bathe, as a result of which they had a very unpleasant smell. As an additional disadvantage, sloppiness in clothing was noted.

Resourcefulness

Hitler could not fail to note the high intelligence of the Jews, their innate ability to politics and trade. Thanks to the flexibility of the mind, this nation drew proper conclusions, carefully observing what was happening around, adapting to the environment. These abilities aroused in Hitler a simultaneous feeling of disgust and admiration, in his opinion, having such a significant potential, one should not act so lowly.

Usury

The ability of the Jews to profit from the grief of others was opposed to the actions of other nations, which, unlike them, helped each other in difficult times and most often disinterestedly. Jews amassed solid capital through usury, taking advantage of the plight or naivety of citizens. Often this led to the complete ruin of honest people who were forced to use their services.

Whatever shortcomings are prescribed for this people, this is not a justification for its destruction. Therefore, many experts are inclined to believe that the main reason why Hitler did not like the Jews is the mental disorder that the Nazi leader suffered from.

That's all we have. Looking forward to your return!

When Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933, no one doubted that an ardent anti-Semite had come to power. Hateful attacks against the Jews took up a lot of space in Mein Kampf, and the Nazi Party program forbade the admission of Jews into it.

The anti-Semitism of the National Socialists had its traditional reasons: the Jews were accused of controlling a disproportionate part of the economic and spiritual life in Germany, using this power solely for their own interests. In addition, the Nazis saw the Jews as the vanguard of the Communist Party. At the same time, they referred to the fact that the Jews played a leading role in the October Revolution, and in the short-lived Bela Kun regime in Hungary, and in the even more short-lived Bavarian Republic.

The coming to power of the NSRPG in Germany was an unpleasant blow for the German Jews, who for the most part were assimilated and considered themselves good patriots. For some time they hoped that by taking on the burden of state responsibility, the National Socialists would become more moderate. After all, anti-Semitism did not play a leading role during the election campaign. They voted for the NSRPG not out of hatred for the Jews, but because they thought that Hitler would give the Germans work and bread.

After the burning of the Reichstag on February 27, 1933 and the triumph of the National Socialists on March 5 of the same year in the elections, repressions did not take long, but almost only leftists, primarily communists, became their victims. The first concentration camp appeared in Dachau at the end of March, followed by other camps. There were also Jews among the prisoners, but not as Jews and Jews, but as left-wing activists (or criminals).

At this time, only individual fanatics or hooligans allowed themselves antics against the Jews, but the government did not approve of them.

Hitler took the first action against the Jews on April 1, 1933, calling for a boycott of Jewish shops. More serious and all-encompassing were the various sections of the law on the legal profession, which came out six days later, as well as the decision to restore the professional bureaucracy. Most of the Jewish officials were dismissed, often under the guise of retirement. The rulings against the Jews were not as harsh as the Nazis wanted, for Hitler had to reckon with his partners in the conservative camp.

With the help of these decrees, the number of Jewish lawyers and notaries was greatly reduced. Shortly thereafter, a 1.5 percent quota was introduced for Jews in medical and law faculties. In the months that followed, many Jews who served in government offices or educational institutions were fired, retired, or banned from their profession. Then, for a while, it seemed as if the storm had subsided, and 10,000 of the 60,000 Jews who had left it after Hitler came to power returned to Germany.

But those were illusory hopes. In September 1935, the "Nuremberg Laws" came to the Reichstag, which prohibited marriages and extramarital relations between Jews and "Aryans", but then there was a pause again, partly due to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The year 1937 brought a large-scale "arization" of the German economy, which meant the forced sale by Jews of their enterprises and firms for a price generally less than the real one.

In 1938, the National Socialist regime tightened the screws even more. In June, Jews sentenced to more than a month's imprisonment were sent to concentration camps. In November, Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew, killed a German diplomat in Paris, leading to the famous Kristallnacht.

Excessions took place throughout Germany, during which many synagogues were desecrated, Jewish shops were looted and burned, from 36 to 91 Jews were killed and many were injured. In Germany itself and Austria, which became part of the Reich in March, 31.5 thousand Jews were arrested and placed in four camps: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen. True, most of them were soon released, but the shock of Kristallnacht and the subsequent arbitrary measures taken by the government - for example, a fine of one billion marks was imposed on the German Jewish community - dispelled among the Jews all hopes for an improvement in their situation. Until October 1941, when the order to stop emigration was issued, two-thirds of German Jews left Germany, and among those who remained, already in 1939, more than half were over 65 years old.

The same process, but at a faster pace, took place after the Anschluss in March 1938 in Austria and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia after the partition of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Within a short time, most of the Austrian and a significant number of Czech Jews emigrated.

This mass exodus fully corresponded to the plans of the National Socialists, and then they supported it with all their might. Jews were driven to emigrate by various oppressions to which they had been subjected since 1935. To reinforce it The Nazis worked closely with the Zionists circles interested in resettling as many Jews as possible in Palestine. This cooperation, which is largely hushed up these days, is very well described in the book The Order of the Dead Head by Heinz Hehne, a classic study on the SS, which is based on the following facts.

In the autumn of 1934, Leopold Edler von Mildenstein, who later became an SS Unterscharffihrer, published an article in the Nazi organ Angrif on the prospects for a Jewish state in Palestine. As a regular participant in the Zionist congresses, Mildenstein saw the solution of the Jewish question in the emigration of Jews to the British Mandatory Territory, where the State of Israel later really arose. This article was brought to the attention of Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SD (security service), who liked the idea. All German Jews must leave for Palestine, if possible voluntarily or under duress. Of course, a minority of Jewish emigrants chose Palestine as their new homeland, while the majority preferred to go to other countries, mainly to the United States.

Mildenstein's plan was to "dissimilate" the assimilated Jews and turn them into Zionists. On Himmler's orders, he organized the "Jewish Sector" to stimulate emigration. This sector supported re-education camps where young Jews received agricultural training for work in Palestinian kibbutzim. In August 1936 there were at least 37 similar camps operating in Germany. One of them is mentioned in Neudorf even in March 1942!

One of the most active employees of the mentioned sector was the SS Adolf Eichmann, who on February 27, 1937, met in Berlin with the Zionist leader Feivel Polkesh, who held the position of commander of the Hagan Jewish militia in Palestine. Polkesh told Eichmann that he wanted with all his might to facilitate the emigration of Jews to Palestine, so that in time there would be more Jews than Palestinians. In October of the same year, Eichmann met in Cairo with Polkesch for negotiations for the second time. After them, the SS man Herbert Hagen, who accompanied Eichmann, stated that the Jewish nationalists were more satisfied with the radical German policy towards the Jews, because it contributed to an increase in their number in Palestine.

However, the described plan soon ran into difficulties, as it caused unrest among the Arab population of the mandated territory and the British decided to slow down emigration. In December 1937, the first relevant orders were issued, and in May 1939 the White Book appeared, according to which only 75,000 Jews were allowed into Palestine in the next five years, although illegal immigration, of course, went on by itself. The beginning of the war in September 1939 dealt a crushing blow to the Palestinian plans of the SD, because the Germans did not really want to alienate the Arabs, their potential allies in the war with the British.

After the United States and other countries took measures to reduce Jewish emigration, Germany began to think about resettling Jews in Madagascar. Franz Rademacher, chief of the Jewish sector in the German section of the Foreign Office, was a supporter of this idea. The implementation of this project became real after the defeat of France, whose colony was this huge island. However, Petain opposed, but even if he agreed to the plan, it would be difficult to carry it out, since there were few ships for transportation and the British kept the sea routes under control.

After the capture by the Germans at the beginning of the war with the USSR of large territories in the East in Berlin, an idea arose to create a zone inhabited by Jews there. On 31 July 1941 Göring wrote to Heydrich:

“In addition to the task set by the order of 01/24/1939, the possibility of a favorable solution of the Jewish question in the form emigration and evacuation in accordance with the circumstances of the time, I instruct you to carry out all the necessary preparations of an organizational, business and material nature for the general solution of the Jewish question in the German zone of influence in Europe. Other competent central authorities may be involved. Further, I instruct you to submit to me in the near future a general plan of preliminary measures of an organizational, business and material nature for the implementation of the envisaged final solution of the Jewish question.

Holocaust supporters cite this letter all the time, interpreting it as the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. Since the words "in the form of emigration or evacuation" get in the way, sometimes they are simply omitted. When correctly quoted, for example, by Raul Gilberg, these words are presented as a disguised "extermination". Gilberg also concludes that, having received the letter, Heydrich firmly took control of the process of genocide into his own hands. True, he does not explain why the second-ranking National Socialist had to resort to allegory in his informal letter to the head of the Nazi police. Since not a single written order for the extermination of the Jews was found, adherents of the myth of the Holocaust have to conjecture what is not in the text. Speaking of the emigration and evacuation of Jews, Goering meant only this and nothing else. Indeed, beginning in 1941, Jews from Germany and the occupied regions were transported to the East, first to Poland, and then in increasing numbers to Russia. Since hundreds of thousands of Jews were taken to the camps, their fate was unenviable even without a plan of extermination.

There were three reasons for the Nazis' behavior. First, they urgently needed a work force at a time when most of the combat-ready men were at the front, and as such, well-trained Jews in general were especially suitable. The transportation of old people and children to the camps is simply due to the fact that the families did not want to be separated. Secondly, the Jews were considered unreliable, for they undoubtedly always stood on the side of the enemy. As already mentioned, the percentage of Jews in the occupied countries of the resistance fighters was very high. Thirdly, the Nazis thought of using favorable circumstances to hasten the "final solution" of the Jewish question, by which they meant - contrary to the legend of the physical extermination of the Jews - their emigration or resettlement in territory on the eastern fringes of the German sphere of power.

Although emigration was said to have been officially banned in the autumn of 1941, the law was not strictly enforced and Jews could leave Europe during the war. The ban on emigration was, of course, aimed at preventing the fact that combat-ready and technically educated Jews could enter the service of the enemy. That is why Jews began to be deported to the East from the end of 1941. Below we will return to the fate of the deportees.

In the European countries occupied by Hitler, Jews had to suffer deportation to varying degrees. It unexpectedly strongly affected the Dutch Jews, most of whom were deported, while the Jews of Belgium and France were not affected much - foreign Jews were mainly deported from these countries. Since the goal of the National Socialists was to oust the Jews from Europe, they naturally began where there was the least difficulty. In France and Belgium, they had to reckon with local governments that opposed the deportation of Jews, their fellow citizens. After the German attack, the government fled from Holland, and therefore the Nazis could do whatever they wanted.

By the way, the deportation and internment of Jews in the Nazi Reich has a historical parallel: the United States and Canada interned most of the Japanese, even holders of American and Canadian passports. And this despite the fact that - as Reagan acknowledged decades later - not a single case of espionage or subversion by Japanese Americans was revealed!

Now let's risk touching on a very delicate topic - the question of how consciously the Zionists, especially American ones, provoked the persecution of Jews in Germany and the occupied countries and what is their responsibility - if not legal, then at least moral - for the plight of the Jews.

American Jew Edwin Black describes in his sensationally frank book "The Transfer Agreement", published in 1984, the stages of the economic war unleashed by Jewish organizations against Germany immediately after Hitler came to power, i.e. even before the first anti-Semitic decrees. On March 27, 1933, a large rally was held at Madison Square Garden in New York, the participants of which demanded a complete boycott of Germany before the day the National Socialist government was overthrown. Mac Connell, one of the speakers, stated in part:

“... Even if the persecution in Germany weakens for a while, protests and rallies against the Nazis must continue until they are removed from power.”

And Stephen S. Wise, president of the Congress of American Jews and one of the organizers of the rally, warned that:

At the same time, a boycott began in other countries. In Poland, "... at mass rallies, in unison with the rally of the Congress (of American Jews), it was decided to extend the boycott begun in Vilnius to the whole country. In Warsaw, the three largest Jewish trading firms pledged to “take the most drastic measures of protection by boycotting goods imported from Germany. In London, almost all the Jewish shops in the Whitechapel area slammed their doors on German merchants.

The consequences of this economic boycott were disastrous for Germany:

“The trade unions have taken measures against especially important branches of industry, which brought primarily foreign exchange earnings, such as dressing furs. According to estimates, the total losses of the Germans in this area alone in 1933 amounted to 100 million marks.

It really seemed that the words from the article "The Jews declare war on Germany", published on March 24 in the Daily Express, began to come true:

“The Jews of the whole world unite in order to declare financial and economic war on Germany… All frictions and contradictions are forgotten in the face of one common goal… to force Nazi Germany to stop its terror and violence against the Jewish minority.”

Black justifies this economic war by the German government's ruthless suppression of the Jews:

“The Nazis started a war with the Jews, mobilizing all of Germany. For their part, the Jews launched a war with the Nazis, inciting the whole world. Ahead - a boycott, protest marches, rallies against Hitler. It was necessary to isolate Germany politically, and even economically and culturally, until the Nazi leadership fell. So Germany was once again being taught a bitter lesson.

The author’s mistake is only that at that time there was simply no “war unleashed against the Jews with the mobilization of all Germany”, no “terror and violence against the Jewish minority”, “unreasonable killings, starvation, extermination and diabolical persecution” (These are the words of Samuel Untermeyer, government advisor and chairman of the Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League). There were only a few antics of anti-Semitic hooligans, against whom the new regime took all possible measures, as the statements of German Jewish organizations unequivocally testify to. On March 31, Max Naumann, honorary chairman of the Union of National German Jews, answered in the Neue Wiener Journal:

“First, I want to tell you that I oppose this anti-German persecution through the escalation of horrors. This campaign reminds me of the recent persecution of the Germans and their allies during the war. Even the details and methods coincide exactly when it was written about severed children's hands and gouged out eyes and about the use of corpses to obtain fatty substances. In this context fit the current statements that the dismembered corpses of Jews are lying in the cemeteries, that as soon as a Jew goes out into the street, he is attacked. Of course, there were separate tricks, but that's all... And I know that in these cases the authorities acted without ceremony. We German Jews are at least convinced that the government and the leadership of the NSRPG really want to maintain peace and order.”

Everyone understood that the Nazis, unable to get to the instigators of the boycott campaign, would unleash their wrath on the German Jews. In vain, however, Dr. Loewenstein, chairman of the "Imperial Union of German Frontline Soldiers", in a letter to American Jews sent to the US Embassy in Berlin, called for an end to this madness:

“We think the time has come to dissociate ourselves from the irresponsible persecution that is being carried out abroad by the so-called. Jewish intellectuals. The arrows that you throw from your protected hiding place, although they harm Germany and the German Jews, still do not honor the shooters themselves.

The terrible mockery of German Jews in 1933 existed only in the imagination of the propagandists, which confirms, describing the situation of that time, such an absolutely impeccable eyewitness as the Jewish historian Arno Mayer:

“Among the first prisoners of the Third Reich, there were relatively few Jews and, characteristically, they were arrested as politicians, lawyers or writers of the left orientation.”

One thing is clear - no one at that time was arrested just because he was a Jew. Elsewhere Meyer speaks of the reason for the boycott:

"On March 20, a committee of prominent American Jews, preoccupied with ominous instructions in Streicher's Stürmer, decided to call a mass meeting at Madison Square Garden on March 27."

The reason, or rather the pretext, for the unparalleled boycott campaign was the "ominous instructions" in an unofficial leaflet, which, due to its primitive and pornographic nature, was despised even by many Nazis!

Hitler responded to the international boycott with the aforementioned one-day boycott of Jewish shops, which, by the way, was held on Saturday, when most of them were already closed. In a huge number of school textbooks there is a photograph taken that day: outside a Jewish store, SS men point to a poster "Do not buy from Jews!" The textbooks, however, do not say how long this boycott lasted or what caused it. This is how history is falsified.

In the future, Jewish organizations in the US and other countries did not hesitate to do anything to provoke new measures against German Jews. In August 1933, Untermeyer, in a speech that was broadcast over the radio throughout the country, stated:

“Each of you, be he a Jew or a non-Jew, who has not yet become a participant in the holy war, must today become one ... Not only do you not buy German goods, you should not communicate at all with merchants or shopkeepers selling German products, or with using German ships ... - To our shame, there are a few Jews among us - fortunately they are few - who have so little pride and self-respect that they sail on German ships ... Everyone should know their names. They are traitors to our nation."

In January 1934, when in Germany no one - with the exception of some fanatic criminals - touched a single Jew with a finger because of his religion or nationality, the radical Zionist Vladimir Zhabotinsky wrote:

“All the Jewish communities and every Jew individually, all the trade unions at every congress and at every congress have been waging a struggle against Germany all over the world for months now. We will launch a spiritual and physical war against Germany on the part of the whole world. Our Jewish interests demand total destruction Germany".

In Berlin, such statements were taken literally. The German Jews had to pay for them, and no one asked them if they agreed with the chatter of the Untermeyers, the Wises, and the Jabotinskys. The Zionists knew what they were doing. As always, they used the German Jews as a bargaining chip in the struggle to create their own state. During the war, the persecution intensified even more. On December 3, 1942, Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization, declared:

“We are a Trojan horse in the enemy camp. Thousands of Jews living in Europe are the main factor in the destruction of our enemies.”

It was these phrases that the National Socialists referred to when ordering the deportation of Jews to camps and ghettos.

Even before the US entered the war, the American Jew Nathanael Kaufman published a book called "Germany Must Perish", in which he demanded the complete extermination of the German people through sterilization:

“If we remember that vaccinations and serums benefit the population, then the sterilization of the German people must be regarded as a remarkable hygienic measure on the part of mankind in order to forever protect ourselves from the bacteria of the German spirit.”

Although Kaufmann's book went almost unnoticed in the United States, Goebbels and Streicher skillfully took advantage of this craft, ordering it to be immediately translated into German and published in large numbers. In this regard, the German Jew Gideon Burg rightly remarked:

“It looks like tomboys in a circus throwing stones at a lion into whose mouth a tamer put his head. There would be nothing for the tomboys - between them and the danger is the ocean, that is, the bars of an animal cage.

Frivolity or naivety? Hardly. It should not be forgotten that the Zionist strategy was to incite Hitler to increasingly harsh anti-Semitic measures to oppress the Jews. On the one hand, this pushed the German Jews to emigrate to Palestine, on the other hand, the Zionists proved to the governments of the Western powers that a national home was necessary for the Jews. The propaganda of "horrors" about the extermination of the Jews, which began in 1942, was aimed at the same thing. This is not difficult to judge from statements such as Weizmann's March 2, 1943, op-ed in The New York Times:

"Two million Jews have already been exterminated... The task of democracies is obvious... they must negotiate through neutral countries, seeking the release of Jews in the occupied areas... May the gates of Palestine open wide for all who hope to see the shores of the Jewish Fatherland."

It is a lie that two million Jews were exterminated at the beginning of 1943, but by that time tens of thousands had ended up in the camps.