Posted on 06/23/2008 6:37:50 PM PDT by mnehring
Ravine at Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine - September, 1941
That Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite is undeniable. “Mein Kampf” is saturated in anti-Semitism. The Nuremberg Laws confirm it. But for the six years before Britain declared war, there was no Holocaust, and for two years after the war began, there was no Holocaust.
Not until midwinter 1942 was the Wannsee Conference held, where the Final Solution was on the table.
That conference was not convened until Hitler had been halted in Russia, was at war with America and sensed doom was inevitable. Then the trains began to roll.
The quote above is from Patrick J. Buchanan arguing the case for his new book, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War. Buchanan’s revisionism is startling regarding The Final Solution, the Wansee Conference of 1942 and the intent of Hitler and the Third Reich to murder every last Jew within their grasp.
He now contends Hitler and the Nazi high command never intended to murder Jews, Gypsies, Polish Catholics, homosexuals, physically handicapped people and others until the meeting at Wansee in 1942 and insinuates it was Churchill’s strategic blunders that forced poor Adolph into drastic measures. But there are problems, big problems with the truth in this book because even the chronology is uncooperative with Buchanan’s thesis.
The photo above, depicting Nazi SS soldiers waist-deep in corpses, is of a ravine into which 34,000 Jews were herded and shot point blank with machine guns over a 48 hour period many months before the Wansee Conference at Berlin was held to discuss The Final Solution in late January of 1942. There were an additional 66,000 Gypsies, Communists and Soviet POWs murdered in and around Kiev in the same month. Additionally, a report from a senior officer dated December 1, 1941 details the annihilation of all Jews in Lithuania among other places. The total to that date: 137,346 murdered Jewish men, women, children and infants.
Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3. In Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families.
I point out the above facts and glaring deliberate misinformation peddled by Buchanan as only an example of the the dangerous and willful distortion of history by those who desire to alter the record and obfuscate factual evidence which has been documented time after time regarding the Holocaust. Somehow, all these facts are inconvenient to Buchanan’s little shop of errors and his dissumulations and denials in the aftermath. Whatever shred of tolerance existed for Buchanan in this writer’s mind is no longer there and has been replaced with utter and unqualified contempt.
Buchanan found time, between his daily appearances as the resident and token, caricature conservative on MSNBC, to provide the holocaust deniers and Nazi sympathizers with new ammunition for their cause. He has been retailing this nonsense his entire life. When, in 1991, Buchanan made bald anti-Semitic comments on the McLaughlin Report, Abe Rosenthal of the New York Times and major Jewish organizations rose up in arms about his statements. There ensued a battle which culminated in William F. Buckley penning an essay, 35 pages in length and published as a special edition of National Review, discussing anti-Semitism among writers and intellectuals in America and Buchanan in particular. Mr. Buckley ended his long and rambling discourse thus:
And we are left with the question of how to train the moral faculties to distinguish between those whose anti-Israel positions evolve (whether or not they know it) from anti-Semitic impulses, and those anti-Israelis unaffected by the Jewishness of the Israeli nation. I find it impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge that what he did and said during the period under examination amounted to anti-Semitism, whatever it was that drove him to say and do it: most probably, an iconoclastic temperament.
The eminent historian, classicist and author, Victor Davis Hanson, criticized Buchanan’s new book only to be met with the author’s bilious hostility. Hanson responded here. Last Friday, Buchanan published the column I cite in the beggining of this post. Charles Johnson, of Little Green Footballs, found the column to be so offensive he has banned Townhall.com from being quoted or linked on his website.
I knew we would miss Bill Buckley and this reprehensible episode only confirms just how valuable he was when it came to muting or banishing the thugs, the racists and the prevaricators from the Conservative movement in America.
I still enjoy listening to Buchanan in an interview. The thing of it is is the older Buchanan gets the starker his ravings become.
You took a class taught by Edvard Beneš?
Guy had some absolutely top knotch lectures based on Czech state papers he just happened to have.
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Pat was......
All that’s left are his fashionable black shoes
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