Posted on 07/04/2006 4:15:56 PM PDT by pabianice
Lebanon's New TV: 'Contradictions, Lies, and Exaggerations' in Number Killed in 'Jewish Holocaust'
On June 21, 2006, Lebanon's New TV aired an interview with U.S. author Norman Finkelstein, who wrote the book The Holocaust Industry. In the introduction to the interview, the New TV narrator asserted, "Never has there been an issue subject to as many contradictions, lies, and exaggerations regarding the number of victims as the issue of the Jewish Holocaust." In his interview, Finkelstein stated that the number of the Jewish survivors from the Holocaust had been grossly inflated by the "Holocaust industry" in order to blackmail Europe.
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The following are excerpts from the interview:
New TV: "Never has There Been an Issue Subject to as Many Contradictions, Lies, and Exaggerations Regarding the Number of Victims as the Jewish Holocaust"
Report: "The 'Holocaust' is the Jewish term for burning the sacrificial offering to ashes. Never has there been an issue subject to as many contradictions, lies, and exaggerations regarding the number of victims as the issue of the Jewish Holocaust. The number of people killed in the Holocaust was estimated, in the film Night and Fog by the French director Alain Resnais, to be between eight and nine million, on the basis of documents invented by the Jews. The number dropped to four million Jews in the Soviet report to the Nuremburg trials. The figure dropped further, to 300,000 victims, according to British historian David Irving, and reached only 50,000, according to Raul Hilberg the Jew.
"Given the statistical contradictions in the number of Holocaust victims, the French intellectual Roger Garaudy asks how the truth can be determined. The Holocaust Industry, by Dr. Norman Finkelstein, recounts how the Jews of the world have turned Jewish suffering at the hands of the Nazis into a political and ideological industry in order to garner support for Israel, and into a source of economic extortion, which has yielded inconceivable sums for the Jews and their organizations, using as a pretext the so-called victims of the Nazi annihilation operations."
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Utter nonsense. The Nazi policy of exterminating Jews has been so well documented, there is no room for argument. The Nazi regime itself kept extensive documentation of what it was doing. What happened to the Jews of Europe? How is it that 90% of the Polish Jewish population disappeared? The answer to these questions are well known. The Germans went so far as to put Jewish American prisoners of war in labor camps.
Very well-stated.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
In the Dec. '05 issue of Commentary magazine there was a review of Gunter Levy's book on the 1914-15 Armenian catastrophe in which some three-quarters of a million were slaughtered.
The opening line in the article is THIS: "The term "genocide", coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish emigre lawyer Raphael Lemkin, was meant to describe Hitler's then-on-going campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe."
IS THAT SETTLED? Having said that, the absurdity of those who choose to deny the holocaust is beyond rational comprehension. Those people probably still believe in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!! Beyond help!
Where did anyone dispute terminology?
GRRRRR.
I think I'd better stop there.
I really hate seeing such idiocy about such a horrendous event in the history of the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Rummel uses the term "Democide". His web site is often useful, typically for throwing in the face of lefties.
The bulk of the Jews that died at the hands of the Nazis came from Poland where over 3 million lived. The most common estimate that I've seen is 2.5 million dead. But also remember that the Nazis slaughtered about 1.5 million Catholic Poles as well (a part of the story that is often overlooked).
The rest of the murdered Jewish civilians came from the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, France, Italy and the Balkan States.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
>>So the Jews can collect more money per survivor?? Ahh, now we're on the oldest anti-Semitic trope. The Jewish love of money. What has been paid in compensation to Israel and survivors does not come close to making the Jewish people whole. You can't put monetary value on human lives destroyed, which by definition are irreplaceable. But don't expect Finkelstein to bring that up the next time he rants about the alleged nefarious doings of the "Holocaust industry."<<
Jeez... slightly sicker than I gave them credit for.
It is my understanding that significant sourcing for the fate of the Jews comes just from that--the Nazis were very good record keepers. They did use euphemisms for extermination, such as "relocated." I am certainly no scholar on this. The only book I have ever read on Jews in WWII was a most interesting one by the name of "Stella" written by a Berlin Jew about the thousands of Jews like him kept in Berlin to work there. Stella was a beautiful Jewess married to an SS man who became a Jew-catcher for the Reich. The most fascinating take away for me was that this group of sophisticated Jews as late 1944 did NOT know that their relatives and friends were being executed.
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Lemkin certainly considered the Turks actions in Armenia genocide, it provided the direction of this career. He coined the term as a unique replacement for his proposed crime of Acts of Barbarity, an international offense he first proposed in 1933. Ironically the European community was having a problem defining terrorism at the time.
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