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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Two thoughts on this subject. 1. The Nazis kept records of how many people they murdered. 2. Holocaust is not a Jewish word, it is defined as "a devastating fire".
The answer to your question and all others can be found at Nizker.org or the US Holocaust Memorial site.
Correction: Nizkor.org
Yeah, and 'British historian David Irving is somewhat of a less than reputable source (cough, cough). He sued for libel in a British court in 1998, lost big time, and was thoroughly discredited. He's now serving time in an Austrian jail, even though he now claims that, yes, there were gas chambers etc., and a whole lot of European Jews did get murdered by the Nazis after all.
And doncha just love the tone of the comment, "Raul Hilberg the Jew". Spoken like a true Nazi....
The Polish government tends to go by the 1939 Polish census, and they found that by their next post-war census, that their population had taken a 20% drop, with something like 3 million missing Polish Jews and 3 million missing non-Jewish Poles. The 6 million missing Poles never showed back up, they were killed in various ways but the majority died in the German camps.
"There is no evidence at all that Swiss banks ever kept billions of dollars that belonged to Jews during World War II or before World War II."
but then....from his own website he says:
"My book's most important finding was that, alongside Switzerland, the United States was also a primary safe haven for transferrable Jewish assets before and during World War II. The obvious question is, What happened to the dormant Holocaust-era accounts in American banks? During the Congressional hearings on the Swiss banks, one expert witness - Seymour Rubin of American University - was called to testify on this matter. Rubin concluded that the record of the American banks was worse than the record of the Swiss banks: "The United States took only very limited measures to identify heirless assets in the United States, and made available...a mere $500,000, in contrast to the $32,000,000 acknowledged by Swiss banks even prior to the Volcker inquiry." The New York Times devoted a full page of its book review to a savage ad hominem assault on me; it made no mention of this remarkable - and damning - revelation. The Holocaust industry demanded a final settlement with the Swiss bankers before the Volcker committee completed its work because "needy Holocaust victims are dying every day." Yet once the Swiss agreed to a $1.25 billion settlement in August 1998, the urgency suddenly vanished. Two years have elapsed but not a single cent of the Swiss monies has been distributed to the actual claimants."
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=36
Ok Finkelstein.......Show Me The Money!!!!
A well know Holocaust denier says they simply moved to New York, Los Angeles and Sydney. His proof, just look around, there are Jews there.
Finkelstein was saying that the definition of "survivor" changed over time. Right after the war, Jews who had left Europe in 1938 or 1939 weren't counted as "survivors" of genocide. The survivors, in those early days, were those, like his own parents, who had actually been in concentration camps. Also, Jews who had survived the war in hiding may also not have been considered "survivors" in the same way as those who were in the camps. According to Finkelstein, the number of survivors was "inflated" after the war by counting those who had not been fully subject to the killing machine. Whether he was right or wrong, he wasn't making the claim that is attributed to him.
>>According to Finkelstein, the number of survivors was "inflated" after the war by counting those who had not been fully subject to the killing machine. Whether he was right or wrong, he wasn't making the claim that is attributed to him.<<
Very interesting, thank you.
So, I guess we should see the number drop to -8,000,000 soon?
It's not well known, and I'm no expert on this myself, but I've heard it claimed that modern holocaust revisionism initially developed among small far-left sects in Europe, primarily France, and was later imported to America where it was primarily taken up by right extremists. I think in Europe it's still more of a left-wing phenomena.
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