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Article 19 of the UN Human Rights Charter explicitly states:
'Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.'
Of course only Jews and their supporters and other criminals think they are exempt and can make the rules as we go. You lock up non violent people and free murderers like OJ. That is the whole picture of Jew justice= evil.
Wake up Germany and America and Britain!!!!!!!!!!!
As to the British servicemen/women taken by Iran and the EU.
EU ministers meeting in Bremen, Germany, issued a strong statement deploring the continued arrest of the British citizens.
Where is the call by EU ministers for the release of political prisoners, kidnapped and sent to prison in Germany for their thoughts and opions about the holofraud?
This is just further proof of the control of government by Zionists and Jews and the biased treatment against those who speak their mind and use freedom of speech that Jews don't like. Now the shoe is on the other foot and EU is calling as if little Gods protecting those held against their will for simple trespassing. Why not just admit they were trespassing and obtain their release?
Why not just allow all political prisoners out of all EU jails convicted for non violent free speech.
Mercel, I hope when you visit Israel that you note how filthy Israel is and take a trip to where decent German money is spent. Why don't you ask about the nuclear weapons and go take a ride to where they kill little girls in the ghetto slums of the Palestinian existence, wrought by Israeli destruction and murder. Why don't you act like a leader, instead of a Jew Baby rump kisser.
That is all you are Mercer, is a Jew baby rump kisser.
As Germany and America support Israel, it is horrendous what the Israelis do with the money. Israel murders little children.
But still the murders go unavenged, but non violent people sit in prisons.
Now if that is not conspiracy and Zionist influence, then what the heck is?
Most of you who have posted in this forum are blind, due to the fact that you
fail to read and some of you are just biased and don't care about truth or true justice.
I hope Mercer sees the plight of the Palestinians when she visits Israel and I hope she is proud of what she helps to do. The murder of those children is on all who support Israel in murder with money and other means, even moral support.
A peace plan was offered, once again Israel refuses, because Israel does not want peace, but only to dominate all people.
It's amazing is what it is. More proof that the lies of WW2 don't fit the facts.
We Played Music All Day’ – Auschwitz “Survivors”
Posted by admin on: 2007-04-03 07:03:08 in category: General [ Print]
It is quite incredible what Jews expect Gentiles to believe. The blatancy with which Jews lie about the Nazi period shows no signs of decreasing as time goes on – in fact, if anything, the lies have become even more outrageous, showing typical Jewish Chutzpah.
- First we were told that the Nazi “extermination camps” were in Germany and Poland; after the camps in Germany were thoroughly inspected, no gas chambers were found, so then the “extermination camps” were all moved to Poland.
- After the camps in Poland were thoroughly researched, we were then told that the numbers of victims at Auschwitz was no longer “4 million” but 1.5 million.
- Now, after “establishment” historians have looked at the Auschwitz camp in particular, they no longer claim that the mortuaries were used as gas chambers, but that the gassings “took place in outside farmhouses” and that the number of victims was only in the “hundreds of thousands.”
- Most recently, we were told that there was a children’s section in Auschwitz, which had Snow White painted as murals on its walls.
- Now, incredibly, the latest addition to this fantastic tale: we are told that Jews “played music all day long” in the camps! Where exactly they acquired all these instruments, and the spare time, to do all of this in the middle of a so-called “extermination program,” they do not say…
-Scores for thousands of waltzes, tangos, operas and folk songs, written by Jews in Gemran World War II camps, will soon be made available to the public, thanks to the dedication of Francesco Lotoro, a professional pianist who for 16 years has been scouring Europe's capitals to amass his collection.
Italian composer Francesco Lotoro, 42, stumbled across his first piece of Holocaust music on a trip to Prague in 1991. 'I was interested and decided to bring some back with me,' he said. 'In the end, I had to buy a new suitcase because I found 300 works.'
Much of the music is sad and plaintive. The lyrics of one song by Josef Kropinski read: 'In Buchenwald, the birch trees rustle sadly, as my heart sways languishing in woe.'
Despite the privations of life, there are several upbeat songs and plenty of wry Jewish humour. 'There's no life like life at Auschwitz!' read the lyrics to another song.
One musician that Lotoro discovered had been interned was Rudolf Karel, a Czech composer arrested for taking part in the resistance in Prague. Despite suffering from dysentry, he used lavatory paper to compose a five-act opera and a nonet - a composition for nine instruments. The last of his works was an upbeat Prisoners' March, dated four days before his death in March 1945.
Anita Lasker Walfisch, 81, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz and Belsen, played the cello in bands throughout the war. Somehow, playing the cello in Auschwitz enabled her to survive and, eventually, to emigrate to Britain, where she was a founder member of the English Chamber Orchestra.
'One was very lucky to be able to be part of it because it postponed one being killed,' she said. 'It seemed absurd that there was music in concentration camps. But it's what we did all day.'
Mr Lotoro's collection, already comprising 4,000 manuscripts and 13,000 microfiches, as well as letters, drawings and photographs, will go on display in a new library at Rome's Third University in September.
'I felt it was my mitzvah, my duty as a Jew, to preserve this cultural heritage, this art of the people who were unseen,' said Lotoro, who converted to Judaism five years ago.
He sees his job as just beginning. 'Of course, many documents were destroyed during the liberation, or by the Germans as they retreated. Though even now, while I scour through bookshops I find notebooks with a couple of pages of music in them.
'A friend told me the other day about a song that the Italian prisoners sang in Auschwitz which came from a folk song. In Israel, of course, there are many people who remember the songs they sang. But I have to move fast, the generation is dying out and the music will be lost for ever.'
Mr Lotoro paid special tribute to -Aleksander Kuliewicz, a Pole who, after surviving imprisonment in Germany, dictated 700 songs that he had memorised to nurses at his bedside. Lotoro is now working on recording these on to a cycle of 32 CDs.
* Thousands of songs, scores, operas . . . does that sound like an extermination camp to you?
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Is it you Debbie Lip-lock? This is for you and yours and all in between.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!! Post to all points :) A
little humor for you who understand. For those who don't, you'll come
around at some point.
It's the Jews Stupid....someone said! Actually I believe it is the other
way around, as in 'It's the stupid Jews'! Add white monkeys in suits
with their Harvard edu-ma-cations...and we have this dog pile we call
the Jew-S-A ('USA' for the less informed amongst us)....that looks like
Russia after the Holocaust Tribe (Jews) made a revolution there in 1917.
Or better yet, America is fast becoming Israel the second. And what a
Shitty little state it is (excuse me PLEASE..while I vomit).
Has it ever occurred to anyone why the world is in such a state of
affairs today?
The answer is really simple, it's stupid people everywhere. Especially
those who are supposed to be educated. You want proof you say? Bush went
to college, Blair went to college, the FBI goes to college. Big business
CEO's go to college and the talking heads and law-makers in government
go to college.
Speaking of the FBI, I was just reading about 'Ruby Ridge' and had never
really paid any attention to the story before. If you don't know about
Ruby Ridge, just Google it and read. In simplicity, Ruby Ridge was a big
giant example of the FBI's incompetence and stupidity and of course
America's government as a whole...caught and revealed.
To make a long story short,
the FBI shot and killed a dog, a wife and a Son of this man named
Weaver...because Weaver had sold some FBI undercover agents two
sawed-off shot-guns. It was also because Weaver was considered a white
separatist and ...well you know... one of them NAZIS (anyone that
disagrees with niggerizing America or bowing down to worship Jews and
the Holocaust is considered a NAZI). Evidently the FBI had been watching
weaver and decided he was a threat to the homeland, so they started
playing with him and his life.
The result was that the FBI and our wonderful government murdered two
people, two people that had done nothing wrong and only wanted to be
left alone. The only good thing to come from this ordeal, was that it
exposed the government
and FBI for what they were, 'educated idiots' hell bent on their own
paranoia
against anyone who does not believe exactly as they do. And yes, that
(paranoid) is exactly what they made Weaver out to be in their
pshchological profile that they do on all they consider a threat to this
here Demo-crazy, Democracy for the less intutitive of you reading this.
Could it be that since the ADL (Jewish Anti-Defamation-League) has
become such good buddies with the FBI and even trains our FBI agents on
how to spot terrorists and deal with them, is the problem in law
enforcement? You see, I am of the firm belief that Jews are a retarded
(paranoid to the core) bunch and have a special disfunction in their
brains (it's genetic)...to where they see a Nazi behind every tree and
that all whites are just waiting to use their barns as execution
chambers for Jews. You see, Weaver admitted that he was a separatist and
that he just liked to be around his own kind (is there something wrong
with being with your own kin and wanting to marry and have children with
your own white women?). Evidently Jews and other half breeds don't like
whites who remain true to their design.
I suppose because Weaver was not in South Central LA... shooting cops
and burning buildings and cars, that he was considered a threat and it
was immoral that he didn't want to associate with the black guys in LA
and burn, murder and riot. Probably because Weaver refused to pull a
trucker out of his truck and bash a brick upside his head (remember
Reginald Denny and the Rodney King riots), the FBI thought Weaver must
need a little schooling in the NEW American way to conduct himself as
the Jews would like all of us Americans to conduct ourselves (to act
like little monkeys and terrorists).
I can hear it already, some of you I am sending this to are pro Jew and
you think I am in the KKK clan or some other triggered response your
mind has been brainwashed to believe in. Sorry to burst your Jew
brainwashed bubble, I have never belonged to any organization, of any
kind. But you ask, what's with this anti Jew sentiment? Because it is
the Jews stupid..or as I said, it is 'the stupid Jews. Do some research
and do it in your government archives. That way you cannot say it's
internet propaganda or conspiracy theories by Nazis and white
supremacists. What you will really find will amaze you and it's not a
Nazi under every rock and behind every tree, destroying America and the
world, it's a Jew. The Jews are the real supremacists and they own
everything to control most of you, even as you do not have a clue. Even
that little paper that makes you so proud to think you are educated, has
a jew stamp of approval on it. That is why so many people in suits are
so stupid and so many who think with their ego, are so blind.
Take a close look at your government and look at their qualifications
and then look at your country. Tell me that the war in Iraq and the
planned war against Iran make any sense...and I will tell you how STUPID
you are. Neither Iraq or Iran were enemies of America or the American
people. They are enemies of Israel and JEWS!!
But I know, you have a little title and some good money and your little
life is fine for now. Besides what difference does it all make if kids
are sent to the desert to play war for Jews and bankers and monkeys in
suits who play politics, especially while you can wave your flag and
feel proud and tough...because it's not your kids dying. But you know
what, YOU are stupider than the Jews ...if you think the way I
described... and that is pretty DAMN stupid.
One last thought, next time you think (if that should happen) maybe you
should ask yourself why smart white people want to separate from the
retards, coloreds and Jews. Take a look at real crime and look at your
government and your big cities. Look at your borders and then look at
the stupid amongst our own white race who do their bidding. Bush and his
whole incompetent staff should come to mind real quick. If you are in
another used to be white country, especially those that lock up old men
for not believing the Holocaust (Germany especially),
Ask yourself if they are really representing you? if you are honest, you
will admit that you have been suckered big time. Your gate are wide open
and your cities and countries will look like Detroit and South Central
LA before too long. It's the 'STUPID JEWS, STUPID'!!!! No theory, just
plain old fact and smart people know it.
So what are you? Yeah, I know 'Can't we all just get along'? BANG, there
went the brick to the head from one of the monkeys you want me to get
along with.
Lon Horuchi, the FBI sniper that blew the face off of Weavers Wife is
just waiting to help you
get along. Aren't educated monkyes so much fun? NOT!!!
Russ
P.S. Excuse any spelling mistakes, spell-check is broke. :)
pork chop, you no good nazi you. look at what Iran done, they done let the
trespassers go home. Darn, they done spoiled our reason and excuse to send some nukes flying on those holocause deniers.
Merkel, you best hurry up and get the rest of my welfare check to me, i is running out of chitterlings and barbque and don't have any bull ta drink.
you nazis best keep the payments coming or i'll send the stern gang to get ya.
'Mannheim, Germany - A 42-year-old German neo-Nazi'
Already the first lie. Germar Rudolf is neither a Nazi nor a neo-Nazi! He is a chemist. By the way, the Auschwitz museum repeated some of the tests of walls of the alleged gas chambers in Auschwitz and found even less evidence of use of Zyklon B in the material.
Ernst Zündel is a National Socialist (Nazi). But is it a crime to have this or that particular conviction?
These courageous people, Nazi or not Nazi are martyrs for free speech.
Jewish organizations are today the most influential and fanatical promoters of censorship, as they have been for decades. The first law that was passed after the (Jewish dominated) communists took power in the USSR, was a law that assigned the death penalty for possession of a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Now they are trying to nail the Australian revisionist Frederick Toben for taking part in the holocaust conference in Teheran recently.
The orthodox Austrian Rabbi Friedman who also took part in the conference is under threat from Zionist Jews in his own country. In New York the synagoge of Nuteira Karta (Orthodox Thora True Jews) was torched!
Most people who condemn revisionism do not know the least about the subject; one good example is this post by 'Goose':
--- 'Zyklon B, with which the Germans fumigated clothes at the camps to kill lice and thus prevent rampant typhus epidemics.'
Hahahahahahahahahahaha what a dickhead this guy is, Zyklon B to kill lice???? hahahahahaha...whew....snigger...that would be like using a nuke to kill mice.
Did they then use Sarrin to get rid of those realy hard to get lice? Hahaha...maybe it was to kill the super arian lice that regular poison gas just couldnt get? What a wanker.---
Now Goose may enjoy herself trying to ridicule the first part of the statement.
The poor goose (well chosen nick!) just does not realize that Zyklon B was primarily used for that purpose, and every mainstream (holocaust believer) historian will acknowledge that fact!
Zyklon B is still produced exactly for that purpose today in the Czech Republic in Kolín under the trade name Uragan D2, sold for eradicating insects, small animals and rodents.
When it comes to free speech, there are some striking imbalances in Europe today.
The 'defenders of free speech' rally about Muslim attempts at censorship, and rightly so. At the same time, they refuse to acknowledge that censorship on behalf of Jews is the most widely spread and extreme form of censorship in Europe today.
In Denmark, a fundamentalist Muslim by the name of Safia Aoude is in the process of being expelled from the Danish Conservative Party for which she was a candidate. Not because of her fundamentalist Islamic views, not for associating with some of the most notorious Islamic groups in Denmark, not because of taking weapons training from jihadi's in some Muslim country, but because she mentioned David Irving, and had a link to his website on her blog!
Read about it here:
Danish Conservative Party - Fundamentalist Muslim Candidate Accused Of Mentioning David Irving: blog.balder.org/?p=216
Related:
Jylland’s Posten Editor Flemming Roses Slightly Crippled Plea for Freedom of Speech: blog.balder.org/?p=219
Balder
Denmark
all an uprising because of your local muslim population,you see how the muslims bomb innocent people within all countries of the world.
37 pages of this crap.
I can't get over how insane you are. Yet you are still too cowardly to sign your name to it. I don't think the 'Zionists' have anything to worry about from such a pathetic pussy.
Notice the sissy JDL thug that refuses to sign his name to the garbage he/she/it writes, but wants others to sign a name.
I think the Jews are pushing for a race war between whites and everyone non white and I think eventually that knowledge will cause an uproar from all races involved and then a REAL holocaust will take place. If that should occur, there will not be a safe place on this planet for anyone speaking trash like these Jewish brainwashed thugs and all their organizations. If Israel should use nuclear weapons, Israel will the the first to be turned into a sea of glass.
The rest of the world and all races need to realize that Israel and Jews who are loyal to the zionist cause, are the TOTAL problem in the world amongst all races and keep the fire of hatred burning. Iran has just shown that it is more civil and decent than USA and Britain, with their treatment of the prisoners.
America and Britain have allowed Jews to corrupt their soul, but only the politicians. Most Americans are against what is going on in the Midle East. It is the same in Germany, where the communist government rules the people with force. All people in all nations should stand together against these insane political leaders that work for Jewery and zionism.
Unlike the charges against the Germans and no proof or orders, here is the written order to Holocaust white people. Notice that this document is in the congressional records as proof, unlike no proof of gas chambers or orders to kill Jews by Germans. And look at the results that are still ongoing:
The Jewish Plan for Genocide of USA Whites AND IT'S REALITY!!!
ISRAEL COHEN (1912)
'We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.'
Israel Cohen, A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, 1912. Also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7, 1957
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Breaking News — All Remaining Charges Against Duke Lacrosse Players are Dropped
For over a year the Duke Lacrosse Team and White America suffered blatant racism by the criminal justice system and the media. The stripper/prostitute accuser had “genetic material” from a five different men on her underwear but not a strand of DNA came from any Duke Lacrosse team member. Yet, this exonerating evidence was hidden from the public for months and the media went on a year long anti-White campaign saying that the crime exposed the racism of White America. The long-overdue admission that the charges were completely bogus proves the pervasive racism that exists in America against White people.
Now that that the lies about this fake crime are finally exposed, when is the national media going to breathe one word about the brutal torture, rape and murder of a University of Tennessee White couple by 5 Blacks in Knoxville? Unlike the nonexistent crime at Duke, the crime against Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom was horrifically real. When will the media in America become truly “news media” and not propaganda organs? When will they tell the truth about the massive numbers of hate crimes against Whites? Listen to David Duke’s two commentaries on this shocking crime. davidduke dot com
Unlike the so called Jewish holocaust, the article above is all facts and easily
proven reality. Why then don't we make a law punishible of up to 5 years school for anti-brainwashing for
those who deny Jewish hate against white people, especially Germans.
There are millions of documents proving Jewish hate, murder and genocide, lies and so on, but no proof of gas chambers and not ONE witness that can testify as to a gas chamber, it's method or anything else. How can that kind of fake history be supported by law? Don't you people see the difference and how you have been scammed. Jews have made a fortune and gained so much power from this big and giant lie, so they are not letting go, even as revisionism has shattered the fairy tale of the so called Holocaust. Read, People! Don't be suckered anymore. The Holocaust is a fraud in it's big tales.
I would encourage all the unbelievers and deniers to go visit the camps or the remnants there of, go to Israel or a Jewish community and talk with the survivors, see the tattoo's on their arms- talk to the victims that were tortured, were medical guineau pigs, read and educate yourselves- How can so many people be duped into thinking it never took place? It just shows people will believe what they want to believe but the evidence is overwhelming- At any rate, it doesn't matter for Truth always wins and we all have to answer for our actions and only those that have passed on into eternity know for sure especially on judgement day! The rest of us are better off assuming it was true and taking steps to prevent it from ever happening again. Everyone has a right to live- I have seen more responses to this article than all the other current events- How is it people can debate this topic so vehemently when the same intolerance is alive and well- ie, Muslim fanaticism, terrorist attacks and insurgents gone amuck for the infidels? Hate is hate and it is breeding itself again- That is what people should be getting angry about!
Decent Jews are those who not make being a Jew a proffesion. Those Jews value all life and have no part of the sick Talmud or Jew supremacism. Those Jews have their houses burned down by Jewish fanatics, which represents most Jewsih people.
The reason this issue has so many pages to it, is because it is important and it is very inhuman to lock up non violent old men for voicing an opinion on history, just because Jews want to keep the truth from the masses.
In fact, there would be 50 pages to this post if the moderator was not biased and deleting posts. Seems Jews are always protected by other thugs and the powers that be, as Jews murder and commit crime, but point the finger at non violent people.
You Jew supremacists are sick and genetically ill people. Something went terribly wrong with your mental development and it is the reason that Jews have been kicked out of every country for over 3000 years. Perhaps it is the strict inbreeding that keeps the seed of hate alive in the Jewish race? I think so.
If the world ends in nuclear war, it will be because of the evil of the Jew.
Aw it happened bud. I was there and about to take my anti-hallucination medicine when two Nazis grabbed four Jews and chuncked them in the oven.
One of them said to the other, you want yours well done or rare. The other fellar just looked at him and said 'hey it ain't Kosher to eat rare meat'!
Then when they got through cooking they brought out some special sauce called
zyklon Barbque sauce and one of them got on a ladder and sprinkled it as if in a ceremony of some sort, then they ate them poor souls. You deniers don't know whut you be talking about and I was there. You wanna see my tatoo?
Robert Faurisson's work alone shows that this holocaust business is one giant
fake. I can see why they had to make laws to protect this giant lie. Read
'ecrits' by Faurisson and you will see what I mean. When you add all the other research from the others, this is amazing that anyone would still believe in this giant fairy tale of extortion and blackmail against all of these people who have paid through the nose. The Jews should feel ashamed of what they have done and continue to do.
i disagree with the deep situations that are being described the the climax of the wars...im think that there is no need for all of this unnecessary alighnment..therefore i am against the movement of the war..
Well who in their right mind wants war? No one 'SANE' really wants war, but evil men force war. Bush and Blair are two such men. Neither have ever been in a war, therefore they are unfit to send other peoples kids to death. Now look at the hypocricy, Bush attacks a country that did not harm America and it makes him a mass murderer of the worst kind. But you see, the war is for Israel, not America, never was for America. America should not even be in the Middle East...
except playing global bully for the puppet masters, who will eventually destroy the puppets and the puppets countries.
Blind people cannot see that the citizens are being set up to be destroyed and murdered also....at a future date. Why? Because who loves America? No ONE, due to what has gone on for so long. This same bunch that wrecked Germany is going to wreck America and Britain and all of the white world. Problem is that whites are too stupid to see....as they continue to think they are a part of something good. I am beginning to believe that most in the white race are too stupid to deserve to continue. They listen not and see not...and they continue to do exactly what the Holocaust tribe wants them to do, which is to self destruct.
It is potiful being the prophet of doom, but I see it and I have seen it for a long time.
The REAL Three Million Holocaust
The Jewish-controlled mass media never stops telling the world about the mythical six million Jews who supposedly died in World War II. While scientific research has now conclusively disproved that pack of lies, news of the REAL holocaust – that of three million Germans AFTER the war’s end, is now emerging.
How three million Germans died after VE Day -- Nigel Jones reviews After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh.
Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history – he serves a dish to turn the strongest of stomachs. It makes particularly uncomfortable reading for those who compare the disastrous occupation of Iraq unfavourably to the post-war settlement of Germany and Austria.
MacDonogh argues that the months that followed May 1945 brought no peace to the shattered skeleton of Hitler's Reich, but suffering even worse than the destruction wrought by the war.
His best estimate is that some three million Germans died unnecessarily after the official end of hostilities. A million soldiers vanished before they could creep back to the holes that had been their homes. The majority of them died in Soviet captivity (of the 90,000 who surrendered at Stalingrad, only 5,000 eventually came home) but, shamingly, many thousands perished as prisoners of the Anglo-Americans. Herded into cages along the Rhine, with no shelter and very little food, they dropped like flies.
Others, more fortunate, toiled as slave labour in a score of Allied countries, often for years. Incredibly, some Germans were still being held in Russia as late as 1979.
The two million German civilians who died were largely the old, women and children: victims of disease, cold, hunger, suicide - and mass murder.
Apart from the well-known repeated rape of virtually every girl and woman unlucky enough to be in the Soviet occupation zones, perhaps the most shocking outrage recorded by MacDonogh - for the first time in English – is the slaughter of a quarter of a million Sudeten Germans by their vengeful Czech compatriots. The survivors of this ethnic cleansing, naked and shivering, were pitched across the border, never to return to their homes. Similar scenes were seen across Poland, Silesia and East Prussia as age-old German communities were brutally expunged.
Given that what amounted to a lesser Holocaust was unfolding under their noses, it may be asked why the western Allies did not stop this venting of long-dammed-up rage on the (mainly) innocent. MacDonogh's answer is that it could all have been even worse. The US Treasury Secretary, the Jew Henry Morgenthau, favored turning Germany into a gigantic farm, and there were genocidal schemes afoot to starve, sterilise or deport the population of what was left of the bombed-out cities.
It was Realpolitik, not humanitarian concern, that caused a swift shift in western attitudes towards their former foes. Fear of Communism spreading into the heart of Europe, and the barbarities of the Russians – who kidnapped and killed hundreds of their perceived enemies from the western zones of Berlin and Vienna - belatedly made the West realise that they had beaten one totalitarian power only to be threatened by another.
Although MacDonogh roundly condemns all the occupying powers, the British emerge with some credit. Apart from one Air Marshal who looted art treasures; and an MI5 interrogator nicknamed 'Tin Eye' Stephens who ran a private torture chamber, British hands may have been grubby, but were not deeply blood-stained.
Herr Rudolf will be remembered in Our thoughts, prayers, and vows of vengeance.
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