Student: Mr. Bruckner, doesn't the fact that there are six million fewer Jews prove the historical reality of the Holocaust, regardless of the question of the existence of gas chambers?

F. Bruckner: How do you know that there are 6 million fewer Jews?

Student: But this is common knowledge! There were three million Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II, but today there are only tens of thousands. The situation is similar in some areas of the former Soviet Union: in Lithuania and Latvia.

F. Bruckner: We will deal with the demographic aspect of the issue later. As a preliminary, I will limit myself to two remarks.

First. On the eve of the declaration of Algerian independence, about two million French lived there. Soon after Algeria became independent, only half a million remained. Does this mean that the Algerians killed one and a half million French?

Student: Of course not. Most French people were not thrilled at the prospect of living in Arab-ruled Algeria, so they returned to France. Perhaps many were expelled by force.

F. Bruckner: Absolutely right. Therefore, we must also take into account the possibility that at least some of these “missing” Jews emigrated.

Second. Half an hour ago, one of you pointed out that in the Soviet Union many Jews abandoned their Jewish surnames and took Slavic ones “to avoid unnecessary hassle.” So we must also take into account the possibility that some of the “disappeared” Jews after the war continued to live in Poland, the Soviet Union, etc., but only under new names.

But let's turn to another aspect of this topic. I would like to focus your attention on the fact that the figure “6 million” appeared long before the end of World War II. Here are three typical examples:

In May 1942, Nahum Goldman, the future chairman of the World Jewish Congress, said at an event in New York that of the eight million Jews under German rule, two or three million would survive. The Holocaust seemed to have just begun at that time - how could Goldman know the possible number of victims?

In May 1944, Zionist activist from Bratislava, Rabbi Dov Weissmandel argued: “ To date, six million Jews in Europe and Russia have been exterminated.».

In December 1944, i.e. before the liberation of Auschwitz, Ilya Ehrenburg wrote: “Ask any of the German prisoners of war why his compatriots killed six million innocent people? He will answer: “Well, they were Jews.”

Student: But it was known approximately how many Jews lived in the countries occupied by Germany, so it was possible to get an idea of ​​the future number of victims of the Holocaust.

F. Bruckner: Okay. Then I will read to you an excerpt from an article entitled “The Crucifixion of the Jews Must Stop!”, published in the American Jewish newspaper, American Hebrew, asking you to guess what year it was published.

“On the other side of the ocean, six million men and women cry out to us for help, 800,000 little children pray for help (...) In the conditions of this catastrophe, when a cruel and inexorable Fate pushes six million human beings to the grave, only the most idealistic impulses of human nature can touch hearts and inspire action (...) When people's lives are threatened by the Holocaust, we must forget about the subtleties of philosophy, differences, interpretations of history (...) Six million men and women die, 800,000 little children beg for bread (...) Why? Because of the war that is being waged in order to trample autocracy into dust and hand over the scepter of justice to democracy.”

So what year do you think this article is dated?

Student: Probably 1941. The article talks about the “impending Holocaust,” which means that mass killings have not yet occurred or have only just begun.

F. Bruckner: Logical, but incorrect. This article was published in the named newspaper on October 31, 1919.

Student: Really?

F. Bruckner: Here is a copy of this article with the date, see for yourself.

Student: Amazing! After all, everything is already there - both the word “Holocaust” and the number 6 million - and all this in 1919! Where was this Holocaust supposed to take place?

F. Bruckner: In a part of Eastern Europe that has not yet been precisely defined. American author Don Heddersheimer, in his book published in 2004, proved that even during the First World War, rumors regularly circulated in America about six million European Jews suffering or in mortal danger.

Thus, in 1916, the book “Jews in the Eastern Military Zone” was published, which stated that Eastern Europe is “ a kind of prison with six million prisoners guarded by an army of corrupt and cruel overseers».

On January 14, 1915, The New York Times reported on page 3: “There are about 13 million Jews in the world today, of whom more than six million live in the heart of the war-torn region. The lives of these Jews are at stake, and today they are experiencing all kinds of suffering and hardship.”

Fifteen years later, Rabbi Stephen Wise, who in the 1930s was one of the instigators of the campaign against National Socialist Germany in the United States, said at a Jewish charity event: “Every one of the six million Jews living in these areas is a living bleeding, suffering "argument" in favor of Zionism."

Student: In such a situation, the conclusion naturally arises that the propaganda of the terrible suffering of Jews in Eastern Europe from the very beginning was aimed at preparing the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.

F. Bruckner: Of course. During World War II, this campaign only intensified. On March 2, 1943, in the New York Times, Chaim Weizmann wrote: “Two million Jews have already been exterminated (...) The Democrats have a clear task (...) They must enter into negotiations with Germany through neutral countries in order to achieve the liberation of Jews in the occupied areas ( ...) The gates of Palestine must be opened to everyone who can reach the shores of the Jewish homeland.”

Student: So be it. But how can we explain the surprising number of 6 million that arose so early?

Unfortunately, I do not know Hebrew and cannot verify for myself what B. Blech writes. If this is so, then the figure of six million, according to Jewish occult beliefs, should have become a prerequisite for the creation of the state of Israel.

If this figure is pure fiction, then, according to Jewish logic, this may mean that the Zionists created their state of Israel with the help of cheap fraud.

Student: Yes, this may be a convincing explanation for why Jews hold on to the number “6 million” with such tenacity.

The myth of six million

Jews have such electricity,

That everything around the Jews is magnetized,

Therefore, any number of them

Everywhere and always exaggerated.

I. Guberman

January 27, 2002 marked 57 years since the day when Soviet troops entered Auschwitz-Auschwitz. On this occasion, an anti-fascist conference was held in the assembly hall of the Moscow Jewish Community Center. “Of course, on this day, most of the speakers talked about Auschwitz and that the problem of official silence about the victims suffered by the Jewish people in the Second World War is still far from being resolved. Among other things, the writer Matvey Geyser... recalled that of the four million victims of Auschwitz, at least three quarters were Jews.”

As for Auschwitz... Until 1990, bronze plaques in this camp actually informed visitors that 4 million people were exterminated in Auschwitz. In 1990, citing “Soviet exaggerations,” the sign was replaced: “one million five hundred thousand destroyed.” As for “Soviet exaggerations”, that’s a dark question. It seems that neither the emigrant government of Poland, nor the leaders and scientists of the Polish People's Republic disputed this figure, but the Poles behaved independently and on smaller occasions. But the fact is: today no one accepts this figure, “four million”. It is very possible that the figure “one million” will be seriously revised, and not upward. “Four million” was the figure extracted under torture from German prisoners of war, accepted by the triumphant Allies in the ruins of Europe in 1945. Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hess put the figure at two and a half million; after a new series of tortures, I immediately “remembered” that there were three and a half million victims. But one of the witnesses, Rudolf Vrba, gave the same figure - two and a half. “Two to three million,” agreed SS man Perry Broad.

Other figures were also mentioned at that time - 9, 8, and 7 million dead. For example, the French Office for the Study of War Crimes named 8 million. Four million is the figure accepted by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

The closer to our time, the smaller the numbers. 1.6 million is the figure given by Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli expert, in 1989. 800–900 thousand was called by the Jewish historian Gerald Reitling in 1993. 1.5 million, according to an official statement by the Polish government in 1995. In 1993–1994, they even began to name figures of about 600–700 and even 450–550 thousand killed.

So the “great writer” Matvey Geyser (I wonder what he wrote? Has anyone read what he wrote?) can “resemble” this number extracted from mothballs as much as he likes... For which its own creators have long been ashamed.

But the mythical “four million” exterminated in Auschwitz are still children’s toys! What about six million Jews alone? Where does this figure come from? Who established and with what degree of certainty that there were exactly six million?

The way in which some modern authors considered the Jewish losses is worthy of the pen of Sholom Aleichem: “Did you drink your own cognac? Three rubles from you.” The calculation is done in an elementary way: the number of Jews living in the country in 1939 and after the war is compared. The entire difference is attributed to extermination by the Nazis, and such “little things” as emigration (usually massive), like mortality from natural causes (increased during wars), like a decrease in the birth rate (all nations receive fewer babies during wars) are not taken into account .

Five hundred thousand Jews lived in Germany in 1933. That means they were all destroyed! True, even our old acquaintance, the American rabbi Mr. Diamont, writes: “More than 300 thousand of the 500 thousand German Jews left the country.” What?! Another three hundred thousand?! That means five hundred thousand plus three hundred... Eight hundred thousand were killed!

In September 1939, three million two hundred thousand Jews lived in Poland. This means that they were all exterminated in extermination camps! ...And that at least a million, and maybe two million, Polish Jews survived the Holocaust - these are, naturally, trifles, “you have three rubles,” and there is nothing more to talk about here.

By the way, here we are touching on a very painful topic. Painful, firstly, for the Jewish national consciousness: for many Jews, for some reason, it is very important that during the Holocaust exactly six million Jews were killed and not one less.

Secondly, this statement is a factor in international politics. In France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, laws were passed according to which it is forbidden to deny the “fact” that six million Jews were killed in Hitler’s Germany.

For example, the German engineer Germar Rudolf doubted that people could be killed in the premises of Auschwitz, presented as a gas chamber. This man did not make any political conclusions; he only doubted the technical details: that this particular room, due to its technical characteristics, could be used for gas poisoning - and nothing more. The engineer was sentenced to 18 months in prison! . He doubted only one detail of the official myth, but that was enough.

True, the Jewish scientist Yehuda Bauer, a professor at the Hebrew University, states: “The technical capabilities for processing human fat into soap were not known at that time. Prisoners of the camps could believe in any horror story, and the Nazis were quite happy with this. The Nazis did enough terrible things during the war, we don’t need to believe in fairy tales.” He is a subject not of Germany, but of Israel, and this makes his life easier.

In Israel, the figure “six million” is considered almost ritual. In this country, a huge Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, was erected over several hectares. In this museum, a person is influenced not only by a purely mental influence. Many special effects are designed to have a purely emotional impact. Sounds are simulated: the hiss of gas creeping into the chamber, the screams and moans of people, children's laughter and clapping, the sound of many children moving...

Israeli soldiers are sworn in at Yad Vashem. So to speak, they carry out emotional and ideological processing, and then the eighteen-year-old guy goes to the parade ground and immediately, on the territory of the Disaster Museum, takes the oath.

This is all in Israel. But still, the political system of Israel is at least somewhat more reasonable than the political system of Germany: in Israel there is no law punishing the attempt to think independently and the ability to count. Perhaps these thousand-year-old traditions of intellectual life affect legislation? I want to believe…

In any case, the most radical statements regarding the most common myths come from Israel. A resident of Europe runs a serious risk if he tries to revise the myth of six million, or other parts of this myth (at least about the death of four million people in Auschwitz), or the notorious story about the fat melted out of Jews.

Marcel Duprat, who was distributing Harward's book Six Million Lost and Found in France, was killed by a bomb planted in his car. Following this, several Jewish organizations issued a press statement applauding the killing and warning others of the consequences of attempting to analyze that period of history.

E. Zundel, whose book the author will refer to later, was sent bombs by mail, and a bomb was detonated near his house. His house was then set on fire, causing significant property damage. The house of the Swiss historian Jürgen Graf was burned, as was the house of a Swedish explorer living in Denmark. The book warehouse of an American organization uniting several researchers on this issue was also set on fire. The French historian, Professor R. Faurisson, who deals with this issue, was severely beaten, and only the intervention of people nearby saved his life.

So the topic is slippery, complex, even dangerous. The easiest way is to repeat ritual phrases about “the monstrous atrocities of the Nazi invaders.”

But it’s really unclear - where did the figure of 6 million come from?

Together with the Civil Code, the number 6 million also turned into a myth. But let’s see where it came from. For the first time it appears in the testimony of two mid-level NS - Dieter Wisliceny and Wilhelm Hoettl.

Wisliceny was the chief of the Gestapo in Bratislava, he gave his testimony to the Czech communists, who terribly tortured him. The price of such confessions, naturally, is zero. Wisliceny could name 60 million just to stop the torture.

Hoettl was an employee of Adolf Eichmann in the Main Office of State Security. He allegedly heard about 6 million from Eichmann. After the disappearance of his boss, Hoettl decided to get out of difficulties by blaming Germany for the blame that the Allies demanded of him. He was rewarded for his cooperation: not a single hair fell from him. Eichmann was taken from Argentina to Israel in 1960, where, in a show trial, the world's judicial bureaucracy turned him into a monster and killed him in 1962.

But let's go back to 1942. There we come across an amazing fact when the Zionist activist Nahum Goldman, who later became president of the Jewish Congress, already in May 1942, at a reception in a Baltimore hotel in New York, declared that of the 8 million Jews under German rule, in 2 or 3 million remained alive (4). The Holocaust was just beginning then. How did Goldman know the future number?

But our amazement knows no bounds when we turn to the newspaper American Jews, where the “Holocaust” is mentioned in the issue of October 31, 1919: the extermination of “six million Jewish men, women and children.” Where and how that “Holocaust” was carried out cannot be understood from the crazy writings in the newspaper, but the number 6 million is mentioned 7 times.

But where is the answer to why this number is absolutely necessary: ​​it is taken from antiquity, this sacred number was borrowed by crazy politicians from the Talmud.

Let us think about the colossal role the number 6 million has played in propaganda for decades. So far there has been only one attempt to debunk this number. In 1991, a team of authors under the leadership of professional anti-anti-Semite W. Benz (he heads the Berlin Institute for Research on Anti-Semitism) published a thick volume entitled “Measuring the Death of a People,” which states that in the Third Reich, from 5.29 to 6, 01 million Jews. And eight years earlier, the American V. Zanning, in his book “The Decision,” concluded that several hundred thousand Jews died under German rule.

Both books are analyzed by Germar Rudolf in his work, which is publicly available. We will limit ourselves to only a brief quotation from it.

To get to the 6 million figure, Benz and his team resorted to various manipulations, such as double-entry bookkeeping, taking advantage of the fact that territories changed hands during the Second World War. Rudolph discovered 533193 such double calculations. Then, quite calmly, Stalin’s purges and deportations are attributed to the Germans. In Poland, Benz counts every Jew who did not return there after the war as killed. It's as if Leon Eary's book Exodus had never been written.

Unlike Benz, Zanning counts with due care. In his book, which relies exclusively on Jewish and Allied sources, he shows that after 1945, 1.5 million Jews left Europe for Palestine, the United States, South America and Australia. But these 1.5 million do not solve the whole problem. Another part of it should be sought in the USSR. According to census data, in 1939 there were 3.02 million Jews living in the Soviet state. According to the 1959 census, there were 2.267 million of them. However, all Zionists agree that this figure is greatly underestimated. First, every Soviet citizen can choose to name his nationality, and most, if not all, assimilated Jews there call themselves “Russians.” Secondly, the Soviet regime was interested in providing the necessary basis for the history of the “Holocaust”, and therefore, after the war, it deliberately began to underestimate the number of Jews living in the country. July 1, 1990, i.e. many years after the start of the mass emigration of Soviet Jews to the West, the New York Post wrote, citing Israeli experts, about 5 million Jews living in the USSR.

The natural growth of this population group, in conditions of an increasing tendency towards assimilation and low birth rates, could hardly have been so great. After all, it turns out that before emigration, 6 million Jews should have lived there, i.e. 2.5 times more than in 1959

So what really happened? 1939 After the partition of Poland, a huge flow of Jewish settlers rushed to the East. And after the start of the German-Soviet war, most of the Jews - according to Zanning, 80% - were evacuated, and the Germans did not even see them. In December 1942, David Bergelson, secretary of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, said in Moscow: “Thanks to the evacuation, the vast majority of Jews living in Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania were saved. According to reports coming from Vitebsk, Riga and other cities captured by the Nazis, only a few Jews remained there.” Thus, most of the Polish and Baltic Jewry were absorbed into the USSR. But despite this, the British-American commission in February 1946, when hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews left for the West, reported that 800 thousand Jews still lived there.

And in this case, what remains to be done with the myth of the extermination of Jews in the Civil Code?

Swedish professor Karl Nordling took it upon himself to research the fate of 722 Jews named in the Encyclopedia Judaica who lived under German rule during the Second World War. He found that 44% of them emigrated before the beginning of 1942, 13% died, 35% were not affected by deportation, the rest were deported and interned, but remained alive.

Based on the 4.5 million Jews who lived under German rule, then 13% of their number is about 600 thousand; Zanning counted exactly half a million; English revisionist Stephen Gallen - 750 thousand. This is how mosaic stones create an image of what really happened.

There is no doubt that the loss of 13% of the population was a terrible tragedy for European Jews. However, other nations suffered the same or even greater losses.

Preamble
Why does no one remember the Holocaust of 6 million Jews, which was written about in 1919? Probably because it is not beneficial to remember this when you start talking about the Holocaust of 6 million Jews during the Second World War. Lies are the oldest weapon of the Jews, with which they begin to intimidate the society of the country in which they live when something begins to threaten their well-being and money. Chutzpah + lie = ideal self-defense used for thousands of years. And the periodically recurring “Holocaust of unfortunate Jews” is very difficult to track in time.

On January 27, the whole world celebrated the Holocaust Remembrance Day established by the United Nations in 2005 - the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Jewish media and Holocaust heralds were able to convince the majority of the world's inhabitants that Jews were the most sacred victim of Nazism. Moreover, 6 million is the “critical mass” of nuclear matter calculated by nuclear scientists in nuclear energy. Only here, the figure “6 million” was calculated by scientists from a different field - Jewish Kabbalists. The sacrifice of the most “vigorous” people on the planet, offered from time to time to the god Yahweh, should be recorded in the annals of history with exactly this figure, and not per person less, even if 600,000 Jews or even 60 thousand Jews are actually sacrificed.

I admit that now someone has already started shouting out of indignation: “Hey, writer! What kind of nonsense are you spouting here? What “sacred sacrifice”, what “critical mass of Jews” are you telling stories about here?!”

Calm down and don't be outraged! I am writing now about what I know and what I am 100% sure of! Below is clear evidence that 6 million Jews were not killed, neither during the Second World War nor before!

The phrase “6 million Jews” is sacred. It’s like the phrase “to hell!”, uttered in response to the traditional wish for success: “no fluff, no feather!” Whenever Jews begin to face mortal danger, they certainly write articles in the media mentioning the word HOLOCAUST and mentioning the phrase “six million Jews.”

It is their custom, in their religious tradition, to do this so that death will bypass this vigorous people, and so that six million Jews are guaranteed not to die under any circumstances!

This is what is meant when the media writes the phrase “six million Jews.”

If anyone doubts this, here is the proof! Below is a photo of a magazine article for October 31, 1919 about the Holocaust of the same 6 million Jews. The author of this note is a very famous person, an American politician, the 40th governor of New York from 1913 to 1914 - Martin Glynn (1871–1924).

The article repeated “6 million Jews” seven times and used the word “Holocaust” once.

The natural question is: what could have served as the basis for the appearance of this publication by Martin Glynn in the magazine “American Jew” in 1919?

According to an eyewitness to the events of those years, Vasily Vitalievich Shulgin, a prominent political figure in Tsarist Russia, it was Jews, and not Russians or Ukrainians, who organized the October Revolution in 1917 in the Russian Empire, then they also lit the fire of the Civil War of 1918-1922, and when They saw how terribly this bloody process was proceeding, and they themselves were horrified!

Moreover, they were horrified strictly according to the 1877 prediction of the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Godless anarchism is close: our children will see it... The International ordered that the Jewish revolution begin in Russia... It begins, because we do not have a reliable rebuff against it - not in government , nor in society. The revolt will begin with atheism and the robbery of all wealth, they will begin to corrupt religion, destroy temples and turn them into barracks, into stalls, they will flood the world with blood and then they themselves will be afraid...” Source.

On the territory of Ukraine, this horror of the Jews took on the most exaggerated forms. When Vasily Shulgin saw him, he could not resist describing him in a short article “Torture by Fear,” which was published on October 8, 1919 by the Kievlanin newspaper.

By the way, compare the date of writing this article by Shulgin with the date of appearance of Martin Glynn’s article in the magazine “American Jew”, and everything will immediately become clear to you - October 31, 1919! It took exactly that long for this information to travel from Ukraine to America.

Vitaly Shulgin: “TORTURE BY FEAR”

“At night, a medieval horror sets in on the streets of Kyiv. In the midst of dead silence and desolation, soul-rending screams suddenly begin. These are the Jews shouting. They scream in fear. In the darkness of the street somewhere a bunch of people with bayonets will appear, making their way, and, seeing them, huge five-story, six-story buildings begin to howl from top to bottom. Entire streets, gripped by mortal horror, are screaming in inhuman voices, trembling for their lives.

It's terrible to hear these voices of the post-revolutionary night. Of course, this fear is exaggerated and, from our point of view, takes on absurd and humiliating forms. But still, this is genuine horror, a real “torture of fear” to which the entire Jewish population is subjected.

The authorities, as far as it is in their power, are fighting to prevent murders and robberies. The Russian population, listening to these terrible screams, erupted by “torture of fear,” thinks its own thoughts.

It wonders whether the Jews will learn anything during these terrible nights.

Will they understand what it means to destroy states that they did not create? Will they understand what it means to achieve equality at any cost? Will they understand what it means, following the recipe of the “great teacher” Karl Marx, to pit class against class? Will they understand what the implementation of the principle of democracy in Russia means?

Will they understand what they need to do now?

Will all Jewish synagogues publicly curse all those Jews who had a hand in the troubles? Will the mass of the Jewish population, with the same passion with which it attacked the old regime, renounce the creators of the “new”? Will Jewry, beating its chest and sprinkling ashes on its head, publicly repent that the sons of Israel took such a fatal part in the Bolshevik madness?..

Or will everything remain as before, and after terrible nights spent in mortal horror, the “League against Anti-Semitism” will continue to be created, inciting anti-Semitic feelings with its absurd denial of completely clear facts?

There are two roads before the Jews: The first is to admit and repent. The second is to deny and blame everyone except themselves. Their fate will depend on which path they take. Is it really possible that “torture by fear” will not show them the right path?

So, at that moment, thousands and thousands of Jews had a terrible, overwhelming fear for their lives. They were afraid that the Russians, whose peaceful life had been blown up by Jewish thugs with the revolution of 1917, would take revenge on them! Therefore, like a rescue buoy, which is usually released by a submarine in distress, an article-cry by Martin Glynn about the “Holocaust of six million Jews” that is happening in Ukraine has surfaced in the American media!!!

For those who did not understand at once why such information was published by the 40th governor of New York, I will repeat it again so that it finally gets across:

The phrase “6 million Jews” is sacred. It’s like the phrase “to hell!”, uttered in response to the traditional wish for success: “no fluff, no feather!” Whenever Jews begin to face mortal danger, they certainly write articles in the media mentioning the word HOLOCAUST and mentioning the phrase “six million Jews.” It is their custom, in their religious tradition, to do this so that death will bypass this vigorous people, and so that six million Jews are guaranteed not to die under any circumstances!

Confirms my words and proves that the Jews have such a tradition, in case of danger, to write about the “Holocaust of 6 million Jews” - here is a selection of publications in the newspaper “The New York Times”, which mention this very HOLOCAUST “six million Jews” since 1869!!!

Now do you understand what the words in the media about “the Holocaust of 6 million Jews” mean?

I hope you also understand that in none of these cases described in the newspapers, the dates of which are indicated here (1869-1938), the sacred “six million Jews” WERE KILLED.

6 million Jews were not killed during the Second World War either! The real number of Jewish victims is much lower.

Evidence of this is the fraud of Jewish organizations with the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz (Auschwitz).

When, in 1948, the international Jewish community announced that 4 million people, most of whom were Jews, were exterminated in the Auschwitz concentration camp alone, and when this memorial plaque was hung in this concentration camp: “Four million people suffered and died here at the hands of Nazi bandits in the period from 1940 to 1945,” historians from different countries were skeptical about this figure and began to carefully double-check the facts.

Memorial plaque in Auschwitz in English and Yiddish: “4 million victims.”

And when the facts revealed by Holocaust researchers were not in favor of the figure of 4 million declared by the international Jewish community, the memorial plaque was immediately changed to another, which indicated a significantly smaller number of victims - “one and a half million.” But also with a postscript: “mainly Jews from different European countries.”

There is a very fair aphorism about this by Kozma Prutkov: “

3. POPULATION AND EMIGRATION

Statistics on the Jewish population are not known in sufficient detail for all countries, nor is it known how many Jews were deported and interned between 1939-45. However, from existing statistics, especially those relating to emigration, it can be shown that the number of Jews who died in the war is only a very small part of those “six million”. According to the Chambers Encyclopedia, the number of Jews living in the pre-war Europe was six and a half million. That is, if you believe the legend of “mass extermination”, then there should have been practically no Jews left in post-war Europe. But Baseler Nachrichten, a neutral Swiss newspaper, using Jewish statistics, found that between 1933 and 1945, one and a half million Jews emigrated to the USA, England, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Palestine and even China and India . This is confirmed by the Jewish journalist Bruno Blau, who gives the same number in the New York Jewish newspaper Aufbau, August 13, 1948. Of these emigrants, approximately 400 thousand came from Germany before September 1939, when the war started. This is also confirmed in the World Jewish Congress publication Unity in Dispersion, p. 377, which states, “The majority of German Jews managed to leave Germany before the outbreak of war.” In addition to German Jews, 220,000, out of a total of 280,000 Austrian Jews, had emigrated by September 1939, and beginning in March 1939, the Institute of Jewish Emigration in Prague helped 260,000 Jews emigrate from Czechoslovakia. After September 1939, only 360 thousand Jews remained in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. About half a million emigrated from Poland before the start of the war. These figures mean that the number of Jewish emigrants from other European countries (France, Holland, Italy, Eastern European countries) was approximately 120 thousand. Thus, the mass exodus of Jews before and during the war reduces the number of Jews in Europe to approximately five million. To these emigrants we must also add those Jews who fled to the Soviet Union after the German attack on Poland, as well as those who were subsequently evacuated from the territories into which German troops advanced. Most of the evacuees were Polish Jews, but in addition, according to Reitlinger, about 300 thousand Jews from other European countries moved to Soviet territory between 1939 and 1941. Thus, the total number of Jewish immigrants to the Soviet Union was about one and a half million.

F. Foster, whose article on Jews in the Soviet Union was published in Colliers magazine on June 9, 1945, writes that 2.2 mil. moved there in 1939 to escape the Nazis, but the figure of one and a half million is perhaps closer to reality.

Thus, Jewish migration to the Soviet Union reduces the number of Jews in German-occupied territories to approximately three and a half million. From these should be subtracted those who lived in neutral countries who managed to escape the consequences of the war. According to the World Almanach for 1942, p. 594, the number of Jews living in England, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Turkey and Gibraltar was 413 thousand (England, although not neutral, was the territory was not occupied). Three million Jews in Europe Thus, according to population and emigration statistics, the number of Jews in the territories occupied by Germany was approximately three million. We get approximately the same number if we look at the statistical data on the Jewish population located in the occupied territories. More than half of the Jews who moved to the Soviet Union after 1939 were from Poland. One can often hear claims that the war with Poland added three million Jews under German control and that almost all Polish Jews were exterminated. But the facts tell a different story - the census of Jews carried out in Poland in 1931 gave the number 2,732,600 (Reitlinger, “Die Endlosung”, (“Final Solution”), p. 36). The author indicates that at least 1,170 million. of these were in the Soviet zone of occupation by the autumn of 1939, of whom approximately a million were evacuated to the Urals, Central Asia and southern Siberia after the German invasion in June 1941 (p. 50). As we have already indicated, approximately half a million Jews emigrated from Poland before the war.

Journalist Raymond Arthur Davis wrote that approximately a quarter of a million fled Poland between the start of the war with Germany and the German invasion of the USSR, and they could be found in almost every part of the Soviet Union (Odyssey Through Hell). "), New York, 1946).

Subtracting all this from 2,732,600 and adding the normal population increase, which naturally took place from 1931 to 1939, we see that no more than 1.1 million Polish Jews could have been under German control at the end of 1939. Research statistics on population was carried out by the Institute of History in Munich, it was published in the report Gutachten des Instituts fur Zeitgeschichte, (Study of the Institute of History), Munchen, 1956.

To this number we can add the 360 ​​thousand Jews who remained in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, after the significant emigration that took place in the pre-war period. Of the 320 thousand French Jews, 120 thousand were deported, according to the prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, although, according to Reitlinger, 50 thousand were deported.

According to railroad documents, the number of deportees was 75,721 (from Michael A. Hoffman, “The Great Holocaust Trial,” Wiswell Ruffin House, Third Edition, 1995).

Thus, the total number of Jews under German control was less than two million. Deportations from the Scandinavian countries were very small and there were none at all from Bulgaria. And after including the Jewish populations of Holland (140 thousand), Belgium (40 thousand), Italy (50 thousand), Yugoslavia (55 thousand), Hungary (380 thousand) and Romania (725 thousand), the total number is only a little over three million.

The slight discrepancy in the figures from these two calculations is explained by the fact that the second method uses population statistics collected before the war, and it does not include emigration, which amounted to approximately 120 thousand from those countries that were subsequently occupied by Germany. Thus, both methods of counting give approximately the same results - three million Jews in the territories under German occupation.

Evacuated Soviet Jews

Accurate data on Jews on the territory of the Soviet Union is unknown and therefore often greatly exaggerated. Jewish statistician Jacob Leszczynski claims that in 1939 there were 2.1 million Jews in the territories of the USSR subsequently occupied by Germany. In addition to this, about 260 thousand lived in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Louis Levine, President of the American Jewish Council for Russian Relief, stated on October 30, 1946 in Chicago, after his trip to the Soviet Union, “At the outbreak of the war, Jews were among the first to be evacuated from the threatened western regions.” occupation. Two million Jews were saved in this way."

This figure is confirmed by the Jewish journalist David Bergelson, who wrote in the Yiddish Moscow newspaper Ainikeit on December 5, 1942 - “Thanks to the evacuation, the majority (eighty percent) of the Jews of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia were saved. Reitlinger agrees with Jewish authority Joseph Schechtman, who says that large numbers of Jews were evacuated, although between 650,000 and 850,000 were unable to leave (Reitlinger, “The Final Solution,” p. 499). As for the Jews remaining in the occupied territory of the USSR, the number of deaths can only be estimated very roughly. According to the German army, approximately one hundred thousand Soviet people died in partisan battles, including those who were shot as a result of reprisals carried out by SD groups of the German army, as well as commissars taken prisoner. According to neutral Switzerland, the figure of six million is unrealistic. So we see that the Germans could not kill six million Jews, because... they simply did not have so much under their control. Excluding the Soviet Union, the number of Jews in occupied Europe barely exceeded three million, not all of whom were interned. To get even close to half of those “six million”, it was necessary to kill every Jew living in Europe. And it is a well-known fact that after the war there were a large number of Jews in Europe. Philip Friedman, in “Their Brother's Keepers,” New York, 1957, p. 13, states that “at least a million Jews survived the grinder of Nazi hell,” and the Jewish Joint Committee The Jewish Joint Distribution Committee gives an official figure of 1,559,600. Thus, if we accept this number, the number of dead Jews could not exceed one and a half million. The Swiss magazine Baseler Nachrichten came to the same conclusion in an article entitled “Wie hoch ist.” die Zahl der judischen Opfer?” (How high is the number of Jewish victims?) of June 13, 1946, it is shown that using the population statistics we have already given, a maximum of one and a half million Jews can be considered as dead, however, we will show that even a lower number is more plausible. Baseler Nachrichten, for example, accepted the figure of 1,559,660 Jews in post-war Europe, but then it turned out that the number of applications for compensation from those Jews who “survived” exceeded the “official” number of living Jews by more than double (!), but with this information The authors of the article, of course, did not yet have it. Impossible population growth Statistics for the Jewish population of the post-war period also contradict this legend of six million.

According to the World Almanac for 1938, the number of Jews in the world was 16,588 thousand, but the New York Times of February 22, 1948 gave the figure between 15.6 million. and 18.7 million. From this it is clear that the number of Jews killed in the war is measured in thousands, and not hundreds of thousands, and certainly not millions.

Sixteen and a half million in 1938 minus the supposedly killed six million gives ten and a half million, i.e. it turns out that the Jewish population grew by five million if we take the lower figure of the New York Times and by more than eight million if we take the figure of 18.7 million. It must be understood that such population growth took place in just ten years, more than half of which was for years of wartime hardships! It's just not serious.

Most of those “six million” were emigrants and settlers - to the Soviet Union, the USA, England, and European countries not affected by the war. Emigration to Palestine was also quite significant, especially at the end of the war. After 1945, whole ships brought Jews to Palestine, which caused considerable inconvenience to the British government, under whose administration Palestine was then located. The number of arrivals was so great that a government publication of November 5, 1946 (number 190) described this influx of population as a second Exodus.

But most Jewish emigrants arrived in the United States, and their numbers exceeded immigration quotas. On August 16, 1963, Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, said that the Jewish population of the United States was 5.6 million, and possibly as many as nine (Deutsche Wochenzeitung, November 23, 1963).

Albert Maisal, in the January 1957 Readers Digest article “Our New Americans,” says, “Shortly after the war, by presidential decree, ninety percent of all visas issued under quotas for Central and Eastern Europe was issued to “displaced persons”.

We provide a copy of the obituary published in the American Jewish weekly Aufbau on June 16, 1972, many of which are published there. A small illustration of the fact that Jewish immigrants to the United States often change their names. In this obituary, the Frankfurt-born Konigsberger became Arthur Kingsley. Maybe these people were “counted” as part of those notorious “six million”?

4. “SIX MILLION” - DOCUMENTARY DATA

From what we have already seen, it seems clear that the figure of six million Jews killed is just a vague “compromise” between several unsubstantiated estimates, with no documented evidence to support their plausibility. However, some writers present it in such a way that this legend may seem true.

Lord Russell of Liverpool, for example, in his book The Scourge of Swastika, (London, 1954), states that no less than five million Jews died in German concentration camps, apparently satisfied that his " analysis” is between those who say six million and those who prefer four. But, he admits, "the exact number will never be known."

But if this is so, then on what basis does he claim that “no less than five million” died?

The Joint Distribution Committee prefers the figure of 5,012,000, but the Jewish "expert" Reitlinger proposes a new figure - 4,192,200 "missing Jews", of whom, according to his estimates, a third died from natural causes. But this reduces the death toll to 2,796,000. However, Dr. M. Perlzweig, a delegate from New York to the World Jewish Congress, said at a press conference in Geneva in 1948 - “The price of the fall of National Socialism and Fascism is the fact that seven million Jews lost their lives due to the brutal anti-Semitism."

Sometimes the figure rises to eight million, and even nine. As we have already shown, none of these numbers even come close to reality. Fantastic Exaggerations The first claims of mass extermination of Jews by the Nazis were made by Stalinist agent Leon Feuchtwanger in 1936. Rabbi Wise and the World Jewish Congress picked up the story and added even more horror to it, and in 1942 the Allies did declaration on this topic. But they themselves did not believe their own propaganda. They, for example, intensively bombed the synthetic fuel factory at Auschwitz, but did not touch the section of the camp where, as they claimed, the gas chambers were located.

An interesting fact is that neither Churchill nor Eisenhower write about gas chambers in their memoirs.

Rabbi Wise's imagination did not stop at the gas chambers; he then began to claim that the Germans made soap from the corpses of Jewish prisoners, this line was also picked up by Soviet prosecutors in Nuremberg, but today no serious historian takes this seriously. Yehuda Bauer, a professor at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of Hebrew University, states, “The technical capabilities for turning human fat into soap were not known at that time. Prisoners of the camps could believe in any horror story, and the Nazis were quite happy with this. The Nazis did enough terrible things during the war, we don’t need to believe in fairy tales.”

In 1943, the Jew Rafael Lemkin, in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, published in New York, argued that the Nazis exterminated millions of Jews, perhaps as many as six million. This statement, made in 1943, is quite remarkable because... mass extermination supposedly began only in the summer of 1942. At such a “rate,” the entire Jewish population of the world would have been destroyed by 1945.

By the way, this same Lemkin later drew up the UN convention on genocide, according to which “racism” was ordered to be made illegal.

After the war, propaganda claims reached even more fantastic heights. Kurt Gerstein, who claimed to be an anti-fascist who managed to infiltrate the SS, told French officer Raymond Cartier during interrogation that he was sure that at least forty million (!) concentration camp prisoners were killed in gas chambers. In his first memorandum of April 26, 1945, he lowered the figure to twenty-five million, but even this "low" estimate was too unimaginable for the French and in his second memorandum, which he signed in Rottweil on May 4, 1945, he lowered the figure to six million, which was later used at the Nuremberg trials.

By the way, Gerstein was convicted in 1936 of sending immoral materials by mail, a small detail to illustrate his character.

After he wrote his memoranda, it was announced that he had hanged himself in his cell at the Cherche Midi prison in Paris.

In his memoirs, Gerstein claimed that during the war he conveyed information about the mass murder of Jews to the Swedish government through a German baron, but for some inexplicable reason his reports were shelved. He also claimed that in August 1942 he informed the Pope's ambassador in Berlin about the program to exterminate the Jews, but was asked to leave the mission building.

Gerstein's memoranda contain fantastic statements, he writes, for example, about how he observed mass executions (twelve thousand in one day in the Belzek camp), he also describes Hitler's visit to a concentration camp in Poland in June 1942, although it is well known that Hitler did not visit that camp.

Gerstein's fantastic exaggerations have done more to discredit this legend of mass destruction than perhaps any other statement. The Berlin evangelical bishop Wilhelm Dibelius described these memoranda as “untrustworthy” (from Rothfels’ article “Eyewitness Testimony of Mass Murders in the Gas Chambers”, N. Rothfels, “Augenzeugenbericht zu den Massenvergasungen”, published in Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, April 1953) And it is a striking fact that, despite all these denials, the German government issued in 1955 an edition of the second Gerstein memorandum for distribution in schools (Dokumentation zur Massvergasung, Bonn, 1955). In it, they argued that Gerstein enjoyed the special confidence of Dibelius and that these memoranda were “true beyond reasonable doubt.” This is a striking example of how the unfounded accusation of genocide that allegedly took place under Hitler is supported in present-day Germany.

The story of six million Jews allegedly killed during the war was accepted by the Nuremberg Tribunal on the basis of a statement by Dr. Wilhelm Hottl. Hoettl was one of Eichmann's assistants, and towards the end of the war he also worked for American intelligence, and in addition to this he was engaged in writing, writing several books under the pseudonym Walter Hagen. Hoettl also worked for Soviet intelligence through two Jewish emigrants from Vienna - Pergera and Werber, who subsequently appeared at the Nuremberg Tribunal in the uniform of American army officers.

In his written statement dated November 26, 1945, he stated that Eichmann “told him” in August 1944 in Budapest that six million Jews had been killed. But Eichmann later denied this at his trial. Considering that Hoettl worked for both the Americans and the Soviets, it is very strange that his first statement about massacres was made after the war. Lack of Physical Evidence We must emphasize that there is not a single document that proves that the Germans either planned or carried out a policy of exterminating the Jews. In the book by Polyakov and Wulf “The Third Reich and the Jews - Documents and Essays” (Poliakov, Wulf, “Das Dritte Reich und die Juden: Dokumente und Aufsatze”, Berlin, 1955) - all that they were able to collect were statements collected or knocked out from people like Hoettl, Ohlendorf and Wisliceny, the latter under torture in a Soviet prison. In the absence of any evidence, Polyakov was forced to write: “Three or four people who were mainly involved in developing the plan for the complete extermination of the Jews are already dead and no documents have reached us.”

Very comfortably. And it is very obvious that both the “plan” and those “three or four people” are just vague assumptions on the part of the authors.

But the documents that have survived do not speak at all about the extermination, and here “researchers” like Polyakov and Reitlinger make the convenient assumption that these plans and orders were exclusively “oral.”

Adherents of the legend of mass extermination believe that, given its criminal nature, the “order” was oral. But, however, Hitler signed an order on the medical killing of mentally ill people, which affected tens of thousands of Germans, as well as an order to shoot saboteurs of the allied armies who were captured, an order to shoot allied pilots who took part in the bombing of cities, an order to shoot captured Soviet commissars. Why would he then suddenly decide that the order to exterminate the Jews, who were de facto at war with Germany, should be “oral”? Having failed to find a written order, the “historians of genocide” even resorted to deliberately inaccurate translations of Hitler’s speeches.

But this is simply not serious! According to them, the order to exterminate the Jews was surrounded by such secrecy that it was transmitted only orally, but nevertheless they try to find instructions about this policy in speeches broadcast on the radio!

Although no evidence exists, they suggest that the plan to exterminate the Jews must have begun in 1941, during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Subsequent parts of this plan were supposed to begin in March 1942, with the deportation and concentration of Jews in eastern concentration camps in Poland, such as the giant Auschwitz industrial complex near Krakow. A completely unfounded assumption is that transportation to the east supposedly meant the subsequent destruction of the prisoners.

Manvell and Frankl, in their book "Himmler", (Manvell, Frankl, "Heinrich Himmler", London, 1965), write that the policy of genocide was developed by Hitler and Himmler in "secret negotiations" (p. 118), although they do not cite no evidence of this.

Reitlinger and Polyakov also speculate along the same line of “oral orders,” adding that no one else was allowed to attend these meetings and no minutes were kept. Again, there is no evidence that such meetings took place.

William Shirer, in his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also passes over all evidence in silence. He claims that Hitler's order to exterminate the Jews “was not printed, or at least not a single copy has been found. It was probably given orally to Goering, Himmler and Heydrich, who in turn passed it on,” p. 1148.

A typical example of the "evidence" adduced for the extermination legend can be found in Manwell and Frankl. They point to a memorandum dated July 31, 1941, sent by Goering to Heydrich, which begins: “In addition to the task given to you on January 24, 1939, to solve the Jewish problem through emigration and evacuation in the best possible way under existing conditions” ...

The memorandum orders "the complete resolution of the Jewish question (Gesamtlosung) in that part of Europe which is under German control" and it orders the beginning of preparations for the organizational, financial and material basis necessary for this. Manwell and Frankl acknowledge that this means a concentration in the east.

The memorandum then ordered the creation of a plan for the final solution of the Jewish problem (Endlosung), based on emigration and evacuation, as stated at the very beginning.

There are no instructions about the destruction of people, but nevertheless Manvell and Frankl assure us that the memorandum is precisely about this.

They talk about some “real essence” of this expression “final solution”, which Goering allegedly told Heydrich orally (ibid., p. 118). The “convenience” of these “oral orders” for a certain type of historian is obvious. Wannsee Conference The final details of the plan to exterminate the Jews are supposed to have been made at the Wannsee conference on January 20, 1942, which was chaired by Heydrich (from Prince Polyakov, “The Third Reich and the Jews,” p. 120, Reitlinger, “The Final Solution” , page 95). Representatives of all German ministries were present there, Müller and Eichmann represented the Gestapo leadership. Reitlinger, Manwell and Frankl believe that the transcript of this conference is their trump card in proving a plan for genocide, but in fact nothing of the kind was even mentioned, and they, paradoxically, admit it themselves. They "explain" this as follows - "the shorthand record reflects an official language which masks the real meaning of the terminology used" (The Incomparable Crime, London, 1967, p. 46) that simply means that they interpret the documents as they please.

In fact, Heydrich said that Goering ordered him to organize a solution to the Jewish problem. He described the Jewish emigration plan, pointed out that the war had made the Madagascar plan unrealistic and continued - “The emigration program is being replaced by the evacuation of Jews to the east as the next possible solution in accordance with the Fuhrer's earlier recommendation.” And there, he explained, they will be used as labor. And this supposedly must mean some secret plans to exterminate the Jews! However, Paul Rassinier, a Frenchman who was interned at Buchenwald and who subsequently did extensive research on the German concentration camp system, argues that the memorandum implies what it says - the concentration of Jews in the east for work. “They would have stayed there until the end of the war, until the resumption of international negotiations that would decide their future. This decision was taken at the inter-ministerial conference in Wannsee (Rassinier, “Le Veritable Proces Eichmann”, p. 20).

However, Manwell and Frankl are not at all embarrassed by the complete lack of evidence about the allegedly planned mass extermination of Jews. They write that at the Wannsee conference the participants avoided any mention of the killings; Heydrich preferred the expression “Arbeitseinsatz im Osten” (labor detachments in the east) (book “H. Himmler”, p. 209). But they do not explain why we cannot consider that the expression “labor detachments in the east” should not mean what it says.

According to Reitlinger and others, Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann and Commandant Hess exchanged numerous directives that openly spoke of "extermination", but none of them reached us.

The complete lack of documentary evidence to support the existence of the extermination plan has become the reason for reinterpreting those documents that have come down to us.

Some researchers, for example, believe that the deportation document is a clever way of talking about the destruction of people. Manwell and Frankl argue that different terminology was used to disguise the genocide. Such words, according to them, include "Aussiedlung" - eviction and "Abbeforderung" - transfer, displacement (ibid., p. 265). Thus, as we have already seen, words no longer supposedly mean what they say if their generally accepted meaning does not fit into a certain theory. This approach naturally leads to unimaginable exaggerations, as, for example, when interpreting Heydrich’s directive on “labor detachments in the east. Another example is Himmler's order to send Jews to the east, i.e. “to kill them,” as the book states, (ibid., p. 251). Reitlinger, who also had no evidence, does the same, stating that from the flowery words and expressions uttered at the Wannsee conference, it is supposedly obvious that “the murder of an entire race was planned” (ibid., p. 98).

Careful study of documents is very important because... it exposes all these unsubstantiated claims that formed the basis of this legend of mass destruction. The Germans recorded everything punctually, down to the smallest detail, but among the thousands of captured documents from the SD, the Gestapo, the main branch of the Reich Security Service, documents from Himmler's office, and in the directives of Hitler himself, there is not a single word about the extermination of Jews or anyone else. It has even been recognized by the World Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Tel Aviv.

Attempts to find veiled references to genocide in speeches by Nazi leaders, such as the one Himmler gave to SS officers at Posen in 1943, have also been unsuccessful. We will consider the statements made at the Nuremberg trials in the next chapter.