On Jewish Holocaust and other issues
World War Two has been a subject of interest in my family for understandable reasons and had a profound impact on me from my early childhood. Today, more than 70 years after the end of World War Two both in terms of events that happened during World War Two and after World War Two, the subject appears to be as relevant or even more relevant that it was in the days of World War Two.
We are daily bombarded with references to World War Two and words pertaining to the ideologies very much linked to the conflict are very much part of today's political discourse. There are legal cases across Europe concerning World War Two and this includes Britain where there are legal cases in British courts and there is intense debate involving political parties regarding Jewish issues
A few days ago, in Poland, a law was passed banning references to Polish participation in the plight of the Jews, practically saying that no Poles were involved in the plight of the Jews when in fact history tells us that Poles, Ukrainians and peoples of many other nationalities including French, Italians and even The Vatican were involved in the plight of the jews.
There is no denying that there was active and deliberate persecution of Jews in Europe but there are serious doubts about numbers and methodology and anybody who raises serious questions about the official version of events suddenly finds himself or herself under attack. Knowing history and accounts about history, many things cannot be written in stone and so called official versions are bound to be countered when new evidence arises showing that official accounts are not accurate or are in dire need of amendments. If it is valid when it comes to the Titanic or the fate of the Russian Imperial Family, it is valid when it comes to the persecution of Jews in Europe - no matter how many laws are passed to deny individuals the right to ask questions and to raise doubts about the veracity of many historical events.
I look at developments in Europe during World War Two and it becomes immediately apparent that there are serious cracks in official versions of events and especially when what is known as the Jewish Holocaust is said to have reached a climax when Germany was fighting in several fronts in Europe, in Africa and in the Middle East. Germany was fully committed in the battlefields. Whoever was not deployed in the battlefields had to be used in the home front to produce what was necessary to keep Germany alive and this was not just about what was necessary to continue the war effort. Manpower had been stretched to the limit. Because Germany didn't have enough manpower, slave workers were employed and foreign nationals did run so called concentration camps.
Fuel was in short supply. Much of the effort made by the Afrika Korps was done to secure oil sources to keep the Wehrmacht operational and after events in Africa and Middle East lack of basic supplies marked the beginning of the end because every bit of fuel available was desperately needed to prevent Soviet advances in the East and to prevent Allied advances both in the West in the South.
Logic tells us that being so over-stretched, the running of the camps would been even more severely affected. If there was little the local population could get with constant bombardment, there would have been even less resources available for concentration camps. If people outside concentration camps were facing extreme rationing, those in concentration camps would certainly be facing starvation and therefore most of the deaths in concentration camps would have been caused by starvation and diseases related to starvation. Those found still alive when then camps were taken were found suffering from extreme malnutrition and this reinforces the idea that malnutrition and lack of basic sanitary facilities were in fact the biggest killers.
When Germar Rudolf then working for the Max Planck Institute suggested that there were not enough chemicals to justify the official versions of events, he was fired and was also forced to forget about his PhD at the University of Stuttgart. As if this wasn't enough, a warrant of arrest was issued forcing him to flee to Spain, to England and ultimately to the USA from where he was extradited to face courts in Germany. Germany, a highly cultured country, prosecutes anybody who dares to challenge the official version of events even if the official version of events cannot be supported with factual information. Starvation, diseases related to starvation and ailments caused by poor sanitation seemed to be the most likely cause of death in concentration camps. Vast numbers of people living in very crowded conditions would have been prone to contract lethal infectious diseases very much as it happened during several plagues in the history of the European Continent. Burning corpses in ovens or pires or burying them in collective graves would have been the obvious way of disposing of the corpses of those who had succumbed to starvation or disease.
Was there persecution of Jews? Yes, there was persecution of Jews but camps were not only meant for Jews but also for peoples of other ethnic backgrounds including prisoners of war. Life in crowded conditions combined with malnutrition leading to starvation and illnesses was the most important cause of death. There were executions but not enough to justify the numbers that were registered as factual information when in fact they were the product of speculation. We will never know how many people died during World War Two including those who died from natural causes. If it is difficult to ascertain the number of casualties in today's conflicts, we can imagine that during World War Two it would have been even more difficult to determine accurate numbers.
People who have different views about what happened in those days should not be criminalised. Was there persecution? Yes, there was. Did people die in concentration camps? Yes, they did. How many died? We will never know. How many died from starvation and diseases? We don't know because there are no records. There are not enough records of executions and there are not enough records of any other cause of death. Numbers that have been presented as facts are the product of speculation.
It was a terrible time in history. Millions died that should not have died and this includes men, women and children. It was a tragedy but it was a tragedy for all those involved. Nobody should be allowed to use the said tragedy as a propaganda tool for spurious purposes - regardless of nationality, religion or any other classification criteria or background.
World War Two is not the historical patrimony of the Jews. It is estimated that more than 60 millions people across the globe lost their lives, peoples of all religions, peoples of all races, peoples of many nationalities.
