Why does “The Holocaust” even persist as a narrative? Why are we still inundated with movies and survivor sob-stories and demands for reparations and guilt, guilt, guilt about the so-called jewish holocaust? Time and time again, over the years and decades, the atrocity tales have been thoroughly exposed as nothing but fabrications, distortions, inversions and complete lies. Article after article, case after case, document after document… the mainstream narrative has been shredded. And yet, we still “believe”. Surely, this nonsense will end soon…???
The following article is a good antidote to those who will retort (when you tell them its a hoax), “but what about the pictures of the camps when they were liberated?” or “my great-uncle was there with the liberation troops when they went into [name any camp] in 1945 and he told us about the horrors he found at that death camp – are you saying he was a liar?!” or “I lost 137 relatives in The Holocaust!” and so on. So… what is the real story about those camps?
This article is from The Journal of Historical Review, July-August 1995 (Vol. 15, no. 4), pp. 18-23, and can be found on the Institute for Historical Review website here. Thanks to the archivist Ava Wolfe bringing articles such as this one to our attention through her Substack here.
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The Liberation of the Camps: Facts vs. Lies
By Theodore J. O’Keefe
Nothing has been more effective in establishing the authenticity of the Holocaust story in the minds of Americans than the terrible scenes US troops discovered when they entered German concentration camps at the close of World War II.
At Dachau, Buchenwald, Dora, Mauthausen, and other work and detention camps, horrified US infantrymen encountered heaps of dead and dying inmates, emaciated and diseased. Survivors told them hair-raising stories of torture and slaughter, and backed up their claims by showing the GIs crematory ovens, alleged execution gas chambers, supposed implements of torture, and even shrunken heads and lampshades, gloves, and handbags purportedly made from skin flayed from dead inmates.
US government authorities, mindful that many Americans who remembered the atrocity stories fed them during World War I still doubted the Allied propaganda directed against the Hitler regime, resolved to “document” what the GIs had found in the camps. Prominent newsmen and politicians were flown in to see the harrowing evidence, while the US Army Signal Corps filmed and photographed the scenes for posterity. Famous journalist Edward R. Murrow reported, in tones of horror, but no longer of disbelief, what he had been told and shown, and Dachau and Buchenwald were branded on the hearts and minds of the American populace as names of infamy unmatched in the sad and bloody history of this planet.
For Americans, what was “discovered” at the camps — the dead and the diseased, the terrible stories of the inmates, all the props of torture and terror — became the basis not simply of a transitory propaganda campaign but of the conviction that, yes, it was true: the Germans did exterminate six million Jews, most of them in lethal gas chambers.
What the GIs found was used, by way of films that were mandatory viewing for the vanquished populace of Germany, to “re-educate” the German people by destroying their national pride and their will to a united, independent national state, imposing in their place overwhelming feelings of collective guilt and political impotence. And when the testimony, and the verdict, of the Nuremberg Tribunal incorporated most, if not all, of the horror stories Americans were told about Dachau, Buchenwald, and other places captured by the US Army, the Holocaust could pass for one of the most documented, one of the most authenticated, one of the most proven historical episodes in the human record.
A Different Reality
But it is known today that, very soon after the liberation of the camps, American authorities were aware that the real story of the camps was quite different from the one in which they were coaching military public information officers, government spokesmen, politicians, journalists, and other mouthpieces.
When American and British forces overran western and central Germany in the spring of 1945, they were followed by troops charged with discovering and securing any evidence of German war crimes.
Among them was Dr. Charles Larson, one of America’s leading forensic pathologists, who was assigned to the US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Department. As part of a US War Crimes Investigation Team, Dr. Larson performed autopsies at Dachau and some twenty other German camps, examining on some days more than 100 corpses. After his grim work at Dachau, he was questioned for three days by US Army prosecutors. [1]
Dr. Larson’s findings? In an 1980 newspaper interview he said: “What we’ve heard is that six million Jews were exterminated. Part of that is a hoax.” [2] And what part was the hoax? Dr. Larson, who told his biographer that to his knowledge he “was the only forensic pathologist on duty in the entire European Theater” of Allied military operations, [3] confirmed that “never was a case of poison gas uncovered.” [4]
Typhus, Not Poison Gas
If not by gassing, how did the unfortunate victims at Dachau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen perish? Were they tortured to death or deliberately starved? The answers to these questions are known as well.
As Dr. Larson and other Allied medical men discovered, the chief cause of death at Dachau, Belsen and the other camps was disease, above all typhus, an old and terrible scourge of mankind that until recently flourished in places where populations were crowded together in circumstances where public health measures were unknown or had broken down. Such was the case in the overcrowded internment camps in Germany at war’s end, where, despite such measures as systematic delousing, quarantine of the sick and cremation of the dead, the virtual collapse of Germany’s food, transport, and public health systems led to catastrophe.
Perhaps the most authoritative statement of the facts as to typhus and mortality in the camps has been made by Dr. John E. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of preventive medicine and epidemiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health, who was with US forces in Germany in 1945. Dr. Gordon reported in 1948 that “The outbreaks in concentration camps and prisons made up the great bulk of typhus infection encountered in Germany.” Dr. Gordon summarized the causes for the outbreaks as follows: [5]
Germany in the spring months of April and May [1945] was an astounding sight, a mixture of humanity travelling this way and that, homeless, often hungry and carrying typhus with them …
Germany was in chaos. The destruction of whole cities and the path left by advancing armies produced a disruption of living conditions contributing to the spread of the disease. Sanitation was low grade, public utilities were seriously disrupted, food supply and food distribution was poor, housing was inadequate and order and discipline were everywhere lacking. Still more important, a shifting of populations was occurring such as few countries and few times have experienced.
Dr. Gordon’s findings are corroborated by Dr. Russell Barton, today a psychiatrist of international repute, who entered Bergen-Belsen with British forces as a young medical student in 1945. Barton, who volunteered to care for the diseased survivors, testified under sworn oath in a Toronto courtroom in 1985 that “Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren’t deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases.” [6]
Dr. Barton further testified that on entering the camp he had credited stories of deliberate starvation but decided such stories were untrue after inspecting the well equipped kitchens and the meticulously maintained ledgers, dating back to 1942, of food cooked and dispensed each day.
Despite noisily publicized claims and widespread popular notions to the contrary, no researcher has been able to document a German policy of extermination through starvation in the German camps.
No ‘Human Skin’ Lampshades
What of the ghoulish stories of concentration camp inmates skinned for their tattoos, flayed to make lampshades and handbags, or other artifacts? What of the innumerable “torture racks,” “meathooks,” whipping posts, gallows, and other tools of torment and death that are reported to have abounded at every German camp? These allegations, and even more grotesque ones proffered by Soviet prosecutors, found their way into the record at Nuremberg.
The lampshade and tattooed-skin charges were made against Ilse Koch, dubbed by journalists the “Bitch of Buchenwald,” who was reported to have furnished her house with objects manufactured from the tanned hides of luckless inmates.
But General Lucius Clay, military governor of the US zone of occupied Germany, who reviewed her case in 1948, told his superiors in Washington: “There is no convincing evidence that she [Ilse Koch] selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins or that she possessed any articles made of human skin.” [7] In an interview General Clay gave years later, he stated about the material for the infamous lampshades: “Well, it turned out actually that it was goat flesh. But at the trial it was still human flesh. It was almost impossible for her to have gotten a fair trial.” [8] Ilse Koch hanged herself in a German jail in 1967.
It would be tedious to itemize and refute the thousands of bizarre claims as to Nazi atrocities. That there were instances of German cruelty, however, is clear from the testimony of Dr. Konrad Morgen, a legal investigator attached to the Reich Criminal Police, whose statements on the witness stand at Nuremberg have never been challenged by proponents of the Jewish Holocaust story. Dr. Morgen informed the court that he had been given full authority by Heinrich Himmler, commander of Hitler’s SS and the dread Gestapo, to enter any German concentration camp and investigate instances of cruelty and corruption on the part of camp personnel.
As he explained in sworn testimony at Nuremberg, Dr. Morgen investigated 800 such cases, resulting in more than 200 convictions. [9] Punishments included the death penalty for the worst offenders, including Hermann Florstedt, commandant of Lublin (Majdanek), and Karl Koch (Ilse’s husband), commandant of Buchenwald.
While German camp commandants in certain cases did inflict physical punishment, such acts had to be approved by authorities in Berlin, and it was required that a camp physician first certify the good health of the prisoner to be disciplined, and then be on hand at the actual beating. [10] After all, throughout most of the war the camps were important centers of industrial activity. The good health and morale of the prisoners was critical to the German war effort, as is evidenced in a January 1943 order issued by SS General Richard Glücks, chief of the office that supervised the concentration camps. It held the camp commanders “personally responsible for exhausting every possibility to preserve the physical strength of the detainees.” [11]
Camp Survivors: Merely Victims?
US Army investigators, working at Buchenwald and other camps, quickly ascertained what was common knowledge among veteran inmates: that the worst offenders, the cruelest denizens of the camps, were not the guards but the prisoners themselves. Common criminals of the same stripe as those who populate US prisons today committed many villainies, particularly when they held positions of authority, and fanatical Communists, highly organized to combat their many political enemies among the inmates, eliminated their foes with Stalinist ruthlessness.
Two US Army investigators at Buchenwald, Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, carefully investigated circumstances in the camp before its liberation. In a detailed report submitted to their superiors, they revealed, in the words of Alfred Toombs, their commander, who wrote a preface to the report, “how the prisoners themselves organized a deadly terror within the Nazi terror.” [12]
Fleck and Tenenbaum described the power exercised by criminals and Communists as follows:
The trusties, who in time became almost exclusively Communist Germans, had the power of life and death over all other inmates. They could sentence a man or a group to almost certain death … The Communist trusties were directly responsible for a large part of the brutalities at Buchenwald.
Colonel Donald B. Robinson, chief historian of the American military government in Germany, summarized the Fleck-Tenenbaum report in an article published in an American magazine shortly after the war. Colonel Robinson wrote succinctly of the American investigators’ findings: “It appeared that the prisoners who agreed with the Communists ate; those who didn’t starved to death.” [13]
Additional corroboration of inmate brutality has been provided by Ellis E. Spackman, who, as Chief of Counter-Intelligence Arrests and Detentions for the US Seventh Army, was involved in the liberation of Dachau. Spackman, later a professor of history at San Bernardino Valley College in California, wrote in 1966 that at Dachau “the prisoners were the actual instruments that inflicted the barbarities on their fellow prisoners.” [14]
‘Gas Chambers’
In December 1944 US Army officers Colonel Paul Kirk and Lt. Colonel Edward J. Gully inspected the German concentration camp at Struthof-Natzweiler in Alsace. They submitted their findings to their superiors, who subsequently forwarded their report to the US War Crimes Division. While, significantly, the full text of their report has never been published, it has been revealed, by a historian supportive of Holocaust claims, that the two investigators were careful to characterize equipment exhibited to them by French informants as a “so-called lethal gas chamber,” and to claim it was “allegedly used as a lethal gas chamber.” [15] (Emphasis added)
Both the careful phraseology of the Natzweiler report, and its effective suppression, stand in stark contrast to the credulity, the confusion, and the blaring publicity that accompanied official reports of alleged gas chambers at Dachau. At first, a US Army photo depicting a GI gazing at a steel door marked with a skull and crossbones and the German words for: “Caution! Gas! Mortal danger! Don’t open!,” was identified as showing the murder weapon. [16]
Later, however, it was evidently decided that the apparatus in question was merely a standard delousing chamber for clothing, and another alleged gas chamber, this one cunningly disguised as a shower room, was exhibited to American congressmen and journalists as the site where thousands breathed their last. While there exist numerous reports in the press as to the operation of this second “gas chamber,” no official report by trained Army investigators has yet surfaced to reconcile such problems as the function of the shower heads: Were they “dummies,” or did lethal cyanide gas stream through them? (Each theory has appreciable support in journalistic and historiographical literature.)
As with Dachau, so with Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and the other camps liberated by the Allies in western Germany. There was no end of propaganda about “gas chambers,” “gas ovens,” and the like, but so far not a single detailed description of the murder weapon and its function, not a single report of the kind that is mandatory for the successful prosecution of any assault or murder case in America at that time and today, has come to light.
Furthermore, a number of Holocaust authorities have now publicly decreed that there were no gassings, no extermination camps in Germany after all. (We are now told that “gassing” and “extermination” camps were located exclusively in what is now Poland, in areas captured by the Soviet Red Army and made off-limits to western investigators.)
Dr. Martin Broszat of the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History, which is funded by the German government, stated categorically in a 1960 letter to the German weekly Die Zeit: “Neither in Dachau nor in Bergen-Belsen nor in Buchenwald were Jews or other prisoners gassed.” [17] Professional “Nazi hunter” Simon Wiesenthal stated in 1975 and again in 1993 that “there were no extermination camps on German soil.” [18]
Dachau “gas chamber” No. 2, which was once presented to a stunned and grieving world as a weapon that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, is now described in the brochure issued to tourists at the modern Dachau “memorial site” in these words: “This gas chamber, camouflaged as a shower room, was not used.” [19]
The Propaganda Intensifies
More than 50 years after American troops entered Dachau, Buchenwald and other German camps, and trained American investigators established the facts as to what had gone on in them, the government in Washington, the entertainment media in Hollywood, and the print media in New York continue to churn out millions of words and images annually on the horrors of the camps and the infamy of the Holocaust. Despite the fact that, with the exception of the defeated Confederacy, no enemy of America has ever so suffered so complete and devastating defeat as did Germany in 1945, the mass media and the politicians and bureaucrats behave as if Hitler, his troops, and his concentration camps continue to exist in an eternal present, and our opinion makers continue to distort, through ignorance or malice, the facts about the camps.
Time for the Truth
It is time that the government and the professional historians reveal the facts about Dachau, Buchenwald and the other camps. It is time they let the American public know how the inmates died, and how they didn’t die. It is time that the claims of mass murder by gassing are clarified and investigated in the same manner as any other claims of murder. It is time that the free ride certain groups have enjoyed as the result of unchallenged Holocaust claims be terminated, just as it is time to end the scapegoating of other groups, including Germans, eastern Europeans, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and the wartime leadership of America and Britain, either for their alleged role in the Holocaust or their supposed failure to stop it.
Above all, it is time that the citizens of this great Republic have the facts about the camps, facts they have a right to know, a right that is fundamental to the exercise of their authority and their will in the governance of their country. As citizens and as taxpayers, Americans of all ethnic backgrounds, of all faiths, have a basic right and an overriding interest in determining the facts of incidents that are deemed by those in positions of power to be significant in determining America’s foreign and educational policy, as well as its selection of past events to be memorialized in our civic life.
Today the alleged facts of the Holocaust are at issue all over the civilized world. The truth will be decided only by recourse to the facts, in the public forum: not by concealing the facts, denying the truth, stonewalling reality. The truth will out, and it is time the government of this country, and governments and international bodies throughout the world, make public the evidence of what actually transpired in the German concentration camps in the years 1933-1945, so that we may put paid to the lies, without fear or favor, and carry out the work of reconciliation and renewal that is and must be the granite foundation of mutual tolerance between peoples and of a peace based on justice.
Summary
The conclusions of the early US Army investigations as to the truth about the wartime German concentration camps have since been corroborated by all subsequent investigators and can be summarized:
- The harrowing scenes of dead and dying inmates were not the result of a German policy of “extermination,” but rather the result of epidemics of typhus and other disease brought about largely by the effects of Allied aerial attacks.
- Stories of Nazi supercriminals and sadists who turned Jews and others into handbags and lampshades for their private profit or amusement were sick lies or diseased fantasies; indeed, the German authorities punished corruption and cruelty on the part of camp commanders and guards.
- On the other hand, portrayals of the newly liberated inmates as saints and martyrs of Hitlerism were quite often very far from the truth; indeed, most of the brutalities inflicted on camp detainees were the work of their fellow prisoners, in contravention of German policy and German orders.
- The alleged homicidal showers and gas chambers were used either for bathing camp inmates or delousing their clothes; the claim that they were used to murder Jews or other human beings is a contemptible fabrication. Orthodox historians and professional “Nazi-hunters” have quietly dropped claims that inmates were gassed at Dachau, Buchenwald and other camps in Germany. They continue, however, to keep silent regarding the lies about Dachau and Buchenwald, as well as to evade an open discussion of the evidence for homicidal gassing at Auschwitz and the other camps captured by the Soviets.
Notes
1. John D. McCallum, Crime Doctor [a biography of Dr. Charles P. Larson] (Mercer, Wash.: The Writing Works, 1978), pp. 44-46, 59, 69; See also: J. Cobden, “The Dachau Gas Chamber Myth,” The Journal of Historical Review, March-April 1995, pp. 17-18.
2. Jane Floerchinger, “Concentration Camp Conditions Killed Most Inmates, Doctor Says,” The Wichita Eagle, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.
3. J. D. McCallum, Crime Doctor (1978), p. 46.
4. The Wichita Eagle, April 1, 1980, p. 4C.
5. John E. Gordon, “Louse-Borne Typhus Fever in the European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, 1945,” in Forest Ray Moulton, editor, Rickettsial Diseases of Man (Washington, DC: American Academy for the Advancement of Science, 1948), pp. 16-27. Quoted in: Friedrich P. Berg, “Typhus and the Jews,” The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1988-89, pp. 444-447, and in Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century (IHR, 1993), pp. 46-47.
6. “Disease killed Nazis’ prisoners, MD says,” Toronto Star, Feb. 8, 1985, p. A2. On Barton’s similar testimony in a 1988 Toronto trial, see: Barbara Kulaszka, ed., Did Six Million Really Die? (Toronto: Samisdat, 1992), pp. 175-180, and, Robert Lenski, The Holocaust on Trial (1990), pp. 157-160, and, M. Weber, “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story,” The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1995, pp. 27, 30 (n. 30).
7. “Clay Explains Cut in Ilse Koch Term,” The New York Times, Sept. 24, 1948, p. 3.
8. Interview with Lucius Clay, 1976, Official Proceeding of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation. Quoted in M. Weber, “Buchenwald: Legend and Reality,” The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87 (Vol. 7, No. 4), pp. 406-407.
9. International Military Tribunal (IMT), Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg: 1947-1949 [“blue series”]), Vol. 20, pp. 489, 438.
10. Eugen Kogon, The Theory and Practice of Hell (New York: Berkley Books [pb.], 1984), pp. 108-109. See also: “Punishment for Mistreating SS Camp Prisoners,” The Journal of Historical Review, Jan.-Feb. 1995, p. 33.
11. Nuremberg document NO-1523. Published in Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunal (NMT “green series”), Vol. 4, pp. 372-373.
12. Egon W. Fleck and Edward A. Tenenbaum, Buchenwald: A Preliminary Report, US Army, 12th Army Group, April 24, 1945. National Archives, RG 331, SHAEF, G-5, 17.11, Jacket 10, Box 151. Quoted in: M. Weber, “Buchenwald: Legend and Reality,” The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87, pp. 408-409.
13. Donald B. Robinson, “Communist Atrocities at Buchenwald,” American Mercury, October 1946, pp. 397-404.
14. San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, March 13, 1966. Quoted in: James J. Martin, The Man Who Invented ‘Genocide’ (IHR, 1984), pp. 110-111.
15. “Concentration Camp at Natzwiller [sic],” RG 331, Records of Allied Operations and Occupation, SHAEF/G-5/2717, Modern Military, National Archives (Washington, DC). Quoted in: Robert H. Abzug, Inside the Vicious Heart (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 9-10, 181 (n. 5).
16. John Cobden, Dachau: Reality and Myth (IHR, 1994), pp. 25-29. See also: The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1993, pp. 9-11; The Journal of Historical Review, March- April 1995, p. 16.
17. “Keine Vergasung in Dachau,” Die Zeit (Hamburg), August 19, 1960. Facsimile reprint, and English-language translation, in The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1993, p. 12.
18. Letters in Books & Bookmen (London), April 1975, p. 5, and in The Stars and Stripes (European edition), Jan. 24, 1993, p. 14. Wiesenthal’s 1993 Stars and Stripes letter is reprinted in facsimile in The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1993, p. 10.
19. Memorial Site Concentration Camp Dachau. Leaflet published by the International Dachau-Committee (Dachau, Germany), no date.
About the Author
Theodore J. O’Keefe is the author of numerous published articles, essays and reviews on historical and political subjects. For some years he served as editor of the IHR’s Journal of Historical Review.
This essay, here slightly edited, is from The Journal of Historical Review, July-August 1995 (Vol. 15, no. 4), pp. 18-23.
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I just finished reading this latest article here on the Truth & Justice for Germans Society website and I must state that once I reviewed this splendid writing every bit a good dozen-plus times I find myself once again wondering in no uncertain terms just how our two countries (Canada & America) were suckered into that awful conflagration at the behest of Britain and France. And, just like any and all such intrusions we were/are conned (and cornered) into perpetually lying to ourselves (and our progeny) forever trying to make up excuses to somehow justify out participation – including criminalizing to this very day those who continually point these facts out over eighty years later. Furthermore, one has to wonder how both Churchill and Roosevelt were ever truly capable of living with themselves and lying to others, having been responsible for so much cultural destruction and the loss of many millions of fine (and mostly white) human beings. I make no excuses for Truman, Stalin and Eisenhower, either. These were – one and all – truly very sick, sinister and perverted souls. How they became national “leaders” perplexes me to this day. I don’t think I will ever figure it out.
This whole Holocaust delusional lie is just one additional made-up cover storyline to somehow further justify our participation in that most militaristic, God-awful event. Just one of so very many that ultimately (with time) will eventually expose us for the true criminals we were, and our participation was. I know if I was somehow personally responsible for the death of just one individual the remorse I would feel would be immeasurable. The thought of personally knowing my ongoing decisions and actions caused the death of many millions upon millions of men, women and children and the destruction of so very much in the realm of both human and cultural/artistic legacy truly does leave me in profound agony. I do not believe I could even live with myself – let alone, get one good nights sleep. Although I was not alive at that time I struggle with it, nonetheless – for both my nation and my Aryan kinsmen. The shame is both emotionally crippling, yet very eye-opening. We need to “fess up” to the German people and to the German nation, and begin to make restitution. Will they ever truly forgive us, denying them all these many decades the beautiful world they were creating, the enlightened leadership they proffered that is no more, and the more truthful, healthy and honest world we all could be living within right now. And then, there is the compensation to Germany that is due by way of Israel and the jewish diaspora. It is time they start paying up – big time. Many, many TRILLIONS are owed. If they have any conscious and empathy, a national religious day of observance, repentance, apologies is due now and far into the countless, forthcoming ages.
And finally, there is yet another truly disturbing “reality” I find myself struggling (mightily) to try to work my mind through in order to comprehend. It is this: How is it in this day and age our national leaders, our educational institutions and our national identity continue to insist that the established NARRATIVE of that whole epic period remains true? The thought that these powerful entities continue to lie to us on such a gigantic scale – knowingly or unknowingly – truly does terrify (and sadden) me to no end.
Frederick
“By way of deception, thou shalt make war” is the motto of the Mossad. Israel and the Mossad did not exist during WW2 yet, but we know it was the Tribe who instigated the war and made it happen. It just so happens that the same Tribe own and control the mass media, the banks, the major publishing houses, etc. and so their war against the gentiles continues to this day, in fact is accelerating. I think probably your questions were of a rhetorical nature, but I thought it prudent to spell it out for the readers, that the perpetrators of the wars are those whom we must not criticize lest we be called anti-semitic.
Liebe Monika, ich bewundere sehr Ihren und Ihres Bruders Mut! Bei meiner Wohnungsdurchsuchung am 27.8.2025 wurde gottlob nicht Ihr hervorragendes Buch mitgenommen, aber dafür 43 Broschüren. Bei meinem Gerichtstermin am 27.1.2026 hatte ich einen gnädigen Richter.
Trotzdem habe ich nun nicht die Traute, wieder super Aufklärungsbücher zu bestellen. Denn eigentlich stelle ich fest, wie wenig ich weiß und
ich mich unbedingt weiterbilden müßte.–Ich bin 83 einhalb Jahre alt, folglich im 2. Weltkrieg geboren, Deutsche.
Liebe Herta, entschuldige bitte, daß ich so lange Zeit vorbei gehen ließ, bevor ich hier Ihren lieben (und schokierenden – wegen Hausdurchsuchung) Kommentar gesehen habe und zugelassen.. irgendwie gingen die letzten Tagen in einen Wirbel vorbei. Unser Feind kennt keine Grenzen – verfolgen ältere Leute wegen “falsche” Gedanken. Es zeigt uns wie sehr die jenigen die Wahrheit befürchten. Ich wünsche Ihnen alles Gute!
Danke, liebe Monika! Wegen meiner Ungeschicklichkeit beim Mailen verschwand mein Text, den ich Dir vor etwa 20 Stunden verschickte. – Obwohl ich also noch wegen meiner Wohnungsdurchsuchung geschockt bin, folgte jetzt wieder etwas Unerklärliches: Der Hessische Rundfunk mailte mir und stellte so ziemlich neugierige Fragen wegen des “indizierten” Verlages, wo ich meine Bücher bestellt hatte. Woher WUSSTE er; wie erfuhr er meine Mailadresse??
Es könnte die Polizei geplaudert haben. Oder die Hospitanten vom Gerichtstermin. Sehr, sehr seltsam! Sind wir “gläserne Menschen”? Ich habe doch nichts verraten.–Meine jüngste Schwester (Jahrgang 1951), die ich häufig besuche, will nun auch Dein Superbuch lesen. Das freut mich natürlich.
Das freut mich auch, daß deine Schwester sich interessiert (an die Wahrheit und an mein Buch). Tja, merkwürdige Fragen vom Rundfunk, und wie sie deine Mailadresse bekommen haben.
(…mit den Verbesserungen… das konnte ich machen bevor ich Kommentar “approved” habe.. dabei lerne ich immer was dazu für meine eigenen Mangel im Deutsch.. wie Du siehst mache ich viele Fehler:-)
Danke, liebe Monika! Menschen wie Du sollten einen Orden bekommen statt Gefängnis! Mir kommen wirklich die Tränen.–Mit Deinem Buch hast Du Dir so viel Mühe gemacht! Ich kann Dich nur bewundern und werde überall dort darüber reden, wo ich glaube, offene Ohren zu finden. Mein Schicksal muß ich ja nicht herausfordern in meinem Alter. (Denn ich habe das Schicksal der betagten, wunderbaren Ursula Haverbeck im Hinterkopf.)
Liebe Monika! Solltest Du inzwischen OHNE ERFOLG geantwortet haben, hier des Rätsels Lösung: Über 2 Tage lang war ich UNVERSCHULDET offline.
Seit wenigen Stunden funktioniert wieder alles. Straßenarbeiten waren daran schuld. In meiner Wohnung und im Keller fand man keinen Schaden; dann ging der Elektriker zur Straße, wo Erdarbeiten waren. Ich habe vor Freude gejubelt, als alles wieder klappte!–Ich wollte Dir auch noch verraten, daß ich einige Stellen in Deinem Buch KÜSSTE, so dankbar bin ich Dir!!! Du und Dein Bruder sind für mich ein großes Vorbild!
Liebe Herta,
ich danke Dir sehr, und bin auch froh, dass alles wieder funktioniert.
und einen herzlichen Gruss,
Monika
I just came across this page. Interesting articles. Enjoyed reading all the comments.
Jason Schoffstall
Liebe deutsche Landsleute, bitte überlegt immer genau, was ihr schreibt. Ich bin sicher, daß der Verfassungsschutz (Inlandsgeheimdienst) und unsere einschlägigen Nichtregierungsorganisationen NGO hier alles mitlesen! Freie Meinungsäußerung kann bei uns als Straftat gewertet werden und mit bis zu fünf Jahren Gefängnis bestraft werden. Ich weiß, wie gut es tut, wenn man erlebt, wie Meinungsfreiheit funktionieren könnte. Seid aber bitte trotzdem vorsichtig. Ich bringe ein Beispiel: Bei dem Verbotsverfahren gegen die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands NPD war Wolfgang Frenz ein Gründungsmitglied. Dann stellte sich heraus, daß er 36 Jahre als Informant und Kontaktperson für den Verfassungsschutz gearbeitet hatte. Er war bezahlt worden von unserem Steuergeld, um sich wie folgt zu äußern:
Hitler war eine “Jahrtausendgestalt der Geschichte” und: “Hitler mit seinem Antisemitismus war genau gesehen ein Glücksfall für die Juden. Aus diesem hitlerischen Antisemitismus entstand die euphorisch stimmende semitische Massenhysterie, die zur Gründung des Staates Israel führte, dessen nationalistischer Größenwahn bisher die Welt in Atem hält.” Auch diese Aussage tätigte Frenz: “Wenn es Auschwitz nicht gegeben hätte, müsste es für die Juden von heute erfunden werden. Denn Auschwitz ist die Machtergreifung durch das vernetzte Judentum.”
Äußerungen wie diese auf würden den Straftatbestand § 130 Volksverhetzung erfüllen. Stellt Euch das bitte vor. Der Staat finanziert solche Äußerungen, damit er uns als Kriminelle verfolgen kann. Seid arglos wie die Tauben und listig wie die Schlangen.
Ein sehr kalter Winter in diesem Jahr 1945 bringt auch im März Frost, Eis und Schnee. Millionen Deutsche haben ihr Obdach verloren, sei es durch die Massenbombardierungen der Städte, sei es, weil sie sich bereits auf der Flucht nach Westen befinden, weil der Russe in Deutschland schnell vorankommt. Dennoch überall noch heftige Kämpfe und Gegenwehr. Die Infrastruktur ist völlig zerschlagen. Züge können nicht mehr fahren. Die Versorgung der Bevölkerung ist kritisch. Schon den ganzen Krieg hindurch gab es für lebenswichtige Lebensmittel Bezugsmarken. Jetzt bekommt man für Bezugsmarken oder Geld als Deutscher auch kaum noch etwas Nahrung. Die Menschen erfrieren abertausendfach im Freien. Tiefflieger erschießen die Flüchtlinge, aber auch spielende Kinder oder Radfahrer, sogar Rinder. Wir sprechen von einer Zeit, in der die Öffentliche Ordnung zusammengebrochen ist und überall in Deutschland Anarchie herrscht. Ungeheuer brutal sind die Russen. Massenvergewaltigungen. Massenmorde.
In dieser Zeit stirbt Anne Frank mit ihrer Schwester im Lager in Bergen-Belsen (Nähe Hannover, Westdeutschland). Sie kam von Auschwitz (Polen) hierher. Die genauen Umstände wird niemals mehr ein Mensch herausfinden können. Man wird mutmaßen können, daß die Lagerinsassen sich den deutschen Aufsehern angeschlossen haben, um nicht dem Russen in die Hand zu fallen. Anne wie so viele um sie her und in ganz Europa erkrankte und starb an Typhus. Wie auch unsere Leute, unsere Soldaten, unsere Frauen und Kinder. Typhus ist eine Erkrankung des Elends und Schmutzes. Jeder hatte jetzt Flöhe, Läuse, Wanzen und war schlecht ernährt und wurde leicht krank. Ratten wurden fett und fraßen lebende und tote Menschen, besonders die schwachen. Meine Großmutter wird im Mai, wenn sie flüchten muß, abends in Scheunen, in denen sie Unterschlupf findet, die Schuhe der Familie hinstellen als Wurfwaffe gegen Ratten, die nachts kommen und möglicherweise an ihrer 1943 geborenen, fast zweijährigen kleinen Tochter fressen könnten. Um meine 1933 geborene, nunmehr fast 12jährige Mutter, ihre alte Mutter und sich selbst hat sie rasende Angst vor Vergewaltigungen. Sie erleidet einen Nervenzusammenbruch, als in einer Nacht plötzlich Soldaten auftauchen, doch es sind Deutsche, keine Russen. Flecktyphus breitet sich mit den fetten kaninchengroßen Ratten rasch aus.
Anne Franks Leben ist belegt. Sie findet im Band VII der Encyclopaedia Judaica auf zwei Seiten Erwähnung. Eine Stiftung kümmert sich um die Vermarktung von Otto Franks Nachlaß. Das ist der Vater. Er hat seit 1959 drei Prozesse gegen Menschen geführt, die das Tagebuch der Anne Frank als authentisch anzweifelten. 1959 erklärte eine Graphologin, daß es sich durchgehend um eine Schrift gehandelt habe. 1990 wurden forensische Untersuchungen durchgeführt. Das Tagebuch wurde auch nach Untersuchungen des Bundeskriminalamtes 1980 als echt bezeichnet. Die aufgefundene Schrift von Kugelschreibern, die es erst hätte 1950 geben können, war nur auf einliegenden Zetteln aufgetaucht. Dennoch gab es weitere Ansätze, die Tagebücher als Fälschungen einzuschätzen. Besonders ernsthaft waren die Versuche von Ernst Zündel in einem Interview mit zwei Sachverständigen, die beide eindeutig die Auffassung vertraten, das wäre kein Tagebuch, sondern Fiktion mit einigen auffälligen Brüchen und Ungereimtheiten. Besonders schwer wiegt das Gutachten von Robert Faurisson, einem Experten für Schriften, der eindeutig war in seiner Einschätzung, es wäre eine Fälschung. Wenn wir uns mit der Kritik beschäftigen, müssen wir wissen, daß es eine Rahmengeschichte gibt, die von mächtigen Lobbygruppen vertreten und aggressiv verteidigt wird. Auch die Stiftung verfügt über ausreichend Geld und Beziehungen. Es ist sicherlich darum für einen Deutschen genügend, die Expertise von Faurisson als Einzeldokument stehen zu lassen und selbst nicht beurteilen zu wollen.
Laut der Stiftung soll es von den Tagebüchern zwei Versionen geben, eine von Anne Frank überarbeitete, als sie Schriftstellerin zu werden beabsichtigte. Mittlerweile wurde das Tagebuch von der Unesco als immaterielles Kulturerbe eingestuft. Damit ist die Schriftstellerin durch höchste Autorität geadelt und der Mythus der Anne Frank scheint Ewigkeitswert zu haben. Das Tagebuch ist Teil des Kurikullum und in Deutschland an Schulen Pflichtlektüre. Das Tagebuch umfaßt die Kriegsjahre 1942-1944 am Fluchtort in den Niederlanden. Es wird von einem 13jährigen Mädchen begonnen und von einer 15jährigen hinterlassen. Eine amerikanische Mutter klagt derzeit, weil sie eine sehr harte Beschreibung des eigenen Genitals der Anne als pornografisch einstuft und das aus dem Text als jugendgefährdend entfernt haben will. Eigenartigkeiten im Tagebuch wurden auch beschrieben, denn die acht in einem Kontorhaus versteckt lebenden Personen schienen nie ein jüdisches Fest zu feiern, sondern christliche Feste, und sie aßen nicht koscher. Anne beschreibt, wie sie aus Schweinedarm und Schweinefleisch Würste fertigten und brühten. Überhaupt schienen sie keine Versorgungsprobleme gehabt zu haben. Da sie illegale Deutsche in den Niederlanden waren, haben sie sicherlich keine Bezugsmarken erhalten. Das Versteck in der Prinsengracht erscheint aus meiner Sicht sehr ungeeignet gewesen zu sein mit großen Fenstern, einer nahegelegenen Kirche, einem vielbeschifften Kanal mitten im Stadtzentrum Amsterdams. Obwohl sie sich in dem Geschäftshaus versteckt halten, scheint es kein Problem zu sein, einen Staubsauger zu nutzen und im Radio BBC zu hören, unter der deutschen Besatzung war das allein eine strafwürdige Provokation. Die Angstschwelle vor einer Entdeckung scheint bei den Erwachsenen kaum vorhanden gewesen zu sein. Mein Großvater väterlicherseits hat in dieser Zeit auch als Feindsender BBC in seinem Volksempfänger gehört, so leise wie nur irgend möglich und im Keller. Staubsauger besaß meine Familie nicht. Da wurde mit Besen, Lappen und Eimer gearbeitet. Vor der Ausbombung meiner Familie im Jahr 1943 saß sie auch bei ständiger Verdunkelung oder im Keller wegen vieler Bombenangriffe vor dem Hauptangriff. Die Leiden der Anne Frank wurden millionenfach geteilt. Dennoch wurde sie als Heldin auserkoren. Man kann sich in einer Art abschließenden Deutung Germar Rudolf anschließen. Anne wird zwar als Holocaust-Opfer präsentiert, allerdings verläßt sie das Todeslager Auschwitz mit ihrer Schwester auch wieder. Dort in Bergen-Belsen stirbt sie, wie Revisionisten ja ständig behaupten, an Auszehrung, Mangel- und Fehlernährung sowie einer Seuche. In diesem Teil der Geschichte scheint sich die Gedenkstätte der Anne Frank sogar der von ihr bekämpften revisionistischen Literatur anzunähern.
Translation of Hilken’s comment:
A very cold winter in this year 1945 also brings frost, ice and snow in March. Millions of Germans have lost their shelter, either because of the mass bombing of cities or because they are already fleeing west because the Russian is making rapid progress in Germany. Yet fierce fighting and resistance remain everywhere. The infrastructure is completely destroyed. Trains can no longer run. The provision of services to the population is critical. Throughout the war, there were reference stamps for essential food. Now, as a German, you can hardly get any food for tokens or money. People freeze to death thousands of times outdoors. Low-flying aircraft shoot the refugees, but also children playing or cyclists, even cattle. We’re talking about a time when public order has collapsed and anarchy reigns throughout Germany. The Russians are incredibly brutal. Mass rapes. Mass murders.
During this time, Anne Frank dies with her sister in the camp in Bergen-Belsen (near Hanover, West Germany). She came here from Auschwitz (Poland). No one will ever be able to find out the exact circumstances. One can assume that the camp inmates joined the German guards to avoid falling into the hands of the Russians. Anne, like so many around her and throughout Europe, fell ill and died of typhus. As are our people, our soldiers, our wives and children. Typhus is a disease of misery and filth. Everyone now had fleas, lice, bugs and was poorly fed and easily ill. Rats became fat and ate living and dead people, especially the weak ones. In May, when she has to flee, my grandmother will place the family’s shoes in barns where she can find shelter in the evenings as a throwing weapon against rats that might come at night and possibly feed on her almost two-year-old little daughter, born in 1943. Around my mother, born in 1933 and now almost 12 years old, her old mother and herself, she has a raging fear of rape. She suffers a nervous breakdown when soldiers suddenly appear one night, but they are Germans, not Russians. Spotted typhus spreads rapidly with the fat rabbit-sized rats.
Anne Frank’s life is documented. It is mentioned on two pages in Volume VII of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. A foundation is responsible for marketing Otto Frank’s estate. This is the father. Since 1959, he has conducted three trials against people who questioned Anne Frank’s diary as authentic. In 1959, a graphologist stated that it was all written. Forensic examinations were conducted in 1990. The diary was also described as authentic after investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office in 1980. The found writing from ballpoint pens, which could not have existed until 1950, had only appeared on inserted pieces of paper. Nevertheless, there were other approaches to assessing the diaries as forgeries. Ernst Zündel’s attempts were particularly serious in an interview with two experts, both of whom clearly believed that this was not a diary, but fiction with some striking breaks and inconsistencies. The report by Robert Faurisson, an expert in writing, is particularly serious and was clear in his assessment that it was a forgery. When we deal with criticism, we must know that there is a framework story that is advocated and aggressively defended by powerful lobby groups. The foundation also has sufficient money and relationships. It is certainly sufficient for a German to leave Faurisson’s expertise as a single document and not want to judge it himself.
According to the foundation, there are said to be two versions of the diaries, one revised by Anne Frank when she intended to become a writer. The diary has now been classified as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. The writer is thus ennobled by the highest authority and the myth of Anne Frank seems to have eternity value. The diary is part of the Kurikullum and is required reading in schools in Germany. The diary covers the war years 1942-1944 at the place of escape in the Netherlands. It is started by a 13-year-old girl and left by a 15-year-old. An American mother is currently suing because she classifies a very harsh description of Anne’s own genitals as pornographic and wants it removed from the text as harmful to young people. Peculiarities in the diary were also described, as the eight people living hidden in an office building never seemed to celebrate a Jewish festival, but rather Christian festivals, and they didn’t eat kosher. Anne describes how they made and brewed sausages from pork intestines and pork. At all, they did not seem to have had any supply problems. Since they were illegal Germans in the Netherlands, they certainly did not receive any reference marks. The hiding place in the Prinsengracht seems to me to have been very unsuitable with large windows, a nearby church, a busy canal in the middle of Amsterdam city center. Although they are hiding in the commercial building, it does not seem to be a problem to use a vacuum cleaner and listen to it on BBC radio; under the German occupation, this alone was a punishable provocation. The fear threshold of detection seems to have been barely present among adults. During this time, my paternal grandfather also listened to the BBC as an enemy radio station on his Volksempfänger, as quietly as possible and in the basement. My family didn’t own vacuum cleaners. There was work done with brooms, rags and buckets. Before my family was bombed out in 1943, she sat in constant blackouts or in the basement because of many bombings before the main attack. Anne Frank’s sufferings were shared millions of times over. Nevertheless, she was chosen as a heroine. One can agree with Germar Rudolf in a kind of concluding interpretation. Although Anne is presented as a Holocaust victim, she leaves the Auschwitz death camp with her sister. There in Bergen-Belsen, she dies, as revisionists constantly claim, of emaciation, malnutrition, undernutrition, and an epidemic. In this part of the story, the Anne Frank Memorial even seems to make use of the revisionist literature it combats.