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The Holocaust Abuse Recount

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"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it."

Aharon Appelfeld, DATE, SOURCE

"The alleged Hitlerian gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which permitted a gigantic financial swindle whose chief beneficiaries have been the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose main victims have been the German people and the Palestinian people as a whole." - Robert Faurisson, as quoted by the Guardian Weekly, 1991

I had a dream,

A dream so terrible:

My people were no more,

No more!

I wake up with a cry.

What I had dreamed was true:

It had happened indeed,

It had happened to me.

Ð''Song of the Murdered Jewish People', Yitzhak Katznelson, gassed at Birkenau April 30, 1944.

In embassies, state departments, chancelleries, foreign offices, consulates, ministries, war offices, and code rooms, frantic men scurried to allÐ'-night conferences, played war games, barked into telephones of flooded switchboards, cursed, prayed, pleaded, saluted.

Israel Grunberger,.

DOB

POB

Brown eyes, black hair.

Carpenter

number 166345

A trail of broken treaties lay strewn about like corpses after a Mongol invasion.

Now Austria, now Checkoslavakia, now Poland, now Hungary, now Romania.

The righteous cowed and the evil grew bold.

Bumi Grunberger,

number 166346

Once an indifferent world stood by and shrugged as Ð''little yellow men fought little yellow men' in a place called Manchuria. Once France sputtered feebly as Germany broke the Versailles treaty and marched into the Rhineland. Once men debated, then sighed as Ð''blacks' in mud huts armed with spears fought for their land

Ð'- a name that children once used in fairytales Ð'- Abyssinia.

Blanka Ð''Blimu' Grunberger,

number 167853

The world is a dangerous place in which to live Ð'- not because of those who do evil, but because of the good people who allow evil to happen. And so the Nazi cancer spread.

Hermon Grunberger

Szerna Grunberger

Lea Grunberger

Rebecca Grunberger

No numbers, gassed in Auschwitz Ð'- October 15th 1944.

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It never annoyed him that he resorted to torture and murder in his job. Once or twice, early in his career, he had spent sleepless nights after murdering a child in front of its mother, but he learned to harden himself as part of a day's work.

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The Nazis murdered more than 700,000 Jews in that last full year of the war, including most of the Jews of the last large community in Europe - Hungary. There, in one of the most efficient deportation operations of the Holocaust, the Nazi and Hungarian regimes removed 437,000 Jews, transporting them to Auschwitz and Birkenau in just eight weeks. Before the year ended, Hungary was rid of its problem. The Ð''final solution' had reached the East, spreading into Romania, its cancer reached the shores of the Black Sea a year later. Only a few Jews survived.

Against the eight million Jews who lived in Europe in 1939, the Nazis assembled their concerted skills and the mechanics of a modern state: the police, the railways, the civil service, the industrial power of the Reich; poison gas, soldiers, mercenaries, criminals, machine guns, artillery; and over all, a massive apparatus of deception.

THIS KIND OF EFFICIENCY AND CONTROL OVER THE IDENTIFICATION AND MOVEMENT OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY IBM

And we, the SS Group Leaders stood to attention.

Himmler pausedÐ'...looked up from his speech notes and addressed us directly.

"I shall speak to you here with all frankness of a very grave matter. Among ourselves it should be mentioned quite frankly, and yet we will never speak of it publicly. I mean the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people . . .

Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have stuck it out and at the same time to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history, which has never been written and shall never be written."

"Heil Hitler"

4 October 1943, Poznan.

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Dusk

The rumours that spread through the town were considered just that Ð'- rumours. Israel often heard words creep across the pine parks, the cobbled streets, at the pot-holed crossings, in the new cafes and cinemas Ð'- names like Dachau, Birkenrau, Belsen and Auschwitz. Names that sparked a fear in broad daylight Ð'- in the fairy tale town of Bai Mare, Transylvannia.

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The flimsily patched door was knocked down. Its hinges gave way to the brute force of the Hungarian policeman's spit-polished black boot. Israel was in that nightmare. They rounded up his family. Bags of belongings, snacks of food in hand they cowered in the full glow of a moon as full as the swaying officers. Each had taken rum from the house, a cottage built twice by his grandparents and extended by his father. They skulled quickly to quench a thirst that could not be satisfied by drink Ð'- the thirst for an inferior blood, four of them raving mad in the winter night Ð'-

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