"Over half -- 59% -- of Israelis are afraid to travel outside the country, with 25% saying they are usually afraid to do so, and 34% saying they have become more afraid this past year, a poll commissioned by the World Zionist Organization shows. [...]
"Another worrying number also emerged from the poll: 25% of Israelis believe there is reason to fear that another Holocaust will be perpetrated against the Jewish people, and 24% believe there is a chance that the State of Israel will cease to exist.
"Over two-thirds (67%) of those polled are worried about the safety of Jewish communities abroad, with 66% saying they believe European governments are not working effectively to battle anti-Semitism and a further 14% saying European governments are not fighting anti-Semitism at all. Given the rising anti-Semitism in Europe and worldwide, 39% of respondents say that European Jews should emigrate to Israel. However, 46% of those polled expressed understanding that Jews continued to live in Europe for economic, social, and other reasons."
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=31437
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Massacre at Slutsk
The first engagement studied in DA Pamphlet 20-269, Small Unit Actions During the German Campaign in Russia, occurs in the Izhora River Valley not far from Leningrad. The fighting was to keep supply lines open to Slutsk
A search on Slutsk showed that at the beginning of the 20th century, Jews made up almost 80 percent of the city’s 10,200 inhabitants. Likely, that percentage had not appreciably decreased when German soldiers arrived in late 1941.
On Oct. 27 and 28, four companies of SS Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian allies murdered more than 4,000 Jews and Byelorussians.
Wilhelm Kube, Nazi commissioner general of Byelorussia, protested to Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS:
“The town was a picture of horror during the action. With indescribable brutality on the part of both the German police officers and particularly the Lithuanian partisans, the Jewish people, but also among them Belarusians, were taken out of their dwellings and herded together. Everywhere in the town shots were to be heard and in different streets the corpses of shot Jews accumulated. The Belarusians were in greatest distress to free themselves from the encirclement.
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“I am submitting this report in duplicate so that one copy may be forwarded to the Reich Minister. Peace and order cannot be maintained in Belarus with methods of that sort. To bury seriously wounded people alive who worked their way out of their graves again is such a base and filthy act that the incidents as such should be reported to the Fuehrer and Reichsmarshal.”
Kube was an “old Nazi,” and not a defender of recognized subhumans, such as Jews, Slavs and Gypsies. The comical thing, as much as is possible in Nazi officials, is Kube’s belief that such murders, especially of Byelorussians, would stop if only Hitler and Himmler were informed.
Kube was killed in Minsk in 1943 when a bomb went off in his bed.
The reference to Kube’s letter is at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slutsk_Affair
A search on Slutsk showed that at the beginning of the 20th century, Jews made up almost 80 percent of the city’s 10,200 inhabitants. Likely, that percentage had not appreciably decreased when German soldiers arrived in late 1941.
On Oct. 27 and 28, four companies of SS Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian allies murdered more than 4,000 Jews and Byelorussians.
Wilhelm Kube, Nazi commissioner general of Byelorussia, protested to Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS:
“The town was a picture of horror during the action. With indescribable brutality on the part of both the German police officers and particularly the Lithuanian partisans, the Jewish people, but also among them Belarusians, were taken out of their dwellings and herded together. Everywhere in the town shots were to be heard and in different streets the corpses of shot Jews accumulated. The Belarusians were in greatest distress to free themselves from the encirclement.
…
“I am submitting this report in duplicate so that one copy may be forwarded to the Reich Minister. Peace and order cannot be maintained in Belarus with methods of that sort. To bury seriously wounded people alive who worked their way out of their graves again is such a base and filthy act that the incidents as such should be reported to the Fuehrer and Reichsmarshal.”
Kube was an “old Nazi,” and not a defender of recognized subhumans, such as Jews, Slavs and Gypsies. The comical thing, as much as is possible in Nazi officials, is Kube’s belief that such murders, especially of Byelorussians, would stop if only Hitler and Himmler were informed.
Kube was killed in Minsk in 1943 when a bomb went off in his bed.
The reference to Kube’s letter is at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slutsk_Affair
Monday, March 23, 2015
There must be some mistake! I am German!
During discussion in a graduate-level 20th Century England class, Dr. Robin Rudoff said he sometimes wondered what he would have done had he lived in Europe and the Nazis come for him.
Dr. Rudoff lost family to Nazi murderers; how many I do not know. In my two years in his classroom, he never brought up the camps.
When Dr. Rudoff mentioned his question, I said, “You would have survived because someone would have to tell what happened.”
That was not just making nice with the professor; I believe Dr. Rudoff would have written down and secreted what happened in whichever ghetto the Nazis put him, and had he been sent to a camp, he would have left clues or directions to what he wrote.
I then considered what I would have done, and the other three people in the class. What would they have done?
I would have fought from sheer pissoff. A bunch of thugs in charge of government wall me off and tell me I cannot go outside … Somebody is going to pay a price.
A young man in the class, I figured would have fought because it was the right thing to do. He was a somewhat redneck from North Texas, and had definite opinions he did not mind sharing.
Another young man I thought like a British politician of whom someone said, “He is like a pillow. He agrees with the last man who sat on him.”
A woman student, about my age, was in a line connected to what once had been Family somewhere around Tyler. She was related to Dad Joyner, who discovered the East Texas oil field.
Had we all been in Germany 1933-45, she would not have been Jewish.
“There must be some mistake,” she would have said to Gestapo agents who came to arrest her. “I am German. Yes, it is true my grandfather was Jewish, but I am a loyal German.”
She would have walked into the shower telling everyone, “There must be some mistake.”
Dr. Rudoff lost family to Nazi murderers; how many I do not know. In my two years in his classroom, he never brought up the camps.
When Dr. Rudoff mentioned his question, I said, “You would have survived because someone would have to tell what happened.”
That was not just making nice with the professor; I believe Dr. Rudoff would have written down and secreted what happened in whichever ghetto the Nazis put him, and had he been sent to a camp, he would have left clues or directions to what he wrote.
I then considered what I would have done, and the other three people in the class. What would they have done?
I would have fought from sheer pissoff. A bunch of thugs in charge of government wall me off and tell me I cannot go outside … Somebody is going to pay a price.
A young man in the class, I figured would have fought because it was the right thing to do. He was a somewhat redneck from North Texas, and had definite opinions he did not mind sharing.
Another young man I thought like a British politician of whom someone said, “He is like a pillow. He agrees with the last man who sat on him.”
A woman student, about my age, was in a line connected to what once had been Family somewhere around Tyler. She was related to Dad Joyner, who discovered the East Texas oil field.
Had we all been in Germany 1933-45, she would not have been Jewish.
“There must be some mistake,” she would have said to Gestapo agents who came to arrest her. “I am German. Yes, it is true my grandfather was Jewish, but I am a loyal German.”
She would have walked into the shower telling everyone, “There must be some mistake.”
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