The alarming global rise in anti-Semitism was the prime motivator behind our decision to research and write Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories. In this the latest excerpt from our book, we further highlight the Nazis’ so-called “open-air killings” of Jews during the Holocaust.
Lawrence N. Powell, of Tulane University, summarizes the extent of Nazi open-air shootings on the Holocaust Survivors website holocaustsurvivors.org. Powell says, “The onset of the Nazi-Soviet war signaled the beginning of the ‘Final Solution’. Most of the slaughter happened in the ‘East’–in Poland, the Baltic states, the Balkans, and areas of Soviet territory conquered by the Nazis after the June 22, 1941 attack on Russia. Trial and error characterized the early phases of mass murder. Before utilizing gas, SS forces carried out open-air shootings, often with the assistance of local collaborators recruited from among the most anti-Semitic elements in the Baltic and Ukrainian populations.”
Powell continues, “Following in the wake of German armies, mobile killing squads called Einsatzgruppen marched thousands of Jews into the woods and shot them en masse. Between July 4 and 20, for example, as many as 5,000 Jews from Vilna, Lithuania, the ancient center of Jewish piety and learning, were carried to fuel pits in the nearby Ponary forest, ordered to undress, and gunned down as they held hands … All together 1.3 million Jews died in these outdoor massacres”.
Beyond the concentration camps, and beyond the Nazi and Nazi-associated death squads, which massacred large groups of Jews outside of those camps, the six million figure also includes about 500,000 Jews who were starved to death in ghettos in Germany and Poland during and prior to WW2. (Remember, the Holocaust started in 1933, so for European Jews the war began six years before the official commencement of hostilities).
Besides Jews, victims of the Holocaust included other races and groups deemed “inferior” by the Nazis. These included Roma Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Slovenes and disabled people. As mentioned already, persecution of these groups resulted in millions of additional deaths, contributing to the 11 million total historians arrived at.
Have you noticed how the Holocaust deniers only ever quibble over the number of Jewish deaths? Now why is that?
The answer is very simple: Because they are anti-Semitic.
It really is that simple. Anti-Semitism is one of the most aggressive forces on the planet, and has been since Biblical times.
Had the Holocaust been a purge of any other race or group of people, everyone would most likely accept the facts. Who, for example, disputes that at least 800,000 Rwandans died in the genocide that occurred during the Rwandan civil war? Or that around 1.7 million Cambodians died in the Cambodian killing fields?
Keep in mind the Nazis themselves were meticulous record-keepers, and they kept extensive documentation on deportations and deaths of Jews. There was a frantic rush, of course, to destroy those records in the final days of the Third Reich. However, many records still survived.
T.B.C.
You have been reading an excerpt from Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories – by James & Lance Morcan.
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