Opuscula Once again Shoah Focuses solely on 6 million victims5 million more killed

It’s Judaism’s mistake and Israel’s mistake to suggest that the only victims of the nazi Holocaust were Jews.

Perhaps 20 years ago, before the Internet had answers to almost everything, that might have been acceptable, albeit not then — and not now — factual.

By making the Holocaust a “Jewish property,” Jews are ignoring history and alienating all the survivors of non-Jews slaughtered by the nazis.

At the same time, these “Holocaust=European Jews” deny the murder of thousands of Jews in Arab countries, notably Iran and Palestine (then under English rule).

No one can, or should, deny that Jews were Hitler’s primary focus. The madman put killing Jews ahead of supplying his troops; he preferred to commandeer cattle cars to haul Jews to their deaths rather than to carry supplies to the German soldiers.

At the same time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who American Jews unwittingly held as a minor deity, refused to bomb the rail lines that carried thousands of Jews to their deaths, even though the tracks were on the routes American bombers were flying to reach FDR-approved targets. This should not have come a surprise; FDR denied entry to Jews on board the St. Louis, sending them back to Germany and their deaths.

From the Jewish Virtual Library

• “All Poles will disappear from the world.... It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles.” Heinrich Himmler
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has an online document discussing the plight of Poles -- all Poles, not just Jews -- during the nazi occupation.
• Hitler felt particularly threatened by Jehovah's Witnesses because they, from the very beginning, refused to recognize any God other than Jehovah.
• Roma Gypsies were a nomadic people that were persecuted throughout history. Both Jews and Roma were denied certain privileges in many European countries. The Germans believed both the Jews and the Gypsies were racially inferior and degenerate and therefore worthless.
  The Gypsies were also moved into special areas set up by the Nazis and half a million of them - representing almost the entire Eastern European Gypsy population - was wiped out during the Holocaust.
• Thousands of Catholic priests and Christian pastors were forced into concentration camps. A special barracks was set up at Dachau, the camp near Munich, Germany, for clergymen. A few survived; some were executed, but most were allowed to die slowly of starvation or disease.
• Between 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals died in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
• During Hitler’s “cleansing program”, thousands of people with various handicaps were deemed useless and simply put to death like dogs and cats.

The above, and more, from a Jewish source proves that we — Jews — know that while Jews were the nazi’s primary target, we hardly were the nazi’s only “chosen people.”

Image source: https://longreads.com/2015/07/14/the-missing-history-of-ravensbruck-the-nazi-concentration-camp-for-women/

As an aside, the Warsaw ghetto was not the only time Jews fought back. The Holocaust Resistance includes a lengthy list of Jewish & Partisan Resistance groups and a nearly 30-name list of Jewish fighters that certainly is not "all inclusive."

USHMM's Documenting Numbers Of Victims Of The Holocaust And Nazi Persecution "guesstimates" the number of victims of nazi theology by category; e.g., Jews: up to 6 million; Soviet civilians: 5.7 million (excluding Jewish victims counted in the 6 million above); People with disabilities living in institutions: up to 250,000; Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000.

The Holocaust went beyond Europe, although many Jews fail to recognize this.

Arab countries where the nazis had influence also slaughtered Jews simply because they were Jews. The most (in)famous pogrom was Iraq’s Farhud, but Iraq was not the only place Jews were attacked and murdered. Even in (British) Mandatory Palestine, Arabs managed to attack and kill Jews following Mufti Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini, who promoted Hitler to the Arabs of the Middle East.

Wikipedia reports that "There were pogroms against Jews prior to the foundation of Israel, including Nazi-inspired pogroms in Algeria in the 1930s, and attacks on the Jews of Iraq and Libya in the 1940s. In 1941, 180 Jews were murdered and 700 were injured in the anti-Jewish riots known as the Farhud."

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A few Internet sites that include non-Jews in the total nazi slaughter include;

The Holocaust: Non-Jewish Victims

The Holocaust’s Forgotten Victims: The 5 Million Non-Jewish People Killed By The Nazis

Poles: Victims of the Nazis

World War II casualties

Documenting Numbers Of Victims Of The Holocaust And Nazi Persecution

Overlooked Millions: Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust

Nazi Body Count 20,946,000 "non-battle" deaths

Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II

Holocaust: The Ignored Reality

Arab states and the Holocaust – a sampling

The Extent of Nazism in the Middle-East: the Farhud

Farhud memories: Baghdad's 1941 slaughter of the Jews

Antisemitism in the Arab world

Jewish Population Of French North Africa

Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world

As with most things connected to the Internet, the previous URLs are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

Opuscula The Holocaust Never happened

 

And the world is flat

 

A Times of Israel article heded US school backtracks after asking if Holocaust was real tells that eighth-graders in the San Bernardino County district were assigned to do some research and write an essay explaining whether they believed the Holocaust was a real historical event or a political scheme to influence public emotion and gain.

The original assignment gave students three source materials to work off of, including one which called gassings a hoax. The other two resources were not provided in the article.

Most, albeit not all, of the commenters thought the school's project was abominable, atrocious. How dare anyone challenge the Holocaust, the Shoah?

No one said the students had to deny the Shoah occurred.

The problem is that so many people didn't want to even consider other opinions.

If you ignore other opinions and follow blindly that is popular, if your opinion ever is challenged, you won't know how to defend your position.

Granted, the assignment reeks of maliciousness. The assigning teacher's name is Syeda Jafri; her boss, the school superintendent is named Mohammad Z. Islam.

One commenter suggested that an 8th grader was too young to be exposed to such an assignment; eighth graders are too young to examine opinions and come to reasonable - that is to say, what adults want the children to believe - decisions. Eighth graders are, after all, typically between 13 and 15 years old.

For a Jewish boy, when he's 13 years and a day he automatically becomes of age for religious responsibility. (No one expects him to act like an adult, just as no one expects some adults to behave as children; none-the-less, the child IS expected to have, and use, some cognitive abilities.)

Children normally don't live in a vacuum; if parents or surrogate parents are not available, there are peers.

We expose our children to sundry medical maladies when we see that they are protected against a myriad of diseases. I, personally, fail to see the difference in protecting our children from medical maladies or from Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism, or any other thoughts we deem offensive.

It is unfortunate that there are people who deny that the Holocaust occurred. It is unfortunate that people deny what Europeans did to the peoples they conquered (including the Indians of the Americas) or what the Muslims did to non-Muslims in countries they invaded and enslaved. But people DO deny history all the time, and those who suffered must challenged these denials.

The only way to challenge the denials, to debate and to convince, is to understand what the deniers are proclaiming and to respond with sound, factual, well considered arguments.

Hiding our collective head in the sand makes deniers of us - we deny the possibility that someone has a position that offends us, and in the process we lack the ability to respond to the claim.

Let the eighth graders study the Holocaust and learn what the deniers are claiming, then counter those claims with facts. In the case of the Holocaust, there is no absence of proof.

The Holocaust didn't happen, and the world is flat.