Holocaust

The Official Holocaust Narrative and Its Foundational Claims

The accepted account of the Jewish Holocaust of World War II posits the deliberate extermination of approximately six million innocent Jewish civilians, primarily in gas chambers, orchestrated by Nazi Germany.

This monstrous undertaking was often assigned a greater priority than Germany’s own wartime military needs during its desperate struggle for survival.

Furthermore, enormous efforts were reportedly made to totally eliminate all possible traces of this horrific deed, involving vast resources expended to cremate millions of bodies and scatter the ashes. This policy extended to digging up mass graves long after initial burial, incinerating the rotting corpses to eliminate all evidence.

Despite the notorious bureaucratic precision of the Germans, this immense wartime project was apparently implemented without benefit of a single written document, or at least no such document has ever been located.

The scale of the reported loss, amounting to six million dead, constituted a very substantial fraction of all wartime casualties in the European Theater, exceeding all British deaths during the Blitz by a factor of 100, and American combat fatalities there by dozens of times.

The iconic figure of Six Million became deeply engraved onto the minds of Western citizens. Its origin is somewhat obscure, though there exists a suggestion that Jewish groups lobbied President Truman into casually inserting it into one of his speeches.

Notably, claims that the Nazis exterminated 4 million inmates at Auschwitz were quietly revised downwards in the early 1990s to as little as 1.1 million following the fall of Communism, yet this reduction of 3 million had negligible impact upon the canonical Holocaust figure.

Early Scepticism and Explicit Denial

A number of writers and military figures, particularly in the immediate postwar era, rejected the official narrative, often casting it as a political or propaganda construct.

John Beaty, a well-regarded university professor who served in Military Intelligence during World War II, explicitly denied the Holocaust in his 1951 work, The Iron Curtain Over America. Beaty described the supposed Holocaust as a ridiculous wartime concoction by dishonest Jewish and Communist propagandists that held no basis in reality. He contended that the purpose of this purported fraud was to extract money for the Jewish State from the long-suffering German people and poison relations with postwar Germany. Beaty’s discussion represents the earliest instance of explicit Holocaust Denial located.

The Classics Professor Revilo P Oliver similarly asserted that the perceived extermination of millions of Jews by the Germans was a hoax, devised to pep up the cattle that were being stampeded into Europe. Oliver claimed that the lie was subsequently used to extort thirty billion dollars from the helpless Germans and rammed into the minds of German children by American educators. Oliver further asserted that the agents of the (OSS) sent to conquered Germany to establish gas chambers were so ineffective that they only sent back pictures of shower baths, which were suppressed to avoid ridicule.

Such beliefs were held in a climate where nine of ten average Americans dismissed the accusations against the Nazis as propaganda lies during World War II itself, despite considerable efforts by agitated Jewish activists to persuade them.

The Doctrine of Implicit Denial by Allied Leaders

A curious pattern of postwar silence regarding the Holocaust has led some observers to categorise key Allied leaders as implicit Holocaust Deniers.

A very strange sort of amnesia appears to have afflicted the major political protagonists for many years after the war. The voluminous memoirs of the three most influential Allied leaders contain striking omissions regarding the central claims of the Holocaust:

• President Eisenhower’s Crusade in Europe (559 pages), Sir Winston Churchill's Second World War (4,448 pages), and General de Gaulle’s Mémoires de guerre (2,054 pages), totalling 7,061 pages published between 1948 and 1959, contain no mention of Nazi gas chambers, a genocide of the Jews, or six million Jewish victims.
• Friedrich Meinecke, Germany’s most eminent historian, published The German Catastrophe in 1946, denouncing Hitler but making absolutely no mention of the Holocaust.
• Similarly, major British historical accounts of Hitler and World War II by leading historians were almost as silenton the matter.

This striking absence of discussion led one leading Holocaust scholar, Lucy S. Dawidowicz, to denounce many prominent historians for having totally ignored the reality of the Holocaust for many years following World War II.

Views Within American Military Intelligence

Scepticism regarding the Holocaust narrative was especially strong among high-ranking American military figures, especially top generals and individuals with an Intelligence background.

Archival research shows that during the first half of the twentieth century, the top ranks of the U.S. military and Military Intelligence widely believed that they faced a threat from organised Jewry, which had seized control of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution and sought to impose Jewish supremacy throughout the West. This environment meant that the beliefs of figures like Beaty found wide support:

• Numerous top American generals and admirals, both serving and retired, publicly and wholeheartedly endorsed Beaty’s book, The Iron Curtain Over America, which contained explicit Holocaust Denial, urging all citizens to read it.
• General George Van Horn Moseley, former Deputy Chief of Staff, declared in 1939 Congressional testimony that the war being proposed was for the purpose of establishing Jewish hegemony throughout the world. He openly praised Germany for settling the problem of the Jew within its borders. General Moseley’s anti-Jewish sentiments were shared by General George S Patton immediately after World War II.
• The death of President Franklin D Roosevelt, perceived as the "great War Criminal" who orchestrated World War II, provoked widespread exultation and fierce delight among Military Intelligence officers and top generals.

A meticulous investigation by a Holocaust historian into the private papers of these American military officers regarding Jewish topics yielded a profound silence concerning the Holocaust: the hundreds of quotes provided by the researcher, even from the late 1970s, contain not a single statement referring to the massive slaughter of Jews, death camps, or gas chambers.This suggests that Holocaust denial was remarkably common in the private papers of many of these Intelligence officers and generals, who possessed the best knowledge of the reality of World War II, and that the historian may have avoided publishing these findings.

The Nuremberg Trials and Contested Evidence

The Nuremberg Trials, which dealt prominently with claims of German atrocities, are considered a major indelible blot upon America and a travesty of justice.

Criticisms of the proceedings include claims that the trials were: - Dominated by vengeful German Jews, many of whom engaged in the falsification of testimony.

• A "foul fiasco" that taught Germans the American government had no sense of justice.
• Undermined by the fact that the chief Soviet prosecutor had previously held the identical role in the notorious Stalinist show trials of the late 1930s, where Old Bolsheviks confessed to "absurd and ridiculous things".
• Convictions of the vanquished were based on "laws" invented for the purpose and on perjured testimony extorted from prisoners of war by torture.
• Admissions made by Nazi generals at Nuremberg concerning the death camps were alleged to have been obtained under Anglo-American torture.

It is further noted that similar lethal human experiments, such as the testing of biological weapons, allegedly performed upon the inmates of some Nazi concentration camps, figured quite prominently at the Nuremberg Tribunals.