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Michael
Howard: Grandfather might have been illegal immigrant
Mr Howard’s father, Bernard Hecht, who came here in the
1930s, falsified details about his parents when he applied for British citizenship in 1947.
WELL, ‘ere’s a turn-up fer the books, as Cockneys might say.
A nice young boy, son of a Jewish immgrant, comes into the world as Mordechai Hecht, and rises to the Conservative Party leadership as
Michael Howard. Readers of this website will recall with what unalloyed and sincere pleasure we greeted his replacement of Whatsisname, his colourless predecessor. But then odd things began to be said. Mr Howard put it about, not once but on several occasions, that his blessed grandmother had met her end in
Auschwitz, which seems
to have become an increasingly fashionable way of having died; while his aunt and uncle had miraculously eluded Heinrich
Himmler‘s “gas chambers”. His aunt escaped them not once, but three times, even as the gas had begun to “hiss” into the chamber, or “because the gas had run out“; etcetera.
NOW, oh, calamity, researchers appear to have discovered that his grandmother, like her husband, died in Romania, not
Auschwitz at all. Tho’ note that this brave newspaper puts it the other way round — she died in Auschwitz, and his father lied (for no visible reason) in saying she had died in Romania. That brings the deathroll in the brutal Nazi slave labour camp down to 1,499,999 at a stroke.
At which good news of course even the most hardbitten revisionist must rejoice. Because surely Mr Howard did not just decide to profit from the genuine suffering of others? — To join the multitudes who have found it so profitable to dine out on the Holocaust, the folks whom I have so tactlessly labelled the
ASSHOLS —
Association of Spurious Survivors of the
Holocaust and Other Liars? Public opinion polls in the UK have revealed that the overwhelming majority of the British
electorate (67
percent at the last count) have stated that they will never vote for a Jewish prime minister of England. Time may of course change all that. But that factor, the latent anti-Semitism of the English, need no longer concern is: what matters now is if one liar, Tony Blair, is to be succeeded by another. That seems increasingly unlikely. .
The Tory leader’s grandmother died in Auschwitz but
at the time his grandfather was living in
London.
However his father, who anglicised the family name after settling in
Britain, claimed they both died in his native
Romania. In an interview with the Daily Mail
newspaper, he [Michael
Howard] said: “I have speculated on the reason and I suppose one possibility is that my grandfather might have entered Britain unlawfully.”
The Conservative leader, whose new hardline policies on immigration have attracted criticism, says the reason his father gave incorrect information will remain a mystery.
The revelation follows his announcement of proposals that would see MPs set a limit on immigrants who would be selected through an Australian-style points system.
He said:”As for my grandfather, there might have been some irregularities about his status.” Mr Howard decided to reveal the mystery after investigative journalist Michael Crick
began looking into his family background the paper reports.
©
Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited
2005.
See Also
- The Holocaust (Document)
- It appeared in Holocaust and Genocide studies (Document)
- the Death Toll at Auschwitz (Document)
- Why They Did Not Call Auschwitz Survivors as Witnesses (Document)
- Real History and Propaganda Stories about Auschwitz (Document)