June
20, 1987
Blood
of Jews now directly on Hitler NEW
YORK.--Thursday:
UN War Crimes Commission files recently
obtained by Israel contain the first
evidence of Adolf Hitler's direct
and personal involvement in the
extermination of Jews, Israel's UN Mission
said today. The
evidence showed the Nazi leader personally
ordered the mass murder or more than
10,000 Jewish women and children in the
village of Skirotawa, near Riga, in
Latvia, in 1941. The
Jewish men or the region were sent to
labour camps. The
Israeli mission said in a press statement:
"This
is the first piece of evidence that shows
Hitler's direct and personal participation
in the extermination of Jews. "It
also confirms that the systematic
extermination of Jews was already being
pursued at an early stage of the
war." An
Israeli spokesman said he was unable to
provide many additional details without
breaching rules of confidentiality imposed
on by the UN. |
The
archives have been with the world
organisation since the UN War Crimes
Commission was disbanded in
1948. The
spokesman said the testimony about
Hitler's role was contained in evidence
given to a member of the 17-nation
Commission by a Nazi Major-General who
witnessed the mass killings and by one of
the Nazi commanders in Riga. Israel
is campaigning to have UN rules changed to
permit free access to the war crimes
files, now restricted to
governments. Last
month it requested and received 347
dossiers containing names of nearly 40,000
people and earlier this month obtained
nearly 500 more, including those on
Hitler, Martin Bormann, Hermann
Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
and others. As
examples of historical data contained in
the files, it said that of 142,000
Czecho-slovakian Jews killed by July 1943,
51,000 were women and 49,000 were under
the age of 21. It details the destruction
of Polish Jews in Lodz, Sobibor, Treblinka
and Chelm; medical experiments conducted
by Nazi doctors in various death camps and
the fate of Jewish prisoners in the
Theresienstadt camp in
Czechoslovakia.
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THIS WAS AN interesting example of
Jewish or Israeli hype. David
Irving had first reported the
existence of the interrogations and CSDIC
eavesdropping reports on Walter
Bruns, to which this news release
clearly refers, in his biography
Hitler's
War
in 1975 and 1977. In 1987 however, for a
political propaganda point, it is
resuscitated by the Israelis (the above
news item) and claimed as their own
"discovery". If
it is true that this was the"first piece
of evidence" incriminating Hitler, it
follows that until 1987 there was
no such evidence, and that all those who
excoriated David Irving for making
precisely that point were talking through
their hat.  Whether
the Bruns statements constitutes
sufficient evidence, our Website visitors
can themselves judge
[Click
for the Bruns
testimonies].
A few days
later, the rest of the world's gullible
press eagerly siezed on this proof of
Hitler's guilt:- |
June 26,
1987
Hitler
ordered murder of Jews, Israel
says UNITED
NATIONS -- (UPI) --Documentary
evidence that Adolf Hitler had a
"direct and personal" role in the murder
of Jews contradicts claims that the
Holocaust is a fabrication, the Israeli
U.N. Mission says. The evidence was contained in material
from the U.N. War Crimes Archives, which
came under scrutiny in part because of
questions about Austrian President Kurt
Waldheim's activities in the German
army in World War II. | A preliminary examination of 500 files
obtained by Israel June 5 also confirmed
that the Nazis began the systematic
extermination of Jews at an earlier stage
than previously thought, the mission said,
Hitler "personally ordered the mass murder
of more than 10,000 Jewish women and
children in the village of Skirotawa, near
Riga, in 1941," the Israeli statement
said. Riga is the capital and main seaport of
Latvia, which was under German occupation
and now is part of the Soviet Union. "This is the
first piece of evidence that shows
Hitler's direct and personal participation
in the extermination of Jews," the
statement said. The Israelis, who are examining the
files at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
in Jerusalem. said the document in
question contains the testimony of a "Nazi
major general who personally witnessed the
mass murder that Hitler ordered."
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