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One last story about Jimmy Carter and his Jewish problem: this is about his attempt to prevent a Nazi war criminal from being deported. More can be read about it here: “When Humanitarianism Ends: Jimmy Carter’s Disturbing Request on Behalf of a Nazi War Criminal,” by Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose), Elder of Ziyon, January 1, 2025:
Jimmy Carter died, but few Jews mourn him. Carter’s animus toward the Jewish people is by now, legendary. Elder of Ziyon offered an overview Carter’s overt Jew-hatred in Jimmy Carter, antisemite. Saving the worst for last, Elder detailed Jimmy Carter’s plea for leniency for Martin Bartesch, a former SS guard at the Mauthausen work camp during WWII:
The single most damning example of Carter’s antisemitism comes from an incident in 1987.
Neal Sher was the head of the Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department’s Nazi prosecution unit. They had iron-clad evidence that a Chicago resident, Martin Bartesch, a member of the SS Death’s Head Division at the Mauthausen concentration camp, was a war criminal and a murderer.
Bartesch’s family started a huge campaign against the OSI, writing letters to members of Congress and other prominent people asking for help. Most politicians contacted the OSI to find out the details, OSI provided them with evidence of his guilt, and they would drop the matter.
But, Sher says, not Jimmy Carter.
During a 2007 Israel National Radio interview, Neal Sher went into some detail about a letter he received from Carter (emphasis added):
“In 1987, Carter had been out of office for seven years or so,” Sher recalled. “It was a very active period for my office. We had just barred Kurt Waldheim – he was then president of Austria and former head of the United Nations – from entering the U.S. because of his Nazi past and his involvement in the persecution of civilians during the war. We had just deported an Estonian Nazi Commandant back to the Soviet Union after a bruising battle after which we were attacked by Reagan White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan.
“Also around that time, in the spring of 1987, we deported a series of SS guards from concentration camps, whose names nobody would know. One such character we sent back to Austria was a man named Martin Bartesch.
“We had an extraordinary piece of evidence against him – a book that was kept by the SS and captured by the American armed forces when they liberated Mauthausen,” Sher said. “We called it the death book. It was a roster that the Germans required them to keep that identified SS guards as they extended weapons to murder the inmates and prisoners.
“We kicked him out and he went back to Austria. In the meantime, his family – he had adult kids – went on a campaign, also supported by his church, to try to get special treatment. In so doing they attacked the activities of our office and me personally. They claimed we used phony evidence from the Soviet Union – which was nonsense. They claimed he was a young man of only 17 or 18 when he joined the Nazi forces, asking for some sympathetic treatment and defense from our office, which they claimed was just after vengeance.”The family approached several members of Congress. “The congressmen would, very understandably, forward their claims over to our office and when they learned the facts they would invariably drop the case,” Sher recalled.
“One day, in the fall of ’87, my secretary walks in and gives me a letter with a Georgia return address reading ‘Jimmy Carter.’ I assumed it was a prank from some old college buddies, but it wasn’t. It was the original copy of the letter Bartesch’s daughter sent to Carter, after Bartesch had already been deported.
“In the letter, she claimed we were un-American, only after vengeance, and persecuting a man for what he did when he was only 17 and 18 years old.
“I couldn’t help thinking of my own father who returned home with shrapnel wounds after he joined the U.S. Army as a teenager to fight the Nazis and hit the beaches at Normandy at that same age on D-day.
“On the upper corner of the letter was a note signed by Jimmy Carter saying that in cases such as this, he wanted ‘special consideration for the family for humanitarian reasons.’
“I didn’t respond to the letter – the case was already over and he was out of the country – but it always stuck in my craw. A former president who didn’t do what I would expect him to do – with a full staff at his disposal – to find out the facts before he took up the side of this person. But I wasn’t going to pick a fight with a former president. We had enough on our plate.”
“It always bothered me, but I didn’t go public with it until recently, when he wrote this book [Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid V.E.] and let it spill out where his sentiments really lie,” Sher said. “Here was Jimmy Carter jumping in on behalf of someone who did not deserve in any way, shape or form special consideration. And the things he has now said about the Jewish lobby really exposes where his heart really lies.”
There’s much more on Jimmy Carter’s sympathetic intervention on behalf of a Nazi war criminal. You can read the rest here.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum? Sorry, but in the case of James Earl Carter, Jr., no can do.
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It took me well over a week. Churchill never mentioned the Jews except in passing remarks including them with other minorities. These were always distinguished by Nationality like “French” :Italian” “Greek” “Yugoslavian” etc, but Jews were just “Jews” About 3-4 times at MOST.
However he distinguishes Ibn Saud as “””the most Noble Arab, and lots of crap like that, with his “40 sons and 3 wives etc..”
Eisenhower is mentioned near the beginning at taking films of the devastations including Jews for future generations to see what went on in Germany. The only one who did officially.
I was waiting right through for especial Jewish mention but it never happened. Everything was subsumed into the Major and only relentlessly pursued defeat of Hitler and Musso, distinct from defeating Italy and Germany, Italy, who later turned on Germany and became “good” allies of Britain.
It was on an Internet site I know which prints items still under copyright . I’ve mentioned it before on this site.
I like what Mr. Galt said below, I was clued in on carters hatred for God and His people sometime shortly after he won his presidential election. I have always thanked God I never voted for the son of Amalek. Edgar, it’s his kind of goody two shoes, peace talking, love everybody, card carrying hypocrite all Jews should be aware of – to talk of wolfs in sheep’s clothing. God can deal with him now; we no longer have to breath the same air as he.
Carter was a bridge troll.
Unworthy of the post of commander of the free world. Biden is made of the same cheese cloth.
@Edgar For finishing the mammoth Churchill memoir. Print or digital, How long did it take you, any takeaways, in particular about how the bastard felt about screwing the Jews whenever he actually held power?
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For What….?? Please explain-thanks.
@Edgar Congrats.
@Peloni To be fair, the Forward wasn’t defending that but honestly mentioning it as nobody else did while trying to findsome goood in him like most others, even Jonathan Tobin of JNS. But they provided enough info that even the things he is praisedfor were a poison pill.
Buchanan must have been crazy writing this. My recollection of him was a right wing religious fanatic.
Didn’t Russia join with Hitler to carve up Poland. That it eventually handed all Poland to the USSR was not part of his conceptual arrogance.
I suppose the Nazis showed how much they wanted to destroy Russia by dismembering Czechoslovakia….? And attacking France…….?
THec War has indeed been dubbed “The Unnecessary War” long before Buchanan cribbed the title.
This was because with the Rhineland, and the Czechs, Hitler was bluffing; he had no power, and If a single State had stood up to him and resisted his expansionary ideals he’d have collapsed like a deflated balloon.
I just finished Churchill’s history of WW2 last night -all 6 volumes, the footnotes which were in several separate, incorporated books and it was full of the most meticulous details of every single move, every cable between the coming Alliance, and much more. Fascinating as I recall many of the issues more fully dealt with in the texts. A massive work.
How he managed it all was a miracle indeed- if one believes in them.
Pat Buchanan, a former speech writer and advisor to President Nixon, has long been open about his pro-Nazi sympathies. He has just published a book called “The Unnecessary War” in which he blames World Wat II on Britain, France and the United States for initiating a war with Hitler, when the Nazis only wanted to fight Communist Russia, which was also the West’s enemy.
This is the culmination of r and pro-Nazi writings by Buchanan that began in the 1980s. He has also opposed the deportation of several Nazi war criminals to Europe or Israel and supported the efforts of their American families to prevent their deportation by the OSI.
The New York Times also opposed the deportation of Nazi war criminals ,including John Demjanjuk to Israel to face trial for allegedly being the gas chamber operator at Treblinka., Demjanjuk was convicted by an Israeli court, but ultimately released by the (you guessed it) the Israel “High Court of JUstice” on grounds of “insufficient evidence” and misconduct by the OSI in handling the evidence against Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk was allowed to retire peacefully in Germany, although not readmitted to the U.S.
The Times also opposed the Israelis’ ‘kidnapping” of Adolf Eichman to Israel from Argentina, so that he could be tried for his pivotal role in the Holocaust, calling it “a violation of international law.”
My purpose in calling attention to all this is not to get Carter of the book, but just to point out that the Nazis have always had lots of friends in the U.S. “on both sides of the aisle.”
Can anyone tell my why there’s all this buzz on israpundit about such a mediocre individual, many years safter he was a very poor US President.
It reminds me of a lot of quacking old ducks, or a womans’ gossip corner.
GROW UP And talk about relevant issuies.
Carter in 2014 interview:
“Jews are safer in France than in Israel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80WfZVwn3Dw
Carter was a smug, sanctimonious. ignorant grinning dunce.
@Sebastien
This is shocking, even for The Forward.
Can’t find it now but there was an article in The Forward a few days ago that tried to find reasons to praise the schmuck while mentioning this about defending the Nazi – the only other place I saw it – and also said that he set up the Holocaust Museum commission or something and I read somewhere that he said that there were too many Jews on it and even objected to someone who just had a Jewish sounding name.
And in an unrelated but also upsetting coincidental article I just read:
“Nazi hunter calls to stop putting Nazis on trial”
Thomas Walther, a German lawyer known for his involvement in prosecuting Nazis, has called for an end to the prosecution of Nazi criminals. Even said that courts decided that “just guarding” wasn’t a crime? Though his argument was that they wouldn’t be tried because they would be ruled as having dementia or being unfit to stand trial and that by some convoluted logic this would help antisemites.
Tziki Brandwine
Dec 30, 2024, 8:11 PM (GMT+2)”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/401541