Sixty Minutes program on this incredible list. Gripping.
List found. This story was aired on CBS on “60 MINUTES” ** about a long-secret German archive that houses a treasure trove of information on 17.5 million victims of the Holocaust.
The archive, located in the German town of Bad Arolsen, is massive (there are 16 miles of shelving containing 50 million pages of documents) and until recently, was off-limits to the public.
But after the German government agreed earlier this year to open the archives, CBS News’ Scott Pelley traveled there with three Jewish survivors who were able to see their own Holocaust records. It’s an incredibly moving piece, all the more poignant in the wake of the meeting of Holocaust deniers in Iran and the denial speeches in the UN.
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In 1948, 49, 50 thousands of Holocaust survivors were flooding into Israel, a young, very poor country, fresh from fighting its own war for survival. The new arrivals were housed in tents and huts with metal roofs. it was hell in summer. Food was scarce. My mother’s friend recalled that her husband couldn’t find any employment and she got to the point were she was willing to sell herself for the milk for her baby girl. Those are the realities of those early years in Israel. There was no UNWRA, no international help, no Marshall Plan for Israel, just Jewish charities .
If today, Jordan is crying poverty and is unable to provide for a few thousands refugees from Syria, how could the government of Israel provide for all those refugees from Europe, North Africa Arab countries? All those refugees were coming without money or needed skills. All those refugees had to be housed and provided with food. For that, Israel needed a serious infusion of capital, far more than the collection boxes could provide.
To Fistel:
Yes, Israeli government made morally reprehensible agreements for money, but they did not really have much choice, did they? It is easy to judge them 65 years later and without taking context into account.
@ Samuel Fistel:
“The IRC are a bunch of unelected Swiss (mostly) protestant Jew-haters who refused to get involved in nazi death camps and work camps, but were happy to keep the Israeli Red Star of David out of the international organization, and to brand Israeli Jews as “international war criminals” (but not the IRC’s christian german nazi cousins).”
Right on the mark, Mr. Fistel. I have NO respect for the IRC because of what I’ve read about their behaviour during the Holocaust.
Holocaust denial versus Holocaust cover-up:
The german christians nazis kept detailed records of the six million Jews they killed. With their typical german mentality, they could not bring themselves to destroy those records, and they fell into the hands of the allies at the close of the war.
And what did the allies do? Make these records available to everyone? Hell, no. They hid them in a small town in rural West Germany, and did not allow public access. They put the International Red Cross (IRC) in charge. The IRC are a bunch of unelected Swiss (mostly) protestant Jew-haters who refused to get involved in nazi death camps and work camps, but were happy to keep the Israeli Red Star of David out of the international organization, and to brand Israeli Jews as “international war criminals” (but not the IRC’s christian german nazi cousins).
So why did the allies keep these archives closed off? To protect the identities of the german nazis whom they wanted to use to fight Soviet Russia, to shield the allied companies which helped the nazis, and to prevent survivors from making life insurance claims and reclaiming stolen property. And now, after seventy years, when all the surviving victims have died off, they are “graciously” opening the archives to all.
Worst of all, the government of “Jewish” Israel is one of the “allies” who agreed to keep the archives closed for seventy years. This is because there is information they did not wish to be revealed, or they were bribed by America and West Germany to go along.
Easier still to convert them to the Seven Laws of Noah, which all Gentiles are suppose to be observing.
You cannot destroy and kill off all Muslims even though I agree that it is an evil religion.
That would make us as bad as they are.
Better to try and convert them all to be Jewish. That way we’d also get cheaper Kosher food.
Islam is an evil thing. Iran is full of evil people. The Holocaust must never be forgotten. It was definitely real. My father was there in the US Army driving a tank and chasing the Germans. The Army had to go through concentration camps while chasing Germans and were appalled at what they saw. My dad said the survivors were barely alive, but they were so happy to be free. They climbed on the tanks and hugged many soldiers. My dad couldn’t really talk about it much because it was so bad. He said when the Nazis heard American troops were coming, they killed as many prisoners as they could before they left. He had many many nightmares. Islam needs to be destroyed, just like the Nazis were.