Auschwitz as the Symbol of Mutual Guilt before Jewish People: 75 Years After

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Rolf Dieter Lehner,                            

Investigative journalist, Editor of Tirol TV and Kitzbühel TV, Kitzbühel, Tirol, Austria

Address: Brennerfeld 5, A-6370 Kitzbühel, Austria

E-mail: info@kizcam.tv

Article ID: 010410261

Published online: 21 January 2021

HANDLE: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12656/thebeacon.4.010410261

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55269/thebeacon.4.010410261

 

Quoting (Chicago style): Lehner, Rolf Dieter. 2021. “Auschwitz als Symbol gegenseitiger Schuld vor dem jüdischen Volk: 75 Jahre danach.” Beacon J Stud Ideol Ment Dimens 4, 010410261. https://doi.org/10.55269/thebeacon.4.010410261

Language: German



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Abstract

At the ceremony dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation held in Yad Vashem Holocaust Commemoration Centre, Jerusalem, no complete truth about the Holocaust and Israeli state necessity, based on investigation of anti-Semitic crimes, was disclosed by any of Eurasian leaders. A careful examination of the Holocaust and foundation of the Israeli state shows that not only Germany and Nazi committed high and atrocious military and civil crimes against the Jewish people. The total Eurasian attitude towards the Jews was highly negative just before, during and after World War II. Soviet Union and Great Britain contributed most to the deferral of the Israeli state foundation. If the war had lasted longer and had ended in 1947 instead of 1945, there would not have been a single Jew in Eurasia because of mutual Eurasian aggression towards the Jewish people. Now, 75 years after, it is high time we revealed the importance of the Israeli state for Eurasian Jews and demythologize Eurasian “help” to the victims of Holocaust.

Key words: anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews, World War II, Auschwitz, Israel, Eurasian genocide of Jews

Extended summary in English

 

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation, an international commemoration ceremony was held in Yad Vashem, Israel. In my paper, I examine rhetoric of Eurasian leaders at the memorial regarding anti-Semitism of the 1930-1940s and reveal their deceptive nature. I show how Rabbi Jakobowitch’s words “The culture of remembrance of the Holocaust had been turned into big business…” turn prophetic today. Auschwitz memory is conscripted now to redesign Eurasia and the political state of affairs at Yad Vashem memorial proved it convincingly.

 

Many modern Eurasian politicians, amounting up to representatives of fifty nations, arrived there to engage in different political games effectively exploiting the memory about more than one million of Jews tormented and murdered in Auschwitz. For Russian president Vladimir Putin, it was a convenient platform to ally with Netanyahu and put forward his new Eurasian claims in Middle East politics.

 

However, no politician, including Putin or German President Frank Walter Steinmeier, recognised openly that not only Germany was guilty in horrors of Auschwitz, the Holocaust and anti-Semitist crimes of the war time. The whole of Eurasia was extremely guilty. Despite Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, Soviet Union started new anti-Jewish acts of violence and pogroms just after the war. Polish government and partly Polish people were also exceptionally guilty of the persecuting the Jews during after the war. In 1946 Poland was hit by a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms. In France, before and during the war, Jews were arrested and imprisoned in the assembly camps built according to principles of German concentration camps. French gendarmerie hunted down Jewish women and children in order to hand them over to the SS, so they are just as guilty as those who received the trains from France to pass them further to Auschwitz. It was Ukrainian, Polish and Lithuanian anti-Semitism that made it possible in the first place to set up efficient structures for realising the mass massacre of Jews. Japanese soldiers carefully seek and destroy Jews settled in the Far East and Southeast Asia. Thai, Chinese and Korean puppet administration and military forces (both Communist and Capitalist) were effectively collaborating with the Far East ally of Hitler in the case of persecuting and slaughtering the Jews. It was representatives of almost all Eurasian nations who made up most of the personnel in the extermination camps. It was they who were directly involved in the mass killings of Jews and other atrocities. Murdering Jews was a profitable Eurasian business in 1930-1940s. Organisationally, almost all Eurasian nations involved in World War II, were also involved in the persecution of the Jews and, like the Dutch Railways, for example, many for-profit companies were well paid for transporting the Jewish victims to Auschwitz and other concentration camps until the last day of the war.

 

Now, in the era of constructing new Eurasian political alliances, the Auschwitz card is a very useful tool to play with. At the Yad Vashem memorial, Russia, China, Southeast Asian and European leaders distanced themselves as far as possible from Germany who must be the eternal scapegoat for anti-Semitist deeds of horror.

 

While Polish President Duda was not allowed to speak at the memorial because Poles were accused in collaborating with the Germans during the war, Putin and Steinmeier did speak. In their speeches, neither Putin nor Steinmeier did anything to expose the mutual Eurasian guilt before the Jewish people persecuted even after the war by the governments of those nations who were also victims of the Nazi regime. Instead, Steinmeier preferred to give his speech in English rather than German. By such a measure he repelled those Jews who, with everything that had happened, did not want to give up their affinity for German culture and who have found a home in Germany after all these events. He did nothing to stop long-term anti-German discriminating campaign that would equal Nazi criminals to all Germans, who have been convincingly and almost consensually, for decades, distancing themselves strictly from National Socialism and its crimes. Quite otherwise, Steinmeier strengthened this unjust and unfair attitude by his rhetoric.

 

At the Auschwitz memorial in Jerusalem, the formation of the Israeli state was pictured by many of these modern Eurasian politicians as a direct result of the Holocaust. Nothing can be farther from the truth.

 

Great Britain closed its “mandate” British Palestine for immigration of Jews since 1936, contributing to further massacre of Jews in Eastern Europe who, simply speaking, had no place to escape. All Eurasian and American places were deliberately closed for the whole nation, the most ancient nation among all contemporary ethnic groups in Eurasia, in 1930-1940s, that resulted in the war-time atrocities towards its representatives. St Louis ship journey of 1939 is a good example. European and Soviet Jews lived among hostile people who did not like them – hated them. There was an economic crisis of enormous proportions among 3.3 million Jews in Poland in 1939. A third of these people had to live below the poverty line because of Składkowski’s public attitude towards the Jews. Jewish children could not go to school in winter because they had no shoes. Even Israeli leader Netanyahu did not mention any of these truths at Auschwitz commemoration in Jerusalem in 2020. Auschwitz cannot serve a means for pursuing modern expansionist and populist goals of different governments. Auschwitz is a warning to all of mankind never to let it happen again that somewhere people are persecuted because of their origin, mentally destroyed and then physically annihilated.

 

© 2021 Rolf Dieter Lehner.
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