Published
in the Jewish Herald Voice –
Trivialization
of
Holocaust – Part
Two
By
Emil Steinberger
The
issue of what defines ‘Holocaust’ became a focal point of limitless
debates,
learned articles, books, scientific treatises or a propaganda tool used
by a
variety of groups attempting to name, call, define, or classify various
forms
of ‘suffering’ of ‘peoples’, as
“Holocaust”. This can be illustrated by the expressions used in world’s
literature: “Rwandan Holocaust” (the Rwandan genocide of 1994),
“Cambodian Holocaust”
(mass killings by the Khmer Rouge regimen
of non-communist population in
While
some are striving for the
dubious distinction of having the label “Holocaust” attached to their
sufferings, others are trying to prove to the world’s audience that the
attempt
to annihilate the Jews, arbitrarily defined by the Nazi fanatics as the
“Final
Solution of the Jewish Question”, was not by definition a “Holocaust”!
They support
their conclusion by reasoning that not a large enough number was killed
to
justify the “elevation of these murders to the levels of ‘Holocaust’”.
To
demonstrate and to prove their point, the ‘deniers’, in addition to
using vivid
imagination and most dubious sources, rummage, grope and poke through
all
available documents and data sources. They endeavor, with a dedicated
degree of
determination, to find some evidence in support for their conclusion
that
6,000,000, cited as the number of Holocaust victims, is wrong, a great
overestimation, that the real number is considerably less thus the
episode does
not deserve to be classified as “Holocaust”. The ‘deniers’ apparently
believe
that the most effective mean to attack “Jewish Holocaust” is to
demonstrate that
the six million number is a “hoax” and that actually much smaller
number of
Jews lost their lives during that time.
Shortly
after the war, the Unite
States’ occupational forces in
Recently, Hal Turner, who describes himself as
“so far to the right he makes Rush Limbaugh look like a liberal”,
advertised
widely and proudly on his “Hal Turner Show” broadcast from
Accepting
Mr. Turner’s conclusion
based on one handwritten page out of 33 million other pages in the
archives, as
true as one must accept that indeed 271,301 of innocent humans (Jews)
were
murdered by the Nazis in concentration camps. Thus, a mass murder
perpetrated
by the Nazis had occurred, despite Mr. Turner’s feelings that
a murder
of this magnitude may not constitute a horrible, major crime, but only
a minor,
insignificant episode! This is actually irrelevant. The fact is that
he, a
‘denier’, demonstrates and agrees that a major, several hundred
thousand people
large, murder did occur. The question that bags itself is how many
innocent
Jews need to be murdered, according to Mr. Turner, before the act
becomes a
horrible crime, more than 271,301, possibly more than 971,301 or more
than
3,971,301. Apparently, according to Mr. Turner and his ilk, 6,000,000
or more
Jews have to be murdered for such an act to be justifiably classified
as a
horrible crime, a ‘Holocaust’. Consequently, according to this
reasoning, we
are not debating the occurrence of this crime but only the
NUMBERS.
The
commission of a crime as related to the
murder of Jews under Nazi regimen was clearly stipulated by the Nazi
machine as
exemplified by the following and by countless other records depicting
identical
orders. “On
The
documentation of the orders for mass murder, targeting specifically the
Jews is
incontrovertible, so is its occurrence. Now, the ‘deniers’ have only
one tool
left, trivialization of the numbers.
The
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