Debating the Holocaust: A New Look at Both Sides
By Thomas Dalton PhD
Theses and Dissertations Press
New York – New York 2009
A critique by Dagmar Brenne December 2009
When I was asked to read the book by Thomas Dalton, "Debating the Holocaust", I agreed, for the one reason of being able to express my opinion about the topic Holocaust, that has become pivotal in German life, and I suppose in the life of Jews as well. It is the bane of any German's existence.
But I fear this is far less a critique of Mr. Dalton's book than my own heartfelt views of the Holocaust.
German history seems to be divided into a pre- and post Holocaust era. Or even more so, pre- and post Hitler. The mantras: Hitler, Nazi, Gestapo, Holocaust, gas chambers, 6 million Jews, are following us from the cradle to the grave. It makes us outcasts in society, stands in the way of career and promotion, it has marginalised Germans and Germany and made us the pariahs in the lands we live in. You may not see it, often it is very subtle, but Germans experience it daily.
The endless vexation of the media output, to "keep the memory alive," sees to it, that Germans do not rest easily. No forgiveness, no reprieve, no lessening of Holocaust tribute demands.
In the light of this, it is hardly to be expected that the German point of view is the same as the Jewish one.
And here is the rub, the galling irritation: our side of the story is very different and so very rarely permitted to be heard. As it stands, our point of view is expected to echo the Jewish sentiments about the Hitler era. So much so, that many people who research into the Jewish situation of the so-called German third Reich are categorically labeled Nazis, anti-Semites and similar names. Name-calling is the preventative measure to deter anyone from researching into the historical era, 1933 – 1945 in an honest way. And need I stress, many find themselves in jail, their lives, their families and careers in tatters. From riches to rags is a common occurrence in which such a person finds himself.
Now comes Mr. Dalton's book, claiming to have a look at both sides.
And indeed his book is full of information about gas chambers, mass graves, the different camps, the amount of supposed Jewish deaths, the possibilities of the veracity of eyewitness reports. He wonders about the magic number of 6 Million, that will not change, regardless of anything. And many other things. It is a Jewish versus German view about: did 6 Million Jews die?
I feel a great amount of distaste at debating the Holocaust, in fact my spirit is shrieking about the topic: stop, not another book! I find it distasteful to debate an event that I am not witness to, have never been a witness to. And actually who was a witness to it? Very few living. Am I expected to earnestly discuss something with people who are no more witness to the supposed atrocities than I am? Indeed that is what is expected! An event that has not been scientifically proven, rather the opposite. The Leuchter report, the analysis of Germar Rudolf indicate that many things are an impossibility to perform within our prevailing limitations of the God-given laws of nature.
I find it utterly futile to discuss things that have neither been verified scientifically nor even acknowledged by wartime leaders, who ought to have known of these happenings.
The people who should have raised the alarm about the Holocaust, first and foremost, Eisenhower and Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle, have certainly let the Jewish side down rather dramatically with their deafening silence about any genocidal establishments, when they wrote their autobiographies.
So am I meant to appropriate the Holocaust by faith? Like my faith in Jesus? You believe because you believe by the inspiration of the Spirit of God? Or, you believe in the Holocaust because the law demands it?
How can I believe when my measure of faith is already taken up? In my case by Jesus and Christianity. Jesus and Holocaust run entirely counter to each other, one is the way to life, the other the cult of death. How can I simultaneously believe in both?
To view the fate of Jews in Europe we need to look at the political situation. On March 24th 1933, Jews worldwide, all Jewry, men, women and children declared war on Germany. In stark words: Jews wanted to wipe Germany off the map, to kill all Germans was the goal, as per the Jewish author's Nathan Kaufmann's writing: "Germany must perish". To the Jews this was a "Holy War" against Germany.
Does not this shed a totally different light on the Jewish question in the Centre of Europe? Is not every country doing its utmost to defend itself against an enemy? Especially when the enemy lives within its own borders like the Jews did in Germany? Is not everyone in their right mind fighting back with all they have at their disposal? Are not English and USA, Australian internment camps known to us, as are the Russian Gulags? So why would German concentration camps be so baffling to the rest of the world? Have not all other countries removed their enemies into camps? Have not people died in camps under British, USA, French and Russian control?
Yes, Jews were in camps, yes Jews did die in German camps. It was war! A war declared by Jewry on Germany's people: JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY. That is what the papers said in the March 24, 1933 issue of The Daily Express of London and they meant it, of this Germans were certain! Did Germany not experience this in Versailles, did they not know this from the Bolshevists in Russia, most of whom in the higher echelon were Jews! Oh yes, the Germans knew that Jews meant business, that their intention was the destruction of Germany! The Jews had spelled it out in no uncertain terms. They desired the German genocide. Germany defended itself. It had to.
I think we should bury the Holocaust in a deep grave. The goalpost of Holocaust is forever changing. Gassings in the woods, in mobile vans, Zyclone pellets, exhaust fumes, showers, inward opening doors against which the gassing victims fell, windows in the gas chambers, chimneys that are attached to nothing in particular, colour coded smoke, streamlined factory type killings, with people queuing up for the gas chambers without resistance, geysers of blood, surviving with wolves, diaries written in biro, long before biros were marketed etc, etc, that is the Holocaust lore. We should give no more the time of day to the debaters of the event. It is futile, it never leads to any reconciliation, to a mutual understanding of the era, to peace among nations. Just more impossible reports of survivors, surfacing constantly.
I see it as nothing else but endless German bashing, a Germany forever cast outside the general brace of humanity.
I am sure Mr. Dalton's book is a jewel among Holocaust books but to me it appears as yet another book of sowing to the wind and reaping the storm. I feel a storm is coming soon, when the whole western world, impoverished, lied to, bled dry by wars and robbed by the bankers will know who it is who thieved them blind.
Maybe then we will have another Holocaust to write about.
(Few people know the facts about the singular event that helped spark what ultimately became known as World War II—the international Jewish declaration of war on Germany shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power and well before any official German government sanctions or reprisals against Jews were carried out. The March 24, 1933 issue of The Daily Express of London (shown above) described how Jewish leaders, in combination with powerful international Jewish financial interests, had launched a boycott of Germany for the express purpose of crippling her already precarious economy in the hope of bringing down the new Hitler regime. It was only then that Germany struck back in response. Thus, if truth be told, it was the worldwide Jewish leadership—not the Third Reich—that effectively fired the first shot in the Second World War. Prominent New York attorney Samuel Untermyer was one of the leading agitators in the war against Germany, describing the Jewish campaign as nothing less than a "holy war." And it was he who financed Cyrus Schofield to subvert the Bible with Zionist footnotes).
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