Holocaust Revisionism Debunked The Master Course

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To understand Middle East newspaper headlines, you have to know about the background, the foundation, which the headlines are based upon. What are these headlines about? They're about the Palestinians, Israel, Iraq. To understand Israel, you have to know something about the Holocaust. That's essential for understanding Israel and the special relationship Israel has with the United States. We could learn about the Holocaust through TV shows, books, newspapers, but look at the quality of the newspaper. Here's a Mideast headline in the San Francisco Chronicle, Israel storms Erefat headquarters. But with so many important things happening in the world, look what the editor shows for the top story of the day. A cheesy humor piece, son puts mom up for sale on eBay. So let's not use newspapers or TV programs. Instead, let's learn about the Holocaust by getting a book written by a professor. The standard work on the Holocaust is the destruction of the European Jews by professor Raal Hilberg. It comes in three volumes. To the right is the condensed version for students. We'll be using the three volume version, published in 1985. Here's Raal Hilberg from the movie Show A Directed by Claude Lansman. In all of my work, I have never begun by asking the big questions because I was always afraid that I would come up with small answers and have preferred. Therefore to address these things which are minutiae or detail, in order that I might then be able to put together in a gushedite, a picture which, if not an explanation, is at least a description, a more full description of what transpired. On page 1,219, there is a table showing the number of deaths broken down into categories. Hilberg put the total Holocaust deaths at 5.1 million. I know you've heard the 6 million number, but Hilberg, having researched the subject for 40 years at the time the book came out, arrived in an estimate of 5.1 million. Hilberg gives a breakdown of the deaths that occurred at the camps. Here we can see that 1 million deaths occurred at Auschwitz. The next three camps, Treblinka, Belzac, and Sobi Boer, are thought of as their own separate category because they were run so similarly. They are sometimes called the Operation Reinhardt Death Camps. Together they equal more deaths than Auschwitz, 1.5 million. These three camps equal a little under one third of the Holocaust, and it's these three camps that we're going to be looking at for the rest of this video. The Operation Reinhardt Death Camps worked like this. Jews were ordered onto trains. Some were told they were being shipped east, where they would find work. At a point in the journey they were told that everyone needed to get off at the next stop to transfer to a different train. And due to a typhus epidemic spread by Lice, they would also shower and be deloused here. The passengers would step out of the train into a narrow passageway between the train and this building right here and walk to the left. There were fake signs to make them think they were at a real train station. That white thing there at the end of the building is actually this sign here. Notice the people on the left who have just passed the corner of the building. You'll be able to see them in the distance in the next image. They would gather in a group in this area and then be led through this gate where you see the red arrow. That same gate is in the lower right of this aerial photo. The men would go to their right and the women into the building on their left where they would check in their belongings and strip naked for what they were told would be a shower. The men would walk in this direction to join the women at the entrance to a dirt path known as the tube, a path that led to the gas chamber. This red arrow here is in the same place as this red pointer in this aerial view. During this path they'd walk down here, the path taking them around these trees to the entrance of the diesel gas chambers. Sobybore, Belzick and Treblinka were all run like this. Let's look at a map rather than a model. The main train track line was right here. The train to Treblinka would pull in onto these rails and the people would get out right here. They would walk along here. That sign I pointed out would have been about right here on the map. So they come into this area, this courtyard, and then they would walk through this gate in the fence. The men would come over here, checking their belongings and strip naked. Then they would enter what was called the tube right here. This was the pathway to the gas chamber. Here's a model of the Belzick gas chamber sitting on a wood table. Inside there are six chambers, each about the size of a small bedroom. Here's one of the six. You can see a man inside working on removing the dead bodies. A hallway runs down the middle. A room in the very back contained a diesel engine which pumped exhaust into the rooms. You can see the door of that room here. From this view you can see when the gas thing was finished. These doors opened upward, similar to garage doors. Here's one of the doors still closed. Notice the wood plank holding its shut. This one is just being opened and you can barely see the bodies spilling out. And this one is completely open. The bodies were then taken out and thrown into large pits and covered over with dirt when the pits were full. Let's look at a map rather than a model for a moment. We can see the path to the gas chamber. Here's the gas chamber. And here's all the pits where a Trablinka alone and estimated 700,000 bodies were buried. When the killing operation was nearly finished and the bodies lie decaying in mass graves, Heinrich Himmler ordered the camps to dig up the bodies and cremate them. The reason for this was that Germany was losing the war. And this territory in Poland would be taken over by the Soviets. Himmler didn't want the Soviets to find the mass graves. So at the three camps 1.3 million bodies were dug up. During the very end of the killing operations, the bodies were taken directly to the cremation grills. To summarize what we've just learned, Trablinka, Sobibor, and Belzak were all run in the same way. At Trablinka alone and estimated 700,000 were gassed, buried, later they were dug up and then cremated. 50,000 were gassed and then taken directly to be cremated for a total of 750,000. At all three camps, Trablinka, Sobibor, and Belzak, and estimated 1.3 million were gassed, buried, dug up, then cremated with an estimated 200,000 gassed and then cremated. Total deaths were 1.5 million, nearly 1.3 of the whole Holocaust. At the bottom of most every page in Hilbert, there are sources or footnotes. There in text slightly smaller than the book's text. It's what Hilbert read in order to then write his book. What would happen if we looked at some of these sources? We're going to look at number 63. Janko Warnik is the author and his book is called One Year in Trablinka. How can we find this book? Amazon.com doesn't have it. Neither does San Francisco Public Library or San Francisco State University Library. Here in Amazon no one has ever even reviewed it. It turns out a copy does exist at the University of California at Berkeley. It says, an inmate who escaped tells the day-to-day facts of one year of his torturous experience. So finally we get to hear about the Holocaust from someone who was really there. Most Jews who arrived at Trablinka died within the hour. However a certain number were forced to live there and help with the killing operations. We'renik was one of those until he escaped. Let's see what it says about the process of burning the bodies. We'renik writes, again the corpses of oldsters, children, women, and men were exhumed. However a grave was opened, a terrible stench polluted the air as the bodies were in an advanced stage of future faction. It turned out that women burned easier than men. Accordingly corpses of women were used for kindling the fires. But wait a minute, that sounds odd. Does Wernick actually believe that women burn on their own? Like wood? It was page 28, but here on page 29 he essentially says as much. They had to pile the corpses on the grating and set them on fire. 3,000 corpses recently alive burning all at once. But here at a given signal they set the giant torch on fire and it burned with a huge flame. There's no wood mentioned, there's piles of bodies. He's saying that the bodies themselves burned like a giant torch. And on page 39 he writes, once the Germans threw some burning object into an open grave to see what would happen. Clouds of black smoke began to pour out at once and the fire that started glimmered all day long, in other words the bodies underground, ignited. On the very last page he writes about his escape. He was shot in the shoulder by a Ukrainian guard at close distance. Regarding the bullet he writes, believe it or not the bullet did not wound me. It went through all of my clothing and stopped at my shoulder leaving a mark. He killed the guard with an axe by the way. Back on page 29 there is a description of the Germans as they burn bodies. Ask yourself if it looks like propaganda or a real eyewitness account. The Germans stood around with satanic smiles on their faces, radiating satisfaction over their foul deeds. They drank toast with choice liquors, ate, coroused and enjoyed themselves near the warm fire. Seems a little over the top doesn't it? Could German soldiers drink while on duty? Could you imagine having an appetite if you were surrounded by thousands of pounds of rotting flesh? Imagine what it would have smelled like there. Would the Germans have really had that demeanor? He later writes, the German fiends stood warming themselves drinking. Eating, eating and singing. At last the fires died down, leaving nothing but ashes. He seems to forget that they'd also leave bones. But anyway. Wernick's vilifying portrayals weren't restricted only to the Nazis. Of a Jewish inmate he writes on page 37, another such poor wretch was the so-called privy pit boss, Shysmeister. He was dressed like a canter and even had to grow appointed beard. He wore a large alarm clock on a string around his neck. As no one was permitted to remain in the privy pit longer than three minutes, it was his duty to time everyone entering it. The name of this poor wretch was Julian. He also came from Chestahova, where he had been the owner of a metal product's factory. But the German soldiers really have done something this ridiculously theatrical and, hm, owner of a metal products factory. Consider. This book was published by the American representation of the general Jewish workers union of Poland. And on page 12 Wernick writes, I am a carpenter by trade, but for many years I functioned as a member of the examining board of the Warsaw Trades Chamber. So Wernick had apparently worked for a union and this book was published by a union. It's likely that the hapless Julian in real life was an infamous factory owner who had had a dispute with the union and was thus portrayed this way in the book. It's clear that this 46-page book, a year in Treblinka, is a fraud. But how could Wernick have made the mistakes he made? In other words, why couldn't he lie very well? How could somebody not know that bodies don't burn on their own, that bullets that penetrate the clothing aren't likely to stop at the skin? For one Wernick was born long ago, 1891. At that time Poland might not have been as modernized as Germany, the United States, or England. Then there's Polish Yiddish culture. Perhaps it wasn't in some ways as modernized as, say, German Yiddish culture. Perhaps it was very urban and thus Wernick didn't know a lot about the country. So we went into the foundations of the Treblinka death camp story by looking up a source in Rale Hilberg's, the destruction of the European Jews. And we found Yankele Wernick's book, a year in Treblinka. But it turned out to be a fraud. Hilberg sites it as a source five times by the way. But maybe other Holocaust scholars are more discerning. Let's take Yitzhak Arad. He was the head of Israel's Holocaust Museum, which is called Yad Vashem. This position is likely the most important Holocaust position in the world. He wrote a book called Belzak-Sobibor Treblinka, the Operation Reinhard Death Camps. In addition he was also a Brigadier General in the Israeli Army. So he would know about guns, fires, etc. So would he use Wernick's book as a source? The answer is yes. Not only does he use Wernick's book as a source, but mentions him by name on 24 pages. Arad puts his sources in the back of the book instead of at the bottom of each page like Hilberg. Here is just a single page of his sources. Wernick, Wernick, Wernick, Wernick, Wernick, Wernick, Wernick, Wernick, and Wernick. Here's a map of Treblinka on page 39 in Arad's book. Here's the end of the tube. That's the gas chamber. And here are the burial pits. The problem is that there is a water well right here. As you can see on the legend below. The burial pit is surrounded. That is 700,000 people buried and decaying. At 100 pounds per person, that's 70 million pounds of rotting flesh surrounding this well. The well would have been contaminated. But on the day of the inmate escape, they mentioned fetching water here as can be seen on page 289 of Arad's book. And on page 292. Granted the claim is that they had been removing the bodies from the pits, but bodies were still there. We see that on page 280 where Arad writes. During the second half of July, work in the extermination area was close to termination. A sentence later he writes, more than three quarters of the burial pits in the camp had been opened and the corpse is extracted and cremated. But three quarters of 700,000 means that there were 175,000 bodies left just two weeks before the supposed August 2, 1943 uprising. Plus on the day of the escape, Arad writes on page 288. The prisoners employed at removing the bodies from the last ditches worked particularly hard that day so that the number of bodies they brought to the grills was far greater than that morning's cremation capacity. So we know there were lots of bodies all the way up to the last day. Yet we see that getting water from this well was a regular occurrence. On page 289, the former longtime director of Israel's Holocaust Museum, Yitzek Arad writes, every afternoon two or three prisoners would be allowed out of the barracks area to the well, some 20 meters from the gate in the barracks fence, to fetch water for the barracks kitchen for preparing supper and washing dishes. Here's the Jewish prisoners barracks area highlighted in green. Here's the fence. And we see the well some 20 meters away, or 65 feet. Plus we saw the barracks area and the well, which is some 20 meters away from the gate in the barracks fence. On the day of the escape, Arad writes, the work of carrying the water was executed slowly that day, and the quantity of water brought to the kitchen was greater than usual. Again, we need to think of the historical demographic of the storytellers. Although to Yanko Wernick, they were urban with likely having little formal education. Water wells being largely a rural thing, they had no idea there was a conflict between the mass burial of millions of pounds of bodies and a water well in the middle of that. We see this. From them, we took benches of fair cut off through on the floor to the site, and about two minutes has to be finished, not even two minutes, because there was a line waiting to come up the next way. And that's how we worked. Except that's not how it would have worked. If you're going to get off the train and get gassed within the hour and then thrown into a pit, what is the point of a haircut? Here's a photo of a model of Treblinka. So the train comes in here. The people get out here coming to this courtyard and go through this fence. The men go to this side strip naked, walk over here, the women go to this side strip naked, and they go through this path called the tube to the gas chambers here where their gas killed and thrown into the outlined pits. Somewhere between the train and the pits for the women, there's a haircut and that makes no sense. The Germans did shave heads as a life-saving measure to prevent the spread of a lice-infected typhus. People like Bomba and Weirnick didn't understand that, so they included in their Treblinka stories. Weirnick and Bomba were likely shipped east where they had seen the Germans cutting the hair. So it's included in their stories about Treblinka, but in a way that makes no sense because they didn't understand it. At the Nuremberg trials, there was only one inmate eyewitness representing one-third of the Holocaust. One inmate eyewitness for 1.5 million people and look how believable his testimony is. His name was Samuel Rosman and claimed to have been at Treblinka. When on the stand at the Nuremberg trials, he was asked why they cut off the women's hair, his reply. According to the ideas of the masters, this hair was to be used in the manufacture of mattresses for German women. That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? No men allowed on these mattresses. The judge never even questioned him about it, nor were any human hair mattresses ever found. On page 878, Ralph Hilberg writes, Later all three camps, Sobibor and Treblinka from the start were equipped with diesel motors. A German who briefly served as Sobibor recalls a 200 horsepower 8 cylinder engine of a captured Soviet tank, which released a mixture of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide into the gas chambers. And in Yitzhak Erad's book, on page 42, Erad writes regarding Sobibor, A room attached to the building contained a diesel engine, which introduced the poisonous carbon monoxide gas through pipes into the chambers. The problem with this story is that there is hardly any carbon monoxide in diesel exhaust. Diesel exhaust is largely particulate in the form of black soot. There's also a lot of air that goes into the engine, but doesn't react, and then goes out the exhaust pipe as air. So mixed into that black soot is oxygen. And the problem with a regular engine, not a diesel, is that although it produces some carbon monoxide as a waste product to the combustion process, why assume it's the best way to produce carbon monoxide? So you're looking at it's the best way to make a car move forward, but not the best way to make carbon monoxide. Similarly take these two air conditioners. When on, they cool the air and as a byproduct produce some water droplets via condensation. But would they be the best way to produce water? Creating carbon monoxide is a simple chemical reaction. A stream of air passes through a closed bucket of hot coals. The heat makes the oxygen molecules break into individual oxygen atoms. Carbon atoms from the hot coals then bond with the oxygen atoms to make carbon monoxide gas. And carbon monoxide gas in high concentrations is flammable. Here some innovative people show how simple the process is with items found lying around the backyard. They've taken an old water heater, added some pipes, and to shield the flame topped it off with a bucket to create a carbon monoxide gas generator, then they get a lighter and light the gas to prove it's working. The carbon monoxide gas is called wood gas or producer gas. Here is a wood gas generator mounted on a trailer. The canister is filled with wood ship coals. In this video we're looking at the black canister on the right. The white water heater is actually resting against the barn. Producing carbon monoxide is a simple process. You don't need all this. And a wood gas generator can produce carbon monoxide in much higher concentrations than this engine. And the Germans would have known that. Here's a list of the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry in the roughly 20 years before the beginning of the war. Here are the Americans. And here are the Germans. Plus, there were half a million of these wood gas generators all over Europe during World War II, mounted on trucks and cars because there was a gasoline shortage and civilian vehicles were being converted to run on wood gas. A search on the web shows that there are a few people that still use these wood gas generators today. They have to be careful though because these wood gas generators produce carbon monoxide at around three times the concentration of regular gasoline engine exhaust and around a hundred times more than diesel exhaust. So when we look at Hilberg on page 878 and see that the poison gas was carbon monoxide coming from a diesel motor, we can see how absurd that is. But even more absurd considering that the engine came from a captured Soviet tank where they'd have no access to an engine manual in German and no easy access to spare parts for an engine with such a critical task. The storytellers assumed that the biggest smelliest engine would be the one that produced the most deadly gas. But the Germans would have used a wood gas generator. One last thing about carbon monoxide gas. A regular fire produces carbon monoxide gas as well, but it burns up in the fire itself, thus creating the flame of the fire. To do this, the carbon monoxide reacts with more oxygen. With wood gas generators, the carbon monoxide gas is drawn off the coals so it can't react with more oxygen until later. For more information, try a search like this. SFSU Magazine is a twice yearly publication of San Francisco State University for its alumni, faculty, staff, students, donors and friends. In this issue, there is a story about how a complete set of the Nuremberg transcripts were donated to the Jewish Studies Department. Professor Mark Dolinger was sitting at his office desk thoroughly absorbed in preparing lecture notes for his next class when he got a telephone call that almost made him fall out of his chair. Yes, yes, yes. Dolinger shouted into the phone, where can I drive right now to pick them up? Educated Americans nearly unanimously believe that the Nuremberg trials thoroughly documented Holocaust crimes. Professor Dolinger articulates this view. This is the most detailed chronology we have of the Nazi atrocities, tens of thousands of pages of personal history. It's a very complete picture of the most horrific moment in modern Jewish history, but would you believe that for the 218-day trial of over 1,000 hours, Treblinka, Belzac and Sobibor were discussed for only around 20 minutes. We leave San Francisco State University and go to the University of California at Berkeley. Here are the 42 volumes of the 10-month trial known as the Trial of the Major War Criminals by the International Military Tribunal. It doesn't look like a book set because many of the book's spines have been replaced. The first 22 volumes is the court transcript and the other 20 volumes are submitted documents, but the Tribunal ruled that no submitted documents would be considered evidence unless they were read into the transcript. These 22 volumes have been put on the web by Yale University Law School through a program called the Avalon Project. Here's the 22 volumes. I found that the search engine built into the site doesn't work, so we used Google to search it. We put in Avalon Project as this appears as text on every web page, and this limits the search to Yale University. We then type in the name of one of the three camps, starting with Belzac, the alleged site of 600,000 deaths, and we get one hit in volume 12. The one below this is a duplicate. With Command F for Macintosh Computers or Control F for Windows Computers, we find where the word occurs. The context of this passage is that a member of the British prosecution team, Lieutenant Colonel Griffith Jones, is confronting one of the Germans on trial, Julius Stryker. The English prosecutor is alleging that Stryker knew about the Holocaust during the war in the VF4 and publications, which he must have read, and indeed had subscriptions to. Julius Stryker keeps replying that if he had read the reports, he wouldn't have believed them. Referring to a publication called Israel ETH's Woken Blot, the English prosecutor says, many details are also given about the use of poison gas as a shell of electricity and bellzac of the deportations from Warsaw, the surrounding of blocks of houses, and of the attacks with machine guns. We're interested in the phrase of electricity in bellzac. What does that mean? In answering that, we find that Carlo Matano in his book, Bellzac tells us of another reference to the bellzac camp, where bellzac is mistakenly referred to as camp bellzac. We find the reference and learn about the electricity at bellzac. The Soviet prosecutor, Lev Smirnov, is reading from the official report on German crimes in Poland. Smirnov says, In the same report in the last paragraph on page 136 of the document book, we may read that camp bellzac was founded in 1940. But it was in 1942 that the special electrical appliances were built in for mass extermination of people. Under the pretext that the people were being led to the bathhouse, the doomed were undressed, and then driven to the building where the floor was electrified in a special way. There they were killed. And that's all there is for bellzac at the Nuremberg trial. A description of an electric floor that gets an A plus for diabolical content. But a zero for truthfulness. Julius Striker, by the way, was sentenced to death because he published a magazine that said really mean things about Jews. Now we look to see what was said about Sobibor. We get one hit here. The hit below this is a duplicate. But this is not the International Military Tribunal. This is a later American trial, and Sobibor is mentioned only when listing the other camps. But again with the help of Carlo Matano's book, we find that Sobibor was mentioned once at the Big Nuremberg trial, but spelled as Sobibor. The misspelling being closer to how it's pronounced. It occurs where Camp Belson was mentioned. It says that Camp Sobibor was founded during the first and second liquidation of the Jewish ghetto. The extermination on a large scale in this camp really started at the beginning of 1943. And that's all there is for Sobibor in this 10 month long trial. We now go to Treblinka and get 57 hits, many of which are duplicates and many which mentioned Treblinka only in passing. On February 25th, we see that the Soviet prosecutor reads an account of a Treblinka survivor, named Jacob Verneak. Before I read it, let's try to picture the setting in the courtroom. We read at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website that in addition to the legal teams and judges, over 400 visitors attended the proceedings each day, as well as 325 correspondence representing 23 different countries. And as this account is read from a Treblinka survivor named Jacob Verneak, be aware of the high level caliber of this trial, with people like Chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson handpicked by the president of the United States. Imagine all the Germans on trial listening and imagine the hushed courtroom as Soviet prosecutor Lev Smirnov leans into the microphone and says, This is what Verneak said in presenting a report on Treblinka to the Polish government, a report which, as he stressed in his forward, was his only reason to continue his pitiful life. Awake or asleep, I see terrible visions of thousands of people calling for help, begging for life and mercy. I have lost my family, I have myself led them to death, I have myself built the death chambers in which they were murdered. I am afraid of everything, I fear that everything I have seen is written on my face, and old and broken life is a heavy burden, but I must carry on and live to tell the world what German crimes and barbarism I saw. The problem is that Jacob Verneak is Yanke Warnick. It's just another way to spell and pronounce his name. He is the guy that wrote a year in Treblinka, where he said a man with a pointy beard and an alarm clock around his neck, timed people going to the bathroom, who said that a bullet went through his clothes, but didn't pierce his skin. The guard who shot him, he valiantly killed with the swing of an axe. Everyone in this solemn courtroom is listening to a passage from Yanke Warnick's book. For Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzek, the only survivor to testify in person was Samuel Rosman. He testified on the witness stand for around 15 minutes. We're going to read part of the Nuremberg transcript, but first let me explain what the term the President means here. There were four judges, one for the USA, Soviet Union, France and England. Each had equal voting power, but the English judge, Jeffrey Lawrence, was chosen as the presiding judge, hence President. He controlled the daily operations in the courtroom. Soon after Samuel Rosman begins testifying, there is this exchange, the Soviet prosecutor says to Rosman. I would like you to tell the tribunal what the Germans called the street to the gas chambers. It was named Himmelfart Street. That is to say the street to heaven? Yes. If it interests the court, I can present a plan of the camp of Treblinka, which I drew up when I was there, and I can point out to the tribunal this street on the plan. I do not think it is necessary to put in a plan of the camp, unless you particularly want to. Yes, I also believe that that is not really necessary. Can you believe that the only Jewish alleged eyewitness appearing in person representing nearly one-third of the Holocaust tries to present a map, but the presiding judge and the Soviet prosecutor team up to dissuade him from doing so. For the Treblinka, sobibor and Belzet camps, the court went mapless, as this was the only map ever offered into evidence. A minute later, Soviet prosecutor Smurnov asks, why was their hair cut off? According to the ideas of the masters, this hair was to be used in the manufacture of mattresses for German women. Right. Had nothing to do with Lys, which carried the disease Typhus, it was all about human hair mattress stuffing. Rosman even begins lying, the minute he hits the witness stand. Here he reads his oath to help the truth, and then he says, in August 1942, I was taken away from the Warsaw ghetto. But at the University of California Berkeley, we find an article Rosman wrote that was included in a United States House of Representatives hearing transcript. Rosman writes on page 121 that on September 17th, he was taken to the train and deported. But at Nuremberg, a year later, he says he was deported in August. It's likely he changed his story after realizing that his September 17th date didn't fit with Warsaw deportation train records. Essing here in Yitzek, a Radz book, Holocaust deniers also believed Jews were deported on these trains, but two camps, not death camps. While we're on this paragraph, notice that he mentions that 90 people were crowded into one cattle car. The idea being the cruelty of treating human beings like cattle. But then he says, in our car, five women and two men had suffocated. The problem is that if you go to any hobby shop and look at models of cattle cars, you'll see that cattle cars have slats. You can't suffocate in one. Rosman was trying to put various propaganda rumors into his own story and mistakenly combined cattle cars with suffocation. On page 122 of the House of Representatives document, Rosman's article states that people were put into cabins with room for 700 to 800 persons. They were then killed by pumping the air out with a machine. Rosman wrote a number of articles like this, which contradicted the established Turblingka story. Due to that, the Soviet prosecutor didn't want his map and was careful not to ask Rosman to go into details about the gas chambers. Instead, Soviet prosecutor Lev Smernov sets him up to tell a baby-killing story. Perhaps witness, you can describe this lazarette to the tribunal. This was part of a square which was closed in with a wooden fence. All women, aged persons, and six children were driven there. At the gates of this lazarette, there was a large red cross flag. Americans, who specialized in the murder of all persons brought to this lazarette, would not let anybody else do this job. There might have been hundreds of persons who wanted to see and know what was in store for them, them being the Jews. But he insisted on carrying out this work by himself. Here is just one example of what was the fate of the children there. A ten-year-old girl was brought to this building from the train with her two-year-old sister. When the elder girl saw that men had taken out a revolver to shoot her two-year-old sister, she threw herself upon him crying out and asking why he wanted to kill her. He did not kill the little sister. He threw her alive into the oven and then killed the elder sister. Rosman likely meant to say, he did not shoot the little sister. He threw her alive into the oven and then shot the elder sister. But how could he know this story? He just said that men's would not let anybody do this job. He insisted on carrying out this work by himself, and Samuel Rosman didn't work in the lazarette. He couldn't have seen it himself. Rosman either made it up or heard it from someone else. If he heard it from somebody else, then in legal terms, that's called hearsay evidence and is generally not allowed in a court of law. And yet the presiding judge allows him to tell his hearsay story. Also, in the established Treblinka story, the lazarette has a fire pit, not an oven. The lazarette is the place they would take you if you were too weak to walk all the way to the gas chambers after your 50-mile train ride from Warsaw, according to the story. Keep in mind that the Germans are accused of being baby killers. We happen to be on February 27, 1946, because that's the day Samuel Rosman testified. But while here, let's do a keyword search on BAB to pick up the word baby and babies. And we see an example of another alleged eyewitness describing a German soldier killing a baby and laughing. And if we do a search on children, we see where Soviet prosecutor Lev Smirnov asks yet another alleged witness from Auschwitz, the following. Tell me please, witness, were you an eyewitness of German assessments attitude toward children? She replies, yes. After many questions, Smirnov asks, were they thrown into the oven's alive or were they killed by other means before they were burned? The children were thrown in alive. But consider that Raul Hilberg doesn't mention children being thrown alive into fires in his three-volume, the destruction of the European Jews. And neither does the Auschwitz entry at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In other words, even Holocaust historians don't believe that happened. Considering that, notice how the lawyers supposedly representing the Germans always waive their right to cross-examine these alleged witnesses. A good lawyer could have exposed all the lies I've pointed out. Yet here's an example of what I've always found when I've read the transcript. The witness accusing the Germans of killing babies by throwing them alive into a fire, finishes testifying, and the president asks, do any of the defendant's counsel wish to ask any questions? There was no response. And the judge continues, then the witness can retire. At the end of Rosman's article in the US House of Representatives document, he mentions how many people were killed at Treblinka. First take note that in Raul Hilberg's book, The Destruction of the European Jews, Hilberg estimates the number killed at Treblinka as up to 750,000. Samuel Rosman, however, has a much higher number. The number of Jews were from Germany about 120,000, from Austria, 40,000, from Poland, 1.5 million, from Czechoslovakia, 100,000, from Bulgaria, 14,000, from Russia, 1 million, total, 2,774,000. Hmm, someone is off by 2 million, either Raul Hilberg or Samuel Rosman, but this, and the pumping air out of the chamber, and suffocating in a cattle car, and 800 people per bedroom-sized chamber, doesn't keep Hilberg from using Rosman's article as a source. Hilberg writes in his book The Destruction of the European Jews, that when Jews arrived at Treblinka, some suffered nervous shock, laughing and crying alternately. And the little 61 here on page 972 is the source. It is Rosman's article that we've been looking at. Hilberg's modus operandi seems to be this. If you can find a believable paragraph in an otherwise fraudulent article, use it. There was one other person who made substantial comments about Treblinka at the Nuremberg trial. He was the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp. His name was Rudolf Huss. His testimony was, of course, mainly about Auschwitz, but he said some things about Treblinka as well. When he testified, there were two people in the courtroom with similar names. Rudolf Huss and Rudolf Hess. Both names have multiple spellings. Let's clarify for a moment who each one is. Rudolf Huss was at one time the second in command in Nazi Germany, just under Adolf Hitler. In 1941, Huss did something very crazy. In a desperate attempt to keep Western Europe from being plunged into war, he piloted a plane by himself to England. In an attempt to go around Winston Churchill and make contact with England's peace factions. When the plane was flying over England, he got out of the pilot's seat, put on a parachute for the first time in his life, and jumped out of the plane, spraining his ankle upon landing in a field. He was caught and promptly arrested. After the war, the English sent him to Nuremberg to be tried as a major war criminal. He was sentenced to life in prison and spent the next 40 years in the strangely cruel environment of Spandale Prison where, for instance, guards were instructed to never call him by his actual name. He was never allowed to hug or touch his son ever again, nor was he ever allowed a single moment alone with him. Hess died at 92 years old after 40 years in that environment. Rudolf Huss is the one we are looking at, though. He was the camp commander of Auschwitz, while at the prison in Nuremberg Huss signed a confession and when he was on the witness stand, his confession was read to him by American assistant prosecutor Colonel John Aiman. Aiman was a prosecutor, but he had another position at Nuremberg as well. He was the head of interrogations. After Huss appeared at Nuremberg as a witness, he was then turned over to the Polish government and executed a year later. So picture this moment at the Nuremberg trial. Huss is on the witness stand, listening to the head of interrogations Colonel Aiman read his own confession to him. Colonel Aiman says, I commanded Auschwitz until 1 December 1943 and estimate that at least two million 500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there by gasing and burning, and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease, making a total dead of about three million. Colonel Aiman reads some more of the confession and then says, that is all true witness? Yes it is. The problem is that if we go to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website and look up Auschwitz, it states, it is estimated that the SS and police deported at a minimum 1.3 million people to Auschwitz complex between 1940 and 1945. Of these, the camp authorities murdered 1.1 million and when they say murdered, they are including the disease and starvation deaths. So the Auschwitz Museum website says 1.1 million were killed and yet Huss confessed to three million. Strange that he would do that, isn't it? For the next passage in the Nuremberg transcript, we need to know what the term general government here means. It was an area of Poland occupied by Germany. We look at what Huss said about Trablinka. Colonel Aiman continues reading the confession. The final solution of the Jewish question meant the complete extermination of all Jews in Europe. I was ordered to establish extermination facilities at Auschwitz in June 1941. At that time, there were already in the general government three other extermination camps. Belzek, Trablinka, and Wollzek. Huss has thrown out a fake name. Wollzek, a city that doesn't exist, he puts it in the place of sobibor. It was likely an intentional mistake. Huss knew that the interrogators didn't know enough about the subject to call him on it. Notice that Huss says that in June 1941, there were already in the general government three other extermination camps. But if we look at Yitzek Erad's book, we see that they hadn't even started building any of the camps at that time. On page 24, we read when they began the first camp, Belzek. The construction of the death camp began on November 1st, 1941. You can pause the video and look at them side by side. Then the confession states, I visited Trablinka to find out how they carried out their exterminations. The camp commandant at Trablinka told me that he had liquidated 80,000 in the course of one half year. He was principally concerned with liquidating all the Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. He used monoxide gas, and I did not think that his methods were very efficient. So when I set up the extermination building at Auschwitz, I used Cyclon B, which was a crystallized, prusic acid, which we dropped into the death chamber from a small opening. But let me paraphrase and expound on what he just said. He basically said, Trablinka was using a gas that wasn't really that deadly. So I decided to use a deadly gas instead. Can you imagine the Germans using two totally different gases for the same job? One, you take a whiff of and have cyanide in your lungs, and the other you take a whiff of on any busy street. Back to Huss confession read by Colonel Aiman. Another improvement we made over Trablinka was that we built our gas chamber to accommodate 2,000 people at one time, whereas at Trablinka there 10 chambers only accommodated 200 people each. But that's like saying this. The Trablinka people didn't seem to have their thinking caps on when they combined millions of deaths and bedroom-sized chambers. So I put big chambers. The confession later says, still another improvement we made over Trablinka was that at Trablinka the victims almost always knew they were going to be exterminated, and at Auschwitz we endeavored to fool the victims into thinking that they were going to go through a delousing process. Not only is that not true according to the established story, but it's like saying this. Trablinka would never believe this, but people are way more willing to step into what they think is a shower as opposed to what they think is a gas chamber. And that's all that Huss said about Trablinka. So we've seen what was said about nearly one third of the Holocaust at Nuremberg, not much. Around 20 minutes were spent, and here's a breakdown of that, that it was only 20 minutes is shocking enough, but even more shocking is how many lies were packed into that 20 minutes. We read what Professor Mark Dolinger said again, and we see that for around one third of the Holocaust at least, what he says isn't true at all. This article can be found on the web here. This is the most detailed chronology we have of the Nazi atrocities, tens of thousands of pages of personal history. It's a very complete picture of the most horrific moment in modern Jewish history. You know when I first bought this tape at 17, I couldn't really relate to the title, because power corruption and lies weren't really part of my world. I feel for any team that has to bear the burden, to serialization. It's important to remember it's not about fighting, it's about joy and love, and putting forth good energy. Here's a model of the gas chamber. At Treblinka alone, 750,000 allegedly died in a building like this over a period of roughly six months. To put it in perspective, a large university has 30,000 students. The amount of people that went through this building is 25 times that. You'd think that would at least weren't a double door right here. And entering a hallway first, why design it like that? And then to take a hard right turn and go into a gas chamber the size of a medium-sized bedroom? How about these design changes? Scrap the hallway. Get rid of these wall partitions, make it into two large chambers, one here and one here. Put a set of double doors here and a set of double doors here. Make it on ground level. No stairway. You could have guards out here and here, rather than here in this five foot wide hallway where the guards would have to put their backs against the wall and press their guns to their chest just to let people get by. While a guard down here trying to get people into this room has to deal with the specter that a surge of people will throw him against this wall. Lastly, make the building bigger so that it could hold 2,000 people, which is the amount of people that would come into the camp in one transport. The model we've been looking at is the second gas chamber designed for the three camps. Previously, Belsik, Sobibor and Treblinka had three room gas chambers. Hilberg writes on page 879, massive structures, well hardly massive structures as we've seen. Of stone and Belsik and brick in Treblinka, containing at least six gas chambers in each camp, replace the old facilities. In the new gas buildings, the chambers were aligned on both sides of a corridor, and at Treblinka, the engine room was situated at its far end. And in a footnote at the bottom of this page Hilberg writes, information about the number and size of gas chambers in each camp rests not on documentation but on recollection of witnesses. He goes on to write, it is likely that each facility was designed from the same basic plan, hence three is probably the initial capacity and six the subsequent one. Below this coincidentally is the ever-present Yankel Wernick. And Jitsak Arad writes on page 119 of his book, the new gas chambers that had been built in Belsik in June, July 1942 served as a model in the other two camps. So this design and all the problems that have been pointed out with it is supposedly the culmination of a lot of testing and experience. Hard to believe, isn't it? As it turns out, the population of San Francisco is the same as the amount of people gasped in this building at Treblinka, both are roughly 750,000. Here's a map of San Francisco. See the flashing purple line on the right? That is Market Street. Here's a video of just part of San Francisco. The purple line there is Market Street. So what they're saying is that the numerical equivalent to everyone in this city ascended that three and a half foot wide stairway, went into that narrow hall and then went into one of the six bedroom-sized gas chambers. But as you look at this expanse of San Francisco, keep in mind the big picture that according to the story, all these people gasped, then buried, later they were dug up and cremated on outdoor fires. It's kind of hard to believe, isn't it? And this panorama from Twin Peaks only showed about one third of the city. Abraham Bomba in the movie Show Up by Claude Lansman claimed that they cut hair in the gas chambers as well. We know the German-shaped heads to prevent lice and typhus, but truth being the first casualty of war, combined with cultural misunderstanding, led linguistically to the term shaving the head, becoming cutting the hair, which then turned into hair cut. So turned around completely, this life-saving measure is now something they do to you in a gas chamber before killing you. Abraham, can you finish? How did it happen? I owe you choosing. The way they came in order from the Germans to take out the barbers they could get and they need them for certain job. And we got it together. Professional, bro. Officially. We got it together. We were waiting for the order. And the order came to go with them, with the Germans that took us in to the gas chamber. Going up in over there, they put in some benches where the woman could sit. And not to have the idea that this is the last way or that is the last time they're going to live or they're going to breathe or they're going to know what is going on. How long did it last? The barbers cut the hair inside the gas chamber because it was not always a case. We worked inside the gas chamber for about a week or 10 days. After that, they decided that we will cut the hair and the unbressing barack. As if the Germans would have ever chosen the gas chamber as the place to give the haircut in the first place. He just said the size by feet around 12 by 12. 12 feet is 3.6 meters. That's the size of a medium size bedroom. Let's hear it again. How did it look? It was a room, not a big room. The room was, I would say, the size by feet around 12 by 12. But in that room, they pushed in a lot of the woman. Almost one in top of the other one. But like I mentioned before, when we came in, we didn't know what we were going to do. Then one of the carpers that came in said, barbers, you have to do a job to make to believe all those women that came in, that they're just taking a haircut and going in to take a shower. From there, they go out from this place. Excuse me. How did it happen when the woman came and there's a gas chamber, where you yourself already in the gas chamber, and again, I said, we were already in the gas chamber. Because we were waiting over there for the transport to come in. Let's find out how many people were in this room. The imagination that they're getting a nice haircut. There were no mirrors, no. There were no mirrors, there were just benches, not chairs, but just benches, where we worked about 16, 17 barbers. You said that you were 16 barbers. Yes. This means you cut the hair of how many women in one batch. In one batch, the year was about, I would say, going into that place between 60 and 70 women and the same room at one time. After what's the dose of the gas chamber? After that, we were finished. With this party, another party came in and it was around 140, 150 women. So we have 16 barbers with 16 benches, 150 women, and will estimate the number of guards inside the room at three. That is 169 people. Try to imagine 169 people in that room outlined in red. And when all 169 were in there, 70 of them proceeded to get a haircut by taking turns sitting on 16 benches. I have another question. Why do they need the hair? To take off as much hair as we could, because they needed the woman's hair to be transported to Germany. This means that you didn't shave them. No, we did not shave. You just cut the hair, make the believe that they're getting a nice haircut. But you get with what? With scissors? With scissors. Yes, with scissors and we come without any clippers. Abraham Bonba claims he was cutting hair in the camps in 1942. Here's a map of Europe in 1942 from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. As you can see, Germany is occupying the Soviet Union all the way to Moscow and occupying most of France, as well as Denmark and Norway. Do you really think they would need human hair? If they need insulation material, why not just get wool from sheep in the whole area they control? Or why not ask some of the barbers in this giant region to save their hair clippings? There's already a bottleneck in the operation because you're trying to kill thousands of people a day in several bedroom sized rooms. Why further complicate the process by giving thousands of haircuts a day? Next, Abraham Bonba tells what happened when they were finished cutting the hair. First of all, it would take longer than five minutes to, as Bonba says, choke them to death. But secondly, every other chamber would have had barbers too, so did a hundred barbers suddenly flood into this hallway? And as Bonba even know they're supposed to be a hallway? Let's look at it again. The other side of the gas chamber, and on the other side, where, on the other side, the woman went in, and the other side was a group working people, which they took out already dead bodies. Some of them, they were not exactly dead. They took him out and in two, not even two minutes, and one minute everything was clear. And it was clean to take in the other party of the other woman to go through the same thing, what the price one they went through. He's confusing the time it took to give one haircut, with the time it would take to haul out 15,000 pounds of bodies from one chamber. In fact, it's the same phrase he used in an interview around 15 years later. 150 women at 100 pounds each, which is 45 kilograms, is 15,000 pounds for that one room. Plus they'd have to clear out the other five rooms as well before they can do another gasing. Compare the following three excerpts. Every haircut it took about two minutes. From them, we took benches of hair cut off through on the floor to the site. And about two minutes has to be finished, not even two minutes. Then they were not exactly dead. They took him out and and two minutes, not even two minutes. And one minute everything was clear. And it was clean. You might not believe Bomba, but with the emotional pull of a really sad story, change your mind and make you believe him. And metaphorically, I want to tell you something where it happened at the gas chamber. When I was chosen in over there to work as a barber, some of the women they came in from a transport from my town from Chastahoga. And from the woman, from the number of women I know a lot of people. You use it. I know them. I lived with them in my town. I lived with them in my street. And I was some of them they were my close friends. And when they saw me all of them started hugging me, Abe, this and that, what are you doing here? What's going to help with us? What could you tell them? What could you tell a friend of mine? He worked as a barber. He was also a good barber in my home town. When his wife and his sister can enter the gas chamber. Gordon and UWS.ar Okay, go ahead. That's what he did also, when his wife and the sister came. They tried to talk to them and the husband, also from his sister. They could not tell them that is the last time they stay alive, because behind them was the German Nazis, the SS men. They knew the men that will say a word, not only the wife and the woman which they are dead already, but also they will share the same part with them. But in a way, they tried to do the best for them to stay with them a second longer, and a minute longer, just to hug them and just to kiss them, because they know that we'll never see them again. It's amazing what people will believe if evil is in the equation. Regarding Bomba, one might say the following. Well, anyone can find a random obscure, supposed eyewitness who says crazy things. One could go to New York and find some supposed eyewitness who says something unbelievable about the World Trade Center. That doesn't mean the World Trade Center towers didn't come down. But did we choose an obscure eyewitness? Consider that while watching the following. Here is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. If we go down and click on the Holocaust Encyclopedia and type in Treblinka and click on the first article that comes up, we can see the Treblinka webpage. Here's a link to Bomba's videos from an interview later in his life. It's not a long article as you can see. So if you go back and click on personal stories, you can see that. At the time this was made in autumn 2005, that Bomba is the featured eyewitness for Treblinka. The point being that I've featured the main witness that they feature. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum features a guy that claims that for a time, the Nazis disguised the gas chambers as a kind of hair salon, complete with professional barbers, in order to surreptitiously obtain precious human hair clippings. Elia who Rosenberg was an alleged Treblinka survivor, this is a video still of him testifying at the 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, where Eichmann was sentenced to death. Here's Rosenberg 26 years later in 1987, testifying at the John Demian Yucch trial in Jerusalem. The pictures on the back of the wall behind the three sitting judges are not photos of Treblinka. They are photos of a model of Treblinka made by Yankel Wernick, the guy that wrote this book. Watch the 1961 trial footage, keeping in mind what you know about the size of the individual gas chambers and what you know about diesel exhaust. The efficient method of murder was gas, the placed large gas chambers. Elia who Rosenberg witnessed the system of Treblinka. The trucks, whips, they had bayonets in their hands. The people were calmly at first, of course, in 1942 in the summer. They did not know where they were being led. And when they entered the gas chambers, they stood near the entrance and there were two Ukrainians near the entrance. One was Ivan, the other one was Nikolai, and they opened the gas. Where did the gas come from? The gas came from a diesel engine. Yes, from an engine. From an engine or what it brought from the outside? No, it was Roppa gas, it was called Roppa. It was being manufactured by an diesel motor. Yes, they put Roppa inside. Roppa is kind of a solar or, yes, solar oil. And the fumes came out of a pipe which led into the gas chambers. And when the people entered into the gas chambers, the last ones were stabbed in their bodies by the bayonets, which were held by these. And the last people already saw what was happening. They did not want to enter. And they just jammed the people inside, 400 into the small chamber. And when they stabbed them, the people just automatically of themselves were pushed inside. And this formed the... This was the final capacity, the full capacity of the gas chamber. And it was so jammed packed that it was difficult to close the door. And when they locked it door, we were on the outside. We heard only screams and schmysrail prayers, mother, father. And after 35 minutes they were dead. And two Germans were standing and they said, everyone is asleep. Open the doors. And we opened the doors and we took the bodies out. As in the 1987 trial, so also in 1961, this is also a photo of Yanke Wernick's model in the background. The Ikeman trial footage was found on this program. Yitzek Arad and Raal Hilberg both mentioned a curtain that hung at the entrance of the hallway of the gas chamber building. Arad writes on page 120, The entrance to the corridor was covered by a dark Jewish ceremonial curtain taken from an unidentified synagogue. On it was inscribed in Hebrew. This is the gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through. By the way, there's the ever present Yanke Wernick on the same page. It's odd that the camp administrators would procure a curtain from a synagogue and install it at the entrance of a gas chamber building disguised as a bathhouse. So why is the curtain part of the story? We might find the answer in Reader's Digest of All Places. In February 1943, the usual millions of copies were dropped in rural, small town, and suburban mailboxes all over the United States. You get an idea of what the magazine was like by a sampling of the article titles such as Vivas for Jorge Washington, and even Sotopop goes to war. At the time Reader's Digest had the highest circulation of any magazine in the world. The issue had an article called Remember Us. It said on page 107 that by the end of the war, the Jews of Europe would be reduced from a minority to a phantom. In other words, there would be hardly any left. The author puts out a number. 6 million. That's quite a prediction considering this is in the middle of the war, and that the main chambers that Auschwitz were still under construction. In Hilberg's book on page 885, we see that at the time, the main chambers at Auschwitz hadn't even been finished being built. So was the writer an investigative reporter stationed in Europe with access to good information, or a high up government official? Actually, the writer was a Jewish Hollywood scriptwriter named Ben Hecht. His internet movie database entry is huge. This story in Reader's Digest brought the Holocaust story to the heartland of America for the first time. But his information includes incidences that never happened. Incidences that even Ralph Hilberg doesn't believe ever happened. The first three of which mentioned synagogues. This is the first incident Hecht gives. Remember us in the town of Freiberg in the Black Forest. 200 of us were hanged and left dangling out of our kitchen windows to watch our synagogue burn and our rabbi being flagged to death. Here's the second example given by Hecht. In Sushen in Poland on the morning of September 23rd, which is the day set aside for our atonement, we were in our synagogue praying God to forgive us. All our village was there. Above our prayers, we heard the sound of motor lorries. They stopped in front of our synagogue. The Germans tumbled out of them, torches in hand, and set fire to us. When we ran out of the flames, they turned machine guns on us. They seized our women and undressed them and made them run naked through the marketplace before their whips. All of us were killed before our atonement was done. Remember us. His third example, this is all on page 108. In Rokloweck also the Germans came when we were at worship. They tore the prayer shalls from our heads. Under whips and bayonets, they made us use our prayer shalls. As mobs to clean out German latrines. We were all dead when the sun set. Remember us. Even Rale Hilberg doesn't believe these things happened. If you look up every reference to synagogues seen on page 1269 of Hilberg's three volume destruction of the European Jews, he only mentions civilian mobs burning synagogues in 1938 with no one trapped inside. But propaganda involving synagogue desecration had an effect on Middle America in such a way as to make Americans pro-war. Or imagine a young airman involved with the bombing of a German residential suburb who felt it justified. He'd read the Reader's Digest article. So when we read about the synagogue curtain at the entrance to the gas chamber, what we may be seeing is an ill-fitting vestige of a certain type of war propaganda of the sort that involves desecration of synagogues. But in this article we also see that a Hollywood scriptwriter predicted the 6 million deaths in the middle of the war. That's interesting. How could someone mention 6 million Jews in the middle of the war? Hektrites. Of these 6 million Jews, almost a third have already been massacred by the Germans, Romanians, and Hungarians. And the most conservative of the scorekeepers estimate that before the war ends, at least another third will have been done to death. If the most conservative estimate is that two thirds will die, one could posit that the most liberal estimate would be that all 6 million will die, which might be why he writes that the Jews of Europe will have been reduced from a minority to a phantom. Ben Heck got the 6 million number by taking the Jewish populations of various European countries and adding them up. It would seem that that would make sense, after all if you knew the Jewish population of those countries, and if you feared that all would be killed, then you could just add up the numbers and predict how many would be killed and thus come up with 6 million. But here's the first problem with that. Hekt doesn't include enough countries. Hekt mentions 8 countries, which he tabulates to get 6 million. In contrast, Raul Hilberg tabulates 17 countries on page 1048 and gets around 9 million. Here's problem 2. According to Raul Hilberg, Ben Heck's pre-war Jewish population figures are not correct. Hekt gives the pre-war German Jewish population at 900,000, whereas Hilberg has it at 240,000. Hekt puts the pre-war Jewish population of Hungary at 750,000, whereas Hilberg puts it at 400,000. And Hekt's pre-war Jewish population for Czechoslovakia, 150,000, but Hilberg puts it at 315,000. Our third problem with Hekt's tabulation is that according to Hilberg, all the Jews weren't killed. Some fled, some weren't rounded up, some hid, some emigrated, some left and then returned. For instance, for the 400,000 Jews in Hungary, 200,000 were still left after the war. For the 240,000 Jews in Germany, 80,000 were still there after the war. For the 270,000 Jews in France, 200,000 still remained after the war. So Hekt uses all sorts of wrong information and methodology, yet his article, which first brought the Holocaust story to mainstream America, also has the 6,000,000 number in it. Hekt was part of a militant Jewish organization called the Ergen. In fact, when the Germans lost the war, Hekt then turned his writing skills toward the British in Palestine. At the Weiman Institute website, we see that Hekt wrote a play called A Flag Is Born, the purpose of which was to stir up anti-English sentiment in America and raise money for the Jewish fighters in Palestine. We read, In the Plays Dramatic Final Moments, David delivers a stirring Zionist speech and marches off to fight for Jewish freedom in the Holy Land. Holding a makeshift Zionist flag fashioned from Tevye's prayer shawl. There's the prayer shawl again, just like in the Reader's Digest article. And by the way, in the play the character David is a Treblinka survivor, he is the one that held the makeshift Zionist flag fashioned from a prayer shawl. His role was played by Marlin Brando. Hekt even took out anti-English advertisements in newspapers. He wrote in one such ad excerpted at the Weiman