Property Restitution Unjust Enrichment Meme Pounded Into Eastern Europeans Desbois

In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust By Bullets, by Patrick Desbois. 2018

Holocaust By Bullets. Veiled Holocaust Industry Claims. German Guilt Diffusion. Like Stalin Like Hitler. Blaming Christianity

The subtle messages of this book must be examined—all the more so because it is very engaging, and well read. In addition, this book is quite Judeocentric. It intensively focuses on the Jews, as victims, while giving only tangential attention to the millions of Slavs murdered by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. In addition, it avoids discussion of the factors in Jewish conduct that had provoked Slavic indifference and hostility to Jews. [For corrective, see the latter part of my review.]

This book dwells on the Nazi-German mass shootings of Jews during WWII, in the southern part of the Kresy (eastern Poland) and in the western Soviet Union as defined her pre-1939 borders. Many localities are described.

CAN THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY BE FAR BEHIND?

Israel Singer, onetime director of the WJC (World Jewish Congress), had been a major supporter of the efforts that had led to this book. (p. 10). The reader is not told that Israel Singer had been an influential promoter of the Holocaust Industry—the shakedown, for “reparations” and “property restitution”, of non-German nations, finding creative ways to partly blame them for the Jews’ Holocaust. Israel Singer didn’t even bother to be subtle about it. He had said, for example, that Poland would continue to be openly humiliated, on the international scene, until she pays up the 65 billion dollars which Singer imagines that Poland owes the Jews. [That was over 20 years ago. The events of 2018, including the passage of .S447, moreover in a dubious voice-vote, by the U. S. Government, bears this out.]

THE SUBTLE DIFFUSION OF HOLOCAUST BLAME AWAY FROM THE GERMANS AND UNTO SLAVS

One major meme used the Holocaust Industry is the well-worn “complicity in the Holocaust” charge attributed to Eastern Europeans. In this book, Father Patrick Desbois focuses on how the Slavic locals dug the mass graves and sometimes themselves participated in the German-directed shooting of Jews.

Father Desbois calls attention to the you-better-comply precedent imposed by the Communist authorities, as he comments, “I know very well that the Soviet requisition was coercive. The members of a collective could hardly refuse to participate in its work. And I know that the Germans took advantage of this collective structure to have free labor on hand.” (p. 196).

Patrick Desbois also alludes to Communist-imposed patterns of compliance, now in service of the Nazis, in another context, as he writes, “There is striking similarity not only between the facts but also between the terms used the witnesses to both the de-kulakization and to the stripping of the homes of murdered Jews. On the day of the murders, did the police and the Germans simply tap into a long-standing Russo-Soviet village tradition?” (p. 209). In addition, he wonders, “What is clear is that the auctions of Jewish goods in villages and certain big towns are an established fact. However, whether they are more rooted in Nazi tradition or in Russo-Soviet customs of repression will always be an enigma to me.” (p. 210).

The reader should notice the double standard on Jews and non-Jews. Whenever Jews cooperated with the Nazis, even at times when their lives were not in evident danger, they are summarily excused through such memes as “choiceless choices”. Not so with non-Jews. Although Slavs were generally conscripted by the Germans to perform various tasks, including the killing of Jews, the “odor” of “complicity” sticks to this Slavic conduct, if only because of the way the reader has been media-conditioned to react to this issue.

DO SLAVS “OWE THE JEWS” BECAUSE THE SLAVS LONG AGO ACQUIRED POST-JEWISH PROPERTY??

Another major meme used the Holocaust Industry is that of Eastern Europeans guilty of “unjust enrichment” and of “profiting from the Holocaust”. The informed reader can recount, for example, neo-Stalinist Jan T. Gross and his media-acclaimed GOLDEN HARVEST, in which he accused Poles of being “greedy” and (what else?) anti-Semitic because they made the belongings of Nazi-German-murdered Jews their own.

In this book, Father Patrick Desbois adheres to much the same template. He describes the locals carting off the property of the murdered Jews (e. g, pp. 35-37), and does so in a rather accusatory manner—as something unbelievably shameful. [In actuality, it is perfectly customary for the property of the dead, in wartime, to become the property of the living. In fact, during WWII, tens of millions of people (not only Jews!) lost their properties because of death, confiscations, owner-relocations, etc. Finally, Jews have no “tribal rights”, still less some kind of “tribal rights” that apply retroactively, to long-ago Jewish property.]

ANOTHER MEME: THE SUBTLE DIFFUSION OF HOLOCAUST BLAME AWAY FROM THE GERMANS AND UNTO CHRISTIANITY

Unlike some Jews, Father Patrick Desbois comes short of actually blaming the Shoah on traditional Christian teachings about Jews. However, he very much associates the two. (pp. 87-on). He describes how the locals thought that Jews were being punished for the Crucifixion of Christ (deicide), and how the sight of Jews being led to their deaths evoked teachings about Jesus Christ being led to His death.

What Father Desbois does not tell the reader, among other things, is that such thinking was hardly noteworthy. Many rabbis also taught that the Holocaust was God’s punishment for Jewish sins (of course, within the framework of Judaism). For example, see my review of THEOLOGICAL AND HALAKHIC REFLECTIONS ON THE HOLOCAUST, by Rosenberg.