Warnings By Poles of Shoah Goebbels Gives Credit Semmler

Goebbels, the Man Next to Hitler, by Rudolf Semmler. 1947

Leading Nazi Goebbels Gives More Credit to Polish Warnings, About the Doomed Jews, Then Do Many Jews Today (For Shame). Wartime German Looting, and Not Just Poles From Jews. The Proposed Nazi/Soviet Separate Peace Anticipated the Teheran/Yalta Sellout of Poland

Rudolf Semmler wrote down his conversations with Joseph Goebbels. This book, in effect, is Goebbels’s table talk.

NAZISM WASN’T CHRISTIAN. IT WAS ANTI-CHRISTIAN

Ironic to today’s common attempts to blame Christianity for the Nazi Holocaust, Semmler attests to the anti-Christian, humanistic philosophy of Goebbels (7/24/1941), which was to be fully expressed after the war: “Then he [Goebbels] would like to produce a book on Christianity of real political importance. In it he would dispose of old-fashioned theories of Christianity, and lead from this criticism to an ethical system for the twentieth-century man.” (p. 49).

THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA: REPETITION, REPETITION, AND MORE REPETITION

Tens of thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals were murdered in cold blood, by the Soviet NKVD, at and near Katyn. Upon the discovery of the mass graves by the Germans, Goebbels exploited this tragedy for propaganda purposes. Apart from dividing the Allies, Goebbels hoped that Katyn would remind everyone of Soviet barbarism, and thereby provide fresh moral justification for the German war against the Soviet Union (pp. 82-84). Interestingly, he complained that German newspapers were devoting too little attention to Katyn: “Goebbels points to the British tactics of giving so much time and space to an event of propaganda importance that the public is eventually sick of it. That, he said, is the right method. The story must be so hammered into the public mind that the mention of the word Katyn sends a cold shoulder down the back of the stupidest man.” (p. 84). (Ironically, British newspapers also devoted very little attention to Katyn. They were more interested in flattering the Soviets than in seeking justice for Poland).

LEADING NAZI GOEBBELS HAD MORE RESPECT, FOR POLISH WARNINGS ABOUT JEWS, THAN DO MANY JEWS TODAY. GO FIGURE

A number of Jewish scholars (e. g, David Engel) have voiced various ungrateful-sounding complaints about Polish warnings made by the Polish Government-in-exile in London. For instance, we hear that the information was “not enough”, or “merely” mixed up with Polish deaths, thus in a manner that avoided giving deference to the (presumed) special-ness of the Holocaust.

In striking contrast, none other than the Nazi minister of Propaganda, Goebbels, paid a backhanded compliment to the Polish Government-in-exile, openly admitting the relevance and impact of its message. In fact, Semmler and Goebbels found the Polish action serious enough to wrestle over about how best to neutralize it! The entry of January 10, 1944, devoted by Semmler entirely to this matter and the ensuing strategy session, is here summarized: “Lately there have been a number of stories from abroad about alleged murder camps run by the Gestapo, chiefly in Poland. There, they say, Jews, Poles and other races we don’t like are burnt or gassed…Now that this propaganda is gaining strength, causing a stir in the whole world press, and doing us a great deal of harm, I suggested to Goebbels that he should say something about it to the foreign press. I drew his attention particularly to statements made by members of the Polish Government in London, which contained detailed figures…Goebbels believes that a statement to the foreign press would seem too demonstrative and would give the impression that we were worried by the enemy’s campaign of agitation.” (pp. 117-118).

GERMANS LOOTED FROM GERMANS, AND NOT ONLY POLES FROM JEWS

The 2006 book FEAR, by Jan T. Gross, has tacitly encouraged the view that the looting of (Jewish) properties by Poles was some kind of uniquely Polish vice, and was moreover yet another testimony to (what else?) eternal Polish anti-Semitism. Interestingly, for all of their reputed discipline and ingrained adherence to law and order, the German people also resorted to looting, even on a large scale. Goebbels found fault with the German people, in this regard, in the aftermath of one of the Allied bombing raids on Berlin (11/24/1943): “Goebbels is informed that nowhere in Berlin have there been any demonstrations against the Government. But many half-ruined houses have been plundered and long stretches of the transport system of the city is not working.” (p. 111).

GOEBBELS PROPHETIC: EASTERN GERMANS COULD SWITCH FROM COMMUNISM TO NAZISM AND BACK TO COMMUNISM AGAIN

On October 14, 1944, Semmler wrote: “He [Goebbels] says that it we lose the war the Russians would not find it difficult to turn the Berlin workers into Communists again.” (p. 156). Goebbels words proved very prophetic. German Nazis effortlessly morphed into German Communists, and East Germany (the NRD) became one of the most repressive and doctrinaire of all the Soviet-imposed puppet states.

THE EVER-GREATER RADICAL EVIL OF NAZISM—BUT NOT ONLY AGAINST JEWS!

Goebbels elaborated on the plans to denounce the Geneva Convention and to shoot the Allied POWs (pp. 182-185). This says a lot.

One talking point for Holocaust supremacism is that, whereas the Nazis radicalized their policies against Jews (from discrimination to proposed resettlement to sporadic violence to genocidal extermination), they (implicitly) did not do so towards anyone else. This is clearly untrue. Nazi Germany had systematically murdered Soviet POWs, and now Goebbels wanted Nazism to radicalize to the point of also murdering all American and British POWs.

ALLIED SATURATION BOMBING WAS EFFECTIVE, AND COULD HAVE BEEN DECISIVE

Goebbels discussed the capability of a few more Hamburg-firestorm-like raids themselves to cause Germany’s defeat. (p. 95). This contradicts those who assert that Allied carpet bombing was next to useless, or that it merely stiffened German resolve. Clearly, carpet combing had been sound strategy: The problem was the fact that its application had been done in too irregular a manner to force Germany to her knees—and as early as 1943.

THE SEPARATE-PEACE EXCULPATION, FOR THE ALLIED BETRAYAL OF POLAND, IS INVALID. SEPARATE-PEACE FEARS WORKED BOTH WAYS

One commonly-cited excuse, for Teheran and Yalta, was that Britain and the USA had to give Stalin what he wanted, or else he would sign a separate peace with the Third Reich, and then the entire burden for defeating Nazi Germany would have fallen on England and America.

Goebbels discussed a possible Nazi-western, or, less likely, a Nazi-Soviet separate peace. (pp. 119-120). So Stalin ALSO had to fear a separate peace at his expense—if not more so than the U. K. and the USA!

PROPOSED NAZI-SOVIET SEPARATE PEACE WOULD HAVE BEEN, FOR POLAND, VERY MUCH LIKE THE BRITISH/AMERICAN SELLOUT OF POLAND AT TEHERAN (1943) AND YALTA (1945)

Interestingly, the proposed Nazi-Soviet separate peace (written about on April 12, 1944) would have included Germany’s surrender of the General Government (German-occupied central Poland) to the Soviet Union (in addition to, of course, the Polish lands east of the Ribbentrop-Molotov line) (p. 120).

Ironically, much of this actually happened. Poland was indeed given away to the Soviet Union–but not by the Nazis but by the western Allies (at Teheran and Yalta). Only the western borders of this Soviet-ruled Polish nation were different from that envisioned by Goebbels. For shame.