Holocaust Indoctrination Via Control of the Narrative Williams

Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities, by Paul D. Williams. 2008

It’s Not How Many Non-Holocaust Memorial Museums are Built: It’s Who Controls the Narrative

This book surveys quite a few memorial museums to genocide and suffering all over the world. However, the most relevant issues revolve around how these new memorials come into conflict with Holocaust supremacism and the standard narrative that it promotes.

EIGHTEEN “GENERATIONS” OF LITERALLY-GRAPHIC COMMUNIST REPRESSION

This book contains interesting information. For instance, there is an old Communist prison now at the Museum of Genocide Victims at Vilnius (Wilno). Polychromatic tests show that the old cells walls had received 18 coats of paint since the 1940s. Each layer was added to cover-up the messages and scratches of the desperate inmates. Some of these have been peeled back to reveal them to the viewers. (p. 33).

CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE: THE ATTEMPTED MONOPOLY ON JEWS AS VICTIMS AND NEVER VICTIMIZERS

Author Williams discusses British Muslims, who, in September 2005, spoke out against the January 27 Holocaust Memorial Day (“marked since 2001 after a long Jewish campaign”: p. 129), as follows: “Sensing exclusion from Judeo-Christian national life and a more general sense that Muslim lives are less valued, the advisory committee pointed out that Muslim ‘genocide’ had also occurred in Palestine, Chechnya, and Bosnia. The claim has predictably provoked a strong retort from Jewish groups and others who say the advisers are trying to trivialize and devalue the Holocaust.” (p. 129). In view of the elevation of the Holocaust over all other genocides, how could there NOT be victimhood competition? In fact, author Williams essentially acknowledges as much. (pp. 168-169).

CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE: THE ATTEMPTED SUPPRESSION OF AWARENESS OF THE CRIMES OF THE ZYDOKOMUNA, WITH PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES

The attempted suppression of knowledge of Jews as victimizers occurs in other contexts. Williams elaborates on the situation in Hungary, “The dueling histories of repression of the fascist and communist eras are closely tied to contemporary political battles. Right-wing groups make a connection between the prominent role of Jews in the ‘wilderness years’ of postwar communist Hungary and the current Socialist Party. Jews are concerned at the idea that Hungary is being re-imagined as a Nazi victim rather than accomplice…why should one group receive the recompense for the Nazi Holocaust when other Hungarians would not receive the same under the ‘communist Holocaust’” (pp. 116-117). Excellent question. And why call them “right wing groups”, at least without calling the other side “left wing groups”?

CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE: ATTEMPTED GERMAN GUILT DIFFUSION

Consider the proposed so-called National Memorial Center Against Expulsions at Wroclaw. Williams comments, “The fear that such a museum could relativize the legacy of German guilt is clearly a major point of difficulty for Poles, Jews, and others.” (p. 138). No kidding.