Holocaust Supremacism Slights Poles Detailed Example Berenbaum

Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis, by Michael Berenbaum (Editor). 1992

Holocaust Dominance on Full Display: Attempts to Delegitimize the Genocides of Non-Jews Though Various Dubious Premises

This book appears to be a bit of a fig leaf intended to cover what was planned, and what has since become, the supremacy of the Jews’ Holocaust over the genocides of all other peoples.

WHOSE HOLOCAUST?

According to Michael Berenbaum (pp. 20-22), there are two definitions of the Holocaust: Simon Wiesenthal’s one that includes 5 million gentile victims of the Nazis along with the 6 million Jews, and Elie Wiesel’s one that restricts the term Holocaust to Jews only. The latter definition is called by Berenbaum (p. 21, 33) the Judeocentric one, a term also used by this writer in many of his reviews. Thoughout this book, fears are repeatedly stated that any departure from the Judeocentric definition of the Holocaust will cause Jewish deaths to be forgotten. This is unbelievable! After all, the west has been awash, in the last few decades, in a vast quantity of strongly Judeocentric educational and media materials. Tokenism aside (such as this book), it is the deaths of non-Jews at the hands of the Germans that have virtually been forgotten!

UPDATE: Owing to the fact that the term Holocaust has since been associated almost exclusively with Jews, with Poles excluded from the term, the term Polokaust has been coined in reference to the Nazi genocide of Poles.

THE JEWS’ HOLOCAUST WAS NEITHER UNIQUE NOR UNPRECEDENTED

The Judeocentric definition of the Holocaust has long been buttressed by the rationalization of unique Jewish victimhood. This rationalization is here repeated by Carol Ritter (p. xii), Michael Berenbaum (p. 32-33), and Yisrael Gutman (pp. 98-99). In actuality, as elaborated in the next two paragraphs of this review, the killing of all Jews is not factual, either in the short-term or the long-term.

To begin with, can it seriously be supposed that exterminatory German attitudes and tactics would have been the same had there existed a few hundred million European Jews but only a few million Slavs?

Arguments about the imminence of Jewish deaths ignore the realities of German priorities, relative population sizes, and the time available to the Nazis. Any Pole, no less than any Jew, could be killed at any time for any reason or for no reason at all. And, while some Poles (e. g. captured guerillas) and some Jews (e. g. captured fugitives from the ghettos) were indeed killed at once, most Poles and Jews were “safe” until the Germans decided that it was their turn to die. The killing of Polish intellectuals actually took priority over the killing of Jews, which in turn took priority over the extermination of the remaining Poles.

THE DURATION OF WWII ENDED UP FAVORING THE PRESUMED SPECIALNESS OF THE JEWS

In the first two years of the war, Germany murdered many more Poles than Jews. So, had the war ended much sooner, and were the media objective and balanced, the Nazis would forever have been known as Pole-killers more than as Jew-killers! To compound the irony further, much the same would have also been the case had the Germans won the war. Many more Poles would have been slain than Jews.

Owing to the fact that the war ended when it actually did, plus the fact that there were far more Poles than Jews, the turn for some Jews and especially most Poles never came.

ALL JEWS WERE VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS—TOTAL NONSENSE

The “Not all of the Victims of the Nazis were Jews, but all Jews were victims of the Nazis” is a long-repeated mantra, but is clearly false. To begin with, nearly 2/3rds of the world’s Jews were out of Germany’s reach and, short of literally conquering the world, neither Hitler nor his successors could possibly have killed all the world’s Jews. (BTW, there is no evidence that Nazi Germany had the intention, much less the capability, of conquering the whole world).

The geographic deployment of the world’s Poles, unlike that of the world’s Jews, was largely confined to German-ruled Europe. By contrast, Jews were scattered all over the world. Thus, in contrast to most of the world’s Jews, safely out of reach of the Nazis, nearly all ethnic Poles were at Germany’s complete mercy.

MANY JEWS, ACCESSIBLE TO NAZI GERMANY, WERE SPARED

Far from all Jews, under German rule, were targeted while Nazi Germany existed (1933-1945). Finland’s (Germany’s ally) Jews were never molested, and Bulgaria’s Jews were only pursued halfheartedly. The neutrality of Switzerland and Sweden was consistently respected despite their Jewish populations (notably the famous escaped (rather, evacuated) Danish Jews in Sweden). Known Jewish Allied POWs were spared. Thousands of European Jews were used by Germany for forced labor and, with some exceptions, were not killed in the latest days of the war. As for permanent acceptance of known Jews by the Nazis, many part- and full-blooded Jews were made into Honorary Aryans, and thereby spared. These included the SCHUTZJUDEN.

NO PROOF OF THE EVEN-THEORETICAL NAZI TARGETING OF JEWS DOWN TO THE LAST PERSON

Robert Jay Lifton has the following take on the implementation of German genocidal policies against Jews: “There is still considerable confusion among historians who are authorities on this issue as to whether Hitler ever issued a clear-cut written order or any order at all for the killing of Jews. There probably was an order, but it was not a clear-cut written order. The bureaucratic back-and-forth process was very much a part of the killing process.”(pp. 227-228).

PLAYING WITH PERCENTAGES: DELEGITIMIZING THE POLOKAUST BY MAKING POLAND’S JEWS OUT TO BE THE WORLD’S ONLY JEWS

Oft-repeated statements (e. g., Israel Gutman, p. 98) about 90% and “only” 10% death rates of Polish Jews and Polish gentiles, respectively, are disingenuous. To begin with, they would only make sense if Polish Jews were the world’s only Jews! Factoring the 6 million Nazi-caused Jewish deaths against the global Jewish population, the figure drops to 33%. However, since there were far more Poles than Jews, percentages are not very informative in any case. As an extreme example, note that the 60 million Chinese murdered by Mao Zedong, a colossal death toll that would have been sufficient to exterminate all the world’s Poles and Jews multiple times over, represents less than 6% of the Chinese population.

However, the issue is more basic. So “only” 10% of Poles were murdered. Yes, “only” 10%.
What a relief!

POLES WEAR THE LETTER “P”, AND AWAIT THEIR FULL GENOCIDAL FATE AFTER GERMANY WON THE WAR

It is sobering to realize that Polish forced laborers were forced to wear an identification patch before the Jews were required to do so! (Edward Homze, p. 39). As for the future course of the Polokaust had Nazi Germany won WWII, Richard C. Lukas (pp. 88-95) presents strong evidence, from German sources, that the Poles and other Slavs were targeted for eventual extermination. Further evidence of this is provided by Taras Hunczak (pp. 117-118). These facts refute the denial of Poles’ genocide by Berenbaum (p. 32-33), and the patently absurd (if not racist) assertion by Israel Yisrael Gutman (p. 98) that the Poles, in Nazi German eyes, had some sort of “right to remain alive.”