The Nuremberg Trial: Nov. 1945 - Oct. 1946

Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop

"Whose vengeance was it?
Certain symbolic deeds were evidently meant to establish the authorship, or nature, of the vengeance. These crowning acts of symbolism were the reproduction, after nearly thirty years, of the similar acts committed during the revolution in Russia: the Talmudic [Cabbalistic] boast left on the wall of the Romanoffs' death chamber and the canonization of Judas Iscariot. After the Second World War the Nazi leaders were hanged [in Nuremberg] on the Jewish Day of Judgment in 1946, so that their execution was presented to Jewry in the shape of Mordecai's vengeance on Haman and his sons. Then in the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, where the world-famous Passion Play had been performed for three centuries, the players of the chief parts were put on trial for 'Nazi activities' before a Communist court. Those who appeared as Jesus and the apostles were all declared guilty; the one performer acquitted was he who took the part of Judas.
[...] Nuremberg was in the Western [democratic] zone; Oberammergau in the Soviet one ['German Democratic Republic'].
[...] 'Crimes against Jews' were singled out as a separate county, as if Jews were different from other human beings (and when the judgment was delivered a hundred million [gentile] human beings in Eastern Europe had been handed over to the general persecution of all men [Soviet slave labour], from which Jews in their proportion suffered in Germany). [...] the assertion that 'six million Jews' had been killed (as time went by the word 'perished' was substituted for 'killed').
[...] Jews were 'singled out' from the mass of Hitler's victims and their numbers inflated at will from day to day (Hitler's book-bonfire became 'the burning of Jewish books'; his concentration camps where ninety percent of the inmates were Germans became concentration camps of Jews; a wartime report about the killing of '150,000 White Russians, Ukrainians and Jews at Kieff' was changed to '150,000 Jews'; and so on interminably).
[...] At no time in history, from antiquity to this day, can the numbers of Judahites, Judeans or Jews, living at any given time, be determined, and there are many more reasons why the number of Jewish victims in the Second World War cannot be fixed. The process of mystification begins in Genesis and continues through the Torah (the seventy people taken by Jacob [Israel] to Egypt, for instance, apparently increased to two or three million within 150 years). At all periods large, and sometimes huge variations occur in the 'estimates', and only estimates are possible, as the present term, 'Jew', is legally indefinable and statistically elusive.
[...] the answer, in my judgment, is that most of them disappeared into the statistics.
[...] This state of statistical affairs is now wellnigh universal, so that the whole question is a mystery and has deliberately been made one [by the Jewish leaders]. None can even guess the number of Jews whose deaths, during the war, were not natural or the result of bombing and the like, but who were done to death by the Nazis. My opinion is that, whatever was the number of Jews in the countries overrun by Hitler, the number of their victims was in roughly that proportion to the total population stricken, Polish, Czech and other. I have found this to be the opinion of all persons known to me who survived the concentration camps and occupations. Having suffered themselves, their feeling for Jewish victims was a strong as for all others, but they could not understand why the one case of the Jews was singled out and the number of Jewish victims monstrously exaggerated.
The reason, hidden from them, became clear with the hangings on the Jewish Day of Judgment, for this symbolic act set the pattern for the entire conduct of occupation, on both sides of the line [Iron Curtain], in its early years, and even for the future conduct of Western foreign policy far outside the bounds of Europe. The Talmudic vengeance was the start of a new era in the history of the West, during which all national considerations were to be subordinated to the cause of Jewish nationhood, as represented by the Talmudists from Russia.
I have a description, from a person who was present, of the manner in which the Nuremberg judgment came to be delivered on September 30 and October 1, 1946 (between the Jewish New Year, September 26, and the Jewish Day of Atonement, October 5), and was executed immediately after midnight in the morning of October 16, Hoshana Rabba, the day when the Jewish god, after an interval during which he considers his verdict on every single human being, and may still pardon sinners, delivers his final judgment. This description says, '... all trifling circumstances delayed it, till the date was fixed somewhere round September 15 . . . Then X, one of the member judges, objected to the literary form of part of the judgment . . . it was roughly calculated how long it would take to recast it and to recopy the recasting; and the date was fixed by this'.
[... it was finally] executed on the day of Jehovah's vengeance.
[A report] spoke of 'mock trials' to which the defendants had been brought hooded, with ropes round their necks, and 'tried' before mock-altars with crucifixes and candles; they were subjected to brutal treatment in the effort to extort confession which then could be produced before the real trial (the prisoners were led to believe that the mock-trial was the genuine one)."
--Douglas Reed; "The Controversy of Zion," p. 396-401

"Rabbi Eliezer said: It is permitted to cut off the head of an 'idiot' on the feast of the Atonement [October 5] when it falls on the Sabbath."
(Pesachim 49b, The Talmud)

"It used to be than an antisemite was anyone who hates Jews, but unfortunately today... an antisemite is anyone whom Jews hate."
--Dr. Alfred Lilienthal, himself Jewish, writing in "The New American View," June 1, 1992

The death of Mussolini

"The Jews... have great influence everywhere. It is better to leave them alone. Hitler's anti-Semitism has already brought him more enemies than necessary."
--Mussolini, in 1932

Rudolf Hess two years before his alleged suicide
in the Spandau prison (his family doesn't believe it);
sentenced to life imprisonment; captured in Britain

"No matter what human beings do I shall some day stand before
the judgement seat of the Eternal. I shall answer to Him,
and I know he will judge me innocent."
--Rudolf Hess, in a statement to the Nuremberg Tribunal

"National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism... under USSR law active anti-Semites are liable to the death penalty."
(From Stalin's "Collected Works," vol. 13, p. 30)

Julius Streicher

Streicher, in charge of the Stürmer until 1939

"Mit dem Stürmer gegen Juda
(With the Storm man against Judah)"

"Zionism must be vigorously supported in order to encourage a significant number of German Jews to leave for Palestine or other destinations."
--Alfred Rosenberg, ideologist of Nazism, in "Die Spur," 1920

An aged Julius Streicher before his death

"Streicher had insisted from the start that this trial was a 'triumph of world-Jewry', and he hinted to [Dr] Gilbert that three of the judges appeared to be Jews. He fully expected to die as a martyr to the cause - which in his case was the fight against the Jews. However he had had nothing to do with any mass-murder of the Jews; indeed he had been out of public office since 1939. Gilbert anticipated that Streicher's defence would be based on 'fantastic' references to circumcision and world Zionism, and to the teachings of the Talmud, and that these arguments need hardly be answered. [...] He never changed his mind about the Jews: least of all here at Nuremberg, which he regarded from start to finish as the final proof of all that he had ever taught about them. [Julius Streicher...] put a spin on the day's grim end which had probably not occurred to the rest: today [October 15, 1946] was Purim, one of the high holy days of the Jewish calendar commemorating the deliverance of the Jews in Persia from destruction by Haman. 'Heil Hitler!' he called out. 'This is a joyous Jewish festival, but it is my Purim festival! The day will come when the Bolsheviks will hang the lot of you!'"
(David Irving, "Nuremberg, The Last Battle")

"Two elderly men who both survived the nazi death camps are now suspected of attempting to commit murder on Nazis [or 'German soldiers']. The attempts were made in 1946 [!]. The men are suspected of having poisoning Nazis in a camp, states the persecutor in the German city Nürnberg. The men are today 74 and 76 years old and live in Israel. They have told the Israeli press of how they tried to kill the Nazis. Several of the Nazi prisoners is said to have gotten sick from the poison, but none is supposed to have died."
(The large news organization AFP, Sept. 22, 1999)

"Jewish camp prisoners suspected of crimes in Germany - NÜRNBERG (AFP)
Two elderly men who both survived the Nazi death camps have become suspects in a judicial investigation. They are suspected of trying to revenge by poisoning Nazis in a camp shortly after the Second World War, states the persecutor in German Nürnberg.
The murder attempts is said to have happened in 1946, after the Western Allies and the Soviet Union defeated Hitler's armies.
The victors gathered all military and government workers who worked for the Nazi regime and these were held in prison camps in waiting time of trail.
The two Jewish survivors, both 74 years old [?], today live in Israel and have told the Israeli press of how they tried to kill Nazis. The Jews belonged to a group called Nakam, Revenge. In 1946 they worked in a bakery which delivered bread to the camp and they put arsenic in 3 000 bread meant for the Nazis. [How did they know?!] Several of the Nazi prisoner is said to have gotten ill by the poison, but none died."
(The large news organization AFP, Sept. 22, 1999)