TL;DR It's because of the Holocaust. Stalin ordered the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to create a book detailing the Nazi genocide against all Soviet peoples, claiming it was only the Germans who committed it. The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, however, produced a book focusing solely on Jews and discussing non-German Nazi collaborators. Stalin retaliated banning the book, dissolving the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and massacring its members in the Night of the Murdered Poets, which preceded the Doctors' Plot.In other words, if it were up to the Soviets, the concept of the Holocaust wouldn't exist, hue. And to think that if this book had been written before 1944, the USSR and Eastern Europe would not have helped in the creation of Israel.>The Black Book of Soviet Jewry or simply The Black Book (Russian: Чёpнaя Кни́гa, romanized: Chyórnaya Kníga, IPA: [ˈt͡ɕɵrnəjə ˈknʲiɡə]; Yiddish: דאָס שוואַרצע בוך, Dos shvartse bukh), also known as The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, is a 500-page document compiled for publication by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman originally in late 1944 in the Russian language. It was a result of the collaborative effort by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and members of the American Jewish community to document the anti-Jewish crimes of the Holocaust and the participation of Jews in the resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. The 1991 Kiev edition of The Black Book was subtitled The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the German Nazi Death Camps established on occupied Polish soil during the War 1941–1945>The book was not allowed to be published in the Soviet Union upon the conclusion of the war. Its insistence on the uniqueness of Jewish suffering – above and beyond the rest of Soviet citizenry – was denounced by the Central Committee as anti-Soviet
>Prominent Jewish Soviet writers and journalists Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman served as war reporters for the Red Army. Grossman's documentary reports of the opening of the Treblinka and Majdanek extermination camps were some of the first eyewitness accounts — as early as 1943 — of what later became known as the Holocaust. His article The Treblinka Hell was disseminated at the Nuremberg trials as a document for the prosecution>In 1944–1945, based on their own experiences and on other documents they collected, Ehrenburg and Grossman produced two volumes under the title Murder of the People in Yiddish and handed the manuscript to the JAC. Copies were sent to the United States, the British mandate of Palestine (now Israel) and Romania in 1946, and excerpts were published in the United States in English under the title Black Book that same year. In Romania, a part of the manuscript was also published in 1946. It was also printed in Israel. A handwritten manuscript of the book is held at Yad Vashe>According to Ehrenburg, the mandatory State literary commission did not commit to publish the book in October 1944: "Instead of a straight answer, the resolution was:>"...Write the book, and if it comes out well, it would be published.' But it is not we who are the authors, it is the fascists ... What does that mean, 'comes out well' this is not a novel, it is a document.">The book was partially printed in the Soviet Union by the state Yiddish publisher Der Emes; however, the entire edition, the typefaces, as well as the manuscript, were destroyed. First the censors ordered changes in the text to conceal the specifically anti-Jewish character of the atrocities and to downplay the role of some Ukrainians who worked as Nazi police officers. In 1948 the Soviet edition of the book was scrapped completely
>The collection of original documents that Ehrenburg handed down to the Vilnius Jewish Museum after the war was secretly returned to him upon the Museum's termination in 1948. The JAC was also disbanded, its members purged at the outset of the state campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitans">Typically, the official Soviet policy regarding the Holocaust was to present it as atrocities committed against Soviet citizens, without specifically acknowledging the genocide of the JewsAnd then those /pol/tards say it was the Soviets who created the Holocaust, hue. Ironically, it wasn't them or the Jews, but a German. What a world full of surprises.>Eduard Reinhold Karl Schulte (4 January 1891 in Düsseldorf – 6 January 1966 in Zürich) was a prominent German industrialist. He was one of the first to warn the Allies and tell the world of the Holocaust and systematic exterminations of Jews in Nazi Germany occupied Europe, corroborating the Grojanowski Report>Whereas the Account of a Forced Gravedigger transmitted in the earliest testimony of mass-execution by gassing in the extermination center Chelmno, the leak by Schulte known as the Riegner Telegram confirmed that plans were being discussed in Fuhrer headquarters to apply this form of murder to all transports and deportations of Jews from Europe>However, in England and the United States, Riegner's telegram was met with disbelief. The US State Department considered the telegram "a wild rumor, fueled by Jewish anxieties" while the British Foreign Office did not forward the telegram for some time. Only on 28 August 1942 did it find its way to the President of the World Jewish Congress, Rabbi Stephen Wise. On the advice of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Wise decided to not make it public until confirmation had been received from State Department sources. When that happened in November, Wise held a press conference about it but it received little attention until the Bergson Group began to publicise it
>>18420794Ehrenburg was also persecuted for being extremely anti-German, even by Soviet standards, which needed East Germany, the most powerful socialist state in Europe after the Soviet Union.>His incendiary articles calling for violence against Germans during the Great Patriotic War won him a huge following among front-line Soviet soldiers, but also caused much controversy due to their perceived anti-German sentiment. Ehrenburg later clarified that his writings were about "German aggressors who set foot on Soviet soil with weapons", not the whole German people>He saw the Great Patriotic War as a dramatic contest between good and evil. In his articles, moral and life-affirming Red Army soldiers faced off against a dehumanized German enemy>His incendiary articles calling for vengeance against the German enemy won him a huge following among front-line Soviet soldiers, who sent him much fan mail. As a consequence, he is one of many Soviet writers, along with Konstantin Simonov and Alexey Surkov, who many have accused of "[lending] their literary talents to the hate campaign" against Germans. Austrian historian Arnold Suppan argued that Ehrenburg "agitated in the style of Nazi racist ideology", with statements such as:>"The Germans are not humans. […] From now on, the word German causes gunfire. We shall not speak. We shall kill. If during a day you have not killed a single German, you have wasted the day. […] If you do not kill the German, he will kill you. […] If it is quiet at your section of the front and you are waiting for the battle, kill a German before the battle. If you let the German live, he will kill a Russian man and rape a Russian woman. If you have killed a German, kill another one too. […] Kill the German, thus cries your homeland."
>>18421745>This pamphlet, titled "Kill", was written during the Battle of Stalingrad. Ehrenburg later accompanied the Soviet forces during the East Prussian Offensive and criticized the indiscriminate violence against German civilians, for which he was reprimanded by Stalin. However, his previous writings had already been interpreted as license for atrocities against German civilians during the Soviet invasion of Germany in 1945. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels accused Ehrenburg of advocating the rape of German women. However, Ehrenburg denied this and historian Antony Beevor claims that it was a Nazi fabrication. In January 1945, Adolf Hitler stated that "Stalin's court lackey, Ilya Ehrenburg, declares that the German people must be exterminated">After criticism by Georgy Aleksandrov in Pravda in April 1945, Ehrenburg responded that he never meant wiping out the German people, but only German aggressors who set foot on Soviet soil with weapons, because "we are not Nazis who fight with civilians”. Ehrenburg fell into disgrace at that time and it is estimated that Aleksandrov's article was a signal of change in Stalin's policy towards GermanyHe only managed to save his own skin from the Soviets by opposing Zionism.>Following the turn of the Soviet policy toward Israel, Ehrenburg denounced Zionism in his controversial article 'On the Subject of One Letter' (published in Pravda in September 1948) and warned Soviet Jews not to identify with Israel, a bourgeois state. "The Jewish people does not want to hear Ehrenburg's advice," wrote 'A grey-haired old man from Moscow' as a reply to his article in the newspaper Eynikayt
>>18420818The worst part is that the Allies didn't do anything either.>A major, curious, disturbing, and certainly deliberate omission in Dulles's Bern reports is the virtual lack of any material relating to the fate of Jews in Nazi Europe and of the mechanisms of Nazi genocide. Switzerland was a major conduit for institutions and individuals reporting on the Holocaust; industrialist Eduard Schulte, a key informant whom Dulles used for other matters, gave early warning elsewhere. The editor speculates that Dulles feared Allied priority given to Holocaust warnings would overwhelm Switzerland with refugees (thus hindering covert operations), and might, given European anti-Semitism, backfire on his own projects. Still, Dulles's "reticence [on Jewish matters] ... is among the most controversial and least understandable aspects of his performance in Bern" (p. 570)The only ones who tried to do something were the Poles.>Raczyński's Note, dated December 10, 1942, and signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Raczyński, was the official diplomatic note from the government of Poland in exile regarding the extermination of the Jews in German-occupied Poland. Sent to the foreign ministers of the Allies, it was the first official report on the Holocaust to inform the Western public about these crimes. It identified Treblinka, Bełżec and Sobibór by name as extermination camps. It was also the first official speech of one of the governments of Nazi-occupied Europe in defense of all Jews persecuted by Germany – not only citizens of their country>In 1940, Polish Resistence leader Witold Pilecki let himself be captured by the occupying Germans in order to be voluntarily sent to Auschwitz and infiltrate it. At Auschwitz, he organized a resistance movement that eventually included hundreds of inmates, and he secretly drew up reports detailing German atrocities at the camp, which were smuggled out to Home Army headquarters and shared with the Western Allies
is this gonna be one of those report the pic moments that ends with you getting permanently banned for posting illegal content, favelabro?
>>18422716Page 7 of Raczyński's note to the British government. Treblinka, Bełżec and Sobibór are labelled "extermination camps". The persecution of Jews is highlighted. Murder by poison gas is mentioned. Dated 10th December 1942. Right in the middle of the battle of Stalingrad, Operation Torch and Guadalcanal, before Rzhev, Nikolayevka or Husky. The Allies weren't winning yet.And this was a note from the ambassador of occupied Poland to the UK government. Stalin had nothing to do with it. He had no time to be inventing stories about evil Nazis killing circumcised children, he was too busy trying to encircle Von Paulus in Stalingrad and sending help to Leningrad.Karski's original report was censored by the Americans and Soviets because they found it too biased and anti-German. They didn't believe a civilised nation that was part of the international community could be so cruel and inhumane. Years later Karski would be vindicated by evidence on the ground.Refute that, you genocidal simp.
>>18422726>if you point out my heckin epic shitposting with illegal content you are the nazis huehuehue brbrbrIn a hypothetical scenario where someone reports that OP image, is this thread going to get deleted?
I've always wondered, was the illegal content some kind of ironic in-joke with the /his/ mod team? I can feel the mass reports on this post (and my previous ones) right now lol, please remember it's just shitposting, don't get too offended
>>18422726>Murder by poison gas is mentioned.no it isn't. you cannot extrapolate from killing trucks to gas chambers.>vindicated by evidencelie.
>>18422730>you cannot extrapolate from killing trucks to gas chambersI can, I'm doing this now, I'll do it later and nothing will stop me, genocidal scum.https://polishfreedom.pl/en/note-addressed-to-the-governments-of-the-united-nations-by-the-polish-minister-of-foreign-affairs-edward-raczynski-regarding-german-crimes-in-occupied-poland/>After the contingent was assembled, the people were packed forcibly into cattle trucks to the number of 120 in each truck, which had room for forty. The trucks were then locked and sealed. The Jews were suffocating for lack of air. The floors of the trucks were covered with quicklime and chlorine. As far as is known, the trains were dispatched to three localities – Tremblinka, Belzec and Sobibor, to what the reports describe as “Extermination camps”> The Jews were suffocating for lack of airNazi chambers killed by suffocation not poisoning. The carbon monoxide of Zyklon B (invented by the German Jew Fritz Haber, whose chlorine gas was the first chemical weapon used in History, by the Germans themselves in WW1 Ypres, Belgium) is poisonous, but with that many people in a confined space, you're going to run out of air being displaced by the gas than any poisonous qualities of the gas first and foremost. This also did not require the room to have a secure air-tight seal and allowed guards/other prisoners near the chambers to be unharmed because they had access to fresh air all around them and would not have received close to enough gas to be suffocated, rendering the “b-but wooden doors” argument completely moot.>lie>"If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain." - Mein Kampf page 766, Stalag Edition, Ostara PublicationsIs your Führer lying, bastard?
>stopped replying after mentioning the illegal contentkek cowardly moortuguese dog
>>18422731They were also infanticidal scum. No wonder /his/pedos admire them.
>>18422731They also used this method of execution on disabled (Aktion T4) before the Jews.>Letter from August Becker to Walther Rauff of 16 May 1942>"I brought to the attention of the special units concerned the immense psychological injuries and damages involved to their health that this work can have for those men, even if not immediately, at least later on. The men complained to me about headaches, which appeared after each unloading. Nevertheless they don't want to change the orders, because they are afraid prisoners called for that work could use an opportune moment to flee. To protect the men from these damages, I request orders to be issued accordingly. The application of the gas is not undertaken correctly. In order to come to an end as fast as possible, the driver presses the accelerator to the fullest extent. By doing that the persons to be executed suffer death from suffocation and not death by dozing off as was planned. My directions have now proved that by correct adjustment of the levers death comes faster and the prisoners fall asleep peacefully. Distorted faces and excretions, such as could be seen before, are no longer noticed."
>>18421786Fortunately for me that i immediately found out you posted this completely fictional and false map, so i didn't waste my time reading your made up story.Furthermore, the Jewish anti-facist committee was targeted by Stalin because he was anti-semitic, and he planned to make Israel a communist state, but of course it didn't happened so he persecute his opponents as always; there were never "against all soviet peoples" nonsense. Furthermore, there isn't "palestinian land" in 1946 -The only land was British, as modern-day Israel was a British mandate, create by Britain and recognized by the League of Nations.-There is no "palestinian" people, it never existed; there are only Jordanien settlers, egyptian settlers or israeli citizens from arab israeli minority.You lost, you turkisj grey wolve.
>>18424280>>18421786 #You lost, you turkish grey wolf.
>>18424280>Furthermore, the Jewish anti-facist committee was targeted by Stalin because he was anti-semitic, and he planned to make Israel a communist stateIsrael wouldn't exist if it weren't for him. One of the criticisms of Jewishness in the Soviet Union, and one I agree with, is that the immigration laws were more lenient for Jews, if they were truly anti-Semitic, they would have sent the Jews to Siberia and not allowed them to flee the Soviet Union. Without Jewish migration, Israel wouldn't exist.>During the postwar years, Beria supervised the successful establishment of Communist regimes in the countries of Eastern Europe, usually by coup d'etat, and hand-picked the leaders. A substantial number of these leaders were Jews, which drew the attention of Stalin. Starting in 1948, Abakumov initiated several investigations against these leaders, which culminated with the arrest in November 1951 of Rudolf Slánský, Bedřich Geminder, and others in Czechoslovakia>These men were generally accused of Zionism and cosmopolitanism, but, more specifically, of providing weapons to Israel. Beria was deeply disturbed by these charges, as large amounts of Czech arms had been sold to Israel on his direct orders>Beria wanted an alliance with Israel to advance the communist cause in the Middle East, while later Soviet leaders chose instead to form a powerful alliance with countries in the Arab World. Altogether, 14 Czechoslovak Communist leaders, 11 of them Jewish, were tried, convicted, and executed (see Slánský trial). Similar investigations in Poland and other Soviet satellite countries occurred at the same time
>>18424341>Between June 1947 and October 31, 1949, the Jewish agency (later to become the Israeli government) seeking weapons for Operation Balak, made several purchases of weapons in Czechoslovakia, some of them of former German army weapons, captured by the Czechoslovak army on its national territory, or newly produced German weapons from Czechoslovakia's post-war production>In this deal, sale activities of Czechoslovak arms factories were coordinated by a special-purpose department of the Československé závody strojírenské a kovodělné, n.p. (Czechoslovak Metal-Working and Engineering Works, Nat.Ent.) Holding, called Sekretariát D (Secretariat D), headed by Gen. Jan Heřman (ret.)>The deliveries from Czechoslovakia proved important for the establishment of Israel>The official Soviet ideological position on Zionism condemned the movement as akin to bourgeois nationalism. Vladimir Lenin rejected Zionism as a reactionary movement, "bourgeois nationalism", "socially retrogressive", and a backward force that deprecates class divisions among Jews>From late 1944, however, Joseph Stalin adopted a pro-Zionist foreign policy, apparently believing that a Jewish state would emerge socialist and pro-Soviet, and thus would speed the decline of British influence in the Middle East>Accordingly, in November 1947, the Soviet Union, together with the other countries of the Eastern Bloc, voted in favour of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which would pave the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. On 17 May 1948, three days after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the Soviet Union granted de jure recognition to Israel, becoming the second country to recognize Israel overall (preceded by the United States' granting of de facto recognition) and the first country to grant it de jure recognition
>>18424280>>18424341>>18424344>There is no "palestinian" people, it never existedThe first mention of the Philistines (from whom the name Palestine derives) in the Torah appears in Genesis 10:14, in the context of the Table of Nations (the genealogy of Noah's descendants after the Flood):>"...and Casluhim, from whom came the Philistines..." (Genesis 10:14)Here, the Philistines are presented as descendants of Casluhim (It is not Caftorim/Crete), son of Mizraim (Egypt), who in turn is the son of Ham, one of Noah's sons.Other important early mentions:Genesis 21:32-34 — Abraham makes a treaty with Abimelech, king of Gerar, who is identified as a Philistine:>"And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days."Genesis 26 — Isaac also has interactions with Abimelech, again described as king of the Philistines.These texts show the Philistines already established in the land of Canaan during the time of the patriarchs (Abraham and Isaac), which is anachronistically curious, because according to later texts (such as Deuteronomy 2:23 and Amos 9:7), the Philistines would have come from Caphtor (usually identified with Crete) as part of the "Sea Peoples", centuries after the patriarchal period.Herodotus says that Palestine was a coastal region between Egypt and southern Syria. Aristotle extended the description of Palestine, including almost all of Israel. Ovid talks in the first century about a seventh-day festival celebrated by the Syrians of Palestine, a clear reference to Shabbat. Philon of Alexandria uses the term "Palaistine" in several passages to refer to Israel. Josephus refers to the region of Israel as Palestine: "The events that befell us Jews in Egypt, in Syria, and in Palestine", that is, even for the Jews, Palestine was synonymous of the land of Israel.
>>18420794>produced a book focusing solely on Jewstypical JewsI also heard they deny the Armenian genocide only because it distracts from the Holocaust
if you read a Polish history book you'd think the Poles were the sole victims of the Holocaust as well and Jews never existed, big deal
>>18424395Jews historically lived apart in segregated communities in especially Eastern Europe and had hard time relating to problems of non Jews, although this isn't exclusive to that. there are American writers who talked about how ethnic communities in NYC in this time mostly lived their separate lives, Jews and Italians for instance did not interact with each other outside work and generally disliked and distrusted each other.In Singapore ethnic ghettos are specifically banned and people of all races are required to share housing units.the tl;dr is people are by nature tribalistic and unless forced to will tend to only hang out with those who look like themselves
It's half-true. Jews were not the sole victims of the Holocaust, however Germany was also not the sole perpetrator--like the US, the Soviets had political reasons to assign sole responsibility to them.
>>18421745> the most powerful socialist state in Europe after the Soviet UnionThat was Yugoslavia, not East Germany.
>>18421745>the most powerful socialist state in Europe after the Soviet Union.Not really. Even if we exclude Yugoslavia on the basis of being a third party, Czechia and Poland had bigger militaries (plus the population and territorial depth to actually survive for a prolonged period of time) despite being roughly only half as militarised. Nevermind that there was so much dissidence that Eastern Germany was forced to spent a ton of resources into their secret service and the para-military just to keep their population in check. Eastern Germany's only strategic importance in a military conflict was them bordering Western Germany.
>>18424429>>18424440*Western Europe. Yugoslavia would have become more powerful if they had remained with the Soviets to create the Balkan Federation.>For a short period during the Cominform, the Yugoslav and Bulgarian Communist leaders Josip Broz Tito and Georgi Dimitrov worked on a project to merge their two countries into a Balkan Federative Republic. As a concession to the Yugoslav side, Bulgarian authorities agreed to the recognition of a distinct Macedonian ethnicity and language in part of their own population in the Bulgarian part of the geographic region of Macedonia. This was one of the conditions of the Bled Agreement, signed between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria on 1 August 1947. In November 1947, pressured by both the Yugoslavs and the Soviets, Bulgaria also signed a treaty of friendship with Yugoslavia. The Bulgarian head of state Georgi Dimitrov was sympathetic to the Macedonian Question. The Bulgarian Communist party was compelled once again to adapt its stance to Soviet interests in the Balkans. The policies resulting from the agreement were reversed after the Tito–Stalin split in June 1948, when Bulgaria, being subordinated to Soviet interests, was forced to take a stance against Yugoslavia
>>18420801No physical evidence for battle of Stalingrad
>>18424440Also outside of Europe: Cuba, China and Vietnam all mog the German Democratic Republic in martial prowess.
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>>18424518Coping and Seething.>The Jäger Report, also Jaeger Report (full title: Complete tabulation of executions carried out in the Einsatzkommando 3 zone up to December 1, 1941) was written on 1 December 1941 by Karl Jäger, commander of Einsatzkommando 3 (EK 3), a death squad of Einsatzgruppe A attached to Army Group North in the Operation Barbarossa. It is the most detailed and precise surviving chronicle of the activities of one individual Einsatzkommando, and a key record documenting the Holocaust in Lithuania as well as in Latvia and Belarus>The report keeps an almost daily running total of the murders of 137,346 people, the vast majority Jews, from 2 July 1941 to 25 November 1941. The report documents date and place of the massacres, number of victims and their breakdown into categories (Jews, communists, criminals, etc.). In total, there were 112 executions in 71 different locations in Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus. On 17 occasions, daily casualties exceeded 2,000 people>On 9 February 1942, in a handwritten note for Franz Walter Stahlecker, Jäger updated the totals to 138,272 people: 136,421 Jews (46,403 men, 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 communists, 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others. The report concluded that Lithuania was now Judenfrei (free of Jews) except for about 34,500 Jews concentrated in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos>Report by Himmler stating that 363,211 Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen on the Eastern Front from between August and November 1942. This document was marked "Shown to the Führer">This document was marked "Shown to the Führer">>18424141 was also authorized by Hitler and used the same method of execution of Holocaust btw.
Brazilinonce is still yapping? Got bored of avatarfagging with illegal content I guess
>>18424923The above pictured letter is chronologically the first German document which called for an extermination of Jews deemed unfit for labor via homicidal gassing. At the same time, the existence of this document proves a link between, on one hand, Aktion T4, regarding which Adolf Hitler's personal involvement has been conclusively proven (including signature), and on the other hand the mass murder of Jews that became collectively known as the Holocaust, even referencing the Einsatzgruppen shootings.Viktor Brack, a civil servant in the T4 euthanasia program, had served in 1930 and 1931 as Heinrich Himmler’s driver. In 1934, he was appointed the head of Central Office II of the Chancellery of the Führer (address Tiergartenstraße 4, hence abbreviated T4), where he oversaw the murder by gas and lethal injections of some seventy thousand mentally and physically handicapped ethnic German victims.Hinrich Lohse (yes, Hinrich, not Heinrich) was the Reich Commissar for the East - for the combined Baltic States and Russia. In 1941, he moved into his offices in Kovno, and then Riga.On October 4, 1941, Lohse sent a letter from Riga to court judge and Adviser on Jewish Affairs Dr. Erhard Wetzel, “re: the solution of the Jewish question.” While that letter did not survive the war, three weeks later, on October 25 1941, Wetzel replied the following to Lohse, which is the letter pictured above:The Reich Ministryfor the Occupied Eastern TerritoriesBerlin, October 25, 1941Expert AGR Dr. WetzelSecret!Re: Solution of the Jewish Question1. To the Reich Commissar for the EastRe: Your report of October 4, 1941 in respect to the Solution of the Jewish Question
>>18425188With reference to my letter of October 18, 1941, this is to inform you that Oberdienstleiter Brack of the Führer Chancellery has agreed to collaborate in the production of the required shelters and gassing devices. At this time, the envisaged devices are not available in sufficient quantity; they will first have to be manufactured. Since in Brack’s opinion, the manufacture of the devices in the Reich will cause much greater difficulties than doing it on the spot, Brack considers it most expedient to send his people to Riga, especially his chemist Dr. Kallmeyer, who will effect all further steps there. Oberdienstleiter Brack points out that the procedure in question is not without danger, so that special protective measures are necessary. In these circumstances, I request that you address yourself to Oberdienstleiter Brack in the Führer Chancellery through your Higher SS and Police Leader and request the dispatch of the chemist Kallmeyer and other assistants. I should inform you that Sturmbannführer Eichmann, the expert for the Jewish Question in the RSHA is entirely in agreement with this process. According to information from Sturmbannführer Eichmann, camps for Jews are to be set up in Riga and Minsk, to which Jews from the Old Reich territory may also come. At this time, Jews are being evacuated out of the Old Reich to Litzmannstadt (Lodz), and also other camps, to then later be used for labour in the east insofar as they are capable of work.
>>18425189As things now are, there are no objections if the Jews who are not capable of work, are eliminated with the Brackian remedy. In this way, events such as those that, according to a report in front of me, took place on the occasion of the shootings of the Jews in Vilna, and which, considering that the shootings were carried out in public, can hardly be excused, will no longer be possible. On the other hand, those capable of work will be transported for labour in the east. It goes without saying that the male and female Jews capable of work will be kept apart.I request a report on your further measures.(the last paragraph is translated from the harder to read original 2nd page, so I will provide the transcript of this page below:)"Nach Sachlage bestehen keine Bedenken, wenn diejenigen Juden, die nicht arbeitsfähig sind, mit den Brackschen Hilfsmitteln beseitigt werden. Auf diese Weise dürften dann auch Vorgänge, wie sie sich bei den Erschießungen der Juden in Wilna nach einem mir vorliegenden Bericht ergeben haben, und die auch im Hinblick darauf, daß die Erschießungen öffentlich vorgenommen wurden, kaum gebilligt werden können, nicht mehr möglich sein. Die Arbeitsfähigen dagegen werden zum Arbeitseinsatz nach Osten abtransportiert. Daß bei den arbeitsfähigen Juden Männer und Frauen getrennt zu halten sind, dürfte selbstverständlich sein."So what we have here, is a letter that speaks plain as day of gassing devices (Vergasungsapparate), in all likelihood mobile gas vans rather than stationary gas chambers (since they theoretically could, but for practical purposes cannot be manufactured in the Reich and should rather be assembled on-location instead, as Wetzel stresses); of eliminating (beseitigen) Jews via the Brackian remedy (T4), and even references to Einsatzgruppen activity, i.e. shootings of Jews in Vila in public (Erschießungen der Juden in Wilna; öffentlich vorgenommen). No euphemisms this time.
>>18425190hese are just some of the documents that not only prove the existence of vans having been jury rigged to be mobile gas chambers, but also what their purpose was: not fumigation or any other nonsense, but the murder of human beings using Carbon Monoxide (CO). I have marked the incriminating passages and boy are there many.Open the image in a new tab for a zoom.So, what do some of the marked passages say? Here is just some translation of mine:(author's note: grammatically, "einzige Ausfertigung" is right, as "einzigste" would translate to "onliest")"Since December 1941, 97,000 have been processed by 3 employed vans."CO gas (not necessarily pure, but e . g. a component of exhaust) is repeatedly mentioned as the agent. Not Zyklon or anything else.Cleanup of the vans' interior is mentionedObservation windows are no longer necessary...There's a discussion whether interior lighting should be bothered with or not......but closing the back door and ensuing darkness causes the "load" inside to push around, making it tough to lock the door....such a commotion also causes noise......therefore lighting should be used at least for the first couple of minutes......and the lighting is also useful during cleanup after nightfall.Signed, SS-Obersturmführer Rauff, June 5, 1942The document below the first talks about the vans being employed during executions in remote areas, and how badly maneuverable off-road terrain is.How windows had to be installed on the van's exterior as windowless vans were perceived as death-vans by the local populace already, and doubts expressed whether this new guise will work for long or not.
