From: cpr@igc.apc.org (Center for Policy Research)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Jewish collaboration with Nazis
Date: 12 Dec 92 13:22:00 GMT
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From: Center for Policy Research <cpr>
Subject: Jewish collaboration with Nazis

/* Written  4:36 am  Dec  9, 1992 by cpr@igc.apc.org in igc:talk.politics. */
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Jewish collaboration with Nazis
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by Prof. Israel Shahak, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

(from Kol HaUir, 19 May 1989)

I disagree with the opinion of Haim Baram that the Israeli education system
has managed to instil a RHolocaust awarenessS in its pupils (Kol HaUir 12.5.89).
ItUs not an awareness of the Holocaust but rather the myth of the Holocaust
or even a falsification of the Holocaust which has been instilled here.

As one who himself lived through the Holocaust, first in Warwaw then in
Bergen-Belsen, I will give an immediate example of the total ignorance of
daily life during the Holocaust. In the Warsaw Ghetto, even during the period
of the first massive extermination (June to October 1943), one saw almost no
German soldiers. Nearly all the work of administration, and later the work of
transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths, was carried out by
Jewish collaborators. Before the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (the
planning of which only started after the extermination of the majority of the
Jews in Warsaw), the Jewish underground killed, with perfect justification,
every Jewish collaborator they could find. If they had not done so the Uprising
could never have started. The majority of the population of the Ghetto hated the
collaborators far more than the German Nazis. Every Jewish child was taught,
and this saved the lives of some of them Rif you enter a square from which there
are three exits, one guarded by a German SS man, one by an Ukranian and one by
a Jewish policeman, then you should first try to pass the German, and then maybe
the Ukrainan, but never the Jew.S

One of my own strongest memories is that, when Jewish underground killed a 
despicable collaborator close to my home at the end of February 1943, I danced
and sang around the still bleeding corpse together with the other children. I still
do not regret this, quite the contrary.

It is clear that such events were not exclusive to the Jews, the entire Nazi success
is easy and continued rule over millions of people stemmed from the subtle and
diabolical use of collaborators, who did most of the dirty work for them. But does
anybody know now about this ? (...) Of the Yad Vashem (official state Holocaust
museum in Jerusalem - Ed.) theatre, I do not wish to speak, at all. It, and its vile
exploiting, such as honouring South Africa collaborators with the Nazis are truly
beneath contempt.

Therefore, if we knew a little of the truth about the Holocaust, we would at least
understand (with or without agreeing) why the Palestinians are now eliminating
their collaborators. That is the only means they have if they wish to continue to
struggle against our limb-breaking regime.

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