Zionism was a Quisling Movement That Collaborated with the Nazis and Obstructed the Rescue Efforts of Others
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To judge by its weaponisation of the holocaust in its war propaganda, people would be forgiven for thinking that during the holocaust the Zionist movement worked relentlessly to try and rescue Jews from Hitler’s clutches. Yet the reverse is the case.
Rudolf Vrba Interviewed by Claude Lanzmann
During the holocaust the Zionists did not want to know about what was happening in Europe. They had one goal and one goal only – to build their genocidal ‘Jewish’ state. Indeed they did their best to obstruct the rescue efforts of others if the destination was not Palestine. That is why I wrote my book, Zionism During the Holocaust, to set the record straight.
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You don’t have to take my word for it. Just read the last chapter of Shabtai Teveth’s official biography of Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, which is entitled Disaster Means Strength. The disaster of the holocaust meant strength for the Zionists.
As Zionist historian Noah Lucas observed:
As the European holocaust erupted, Ben-Gurion saw it as a decisive opportunity for Zionism… Ben-Gurion above all others sensed the tremendous possibilities inherent in the dynamic of the chaos and carnage in Europe…. In conditions of peace,… Zionism could not move the masses of world Jewry. The forces unleashed by Hitler in all their horror must be harnessed to the advantage of Zionism. … By the end of 1942… the struggle for a Jewish state became the primary concern of the movement. [A Modern History of Israel, pp. 187/8]
In November 1935 Ben-Gurion explained that:
To the disaster of German Jewry we must offer a Zionist response, namely, we must convert the disaster into a source for the upbuilding of Palestine.
In October 1941 as the holocaust was raging Ben-Gurion wrote:
Disaster is strength if channelled to a productive course. The whole trick of Zionism is that it knows how to channel our disaster, not into despondency or degradation, as is the case in the Diaspora, but into a source of creativity and exploitation. 29F [Shabtai Teveth, The Burning Ground 1886-1948, p. 853]
Rudolf Vrba
In 1935 the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Laws, which Gerald Reitlinger described as ‘‘the most murderous legislative instrument known to European history’. It turned German Jews from citizens into subjects. Only the Zionists welcomed the laws. Zionist Executive President, Menahem Ussishkin, was effusive:
There is something positive in their [German Jewry’s] tragedy… and that is that Hitler oppressed them as a race and not as a religion. Had he done the latter, half the Jews in Germany would simply have converted to Christianity.
German Zionist leader Joachim Prinz explained that:
(The Jews) have been drawn out of the last secret recesses of christening and mixed marriages. We are not unhappy about it… The theory of assimilation has collapsed…. We want to replace assimilation by something new: the declaration of belonging to the Jewish nation and the Jewish race. A state, built according to the principle of purity of the nation and race can only be honoured and respected by a Jew who declares his belonging to his own kind.‘Wir Juden’ Berlin 1934, p.154 https://tinyurl.com/yxqvmaq5
The Zionists alone amongst Jews saw the advent of the Nazis as something positive. Berl Katznelson, a founder of Mapai and editor of the Histadrut paper Davar, as well as Ben-Gurion’s effective deputy, saw ‘an opportunity to build and flourish like none we have ever had or ever will have.’ [Francis Nicosia, Zionism & Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, p. 91]
When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30 1933 most Jews reacted instinctively by boycotting everything German. Not so the Zionists. They were eager to trade with the Nazis to build their ‘Jewish’ state and in August 1933 they reached a trading agreement with them, Ha’avara.
When the last major Jewish community in Europe was under threat, after the Nazi invasion of Hungary on March 19, 1944, the Zionists suppressed the Vrba-Wetzler Report which, exposed Auschwitz, not as a labour camp but an extermination camp. But first a little background.
On April 10 Rudolf Vrba and his friend Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz with the purpose of warning Hungarian Jews what was in store for them. They had heard SS men talking about looking forward to Hungarian salami, the food that the deportees would bring with them. On April 24 after a perilous journey they reached Slovakia and set down what they knew to the Jewish Council there.
On or about April 29 Rudolf Kasztner, the leader of Hungarian Zionism, paid his monthly visit to Bratislava and was given a copy. What did he do? Spread the word far and wide? On the contrary he took them to Eichmann, told him of them and agreed in negotiations that in exchange for a train out of Hungary to safety for 1684 Zionist and rich Jews, Kasztner would not only suppress the news of Auschwitz but positively misinform the Jews who were getting on the deportations trains.
Kasztner’s Train for the elite
Of this there is no doubt. When Malchiel Greenwald called Kasztner a collaborator in Israel in 1953, he was sued by the Israeli state for libel by Kasztner. But it didn’t turn out as expected. Jews who had survived Auschwitz testified to Kasztner’s treachery. When David Rozner was asked why Kasztner would have been killed if he had set foot in Koloszvár, his home town, after the war, he replied, ‘Because he was the man who misled the Jews to believe in the good intentions of the Germans.’ [Ben Hecht, Perfidy p. 109].
It later turned out that Kasztner had gone to Nuremberg to give evidence that exonerated some of Eichmann’s worst butchers like Hermann Krumey and Dieter Wisliceny. Not surprisingly Rudolf Vrba, who had done his best to ensure that the Vrba-Wetzler Report was distributed to other people, laid the blame at Kasztner’s door and that of the Zionist movement. The response of the Zionist historians was to erase Vrba from historical memory.
In the Israeli school syllabus and holocaust texts there was no mention made of the two Jewish escapees or even the fact that there had been Jews who escaped from Auschwitz.
Vrba’s memoirs, I Cannot Forgive, were printed everywhere but in Israel. No mention was made of Vrba or Wetzler’s name in Yad Vashem, the obscene holocaust propaganda museum in Jerusalem where assorted fascists, neo-Nazis and racists now visit to pay their homage to the Israeli state.
In articles and publications the names of Vrba and Wetzler were never mentioned – they were ‘two Jewish chaps’ or ‘two Jewish prisoners’. In the words of Ruth Linn, an Israeli Professor of Education from Haifa University, who happened, by chance, to meet Vrba at the University of British Columbia,
‘The problem was that none of the escapers had even a ‘minimal layer of Zionist veneer.’ [Ruth Linn, Escaping Auschwitz, a Culture of Forgetting p. 85].
Like Marek Edelman, the last Commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Vrba was eliminated from the history books and by the holocaust industry because he didn’t fit into the Zionist narrative. Linn wrote that
Like Vrba, Edelman never ‘ascended’ to Israel, refusing to become the ‘dead and obedient hero who could be molded along with the political order of that time…. extremely inconvenient for the creation of a heroic Zionist condensing and compensating myth… Israel was not their home.’ Linn, pp. 6, 87.
As people may remember, over 2 months ago I wrote, for Electronic Intifada and my own blog, what Jonathan Cook called an excoriating review of Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist, a biography of Vrba. Freedland’s book was a cheap imitation thriller of Vrba’s own memoirs, I Cannot Forgive. It was dishonest in its justification of Vrba’s silencing.
I decided, at this time of genocide, that it would be appropriate to organise a webinar on the subject of Rewriting the Holocaust and we have an excellent panel of speakers. Stephen Kapos is well known to people as a child survivor of Budapest under the Nazis. Tom Suarez has written two amazingly researched books and Haim Bresheeth, from Jewish Network for Palestine is a long time Israeli-Jewish activist who has just been arrested whilst speaking at a demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy, as I was a month ago.
The days when Israel and the Zionists had a monopoly over the holocaust are gone. The holocaust in Gaza demonstrates that Zionism has not learnt any lessons from the Nazi holocaust. On the contrary the Zionists believe that the Nazi holocaust entitles them to commit their own holocaust, a view that the German State also holds.
Ruth Linn, whose book, Escaping Auschwitz – A Culture of Silence exposed the machinations of Yehuda Bauer and the other establishment Zionist holocaust historians. I invited her to join the panel and initially she accepted. However Ruth Linn is a Zionist and she got cold feet about speaking with anti-Zionists. However you should read Linn’s Who’s afraid of the man who escaped from Auschwitz?
Tony Greenstein
See Defending Vrba and Freedland on Vrba
Should : “The response of the Zionist historians was to erase Kasztner from historical memory” read “The response of the Zionist historians was to erase Vrbafrom historical memory” ?
para, last line, below image of Kasztner and Eichman
yes thanks