Yom HaShoah -Holocaust rememberance day in Israel is where we Israelis remember the very REAL "Genocide" of our relatives, our MORE than SIX MILLION -recorded-Jewish people who perished due to virulent anti-Semitic hatred!
With the elevation of Adolph Hitler to be the leadership of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler and the German implemented a policy that came to be known as the “Final Solution”, a horrific episode in the history of mankind.A plan made worst by the utter silence and complicity of the world!!
After the infamous Wannasee conference in January 1942 Hitler’s Final Solution became official Nazi policy.
Hitler was determined not just to isolate Jews in Germany and countries annexed by the Nazis, but by subjecting them to dehumanizing regulations and random acts of violence. Hitler was convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain.
In my multiple blog entries, some from years passed, I have attempted to explain how Hitler and his subordinates used all the orchestrated means of a modern industrialized and highly educated civilisation to complete the task known as the "Final solution to the Jewish question" -in German Die Endlsung der Judenfrage a very REAL coldly calculated and laid out plan of "genocide" of our Jewish people.
The term "Genocide" has been horrifically been misused by Palestinian apologists and lately by "Senior News correspondents" in their quest to defame Israel in the eyes of the world by quoting the high (inflated) number of casualties -read "Human Shields"- libelously and falsely reported by the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health conflict in Gaza. Casaulties that are a direct outcome of the conlict STARTED by Hamas!
I have written my previous blog entries to explain how the "Genocide" of the Jewish People differed from that of the other nations and peoples.
Not to belittle them -but to show how a nation of "superior intellect" and highly educated leaders could be so utterly cruel in their inhuman- coldly calculated- (read my blog entry regarding the use of the IBM German subsidiary Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, produced punch card and card sorting system-a precursor to the computer) to literally eradicate a people!
A machine designed and calculated to expedite and, in many ways, automate, all six phases of Hitler's war against the Jews.
Those six phases were: identification, expulsion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation and ultimately even extermination.
The Dehomag machine was designed, calculated and used to NOT just exterminate and eradicate all evidence of their Jewish citizens but to gain financially for the effort!
The Final solution was a fullscale Extermination Plan, from the creation of the Ghettos, to the use of the Seven Einsatzgruppen Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads. After the opening of the "War in the East", during Operation Barbarosa, these "Death Squads" murdered over ONE million Jewish men, women and children. Their numbers NOT included in the "Six Million" as they were NOT recorded.
The fullscale Extermination Plan also incorporated industrilized "death Camps" with the use of Zyklon "B" gas to murder hundreds cheaply at a time in gas chambers and crematoriums, that used the foremost deigned German made ovens / furnaces to wipe out any sign of the deed. NOT JUST by cremating the remains but to crush their bones into ash as well!
The sheer immensity of the hatred and brutality of the cold blooded murder of innocent men, women and children seers the mind.
Truly as Hannah Arendt so correctly asserted "the banality of evil".
Many ask. Why was the day January 27 designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in most countries?
The reason is that on this day it is noted that Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most well known slave labor and death camp was liberated by the Russian's. Auschwitz is where the Nazis implemented the industrialized mass production scale of the genocide of the Jewish people.
Why was Auschwitz-Birkenau so special?
The answer as the saying goes; "Location".
Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz was deemed an ideal death camp locale, for it was situated near the center of all German-occupied countries on the European continent and in close proximity to a hub of railway lines from Western Europe and from the East. It made for the rapid transportation of detainees by rail "expeditious" and economical since the cost of "transport" was deducted from the wealth collected from the Jews and their communities! Some poorer Jewish communities transportation costs -like that of the SS documented records of the Jews of the Balklands and the Aegean Islands, were deducted from the wealth collected from the wealthier Jews of Austria.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was initially converted from a Polish Army Cavalry Base in 1940 later evolved into a network of camps. Auschwitz became operational as a death camp, in February 1942. By the time it was liberated slightly less than 3 years later, 960,000 Jews were killed at Auschwitz and another 100,000 non-Jews were killed. On average, over 1,000 Jews per day were murdered at Auschwitz once the gas chambers became operational. Industrialized mass-murder.
In January 1945, with the Soviet army approaching, Nazi officials ordered the camp abandoned and sent an estimated 60,000 prisoners on a forced march to other locations. When the Soviets entered Auschwitz, they found thousands of emaciated detainees and piles of corpses left behind.
But the Holocaust didn’t start at Auschwitz. The Holocaust didn’t also start with the many other death camps, concentration camps, slave labor camps, ghettos and killing fields in Europe where over 5 million other Jews were murdered.
The Holocaust started because of systemic and endemic Jew-hatred, and the prevalence and wide-spread acceptance of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The Holocaust started with the indifference to that hatred and to the violence it inspired.
The Holocaust happened because Jews had no organized way to defend themselves and no country of our own. The Holocaust occured because humanity did not care enough to try and stop their genocide or even give the Jews shelter from the rising storm of antisemitic hate in Europe. Today, we can readily witness the very same rise in extremely vile, and even worst vulgar pro-Palestinian Jew-hatred! We can readily see the same increasing prevalence of despicable mendacious lies and antisemitic conspiracy theories in the press and more importantly on the world news media and social media. We can also see an increase in those brainwashed by Palestinian disinformation, into not only demonizing the one Jewish state, but to try to delegitimize it out of existence. Their concerted effort is to finally eradicate and destroy the LONE JEWISH State of Israel the one thing that may have prevented the very REAL GENOCIDE of the SIX MILLION PLUS in the Holocaust had it existed before 1939. The vile vulgar HATE filled anti-Semitic pro-"Falestinian" propagandists have branded the Jews of Israel as "White European Colonists" to those brainwashed and horribly duped UNEDUCATED "Prestigeous University students" demonstrators. I wish to also point out that NOT "just" Ashkenazic "European", read "White Jews"- were exterminated!
"People ask me; Where was God at Auschwitz? My reply is: Where was humanity at Auchwitz?" Where were we when he called to us, to warn us?" When human life is no longer sacred Aushwitz became possible."