Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum has broken off all cooperation with the Hungarian government regarding the building of yet another Holocaust Museum in Budapest—because the new museum doesn’t blame all Hungarians for events during the war.
According to a report in the Times of Israel, Israeli officials are “negotiating” with the Hungarian government to try and “reach a compromise over a new Holocaust museum in Budapest” which they claim “minimizes its countrymen’s role in the killing of half a million Jewish citizens during the Holocaust.”
The report says that “some members of the Hungarian Jewish community, as well as Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center, have boycotted the project due to the historical account presented by the museum on events leading up to and during World War II.”
In a commentary published by The Times of Israel in September, Robert Rozett, a senior Yad Vashem historian, wrote that the concept of the museum was to “distort” the history of events during the Holocaust.
“Visitors to the House of Fates are to be shown and taught that, except for a tiny, criminal and fanatic minority, the citizens of Hungary were essentially blameless for what was inflicted upon their Jewish neighbors,” he noted.
“To this patently misleading distortion, the concept’s planners have added a statistically disproportional over-emphasis on rescue attempts on behalf of Jews, by Hungarians. Thus, it is implied, that Hungary was actually a nation of rescuers. This is a grave falsification of history.”
In other words, the Jews want the Hungarians—all Hungarians—to be blamed for the holocaust, and not just Germans. This is identical to the similar demand by the Jews on Poland that that all Poles also be blamed for “anti-Semitism” during World War II—even though the historical record shows clearly that Jews themselves formed the major part of the police forces in the Jewish areas.
As pointed out by Holocaust scholar Peter Winter, author of the best-selling The Six Million, Fact or Fiction, the claim that half a million Hungarian Jews were “killed by the Nazis” is also open to question.
In the chapter of his book dealing with Auschwitz, Winter wrote the following about the Hungarian Jews:
One of the more commonly quoted “mass gassings” supposed to have been carried out at Auschwitz was that of the alleged liquidation of over 400,000 Jews deported from Hungary between May 15 and July 9, 1944. It is claimed that these Jews were all “gassed” and cremated immediately upon arrival.
This claim is patently false for a large number of reasons, including the already stated impossibility of the workings of the “underground gas chambers” to process so many people.
In addition, the combined crematoria facilities at Auschwitz in June 1944 could never have disposed of 400,000 corpses in an eight-week period. The theoretical maximum capacity of the Birkenau crematories was 1,248 corpses per day, and for the entire 55-day period when Hungarian Jews were arriving at the camp, the maximum theoretical cremation capacity would therefore have been about 68,640 bodies. Even this figure is excessive, because the ovens often broke down and had to be repaired.
The question that then arises is where did the Hungarian Jews go? The answer to this question was actually provided as early as 1964, when Polish historian Danuta Czech revealed, in the first edition of her book Auschwitz Chronicle, that there was a so-called transit camp (Durchgangslager) in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This transit camp served as a temporary holding area for prisoners who were then sent to work at munitions factories and labor camps elsewhere in the Reich.
As Czech noted:
“In mid-May 1944, when the mass transports of Hungarian Jews start arriving in Auschwitz, the young, healthy, and strong Jews of both genders are dispersed for a time as so-called depot prisoners to various barracks at Birkenau, but are not recorded in the camp registers. They are accommodated in Camp B-IIIc [sic], where young, able-bodied female Jews are kept; in the recently vacated Gypsy Family Camp B-IIe, where young, able-bodied male and female Jewish prisoners are accommodated who eventually are taken to the other camps; in Camp B-IIb, which is empty since the liquidation of the Theresienstadt Family Camp; and finally, in Section B-III, still under construction, known as ‘Mexico’ to the prisoners and also intended for female Jews.
“The Jews temporarily located in Birkenau receive no I.D. numbers and are not tattooed. Selections are conducted at specific intervals: When the camp administration has a need for laborers, it sends some prisoners from these camps to specific auxiliary camps or to the labor squads. Then they are registered and given numbers. Under the direction of the WVHA, others are transferred to armaments plants in the interior of the Reich.”
There is also this note for a July 1944 entry:
“The male and female Hungarian Jews who were not registered but were kept as so-called depot prisoners or transit Jews in Camps B-IIc, B-IIe, and Section B-III — called “Mexico” — are not included in the occupancy level of Auschwitz II.” (D. Czech, comp., Auschwitz Chronicle: 1939–1945 [London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 1990], pp. 563–564, 664.)
Under the date of August 22, 1944, Czech reports that there were 30,000 unregistered Hungarian Jews in the Birkenau “transit camp.” (D. Czech, comp., Auschwitz Chronicle, p. 695.)
These references—and the fact that there was a transit camp section at Auschwitz—show that most of the Hungarian Jews were simply shipped off to other labor camps to provide desperately-needed laborers for the Reich’s war effort.
In fact, the German government documents from this time clearly reveal the reasons for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to the Reich: Germany urgently needed labor for armaments and other war-related enterprises.
On May 9, 1944, Heinrich Himmler reported in a letter to the chief of the SS Hauptamt as well as the head of the SS central economic administration office (WVHA) that 10,000 soldiers were to be assigned to guard the workers engaged in the Jäger (pursuit aircraft) construction program, because otherwise “the placing, the guarding and the efficient employment of approximately 200,000 Jews” was impossible. (Nuremberg document NO-5689.)
A report two days later further explained:
“The Führer has ordered that for the guarding of the 200,000 Jews, the Reichsführer SS [Himmler] will dispatch 10,000 Waffen SS soldiers, with their officers and petty officers, who shall be detailed to the concentration camps of the Reich in order to employ them in the large constructions of the Organization Todt and other militarily important duties.”
The reference to “200,000 Jews” was obviously referring to those deported from Hungary, because at that time no other large-scale deportation of Jews was either underway or imminent.
On August 15, 1944, the Concentration Camp department of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt, abbreviated SS-WVHA) reported that there were 524,286 inmates, and that an additional 612,000 prisoners were in the process of being added to the camp system. Of this latter group, 90,000 were Jews who were being brought in as part of the “Hungarian program (Jewish action).”
Between the 90,000 Hungarian Jews mentioned in the SS-WVHA document, and the 200,000 mentioned in the Himmler telegram, nearly 300,000 of the Hungarian Jews are already accounted for as being dispersed away from Auschwitz within weeks of their arrival there.
In summary then, not only was it physically impossible for Auschwitz to murder 400,000 Hungarian Jews in eight weeks, but there exists ample documentation that the vast majority were then deported onward to the approximately 1,200 labor camps and sub-camps which existed throughout the Reich territories.
Finally, by coincidence, the US Air Force flew a number of reconnaissance missions over the Auschwitz complex on May 31, 1944—in preparation for a bombing raid of the region’s industrial facilities. The date of the reconnaissance mission is of critical importance for debunking the “Hungarian Jews mass gassing” allegations—because the images, as released by the US government many years after the war, showed no activity at the camp’s crematoria, no “columns of smoke” nor crowds of “hundreds of thousands of Jews” being unloaded at the camp.
Below: The Birkenau camp, from an enlarged portion of an Allied aerial reconnaissance photograph taken on May 31, 1944. On this day, according to the official “Kalendarium” (or “Auschwitz Chronicle”), thousands of newly arriving Hungarian Jews were killed here in gas chambers, supposedly located in crematory buildings (Kremas) II and III, visible at the upper left. However, no trace of such mass killings can be found in this or any of the other aerial reconnaissance photos, fortuitously taken during what was supposedly the high point of alleged mass killings in the camp.
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