Made in Russia: The Holocaust
[Excerpts]
By Carlos W. Porter
[Note. This lengthy work is being posted in installments. RW.]
Last update: 25 January 1996
INTRODUCTION
War crimes trials are characterized by the assumption that rules of evidence
are a technicality designed to enable the guilty to evade punishment. In
fact, however, their purpose is to protect tribunals from errors in judgement.
Centuries ago, it was common to prosecute women for performing sexual acts
with the Devil. These acts were described in minute detail in thousands
of trials, in millions of pages of sworn testimony. It was established,
for example, that Satan's ejaculatory fluid is cold.
Thousands of women stood fast in their confessions to the very foot of the
stake, proving the truth of the matter stated; others recanted, proving
the contumacy of the Tempter.
Thousands of men were burned for signing a Compact with the Prince of Darkness.
This was a written contract, binding on both parties, the exact text of
which was known to jurists for centuries; yet the original document was
never found. Secondary evidence was accepted as to its existence and content.
Satan's existence was proven by his many appearances in the form of a cat
or a goat; his failure to fulfil his contractual obligations was seen as
a simple breach of faith.
Scientific experiments were performed. Women known to have participated
in the Black Mass were found not have left their beds during the night,
proving that transportation is spiritual, rather than physical.
Professional witnesses denounced thousands of people; defendants were condemned
on the basis of ex parte affidavits signed by unknown persons; hallucinations
and dreams were introduced into evidence in sworn statements.
Persons defending the accused could only be motivated by secret sympathy
with Satan's conspiracy or Common Plan.
Respected people entered prison defiant, confident that God would prove
them innocent; only to emerge a month later, prepared to confess publicly
and be burned alive for kissing the anus of a goat.
Similar procedures and rules of evidence were used after the last war to
convict Germans of killing millions of Jews in a toxicologically absurd
manner, using an insecticide requiring 24 hours to kill moths.
It is characteristic of modern thought that man is held to be progressing
in some manner, a concept which was foreign to the medieval world.
-Carlos Whitlock Porter
Editor, Made in Russia - The Holocaust
1988
As a "proven fact" protected by special laws not applicable
to other ",proven facts", the Holocaust must be considered
as something of an endangered species.
All one need do to endanger the species a bit further... or perhaps even
drive it into extinction... is to get the Nuremberg Trial transcript and
read some of it.
If Germans gassed millions of Jews, did they also...
...STEAM PEOPLE TO DEATH LIKE LOBSTERS IN 10 STEAM CHAMBERS AT TREBLINKA
The second building [at Treblinka] consists of three chambers and a boiler-room.
The steam generated in the boilers is led by means of pipes to the chambers.
There are terracota floors in the chambers which become very slippery when
wet. Along the southern wall of the building runs a long platform where
the bodies of the victims were piled up after execution...
All victims had to strip off their clothes and shoes, which were collected
afterwards, whereupon all victims, women and children first, were driven
into the death chambers. Those too slow or too weak to move quickly were
driven on by rifle butts, by whipping and kicking, often by SAUER himself.
Many slipped and fell, the next victims pressed forward and stumbled over
them. Small children were simply thrown inside. After being filled up to
capacity the chambers were hermetically closed and steam was let in. In
a few minutes all was over. The Jewish menial workers had to remove the
bodies from the platform and to bury them in mass graves. By and by, as
new transports arrived, the cemetary grew extending in eastern direction.
IMT XXXII - pp. 156-157.
...ZAP THEM TO DEATH WITH MASS ELECTRICAL SHOCKS
In this same report, in the last paragraph on Page 136 of the document book,
we may read that Camp Belsen was founded in 1940; but it was in 1942 that
the special electrical appliances were built in for mass extermination of
people. Under the pretext that the people were being led to the bath-house,
the doomed were undressed and then driven to the building where the floor
was electrified in a special way; there they were killed.
IMT VII - p.576-577.
...BLAST THEM INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONE WITH ATOMIC BOMBS
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And certain experiments were also conducted and certain
researches conducted in atomic energy, were they not?
SPEER: We had not got as far as that, unfortunately, because the finest
experts we had in atomic research had emigrated to America, and this had
thrown us back a great deal in our research, so that we still needed another
year or two in order to achieve any results in splitting of the atom.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: The policy of driving people out who didn't agree with
Germany hadn't produced very good dividends, had it?
SPEER: Especially in this sphere it was a great disadvantage to us.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, I have certain information, which was placed in
my hands, of an experiment which was carried out near Auschwitz and I would
like to ask you [Albert Speer] if you heard about it or knew about it. The
purpose of the experiment was to find a quick and complete way of destroying
people without the delay and trouble of shooting and gassing and burning,
as it had been carried out, and this is the experiment, as I am advised.
A village, a small village was provisionally erected, with temporary structures,
and in it approximately 20,000 Jews were put. By means of this newly invented
weapon of destruction, these 20,000 people were eradicated almost instantaneously,
and in such a way that there was no trace left of them; that it developed
the explosive developed, temperatures of from 400 to 500 degrees centigrade
and destroyed them without leaving any trace at all. Do you know about that
experiment?
SPEER: No, and I consider it utterly improbable. If we had such a weapon
under preparation, I should have know about it. But we did not have such
a weapon.
IMT XVI - p.529.
...BEAT THEM TO DEATH, THEN CARRY OUT AUTOPSIES TO SEE WHAT THEY DIED
OF
BLAHA: I performed many autopsies on people either shot or beaten to death
at their work, and made official reports on the cause of death.
HERR BABEL: You said, they were shot. Did you see such incidents yourself?
BLAHA: No.
HERR BABEL: Then, how do you know that?
BLAHA: The bodies were brought to me from the place of work, and it was
my duty to ascertain the cause of death; that the men had been beaten to
death, for example, that the skull or ribs had been fractured, that the
man had died of internal hemorrhage, or that he had been shot; I had to
make an official report on the cause of death. Sometimes, but this was rare,
when an investigation was conducted, I was called in as a witness.
HERR BABEL: Thank you. IMT V - p. 199.
...FORCE PEOPLE TO CLIMB TREES, THEN CUT THE TREES DOWN
I refer further to the report of the State Extraordinary Commission relative
to the crimes in the city of Kiev. This report describes murders in the
camps which will be also shown in the films today. I quote only one quotation
from this report, which shows the methods of extermination of people in
the Syretzk Camp. I quote Page 289, Paragraph 3, of the Russian text:
"Radomsky and Rieder used all kinds of devices for the
extermination of Soviet citizens. For instance, they invented the following
method of murder: Several Soviet prisoners would be forced to climb a tree
and others had to saw it down. The prisoners would fall together with the
tree and be killed."
IMT VII - p. 582.
...KILL 840,000 RUSSIANS AT SACHSENHAUSEN AND BURN THE BODIES IN FOUR
PORTABLE OVENS
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: I shall now present to the Tribunal evidence of
the fact that besides the stationary crematoria, there existed also movable
crematoria. The Tribunal already knows about the movable gas chambers. These
were "murder vans." There were also created transportable crematoria.
An SS member, Paul Waldmann, testifies to their existence. He was one of
the participants in the crime perpetrated by the German fascists when 840,000
Russian prisoners of war in Sachsenhausen were annihilated at one time.
The Exhibit Number USSR-52 (Document Number USSR-52) on Auschwitz has already
been presented to the Court. I quote that particular extract from the testimony
of an SS member, Waldmann, which mentions the mass execution in Sachsenhausen:
"The war prisoners murdered in this way were cremated in
four movable crematoria, which were transported on car trailers."
IMT VII - p. 586.
...BASH PEOPLE'S BRAINS IN WITH A PEDAL-DRIVEN BRAIN-BASHING MACHINE
WHILE LISTENING TO THE RADIO, THEN BURN THE BODIES IN 4 PORTABLE OVENS
"One room was reserved for undressing and another for waiting; in one
of them a radio played rather lously. It was done purposely so that the
prisoners could not guess that death awaited them. From the second room
they went, one by one, through a passage into a small fenced-in room with
an iron grid let into the floor. Under the grid was a drain. As soon as
a prisoner of war was killed, the corpse was carried out by two German prisoners
while the blood was washed off the grid. "In this small room there
was a slot in the wall, approximately 50 centimeters in length. The prisoner
of war stood with the back of his head against the slot and a sniper shot
at him from behind the slot. In practice this arrangement did not prove
satisfactory, since the sniper often missed the prisoner. After 8 days a
new arrangement was made. The prisoner, as before, was placed against the
wall; an iron plate was then slowly lowered onto his head. The prisoner
was under the impression that he was being measured for height. The iron
plate contained a ramrod which shot out suddenly and poleaxed the prisoner
with a blow on the back of the head. He dropped dead. The iron plate was
operated by a foot lever in a corner of the room. The personnel working
in the room belonged to the above-mentioned Sonderkommando. "By request
of the execution squad, I was also forced to work this apparatus. I shall
refer to the subject later. The bodies of prisoners thus murdered were burned
in four mobile crematories transported in trailers and attached to motor
cars. I had to ride constantly from the inner camp to the execution yard.
I had to make 10 trips a night with 10 minutes' interval between trips.
It was during these intervals that I witnessed the executions. IMT VII -
p. 376-77.
...BIND BOOKS IN HUMAN SKIN
BALACHOWSKY: There were always tattooed human skins in Block 2. I cannot
say whether there were many, as they were continuously being received and
passed on, but there were not only tattooed human skins, but also tanned
human skins - simply tanned, not tattooed. M. DUBOST: Did they skin people?
BALACHOWSKY: They removed the skin and then tanned it. M. DUBOST: Will you
continue your testimony on that point? BALACHOWSKY: I saw SS men come out
of Block 2, the Pathological Block, carrying tanned skins under their arms.
I know, from my comrades who worked in Pathological Block 2, that there
were orders for skins; and these tanned skins were given as gifts to certain
guards and to certain visitors, who used them to bind books. IMT VI - p.311.
...MAKE SADDLES, RIDING BREECHES (i.e., jodphurs) GLOVES, HOUSE SLIPPERS,
AND LADIES HANDBAGS OUT OF HUMAN SKIN
"9. It was common practice to remove the skin from dead prisoners.
I was commanded to do this on many occasions. Dr. Rascher and Dr. Wolter
in particular asked for this human skin from human backs and chests. It
was chemically treated and placed in the sun to dry. After that it was cut
into various sizes for use as saddles, riding breeches, gloves, house slippers,
and ladies' handbags. Tattooed skin was especially valued by SS men. IMT
V - p.171.
...SHOOT THE POLISH OFFICERS AT KATYN
I should now like to turn to the brutalities committed by the Hitlerites
towards members of the Czechoslovakian, Polish, and Yugoslavian Armies.
We find, in the Indictment, that one of the most important criminal acts
for which the major war criminals are responsible was the mass execution
of Polish prisoners of war, shot in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk by the
German facist invaders. I submit to the Tribunal, as a proof of this crime,
official documents of the special commission for the establishment and the
investigation of the circumstances which attended the executions. The commission
acted in accordance with a directive of the Extraordinary State Commission
of the Soviet Union.... It would take too long to read into the record that
precise and detailed document which I now submit to you as Exhibit Numer
USSR-54 (Document Number USSR-54), which is a result of the investigation.
I shall read into the record only a few comparatively short excerpts. On
Page 2 of the document, which is Page 223 in your document book, we read-
this passage is marked in your file:
"According to the estimates of medico-legal experts, the
total number of bodies amounts to over 11,000. The medico-legal experts
carried out a thorough examination of the bodies exhumed, and of the documents
and material evidence found on the bodies and in the graves. During the
exhumation and examination of the corpses, the commission questioned many
witnesses among the local inhabitants. Their testimony permitted the determination
of the exact time and circumstances of the crimes committed by the German
invaders."
...You will find the lines read into the record on Page 43 of Exhibit Number
USSR-54 if you turn to the original document, or on Page 264 of your document
book: "General Conclusions: On perusal of all the material at the disposal
of the special commission, that is, the depositions of over 100 witnesses
questioned, the data of the medico-legal experts, the documents and material
evidence and belongings taken from the graves in Katyn Forest, we can arrive
at the following definite conclusions: 1. The Polish prisoners of war imprisoned
in the three camps west of Smolensk and engaged in railway construction
before the war, remained there after the occupation of Smolensk by the Germans,
right up to September 1941. 2. In the autumn of 1941, in Katyn Forest, the
German occupational authorities carried out mass shootings of the Polish
prisoners of war from the above-mentioned camps. 3. Mass shootings of Polish
prisoners of war in Katyn Forest were carried out by German military organizations
disguised under the specific name, 'Staff 537, Engineer Construction Battalion,'
commanded by Oberleutnant Arnes and his colleagues, Oberleutnant Rex and
Leutnant Hott. 4. In connection with the deterioration, for Germany, of
the general military and political machinery at the beginning of 1943, the
German occupational authorities, with a view to provoking incidents, undertook
a whole series of measure to ascribe their own misdeeds to organizations
of the Soviet authorities, in order to make mischief between the Russians
and Poles. 5. For these purposes: a. The German fascist invaders, by persuasion,
attempts at bribery, threats, and by barbarous tortures, endeavored to find
'witnesses' among the Soviet citizens from whom they obtained false testimony,
alleging that the Polish prisoners of war had been shot by organizations
of the Soviet authorities in the spring of 1940. b. The German occupational
authorities, in the spring of 1943, brought from other places the bodies
of Polish prisoners of war whom they had shot, and laid them in the turned
up graves of Katyn Forest with the dual purpose of covering up the traces
of their own atrocities and of increasing the numbers of 'victims of Bolshevist
atrocities' in Katyn Forest. c. While preparing their provocative measures,
the German occupational authorities employed up to 500 Russian prisoners
of war for the task of digging up the graves in Katyn Forest. Once the graves
had been dug, the Russian prisoners of war were shot by the Germans in order
to destroy thus all proof and material evidence on the matter. 6. The date
of the legal and medical examination determined, without any shadow of doubt:
a. That the time of shooting was autumn 1941. b. The application by the
German executioners, when shooting Polish prisoners of war, of the identical
method - a pistol shot in the nape of the neck - as used by them in mass
murders of the Soviet citizens in other towns, especially in Orel, Voronetz,
Krasnodar and in Smolensk itself." THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will
now recess. [The Tribunal recessed until 1400 hours.]
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