Crimes (non-Holocaust)

In this letter to Sarah Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, David Merlin talks about the Allied bombings of the Nordhausen Camp Hospital and the dishonesty and exploitation of  this tragedy by Believers.

 

By Wilfried Heink- “Slavica Publishers” in their Fall 2005 Journal “Kritika” published an article by Marina A. Sorokina titled: “People and Procedures: Toward a History of the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in the USSR”. A little about Slavica publishers first: “Founded in 1966, Slavica Publishers, a division of Indiana University …

By Wilfried Heink- The second subchapter in the essay by Marina Sorokina is titled: “A Broad and Authoritative Public Committee, Not Bearing Any Official Character” “The idea of creating a special public organ for the investigation of Nazi war crimes was raised in the USSR at the very beginning of …

By Wilfried Heink- The third sub-chapter in the essay by Marina Sorokina is entitled, “The Curve of Your Life is Sloping Upward in Interesting Ways”. (A letter to I. P. Trainin is the source of the quotation used as the heading for this section, ARAN f. 586 [I. P. Trainin], …

By Wilfried Heink- The forth subchapter in the essay by Marina Sorokina is titled: Viacheslav Molotov: “It Is Time for the ChGK to Get to Work”. Sorokina writes that it “took more than four month” to organize the ChGK (ESC) and that on 23 February 1943 a draft “Decree on …

By Wilfried Heink The following essays are based mostly on “Verbrechen der Sieger. Das Schicksal der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen in Osteuropa”(Crimes of the victors. The fate of German POWs in Eastern Europe, Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See, 1975). It begins with a foreword by Brigadier General Wolfgang Schall, retired, POW in …

By Wilfried Heink The next chapter is by Prof. Dr. Fritz Münch, titled: Zum Recht der Kriegsgefangenschaft (The Rights of Prisoners of War). The author tells us that existing law concerning POWs is relatively new, going into some detail regarding the Hague Rules of Warfare and the Geneva Convention. He …

By Wilfried Heink- Dr. Rudolf Aschenauer, a lawyer who was involved in the defense of German soldiers, in his book about partisans “Krieg ohne Grenzen” (War without borders, [Druffel-Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See, 1982]), complains that the partisan issue was never properly addressed in all the trials he was involved …

By Wilfried Heink- In the Fight with the Partisans: This is the caption of the first chapter under “Yugoslavia” – getting back to Crimes of the Victors, the book under discussion. It contains four chapters in total, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Instead of writing “the authors tell us”, …

By Wilfried Heink- The next chapter is titled “Soviet Union” (Sowjetunion), and begins with “Morgenröte der Befreiung“ (The dawn of liberation). It is well worth the effort to go into this before continuing with the plight of German POWs, this time in the Soviet Union (SU), for it lays the …

By Wilfried Heink The last two chapters of Verbrechen der Sieger are titled “Polen” (Poland) and “Tschechoslowakei” (Czechoslovakia). Poland was defeated and therefore did not have any legitimate armed forces and as a consequence not able to capture “Prisoners of War”. About 800,000 German POWs were concentrated in the area …

By Richard A. Widmann- [caption id="attachment_2102" align="alignright" width="150"] RIAN archive 897469 Handover of Katyn forest massacre materials to Poland[/caption] This week, Russian lawmakers passed a bill that would make Holocaust revisionism illegal.  The bill introduces criminal charges for "denying facts" established by the Nuremberg tribunal regarding the crimes of the …

Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured...

War produces grotesque and horrifying abuses of man by man. Everywhere and always.

They can be proven by judicial proceedings, but never as to all who are guilty of them.

Especially the victors.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first landing on the moon, there seems to be very little appreciation of the Germans, chief among them Wernher von Braun, who made it possible. This represents a stark change in attitude from thirty years ago, and probably reflects the fact that most adult Americans now cannot remember when "the lessons of the Holocaust" were not treated as the most-important lessons.

The accusations against the rocket scientists are (1) that they created rockets that killed civilians (a completely hypocritical accusation), and (2) that they were personally responsible for unjustified killings of workers in the underground V-2 factory during the war. The main witness for the latter accusation was a man named Yves Béon, a former member of the French Resistance who never made these accusations until after 1969, and includes details in his narrative (in addition to the basic fact that Arthur Rudolph and Wernher von Braun never came across as monsters) that make it seem unlikely.