Jewish Complicity in the Jewish Holocaust
By the Truth Establishment Institute (associated with
the Black organization Nation of Islam - NOI)
Jews sometimes “defend” their extensive role in the African slave trade with
the glib assertion that “Africans sold each other.” But they make no such
assertion about their own “Holocaust” when confronted with a few of these
facts:
• There were whole Jewish councils called Judenrat
set up by the Nazis
to fill boxcars with Jews heading for Death Camps - they had uniforms and
everything!
• Some Jews called kapos informed on other Jews in the concentration camps -
some even acted as executioners.
• There were at least 77 Nazi officers who are known to have been Jews, many
thousands more in the enlisted corps.
• There were even some Jews who negotiated with the Nazis to save themselves
at the expense of other less wealthy, darker skinned Jews.
And yet none of
this has created ANY lessening of the responsibility of the Nazis for the
Jewish Holocaust. NO ONE ever says that Jews “were responsible” for the
Jewish Holocaust. This idea is only raised in relation to the Black
Holocaust - and then only by Jews. We have here another racist double standard.
Judenrat
As the German army swept through Poland and the Soviet Union, it carried out
an order of S.S. leader Heydrich to require the local Jewish populace to
form Jewish Councils as a liaison between the Jews and the Nazis. These
councils of Jewish elders, (Judenrat; plural: Judenräte), were responsible
for organizing the orderly deportation to the death camps, for detailing the
number and occupations of the Jews in the ghettos, for distributing food and
medical supplies, and for communicating the orders of the ghetto Nazi
masters.
The Judenrat (see photos) took on the functions of local
government, providing police and fire protection, postal services,
sanitation, transportation, food and fuel distribution, and housing, for
example. Jewish leaderswere ambivalent about participating in the Judenrat.
On the one hand, many viewed these councils as a form of collaboration with
the enemy. Others saw these councils as a necessary evil, which would permit
Jewish leadership a forum to negotiate for bettertreatment. In the many
cases where Jewish leaders refused to volunteer to serve on the Judenrat,
the Germans appointed Jews to serve on a random basis. Some Jews who had no
prior history of leadership agreed to serve, hoping that it would improve
their chances of survival. Many who served in the Judenrat were arrested,
taken to labor camps, or hanged.
When the Nazis required a quota of Jews to participate in forced labor, the
Judenrat had the responsibility to meet this demand. Sometimes Jews could
avoid forced labor by making a payment to the Judenrat. These payments
supplemented the taxes which the Judenrat levied on Jews to finance the
services provided in the ghettos.
Kapos
The German concentration camps depended on the cooperation of trustee
inmates who supervised the prisoners. Known as Kapos, these trustees carried
out the will of the Nazi camp commandants and guards, and were often as
brutal as their S.S. counterparts. Some of these Kapos were Jewish, and even
they inflicted harsh treatment on their fellow prisoners. For many, failure
to perform their duties would have resulted in severe punishment and even
death, but many historians view their actions as a form of complicity. After
the war, many of these Kapos were prosecuted as war criminals.
Further reading:
Isaiah Trunk, Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi
Occupation (New York: Stein & Day, 1972).
“Jewish Service in the German Wehrmacht,” London Daily Telegraph, December
2, 1996.
Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement (New York: Macmillan, 1984).
W. Glicksman, “Social Differentiation in the German Concentration Camps,” in
YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science (New York, 1953), 8:145-48.
Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial
Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (Lawrence, KS: Univ.
Press of Kansas, 2002).
