"Finland has no Jewish problem." Finnish PM to Heinrich Himmler. Finland had only Finnish citizens, all equal members of the society. And, considering that other European nations, too, -- Albania, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and/or their citizens went to great lengths to save their neighbours of Jewish faith, it seems to me the pronounced hatred is for the most part in your own head.
Antisemitism in America at the turn of the century had already begun its advance towards large organized movements. Henry Ford, the prominent auto manufacturer was a known antisemite. His paper the Dearborn Independent was filled with bigotry towards the Jews and gained a relatively large following which included a particular individual from Germany. Ford was not alone. Charles Coughlin, America's first mega evangelist swooned nearly one third of the country with his weekly broadcasts against the rising problem of bolshevism. Despite Roosevelt's efforts to silence him, he continued to gain a massive following that reached in excess of some 40 million American listeners. The German American Federation was another movement that supported Hitler's cause. Its leader Fritz Kuhn is credited with turning Roosevelt's slogan the "New Deal" into the "Jew Deal". Mob lynchings of the Jews existed throughout all of 19th and early 20th century America and prompted the public re-emergence of the Klu Klux Klan with the heavily popularized Leo Frank trial. The lynching of Frank also led to the creation of the Anti Defamation League. Charles Lindbergh, prominent spokesman for the America First Committee was responsible for delaying Roosevelt's entry into the war for two years. He was considered to be a Nazi sympathizer and influenced many people to discard Roosevelt's propaganda against the New Germany. Future president Gerald Ford supported Lindbergh along with future Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward. Other prominent supporters of Lindbergh's policies were Sears Roebuck and Co., Vicks Corporation, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Sinclair Lewis, E.E. Cummings, Mr. Walt Disney, actress Lillian Gish and Frank Lloyd Wright. Prior to the attack at Pearl Harbor, the American people at large overwhelmingly embraced anti-participation in the European war against Germany, Italy and Russia. This large anti-war view often caused race riots against the Jews like the Detroit riot of 1943.
1920's Poland had a famous slogan: "Polsak bez Zudow" meaning Poland without the Jews, was a dream to many of its citizens. Prior to WWII, the Jews in Poland were denied employment opportunities and later welcomed the invading Russian armies due to Russia's extraction of the Polish into Siberia. After Germany announced its anti Jew policies, the Polish citizens actively helped the Nazis by exposing the hideouts of the Jews who failed to pay them ransom and in a few instances, committed Jewish pogroms of their own. The formation of Polish underground movements such as the NSZ, which later participated in the Polish uprising against the Nazi occupation, was responsible for actively seeking out Jews hiding in the forests. After the war subsided, returning Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were massacred in the town of Kielce on July 4, 1946. Among the victims were former prisoners of concentration camps as well as Jewish soldiers and Russian Jews on their way to Palestine. The attack took place fourteen months after the end of World War II, well after the Germans were defeated and the Holocaust well known to the world. The brutality of the Kielce pogrom put an end to the hopes of many Jews that they would be able to resettle in Poland after the end of the Nazi occupation.
Albania didn't persecute the Jews because Albania had no Jews to persecute. Its population at the onset of WWII was approximately 33 families which could not be located due to their dispersion. Of this extremely small minority, Albania has admitted to deporting 12 Jews that it managed to find to the Gestapo - 11 of which died at Auschwitz. This information was revealed during an investigation to create the Holocaust Chronicle and is proof that Albanians actively sought the removal of the Jews. Albania's claim that they rescued 100% of Jewish refugees is not only false, its counter to their actions. The 21st SS Division Skanderbeg of Albania was a Waffen SS division of Himmler created in 1944 at the request of Albania Prime Minister Rexhep Mitrovica. Approximately 72% of its soliders were ethnic Albanians. Alongside the 21st SS was the 13th SS Waffen of Handschar, the largest SS Division and comprised of additional ethnic Albanians. Himmler also gave Mitrovica an additional militia of Albanians called the Second League of Prizren whom would later join the 21st Division and create a Mountain SS Division. These Albania divisions are responsible for some of the worst attrocities of the entire war and were known for their fierce brutality against the Serbs, Gypsies and Jews.
Denmark has an unusual history with the Jewish population. Prior to WWII, the Danish citizens contained animosity towards Jewish people largely stemming from Denmark's 19th century anti Jewish Hep! Hep! riots. However, with the onset of the war, Denmark became very uncooperative to the Nazis.
Like Albania, Norway did not have a Jewish problem because there were no Jews to persecute. Up until 1851, Jews were prohibited from entering Norway and those whom were found inside its borders were immediately deported. During WWII, Norway's civilian police actively helped the German occupiers seek out Jews. Of the 1,800 Norwegian Jews, only 559 remained after the war. At least 758 of them are known to have died in Auschwitz. Norway was also involved in a Jewish Confiscation Act which ordered all properties of any kind which belonged to a Jew be immediately taken over by the Norwegian State Treasury. This information was revealed through the Skarpnes Committee in 1999 which was established to rectify Jewish claims of stolen property.
Sweden. The peaceful Swedes of Europe had one of the longest running constitutions of antisemitism in the world. Up until 1951, Jewish settlement was restricted to Stockholm, Gotenborg and Norkoping and the holding of a political position was denied to anyone with Jewish ancestry. Post war sentiment of the Jewish conspiracy theories never abated Sweden's population and is currently at a historical high of some 35% believing that Jews should not hold offices of politcal power or financial holdings. Sweden is currently the largest anti-Israel community in the world and is lobbying for its eviction out of Palestinian lands. The situation has grown from bad to worse where Swedish Jews are once again concealing their identities as their grandparents did in the occupied territories.
A few years ago it became publicly announced that Finland had extradited some 3,000 Jewish refugees and Soviet Jewish soldiers to the Gestapo. Finland has admitted that it was done because they were prisoners of war however, the Jews whom were handed over were mostly barbers, carpenters, postal workers and other common civilian employees. Beginning in 1938, Finland actively closed its borders to all Jews fleeing from the war and turned away all vessels carrying refugess of Jewish ethnicity such as the the SS Adriane which was turned back to Stettin Germany. The announcement also included that Finland later organized a partnership between its national police force and Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller. The Finnish government is currently underway to appointing a historical commission and has since erected a national monument in their memory at Helsinki harbor which falsifies your initial claim that Finland had no Jewish problem.
So I don't buy your story that the world was perfectly in harmony with the Jewish issue during the rise of Bolshevist activity. In fact, the end of WWI appears to be the zenith of Jewphobia and antisemitism.
"Built by the sweat and tears of Gentiles" -- aw, I can almost see those lily white hands building their gingerbread houses morsel by morsel. It breaks my heart just to think about the amount of sweat and tears that went into building those countries of the good Gentiles, I swear it does.
You are Anti-Gentile!!!
A daunting task you say? Well, I guess everything is subjective as it takes me all five seconds, depending how fast I click.
Try it and see. There are over 1 million documents. Harvard.edu is the only place I know of that has started to digitize the material.
European Parliament resolution on the situation in Iraq
Shortly before the Iraq war began, 49 countries were joined in a "coalition of the willing" in favor of forcibly removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, with some number of other countries expressing their support in private. The 49 countries named by the White House were Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Tonga, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Uzbekistan. Of these, the following countries had an active or participant role, by providing either significant troops or political support: Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States. Four of these countries supplied combat forces directly participating in the invasion of Iraq: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. Other countries have provided logistical and intelligence support, chemical and biological response teams, overflight rights, humanitarian and reconstruction aid, and political support.
Well, now you know one. I have no idea if my grandpa was an Orthodox. To find out I would have to go to the archives and/or try to track down someone who knew him before the war. As a matter of fact, I don't even
have any idea if my grandma was actually raised Orthodox or had Orthodox background in her family before she emigrated here. I doubt even mother knows. It has never occured to me to ask about it until today and when you brought it up. I can definitely see that if and when one considers oneself as part of the mainstream majority, if you like, a question like that might never rise.
How disassociated is your family? It almost appears as if you were raised in an orphanage. I knew from a very early age that my father was Buddhist and my mother was Baptist. How could I NOT know? I was practically brainwashed into both of their ideologies. I knew for a fact that I was half Buddhist half Christian. Being a half Jew would be no different unless you are so disconnected from family gatherings during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In Rigg's study, he points out that many mischlinge enlisted with falsified documents to hide their Jewish identity. Now, if they didn't know they were Jewish, why did they enlist pre-emptively with false identifications? Rigg's goes on to say that Hitler made numerous exemptions for mischlinge that were caught with false ID's. Again, if these guys didn't know they were Jewish - why the fake ID? Rigg's most puzzling finding was that these mischlinge, whom knew about the concentration camps, reported themselves into their proper camps upon returning home from service! So either I'm reading a totally different study by Rigg's or you have skipped entire chapters in his book. These guys knew they were Jewish. Your story that these guys had no knowledge of their Jewishness is false.
Yet the final solution does not mention gas chambers, does it?
Hitler's limo driver testified at Nuremburg that he witnessed Hitler studying blueprints for the gas chambers prepared by Himmler or by a member of the group that proposed the Final Solution. It was neither designed by Hitler nor prepared by him. It was merely being proposed to him which later caught his fancy. This is the last piece of evidence that shows Hitler being persuaded or even coerced into the deployment of the Final Solution.
The formation of the state of Israel was a choice and a decision taken by the victors. They could have chosen differently and let the Jewish refugees find their place on their own.
No one in their right minds would have "chosen differently" based on those kinds of circumstances. Israel was forced into existence. There was no choosing otherwise. Some say that Israel is not a legacy but a tarnish of Hitler's war - that it actually detracts from the positive things that developed post WWII. But I wouldn't know. I'm not a Palestinian.
Cheers ~
Randy the Atheist