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Page 6 of 8 THE HOLOCAUST and ADOLF HITLER
Six million Jews are massacred, exterminated, ethnically cleansed.
Germany and Continental Europe 1935-1945
We have seen that from the beginning of the German nation (only formed in 1871 by Bismarck) that nationalism is a trait of these Germanic northern European races. Soon after the foundation it was put about that Germans were part of a mystical Aryan race from Scandinavia noted for a fine physique, blond hair and blue eyes. Jews quite obviously were never part of this imagined ethnic purity and indeed had been persecuted in the German territories since their arrival a thousand years earlier. Hitler, born in Vienna, Austria of simple parents, in a town then much influenced by Jewish traders and bankers, wanted to be an artist but only aspired to house painting in Munich, Germany. As a World War One participant he received the German Iron Cross and afterwards entered politics in the “Workers Party” later renamed the Nationalist Socialist Party or Nazi party. He organised an abortive coup in 1921 and was put in prison where he wrote a book called “My Struggle” (Mein Kampf) setting out his political ideology based on the superiority of the Aryan race and the occursed Jews for most things wrong in Germany including their defeat by the English and the French and the Americans in World War One (1914-1918).
Hitler was elected to power in Germany in 1933 and assumed dictatorial powers in 1934 when he called himself Leader (Fuhrer). Hitler saw himself and the German Aryan race as the rightful conquerors and leaders of Europe and so he commenced this aim by invading Austria 1938, Czechoslovakia and Poland 1939. England was the only country in Europe who seemed determined to stop him. What the British did not know and the Christian Roman Catholic Church in Rome did, was what Hitler was doing to the Jews. In 1935 Hitler took away all their Civil Rights (Nuremburg Laws). Hitler then set about authorising the systematic terrorising of all German Jews. The result of course was a mass exodus of terrified Jewish refugees firstly from Germany then Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland the majority ending up in England and the US.
These new immigrants in England were soon helping Britain with the war effort, particularly in the Air Force, but also in the new technologies like military two-way radio communications where Polish Jewish technology was state of the art. In the meantime those Jews unable to get away were rounded up and transported by cattle truck to concentration camps mainly in Poland but also Germany. The “Final Solution” developed by Hitler in 1942 authorised the mass murder of all the Jews in these camps by gassing. (Camps included Auschwitz, Belson and Dachau). As we have seen the majority of European Jews lived in Poland and it was the Polish Jews which accounted for almost 50% of the total (6 million persons) of those exterminated.
It is not understood today why Christian Roman Catholic Pope Pius 12th in Rome who knew of this, did absolutely nothing to stop it. Was it because he felt that the Jews, who had committed Jesus to death by the ruling Romans 2000 years earlier, deserved it?
THE LAST 50 YEARS
POST HOLOCAUST
The need for a country for Jews to call their own
If there had been any doubt before this for a need for a homeland for Jews, the Holocaust removed it. Since 1860 there had been a slow trickle of Jews making their way to Palestine to farm land which had been left idle by the local Arab Palestinians. These Jews were supported by the Rothschild family in London and Paris. Britain was still the world power in the 1914-1918 war when they not only beat the Germans but also liberated “Arab” Palestine from the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Hence the Brits had many friends in the Arab Middle East as well as being committed to help the Jews. In 1917 the English Foreign Secretary, Balfour, signed his support for making Palestine the Homeland for the Jews. (Balfour Declaration).
The difficult task for Britain of making a just settlement for both Jews and Islamic Arabs was handed over to the United Nations who after the 1940-1945 war drew out the boundaries of present day Israel and Palestine. The new Israeli state was born in 1948. Jews from all over the Middle East, North Africa and Europe moved in, the British army moved out and within a few months the new Jewish state of Israel was under attack from the surrounding Muslim Arabs. 50 years later nothing has changed.
THE LAST 50 YEARS
After the Second World War, the victorious English, rulers of the largest empire the world has ever seen, were bankrupt and hence ceased to be the world superpower, this role was taken over by two ideologically opposed giants, the democratic capitalistic USA and totalitarian socialist or communist Russia (then the larger USSR). Both wanted to get their hands on Middle Eastern Oil. Initially Stalin, the leader of Russia, backed the Jews in Israel and financed the supply of a huge military arsenal of Czech made weapons in the hope of finally removing the English and the Americans from Middle Eastern oil territories. However as the mood of the Arab nations surrounding Israel (Egypt, Jordan and Syria) together with Iraq built up to fever pitch with the declaration that they were avowed to annihilate this tiny but growing state of Israel, Stalin changed his tack and armed this league of Arab nations.
Israel’s neighbours, all Muslim Arabs, outnumbering the Jews by more than 10 to 1, have a policy of eliminating this tiny new state. There have been 4 major battles all started by the Muslims and all won by the Jews.
The Muslim Arabs fed up with losing wars against the hated Jews have recently resorted to terrorist attacks organised by one or more of their fundamentalist sects who recruit men and women who are willing to die in these attacks. Examples of these terror groups are Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah. Those Muslims who die have been brainwashed with the promise that death during a Jihad provides an immediate passage to heaven.
The Israeli response is always the same, if you hit us we will return and hit you 10 times as hard. But the Islamic terrorists keep on coming. Each cease fire up to now has been broken by one or other of these Islamic terror groups who seem to work outside the wishes of the Palestinian leader Arafat and all other peace loving Palestinians.
The battles between Israelis and their surrounding Arab neighbours.
1948 First Arab Israeli war
Immediately following the formation of the state of Israel, once the British Army move out, the Arabs attack. The Jews, some who are Holocaust survivors are not prepared for war but they manage to repel the invaders who are disorganised. 750,000 Palestinians are made homeless.
1956 Second Arab Israeli war
Actually this was an Egyptian Israeli war where the Israelis attacked Egypt at the request of Britain and France in response to the nationalisation of the Suez Canal by Egyptian President Nasser. Israel inflicted huge damage on the Egyptians but when the British and French bombed the canal on the pretext of separating the warring factions they were forced to withdraw by international pressure particularly from the Americans. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden who was responsible for this fiasco was forced to resign.
1967 Third Arab Israeli war
The so called Six Day war. After the Suez War the Israelis withdrew (1958) from Suez/Red sea front and the Sinai desert and this sensitive frontier was manned by UN troops. The Egyptians were more determined than ever to drive the Israelis into the sea and developed like minded pacts with Jordan and Syria. This provided the platform for a ten year campaign of aggression against Israel on all fronts. Finally when Egypt had sorted out their war with Yemen, the time was right for them to achieve their objective of getting rid of Israel. There followed a massive build up of Egyptian Soviet supplied tanks on Israel’s southern desert borders. Egypt occupied Sharm el-Sheikh cutting off Israel’s sea route from the Gulf of Eilat to the Red sea via the Tiran straights.
With 4 Arab nations ready to attack with the publicly avowed intention of wiping Israel off the map the Israelites took the only course open to them, a pre-emptive strike. In 6 days the bulk of the Arab military machine was destroyed before either the planes were airborne or the tanks had started their engines. In addition the Israeli troops had doubled their land mass and occupied sensitive military and religious areas to make full frontal assault by Arab armies more difficult in the future. Notably the Golan Heights in the north, The West Bank including East Jerusalem, The Gaza Strip and the Sinai peninsular. This was however still a much smaller territory than ruled by King David 3000 years previously. A further 250,000 Arab Palestinians were made homeless and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation) took over the responsibility of waging a war of terror against the Israelis until they could return to their land west of the river Jordan.
1973 The Fourth Arab Israeli war
The so called Yom Kippur war. The Israelis now with a left wing government missed the signs for another build up of Arab hostilities which were launched during one of the important Jewish public holidays. This time it was joint action by Egypt and Syria with a combined population of 75 million people who took on the task of exterminating the 6 million Jews in Israel. Even though the Jews were on holiday and unprepared, the Islamic forces lost. This defeat hardened the resolve of the Islamic Arabs to exterminate the Jews but Islamic Egypt’s Premier Sadat saw that the future must lie with peace and with the help of the US President brokered a peace with Israel finally signed at Camp David in the US in 1978. Sadat’s bravery was rewarded by his assassination in 1981 by an Islamic hit squad. However on the positive side, in 1982 the Israelis withdrew from Sinai leaving the significant oil wells to the Egyptians. This was followed in 1994 with a peace deal with Jordon and in 1995 Syria commenced peace discussions.
1981 The Fifth Arab Israeli war
The Israeli Air Force destroys the Iraqi nuclear factory in a one off strike. No retaliation.
1982 The Sixth Arab Israeli war
Palestinian Islamic Arab refugees from Israeli occupied lands, settled initially in Jordan and then in southern Lebanon and their plight did not appear to find much sympathy with any of the oil rich Islamic Arab states other than many were employed in fairly menial tasks in the Arab world. The PLO in desperation in these filthy refugee camps commenced terrorist actions against the northern part of Israel. In an attempt to put a stop to it, Israel invaded southern Lebanon in 1982, put the terrorist camps under Marshal law and remained until 1985.
1991 The Seventh Arab Israeli war
The Gulf War. Arabic Iraq under Saddam Hussein, invades Arabic Kuwait. Palestine aligns itself with the Iraqis. The Iraqis bomb Israel with Scud missiles. The US forbids the Israelis to retaliate on the basis that they, the US, will deal with the Iraqis. The US plus UK in (Desert Storm) beat the Iraqis in short shrift.
1985 to date.
- 1988 PLO recognises the state of Israel
- 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and PLO
- 1994 Limited Palestinian independence in Gaza
- 1995 PLO and Israel sign deal on West Bank Autonomy
- 2000 to date. The PLO leader Arafat seems to lose control of the militant fundamentalist Islamic groups in the West Bank and a programme of terrorist suicide attacks against Israeli civilians commences fuelled by successful Islamic suicide attacks against the “West” in other parts of the world notably the 9/11 New York and Washington atrocities. Israelis do what they always have done, that is when attacked hit back harder. This stalemate continues to this day- December 2002.
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