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 HOLOCAUST - HOMOSEXUALS . . . see: "ANTI-SEMITISM" see: "HITLER" see: "JEWS" see: "WORLD WAR II" see: "EVIL" for other related links The Jews have done nothing but add to our difficulties by propaganda and deeds since the war began ... The morally censorious attitude of the United States in general to other people's affairs has long attracted attention, but when it is coupled with unscrupulous Zionist 'sob-stuff' and misrepresentation, it is very hard to bear. --British Colonial Office mandarin J.T. Bennett [18 April 1941]: in Bernard Wasserstein _Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945_, p. 50 [1979]. It was common practice to remove the skin from dead prisoners ... It was chemically treated and placed in the sun to dry. After that it was cut into shapes for use as saddles, riding breeches, gloves, house slippers and ladies' handbags. Tattooed skin was especially valued by SS men. --Czech Dr Franz Blaha, a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp [9 January 1946]. - [ . . . ] The Final Solution was the deliberate act of a government to exterminate a portion of its own people. It employed the resources of the state its policy makers, planners, intellectuals, legal system, police and military, industry, transportation system and to a large extent its people to single out a particular group of citizens, systematically demonize and isolate them, and then count them, label them, strip them of everything, round them up, ship them to concentration camps, kill them and incinerate them. It attempted to squeeze some last value out of the most fit among those doomed, by employing them as slave labor or subjecting them to medical experimentation before killing them, and even then looked for ways to make saleable products out of their remains. This horror began in peacetime, so the nation was not lashing out in self-defense, nor was it being threatened in any concrete way. In the early 1930s, when the state- driven process of isolating and demonizing Jews began, Germany had rebuilt itself after its defeat in World War I, and was the most powerful nation on the European continent. Indeed, it would soon sweep across its borders and conquer every country within its reach. Its science, medical and technological prowess were the envy of the world. The Holocaust disturbs us so deeply because it demonstrates that none of the things we associate with the advancement of civilization peace, prosperity, industrialization, education, technological achievement free us from the dark side of the human soul. Just as there is evil in the heart of every man, there is evil at the heat of even the most "civilized" human society. It is a humbling recognition. Man and society are both capable of the most appallingly depraved behavoir. Only in the case of society, it occurs on an industrial scale. [ . . . ] --Mark Bowden "The Six-Million Person Question" _The Wall Street Journal_ [4 October 2006] - If the Germans want to put the yellow Jewish star in Denmark, I and my whole family will wear it as a sign of the highest distinction. --Christian X (18701947) King of Denmark [19121947] who symbolized the nation's resistence to the German occupation during World War II. In the first weeks of the camp's operation the orchestra played operetta melodies ... in order to drown the cries of the victims in the gas chambers. Later, that was stopped. --Court judgement in the post-war trial of SS guards in the Treblinka death camp. - Arriving at Auschwitz, Belsec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sibiror, and Treblinka, the Jews encountered a standard procedure. At camps maintaining labor installations, like Auschwitz, 10 percent of the arrivals those who looked fittest were selected for work. The remainder were consigned to the gas chambers. They were instructed to undress; the women and the girls had their hair cut. They were then marched between files of auxiliary police (Ukrainians usually) who hurried them along with whips, sticks, or guns, to the gas chambers. As in Operation T-4 (code name for the program that murdered tens of thousands of mental patients in German insane asylums), these were identified as shower rooms. The Jews were rammed in, one person per square foot. The gassing lasted from ten to thirty minutes, depending on the facilities and techniques used. In Belzec, according to an eyewitness, it took thirty-two minutes and "finally, all were dead," he wrote, "like pillars of basalt, still erect, not having any space to fall." To make room for the next load, the bodies were right away tossed out, "blue, wet with sweat and urine, the legs covered with feces and menstrual blood." Later the bodies were burned, either in the open air or in crematoria. A worker at Auschwitz said that "the stench given off by the pyres contaminated the surrounding countryside. At night the red sky over Auschwitz could be seen for miles." --Lucy S. Dawidowicz (19151990) American historian and author. _The War Against The Jews: 19331945_ [1975] - In my opinion a disproportionate amount of time of the Office is wasted on dealing with these wailing Jews. --British Foreign Office official A.R. Dew [1 September 1944]; in Martin Gilbert _Auschwitz and the Allies_, p. 312 [1981]. I picked my way over corpse after corpse in the gloom until I heard one voice that rose above the gentle, undulating moaning. I found a girl, she was a living skeleton, impossible to gauge her age for she had practically no hair left on her head and her face was a yellow parchment sheet with two holes in it for eyes. She was stretching out her stick of an arm and gasping something. It was 'English, English, medicine, medicine', and she was trying to cry but had not enough strength. And beyond her down the passage, there were convulsive movements of dying people too weak to raise themselves from the floor. --Richard Dimbleby (19131965) English war correspondent, journalist, and broadcaster. At Belsen concentration camp [19 April 1945]; in Tom Hickman _What did you do in the War, Auntie? The BBC at War 193945_, p. 190 [1995]. I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about those things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (18901969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [19531961]. (On his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp [13 April 1945].) We started with three and a half million Jews here. Of that number, only a few work companies remain. Everybody else has let us say emigrated. --Hans Frank (19001946) German politician and lawyer who served as govenor-general of Poland during WWII. [2 August 1943] in Joachim Remak _The Nazi Years_, p. 158 [1969]. The people were still standing like columns of stone, with no room to fall or lean. Even in death you could tell the families, all holding hands. It was difficult to separate them while emptying the room for the next batch. The bodies were tossed out, blue, wet with sweat and urine, the legs smeared with excrement and menstrual blood. Two dozen workers were busy checking mouths which they opened with iron hooks ... Dentists knocked out gold teeth, bridges and crowns with hammers. --SS officer Kurt Gerstein. witness of a gassing at Belzec death camp [18 August 1942], in a statement given on 6 May 1945; in Martin Gilbert _The Holocaust_, pp. 427-8 [1986]. Along with Bolshevism, Jewry is also about to experience its great disaster ... We must speed up this process coldly and ruthlessly, and we are doing mankind, tortured by Jewry for thousands of years, an inestimable service. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. Diary entry [14 February 1942], in Louis P. Lochner _The Goebbels Diaries_, p. 87 [1948]. I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a final solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. --Hermann Goering (18931946) German Nazi leader. Instructions to Reinhard Heydrich [31 July 1941]. I was the first or second tank in the column that liberated a major concentration camp, Magdeburg. When I came around the corner of that pine forest lane and saw the human skeletons hanging from the barbed wire enclosing the camp, I thought, how barbarous of men to string up corpses. Then some of the skeletons moved slightly and I realised I was looking at the starved living. There was a horror beyond the horror of all the dying I had seen. I learned a lesson that day. There are worse things than battle. When they come to take you off to the camp, fight. And people who tell you that you will be better off in the camps than resisting are not your friends. --Arthur T. Hadley, _The Straw Giant - America's Armed Forces: Triumphs and Failures_ [1986] Now the rough work has been done we begin the period of finer work. We need to work in harmony with the civil administration. We count on you gentlemen as far as the final solution is concerned. --Reinhard Heydrich (19041942) German Nazi leader. [On plans to exterminate millions of European Jews - in a speech in Wansee, Germany, 20 January 1942.] We must exterminate these people root and branch. Just think how many people will never be born because of this, and how a people can be broken in nerve and spirit when such a plague gets hold of it. When someone in the Security Services, in the SS, or in the government has homosexual tendencies, he abandons the normal order of things for the perverted world of the homosexual. We can't permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated. --Heinrich Himmler (19001945) German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander. To his doctor Felix Kersten; in _The Kersten Memoirs_, p. 57 [1957]. I want today once again to make a prophecy; if the international Jewish financiers within and without Europe succeed once more in hurling the people into a world war, the result will be, not the Bolshevization of the world and with it a victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. Reichstag speech [30 January 1939] I am grateful for having been allowed to see this bastard race close up. If fate permits, I shall have something to tell my children. Syphilitics, cripples, idiots were typical of them ... They were not men but monkeys in human form. --Police sergeant Jacob [21 June 1942] The death we gave them was a nice quick death; compared with the hellish torrnent of thousands upon thousands in the dungeons of the GPU. Babies flew in a big arc through the air and we picked them off in mid-flight before they landed in the pit or in the water . --Walter Mattner to his wife [5 October 1941], in Guido Knopp _Hitler's Holocaust_, p. 52 [2000]. (GPU was the Soviet secret police.) The shooting of the Jews is simpler than that of the Gypsies. One has to admit that the Jews go to their death composed they stand very calmly whereas the Gypsies cry, scream and move constantly while they already stand at the place of the shooting. Several even jump into the ditch and pretend to be dead. --Junior officer Hans-Dietrich Walther, report of 4 November 1941 on reprisal executions in Serbia; International Military Tribunal _Trial of the Major War Criminals_ v. II, pp.1139-40 [1947]. [Concentration camp commandant] Franz Ziereis boasted, according to biographer [Alan] Levy, that he had given his son a birthday present: "50 Jews for target practice." --Henry Weinstein, L.A. Times Staff Writer _Los Angeles Times_ [21 September 2005], "Nazi Hunter Loyal To The Dead" - Where was God in all this? Was this another test, one more? Or a punishment? And if so, for what sins? What crimes were being punished? Was there a misdeed that deserved so many mass graves? Would it ever again be possible to speak of justice, of truth, of divine charity, after the murder of one million Jewish children? --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. "To Be a Jew" in _A Jew Today_, tr. Marion Wiesel [1978] That day I encountered the first American soldiers in the Buchenwald concentration camp. I remember them well. Bewildered, disbelieving, they walked around the place, hell on earth, where our destiny had been played out. They looked at us, just liberated, and did not know what to do or say. Survivors snatched from the dark throes of death, we were empty of all hope too weak, too emaciated to hug them or even speak to them. Like lost children, the American soldiers wept and wept with rage and sadness. And we received their tears as if they were heartrending offerings from a wounded and generous humanity. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. "The America I Love" (essay) [2004] - When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. . . . If we pardon this genocide, it will be repeated, and not only on Jews. If we don't learn this lesson, then millions died for nothing. --Simon Wiesenthal (19082005) Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. Quoted in _Los Angeles Times_ [21 September 2005]. The coloured triangles signify: red - political prisoners green - professional criminals black - a-socials [who included gypsies] pink - homosexuals violet - Jehovah's Witnesses The Jewish prisoners wear no triangle, but the Star of David. --Rudolf Yrba and Alfred Wetzler, extract from their report on Auschwitz, about 28 April 1944, in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_p. 831 [2004]. Cohan & Major add: Yrba and Wetzler escaped from the Auschwitz death camp on 10 April. Their report, based on their own experience as prisoners, gave the outside world the first hard confirmation of conditions inside the camp. It was published in the United States on 2 Nov. 1944, the same day that the Nazi order was given to begin destroying the Auschwitz crematoria. - Maximilian Kolby - Polish priest: In May 1941 the friary was closed down and Maximilian and four companions were taken to Auschwitz, where they worked with the other prisoners, chiefly at carrying logs. Maximilian carried on his priestly work surreptitiously, hearing confessions in unlikely places and celebrating the Lord's Supper with bread and wine smuggled in for that purpose. In order to discourage escapes, the camp had a rule that if a man escaped, ten men would be killed in retaliation. In July 1941 a man from Kolbe's bunker escaped. The remaining men of the bunker were led out and ten were selected, including a Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek. When he uttered a cry of dismay, Maximilian stepped forward and said, "I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his place. I am old. He has a wife and children." The officer had more use for a young worker than for an old one, and was happy to make the exchange. The ten men were placed in a large cell and left there to starve. Maximilian encouraged the others with prayers, psalms, and meditations on the Passion of Christ. After two weeks, only four were alive, and only Maximilian was fully conscious. The four were killed with injections of carbolic acid on 14 August 1941. - Report entitled "Resettlement of Jews" written by SS-Sturmbannfhrer Gricksch for SS-Col. von Herff and Reichsfhrer-SS Himmler, after inspection of Auschwitz camp on 14-16 May 1943. In _Hitler and the Final Solution_ - G. Fleming, University of California Press, [1984], p. 142-143: The Auschwitz camp plays a special role in the resolution of the Jewish question. The most advanced methods permit the execution of the Fhrer-order in the shortest possible time and without arousing much attention. The so-called "resettlement action" runs the following course: The Jews arrive in special trains (freight cars) toward evening and are driven on special tracks to areas of the camp specifically set aside for this purpose. There the Jews are unloaded and examined for their fitness to work by a team of doctors, in the presence of the camp commandant and several SS officers. At this point anyone who can somehow be incorporated into the work program is put in a special camp. The curably ill are sent straight to a medical camp and are restored to health through a special diet. The basic principle behind everything is: conserve all manpower for work. The previous type of "resettlement action" has been thoroughly rejected, since it is too costly to destroy precious work energy on a continual basis. The unfit go to cellars in a large house which are entered from outside. They go down five or six steps into a fairly long, well-constructed and well-ventilated cellar area, which is lined with benches to the left and right. It is brightly lit, and the benches are numbered. The prisoners are told that they are to be cleansed and disinfected for their new assignments. They must therefore completely undress to be bathed. To avoid panic and to prevent disturbances of any kind, they are instructed to arrange their clothing neatly under their respective numbers, so that they will be able to find their things again after their bath. Everything proceeds in a perfectly orderly fashion. Then they pass through a small corridor and enter a large cellar room which resembles a shower bath. In this room are three large pillars, into which certain materials can be lowered from outside the cellar room. When three- to four-hundred people have been herded into this room, the doors are shut, and containers filled with the substances are dropped down into the pillars. As soon as the containers touch the base of the pillars, they release particular substances that put the people to sleep in one minute. A few minutes later, the door opens on the other side, where the elevator is located. The hair of the corpses is cut off, and their teeth are extracted (gold-filled teeth) by specialists (Jews). It has been discovered that Jews were hiding pieces of Jewelry, gold, platinum etc., in hollow teeth. Then the corpses are loaded into elevators and brought up to the first floor, where ten large crematoria are located. (Because fresh corpses burn particularly well, only 50-100 lbs. of coke are needed for the whole process.) The job itself is performed by Jewish prisoners, who never step outside this camp again. The results of this "resettlement action" to date: 500,000 Jews. Current capacity of the "resettlement action" ovens: 10,000 in 24 hours. - Testimony of SS private Boeck. Extracted from "Der Auschwitz Prozess", by Hermann Langbein, Vol. I, quoted in _Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers_ p. 181, J.C Pressac, the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989: Q: Were you present at a gassing operation one day? A: Yes, it was one evening. I accompanied the driver Hoeblinger. A transport had arrived from Holland and the prisoners had to jump from the wagons. They were well-off Jews. There were women with Persian furs. They arrived by express train. The trucks were already there, with wooden steps before them, and the people climbed aboard. Then they all started off. In the place Birkenau once stood, there was only a long farmhouse (Bunker 2) and beside it four or five big huts. Inside, the people were standing on clothes which were building up on the floor. The block leader and the sergeant, carrying a cane, were there. Hoeblinger said to me 'lets go over there now'. There was a sign 'to disinfection'. He said 'you see, they are bringing children now'. They opened the door, threw the children in and closed the door. There was a terrible cry. A member of the SS climbed on the roof. The people went on crying for about ten minutes. Then the prisoners opened the doors. Everything was in disorder and contorted. Heat was given off. The bodies were loaded on a rough wagon and taken to a ditch. The next batch were already undressing in the huts. After that I didn't look at my wife for four weeks.  . . If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce. --Anita Bryant (b. 1940) American singer. In "New York Times" [5 June 1977]. The poor homosexuals [...] they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution. --Patrick Buchanan (b. 1938) American political commentator, author, and syndicated columnist. Quoted in "N.Y. Post" [24 May 1983]. Does it really matter what these affectionate people do so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! --Mrs. Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Stella Tanner] (18651940) British stage actress. When told of a homosexual affair between two actors. Quoted in Alan Dent _Mrs. Patrick Campbell_ [1961]. - I came back last night having spent Saturday and yesterday on Fire Island. I don't think I shall ever go again. It is lovely from the point of view of beach and sun and wearing no clothes, but the atmosphere is sick-sick-sick. Never in my life have I seen such concentrated abandoned homosexuality. It is fantastic and difficult to believe. I wished really that I hadn't gone. Thousands of queer men of all shapes and sizes camping about blatantly and carrying on, in my opinion, appallingly. Then there were all the lesbians glowering at each other. Among this welter of brazen perversion wander a few "straights," with children and dogs. I have always been of the opinion that a large group of queer men was unattractive. On Fire Island it is more than unattractive, it's macabre, sinister, irritating, and somehow tragic. --Noλl Coward (18991973) English playwright, actor, and composer. Diary entry quoted in Philip Hoare _Noel Coward: A Biography_ [1996]. and see: When Noel Coward wanted to leave a party unfashionably early, he told his hostess, Tallelulah Bankhead: "I must think of my youth." She replied: "Well, next time, bring him along!" --Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (19081989) American actress. - - [When asked by a U.S. immigration officer whether he was a 'practising homosexual':] Practising? Certainly not. I'm perfect. --Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (19081999) English writer. Quoted in "Sunday Times" (London) [20 January 1982]. The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. --Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (19081999) English writer. _Manners From Heaven_ [1984] - The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up. --attributed to Robertson Davies (19131995) Canadian author and playwright. Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too. --Sigmund Freud (18561939) Austrian psychiatrist. Letter to an American mother [9 April 1935]. We must exterminate these people root and branch. Just think how many people will never be born because of this, and how a people can be broken in nerve and spirit when such a plague gets hold of it. When someone in the Security Services, in the SS, or in the government has homosexual tendencies, he abandons the normal order of things for the perverted world of the homosexual. We can't permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated. --Heinrich Himmler (19001945) German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander. To his doctor Felix Kersten; in _The Kersten Memoirs_, p. 57 [1957]. When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. --epitaph of Leonard Matlovich (19431988) American Air Force sergeant. History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence. --Camille Paglia (b. 1947) American writer and social critic. Quoted in Peter Jones _The God of Sex: How Spirituality Defines Your Sexuality_, p. 87 [2006]. - The horrors unfolding in the Catholic church bring to mind a heated debate that recently got similar mention in the press. Because of a firm stance on an issue related to what the Catholic church faces today, one organization saw its funding disappear, its meeting places taken away, and its young members booed during a presentation of the American flag at the 2000 Democratic national convention. The organization, of course, is the Boy Scouts of America. I wonder who now disputes the wisdom of their decision to exclude gay Scout leaders, and I praise the leaders of the Scouts for considering first and foremost the welfare of the boys in their charge. --Warren Saunders Jr., letter to _The Weekly Standard_, July 22, 2002. - Yesterday [in June, 2003] on CBC radio the Toronto morning show host was interviewing one of the men who was involved in the court case leading to the legalization of same-sex marriages in Ontario. At the end of the interview, after the interviewee announced his intention to get married that afternoon, the host finished up by saying "well congratulations, it's a fairy tale come true." Much apologizing ensued. --anon. - Georgie Porgy Pudding and Pie Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play He kissed them too, 'cause he was gay. --anon. - Two rednecks, Jimbo and Bubba, are sitting at their favorite bar, drinking beer. Jimbo turns to Bubba and says, 'You know, I'm tired of going through life without an education. Tomorrow I think I'll go to the Community College and sign up for some classes.' Bubba thinks it's a good idea, and the two leave. The next day, Jimbo goes down to the college and meets Dean of Admissions, who signs him up for the four basic classes: Math, English, History, and Logic. 'Logic? Jimbo says. 'What's that?' The dean says, 'I'll give you an example. Do you own a weed eater?' 'Yeah.' 'Then logically speaking, because you own a weed eater, I think that you would have a yard.' 'That's true, I do have a yard.' 'I'm not done,' the dean says. 'Because you have a yard, I think logically that you would have a house.' 'Yes, I do have a house.' 'And because you have a house, I think that you might logically have a family.' 'Yes, I have a family.' 'I'm not done yet. Because you have a family, then logically you must have a wife. And because you have a wife, then logic tells me you must be a heterosexual.' 'I am a heterosexual. That's amazing, you were able to find out all of that because I have a weed eater.' Excited to take the class now, Jimbo shakes the Dean's hand and leaves to go meet Bubba at the bar. He tells Bubba about his classes, how he is signed up for Math, English, History, and Logic. 'Logic? Bubba says, 'What's that?' Jimbo says, 'I'll give you an example. Do you have a weed eater?' 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