As Ivan Demjanjuk faces trial, Der Spiegel runs a must-read article on Hitler’s European Holocaust Helpers.
Demjanjuk was one of an estimated 200,000 non-German accomplices – “Ukrainian gendarmes and Latvian auxiliary police, Romanian soldiers or Hungarian railway workers, Polish farmers, Dutch land registry officials, French mayors, Norwegian ministers, Italian soldiers” – who aided and abetted the Holocaust.
Just for example, on June 27, 1941, a colonel in the staff of the Germany’s Northern Army Group in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas passed a petrol station surrounded by a crowd of people. There were shouts of bravo and clapping, mothers raised their children to give them a better view. The officer stepped closer and later wrote down what he had seen. ….
Read and circulate – and recall next time you see a headline about the ‘Holocaust’ in Gaza, Jenin, the West Bank…..
