Deprogramming the Masses Since 1547

By David Zurndorfer

Noseh: Yom HaShoa and Holocaust Denial

Goals:

1.  The chanichim should realize the importance of keeping the memory of the Holocaust going, after all the survivors have passed on.

2. The chanichim should understand how dangerous and sneaky Holocaust Denial can be.

Chevraya: Bet

Peula:

Read the attached passage about the Earth. (found at the end of the Peula) about the Flat Earth Society

Sicha:  After you or the chanichim have read the passages, (and they’ve finished laughing, or making faces) ask them if they think these were made up or were they actually written.  In fact, they were written by real people who actually believe what they wrote. Pretty ridiculous what some people will believe, right? Can you prove to me that the Earth is round?   Unless they know advanced physics, the chanichim will not be able to prove this.  So if you cant prove they it, why do you believe it?  They may give various answers here.  You should direct them to the idea of “Mesorah”.  For instance, Galileo and other physicists proved scientifically that the Earth was round.  They passed this idea around to others until almost everyone believed that the Earth is round.  We believe it nowadays, because others before us were able to prove it.  They passed it onto their children, and the process repeated itself until it reached us.  It’s amazing that some people can still deny such an obvious fact, and it seems just plain silly.  Unfortunately, it is not the only “obvious” fact that people deny nowadays.  There are some people who deny that the Holocaust even happened. And these people are doing it in a much more sophisticated manner than you think. Can you laugh this off as easily as the Flat Earthers? This information is from a scary site called ihr.org (the Institute for Historical Review- sound very academic, doesn’t it?):

Split the chanichim into pairs. Each one should get one of the following statements (they’re in cut-outable form at the end of the peula), read it, and take some time to think up a rebuttal.

1. Notwithstanding the capture of literally tons of German documents after the war, no one can point to documentary evidence of a wartime extermination order, plan or program.

2. At the postwar Nuremberg Tribunal, the Allies charged that the Germans exterminated four million people at Auschwitz…. Today no reputable historian, not even those who generally accept the extermination story, believes this figure. Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer said in 1989 that it is time to finally acknowledge the familiar four million figure is a deliberate myth. . In July 1990 the Auschwitz State Museum in Poland, along with Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Center, suddenly announced that altogether perhaps one million people (both Jews and non-Jews) died there.

3. Many thousands of secret German documents dealing with Auschwitz were confiscated after the war by the Allies. Not a single one refers to a policy or program of extermination. In fact, the extermination story cannot be reconciled with the documentary evidence.

4. It is often claimed that all Jews at Auschwitz who were unable to work were immediately killed. Jews who were too old, young, sick, or weak were supposedly gassed on arrival, and only those who could be worked to death were temporarily kept alive. But the evidence shows that, in fact, a very high percentage of the Jewish inmates were not able to work, and were nevertheless not killed. For example, an internal German telex message dated Sept. 4, 1943, from the chief of the Labor Allocation department of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA), reported that of 25,000 Jewish inmates in Auschwitz, only 3,581 were able to work, and that all of the remaining Jewish inmates -- some 21,500, or about 86 percent -- were unable to work.

5. The Holocaust extermination story is superficially plausible. Everyone has seen the horrific photos of dead and dying inmates taken at Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen and other concentration camps when they were liberated by British and American forces in the final weeks of the war in Europe. These unfortunate people were victims, not of an extermination program, but of disease and malnutrition brought on by the complete collapse of Germany in the final months of the war. Indeed, if there had been an extermination program, the Jews found by Allied forces at the end of the war would have long since been killed.

6. Jewish historian Arno J. Mayer, a Princeton University professor, wrote in his 1988 study Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The 'Final Solution" in History': ... From 1942 to 1945, certainly at Auschwitz, but probably overall, more Jews were killed by so-called 'natural' causes than by 'unnatural' ones." 

7. Cremation specialists have confirmed that thousands of corpses could not possibly have been cremated every day throughout the spring and summer of 1944 at Auschwitz, as commonly alleged.

For example, Mr. Ivan Lagace, manager of a large crematory in Calgary, Canada, testified in court in April 1988 that the Auschwitz cremation story is technically impossible. The allegation that 10,000 or even 20,000 corpses were burned every day at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 in crematories and open pits is simply "preposterous" and "beyond the realm of reality," he declared under oath.

8. America's leading gas chamber expert, Boston engineer Fred A. Leuchter, carefully examined the supposed "gas chambers" in Poland and concluded that the Auschwitz gassing story is absurd and technically impossible.

Leuchter is the foremost specialist on the design and installation of gas chambers used in the United States to execute convicted criminals. For example, he designed a gas chamber facility for the Missouri state penitentiary.

Have the chanichim read out their statements, and present their arguments. Other chanichim should contribute additional arguments if they can think of them, or challenge whether the arguments presented are good. How well are we able to formulate rebuttals against these things? Some thing to point out- their technique is 1) to very selectively quote. They especially like to quote Jews, because is adds legitimacy. At some point in the website, they quote the former Chief Rabbi of England, who certainly did not agree with their views, for one specific point they make. 2) They focus on specific points where they can expose holes, but they don’t face the most fundamental questions. By nitpicking on specific details, they hope to throw the whole story out. If scholars now say that there were 3 million killed in Auschwitz, and not 4 million as used to be claimed, they’ve scored a victory in their eyes. Ummmm…. 3 million is still a pretty big number? What were Jews doing in these camps? Why were they getting killed at all? The technique is to carefully stay away from the whole picture and focus on very specific details. Ok, even if we have some answers- Did they make you doubt things at all? Did they make you nervous? Do you think these arguments are effective for non-Jews? What is the agenda behind this?

Here’s another quote to read from the same website, where the Holocaust deniers talk about what they think is the motivation behind the Holocaust hoax.