Mass electrocution of Jews at Belzec

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – Tuesday 19 January 1943

A shocking report of mass electrocutions of Jews at Belzec concentration camp. Don’t remember being taught about that at school.

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At Belzec there is special camp for mass executions by electrocution. According to the latest reports 80.000 Jews were killed there in the space of two months. Of Lublin’s 30,000 Jews only 2.500 remain. Seventy per cent of these are women. Since July 22. at Warsaw, several dozen, sometimes hundreds of Jews have been killed every day. According to particulars given by the Polish National Council more than a million Jews have been murdered the Nazis in Poland since September, 1939

 

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The gas chamber of Bergen-Belsen

Belsen Was A Gas

Yorkshire Evening Post -Tuesday 13th November 1945

Just a bit of fake news from 1945. I’ve found several articles alluding to gas chambers in Belsen. Most of the stories carry the suggestion of Belsen gas chambers in the heading but then the articles only refer to the alleged gas chambers at Auschwitz. It is easy to see how in the minds of the general public the belief that every German concentration camp had a gas chamber came about. But hey, fake news has never hurt anybody has it?

Here’s a Wikipedia quote on Belsen (I know Wikipedia is an untrustworthy source but people often refer to it)

 

Someone even wrote a song about it

In response to a comment below here are more examples of allusions to Belsen and gas

Lancashire Evening Post – Monday 24 September 1945

Liverpool Daily Post – Saturday 22 September 1945

Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail – Thursday 21 

There’s plenty of other examples but I’m sure you’ll get my drift. This is misinformation and black propaganda popularised by the media of the time.

James O’Brien’s Worrying Theory On The Rise Of Holocaust Denial

James O’Brien’s Worrying Theory On The Rise Of Holocaust Denial

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/james-obrien-worrying-theory-rise-holocaust-denia

It is hardly surprising that so called “Holocaust denial” will rise with social media. When someone can communicate a convincing proposition that can stand up to scrutiny against a belief system based on rumour with no hard physical evidence and can only survive due to censoring detractors then it will spread. Until they censor it or outlaw dissension. 

Six Million Jews Leitmotif

Six Million Jews

Irish Independent – Friday 24 February 1905

Well, well we have it all here. One could almost believe some of the conspiracy theorists judging by the commentary in this article…… Financial, journalistic??? and backbone of “Russian Socialism” (I think they later called it communism but I’ll have to fact check that). I think there could be a theme running here.

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organisation in Germany, Franco, and Austria. The Jews have good cause to hate Russian rule, and it is from this race in its financial, journalistic, and other strongholds in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London that the Tsar’s Government has to meet its strongest and most resourceful foes. There are upwards of six million Jews in Russia. They are rightly discontented at the exceptional laws in operation against them. They are the backbone of what is termed Russian “Socialism,” and until Russian rulers learn the wisdom of justice in the treatment of alien races under their dominion, the Jews of Russia and of the world will continue to be the most vigilant and aggressive opponents of Russian I government_ and of its credit and policy, line the ranks of its many assailants

Final Solution to the Jewish Question 1908

The Final Solution

Looks like someone was planning the “Final solution of the Jewish question” long before Adolf Hitler came to power and 34 years before the Wannsee Conference and the implementation of the so called “Final Solution” was discussed.

It’s remarkable how much forward planning went into the evil Nazi plans for the Jews even before the Nazi party was created.

(tongue slightly in cheek on this post)

Majdanek Madness

 

 

Belfast News-Letter – Monday 04 December 1944

1,500,000 victims and specially trained Nazi dogs to drag children to the crematorium, wow if we didn’t know better one could be forgiven for thinking that someone might have made a lot of this holocaust stuff up.

Birmingham Mail – Wednesday 05 September 1945 

2,000,000 put to death by the Nazis at Majdanek.

Here is the official Majdanek website’s tally

http://www.majdanek.eu/en/history/extermination/15

80,000??? big difference there. Perhaps people have been plucking figures from thin air?

Lancashire Evening Post – Thursday 11 October 1945

Overtones of Hansel and Gretel here, children lured to their deaths and then put into ovens.

Holocaust faerie tales