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A scan of a Red Cross Report allegedly disproving the Nazi Holocaust is doing the rounds of the
Internet and leading Dissidents astray.
The original scan is from the Hal Turner show, 4 June 2007 (see item 2).
Hal Turner is a nasty type. He denigrates blacks - he's a modern-day Confederate.
The US "Patriot" movement is committing suicide by allowing infiltration by Confederates. The
combination of Confederate-advocacy and Holocaust Denial makes a potent brew; but it
jeopardises any genuine resistance to the Elite, because most people find the Confederacy
obnoxious.
Claims that a Red Cross Report dealing with World War II disproves the Nazi Holocaust go back
to Richard Harwood's book "Did Six Million Really Die?" (featured at Ernst Zundel's website).
Deborah Lipstadt showed that John Harwood mis-represented the Red Cross 1948 Report.
You don't have to take my word for it - because I've now uploaded scans of that 1948 Report.
It's not that I want to elevate Lipstadt. She's a Zionist, and allied to Alan Dershowitz, who got
Norman Finkelstein sacked from his job.
But there's no point disseminating falsehoods which are easily checked by looking up the 1948
Report at libraries. Why tie your fortunes to a sinking stone? Why give Lipstadt easy points to
score?
That's not the way to support the Palestinians or to counter the Jewish Lobby.
(1) "Red cross records released, holocaust total 271 thousand (not 6 million)" (2) The original -
from the Hal Turner show, 4 June 2007 (3) Hal Turner's Red Cross document not what he
represents (4) Red Cross Report 1948 on Jews in concentration camps - Theresienstadt show
camp (5) Red Cross Report 1948 - John Harwood corrected by Deborah Lipstadt (6) Scans and
Text of the Red Cross Report 1948 - for checking Harwood & Lipstadt
(1) "Red cross records released, holocaust total 271 thousand (not 6 million)"
From: Iskandar Masih <iskandar38@hotmail.com> Date: 22.09.2009 07:46 PM From:
ammama@bigpond.com Subject: Fw: Red cross records released, holocaust total 271 thousand
(not 6 million) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:53:44 +1000 From nadir martello
<martello.nadirangela9@gmail.com> From: Lifeforce To: AB Sent: Monday, September 21,
2009 9:27 AM Subject: Fw: Red cross records released, holocaust total 271 thousand (not 6
million)
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/130513
== it's also at the following (and many other) websites:
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?p=2935736
http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/official-records-from-international-red-cross-
prove-holocaust-was-a-fraud/
(2) The original - from the Hal Turner show, 4 June 2007
The original, it seems, was at
http://www.halturnershow.com/RedCrossRecordsProveHolocaustWasFraud.html
It's no longer there, but is archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20070607135103/http://www.halturnershow.com/RedCrossRecordsP
roveHolocaustWasFraud.html
4 June 2007 -- 14:43 HRS EDT
OFFICIAL RECORDS FROM INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS PROVE "HOLOCAUST"
WAS A FRAUD!
RECENTLY RELEASED RECORDS, SEALED FOR YEARS, SHOW "CONCENTRATION
CAMP" DEATH TOTALS OF ONLY 271,301 SIX MILLION JEWS DID NOT DIE; THE
WHOLE CLAIM WAS A COMPLETE FABRICATION
For years, Jews have told people around the world that six million of them were systematically
murdered in German "Concentration Camps" during World War 2. Anyone disputing this claim
has been viciously smeared as a hateful anti-Semite. Countries around the world have even jailed
people for disputing the claim that 6 Million were killed.
Here now, for all the world to see, is a scanned image of an Official International Red Cross
document proving the so-called "Holocaust" never happened. Jews around the world
intentionally lied for the purpose of gaining emotional and business advantages for themselves.
They committed willful, criminal FRAUD upon millions around the world!
"The Holocaust" is the greatest lie ever told. Millions of dollars have been paid out to "holocaust
survivors" and their descendants for something that DID NOT HAPPEN. THis is intentional,
criminal fraud on a scale so massive as to almost incomprehensible.
Below is the scanned image of the Official Death Total report from the International Red Cross.
...
(3) Hal Turner's Red Cross document not what he represents
From: jocelyn braddell <jocelynbraddell@googlemail.com> Date: 22.09.2009 09:18 AM
I think that this evening we have pretty much established that this posting is a neo-Nazi fake.
It was posted in April 2009 on this blog: http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?p=2935736
with together with the other document I sent you.
The second document from the special registry office even has warning on it that it is not a
figure of the number of people who died there, and that has an official stamp of this office. The
documents would indicate to me that they are a total number of the number of former inmates
who have died since this time, and have nothing to do with the holocaust figures. This can be
observed because of the increase from 1977 to 1983 between the two documents.
As in keeping with these National Front history revisionists these neo-Nazis they fake up any old
document to use in their propaganda. A good old Goebbels tradition! This is a dangerous activity
in German as it is punished with a prison sentence. This is obviously the work of Canadian neo
Nazis, as it was a Canadian who posted to the site above, and it is a fact that Zndel was
imprisoned for publishing the book which is quoted in the posting and email.
(4) Red Cross Report 1948 on Jews in concentration camps - Theresienstadt
show camp
Do an online search of Richard Harwood's book "Did Six Million Really Die?"
9. THE JEWS AND THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS: A FACTUAL APPRAISAL BY THE
RED CROSS http://www.zundelsite.org/english/harwood/Didsix01.html#9
Do a Find on the word "visit". The only hits in that Chapter 9 refer to the camp at Theresienstadt.
This was a Show Camp, staged to impress visitors: Theresienstadt The "Show-Ghetto"
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/showcamp.html
In the same way, important visitors to the Soviet Union were also taken to show places.
(5) Red Cross Report 1948 - John Harwood corrected by Deborah Lipstadt
Lipstadt, Deborah E.
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York: The Free Press
(A division of Macmillan, Inc.), 1993.
{p. 115} Harwood contended that the report made 'nonsense' of the allegation that there were
'gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities.' He substantiated this assertion by
quoting a passage from the report that depicted how ICRC officials inspected baths and showers
in the camps. When they found problems they acted swiftly 'to have fixtures made less primitive
and to have them repared or enlarged.' 53 This, Harwood argued, demonstrated conclusively that
showers functioned as showers, and not as killing apparatus. The problem with Harwood's choice
of this citation, which he quoted cor-
{p. 116} rectly, is that the passage had nothing to do with German concentration camps: It
referred to Allied camps for civilian internees in Egypt. 54
{endquote}
Endnote 53 reads: Harwood, p.25
Endnote 54 reads: Report of the ICRC, vol. 1, p. 594. Harwood incorrectly cited this passage as
coming from vol. 3.
Lipstadt on Harwood's claim that the ICRC was allowed to visit all Concentration Camps and
Prisons:
{p. 116} Harwood repeatedly asserted that from August 1942 the ICRC was allowed to visit and
distribute food parcels to major concentration camps in Germany, and that from February 1943
this privilege was extended to all other camps and prisons.55 Harwood claimed that this
information was to be found on page 78 of the report's third volume. The page did refer to 'major
concentration camps' in Germany but indicated that they included only Dachau and Oranienburg.
The concession that was extended in 1943 included all other camps and prisons in Germany.56
This meant that numerous camps outside Germany were not included. Moreover, the Red Cross
acknowledged that it was limited to giving parcels only to deported aliens for whom it had
addresses, and that many inmates, among them the vast majority of Jews, were not allowed to
receive food parcels at all.
{endquote}
Endnote 55 reads: Harwood, p. 25
Endnote 56 reads: Report of the ICRC, vol. 3, p. 77.
Lipstadt on Harwood's claim that the ICRC Report denied the existence of Gas Chambers or
Extermination: {p. 114} According to him it demonstrated that the International Red Cross had
found no evidence 'whatever' in camps in Axis-occupied Europe of a 'deliberate policy to
exterminate the Jews.'47 Harwood contended that in all its sixteen hundred pages the report
failed to make any mention of 'such a thing as a gas chamber.' Though the ICRC admitted that
Jews had suffered rigors and privations, as had many other wartime nationalities, 'its complete
silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend.'48
{endquote}
Endnote 47 reads: Harwood, "Did Six Million Really Die?", p. 24. For analysis of his use of the
ICRC report, see Arthur Suzman and Denis Diamond, "Six Million Did Die: The Truth Shall
Prevail" (Johannesburg, 1977), pp. 10-13.
Endnote 48 reads: Harwood, "Did Six Million Really Die?", p. 25
{p. 115} Harwood could make this claim only by ignoring key sections of the ICRC report. The
Red Cross was absolutely specific about the Jews' fate. It made reference to the Nazi attempt to
annihilate them, observing that under Nazi rule Jews had been transformed into 'outcasts
condemned by rigid racial legislation to suffer tyranny, persecution and _systematic
extermination.' 49 ...Most important, the ICRC specifically delineated how systematic
annihilation was carried out: 'They were penned into concentration camps and ghettos, recruited
for forced labour, subjected to grave brutalities and sent to _death camps_ without anyone being
allowed to intervene in those matters.' 50 These were not the ICRC's only references to death
camps or systematic annihilation.
{endquote}
Endnote 49 reads: "The Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on its
Activities during the Second World War" (Geneva, 1948), vol. 1, p. 641 (italics added). The
report is replete with numerous quotes that demonstrate that Harwood totally misconstrued its
findings. For additional examples see Suzman and Diamond, "Six Million Did Die," p. 12
Endnote 50 reads: Report of the ICRC, vol. 1, p. 641.
(6) Scans and Text of the Red Cross Report 1948 - for checking Harwood &
Lipstadt
Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its activities during the Second World
War (Geneva 1948) (three volumes)
Vol 1, p. 594: RedX-WW2-1948-V1p.594.jpg
Vol 1, p. 641: RedX-WW2-1948-V1p.641.jpg
Vol 1, p. 642: RedX-WW2-1948-V1p.642.jpg
Vol 1, p. 643: RedX-WW2-1948-V1p.643.jpg
Vol 3, p. 77: RedX-WW2-1948-V3p.77.jpg
Vol 3, p. 78: RedX-WW2-1948-V3p.78.jpg
{vol 1, p. 594} thanks to military discipline. This field of investigation show the great advantage
of having medical delegates, and the ICRC always tried to keep a large proportion of such men
amongst the personnel of its delegations.
In the first place, the delegates had to satisfy themselves that water, the chief factor in hygiene,
was available in sufficient quantities. In dry districts, they recommended the internees not to
wa.ste it, and gave advice for planning its use in a rational manner. Thus, in Saudi Arabia, sweet
water was completely lacking, and the German and Italian internees learned how to obtain it by
the evaporation and condensation of sea water. At Fayed (Egypt), water was available only for
two or three hours a day, at a rate of 50 litres for each person for all requirements of the camp,
which meant that it was impossible to have showers.
Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by
the delegates. They had often to take action to have the fixtures made less primitive, and to get
them repaired or enlarged. They supplied quantities of toilet articles (linen, soap, shaving soap,
razors, blades, tooth brushes. tooth powder, etc.). At Mansurah (Egypt) German, Italian, and
Greek women internees were living in such deplorable hygenic conditions that, on his first visit
in 1942, the delegate gave the camp commandan t a sum of 20 Egyptian pounds to meet
immediate needs (purchase of insect powder, disinfectants, linen, etc.). Many camps left much to
be desired in respect of latrines: here too, the delegates insisted upon the enlarging or
improvement of the fittings, and investigated conditions of cleanliness and the use of
disinfectants. Elsewhere, the ventilation was inadequate, and the cubic air space insufficient,
because of the cramped premises. In certain districts, the delegate had to start a campaign against
malaria, by providing mosquito nets and quinine, and having the ground drained in order to get
rid of the stagnant water produced by floods (for instance in India after the monsoon, and in
Egypt after the rise of the Nile).
Particular attention was given by the delegates to medical care, and they had in this respect to
deal with a number of widely varying questions: appointment of a doctor where there was none
(fortunately a very rare occurrence); ...
{vol 1, p. 641} Vl. Special Categories of Civilians
(A) JEWS
Under National Socialism, the Jews had become in truth outcasts, condemned by rigid racial
legislation to suffer tyranny, persecution and systematic extermination. No kind of protection
shielded them; being neither PW nor civilian internees, they formed a separate category, without
the benefit of any Convention. The supervision which the ICRC was empowered to exercise in
favour of prisoners and internees did not apply to them. In most cases, they were, in fact,
nationals of the State which held them in its power and which, secure in its supreme authority,
allowed no intervention in their behalf. These unfortunate citizens shared the same fate as
political deportees, were deprived of civil rights, were given less favoured treatment than enemy
nationals, who at least had the benefit of a statute They were penned into concentration camps
and ghettos, recruited for forced labour, subjected to grave brutalities and sent to death camps,
without anyone being allowed to intervene in those matters which Germany and her allies
considered to be exclusively within the bounds of their home policy.
It should be recalled, however, that in Italy the measures taken against the Jews were
incomparably less harsh, and that in the countries under the direct influence of Germany, their
situation was usually less tragic than in Germany itself.
The Committee could not dissociate themselves from these victims, on whose behalf it received
the most insistent appeals, but for whom the means of action seemed especialiy limited, since in
the absence of any basis in law, its activities depended
{vol 1, p. 642} to a very great extent upon the good will of the belligerent States.
The Committee had in fact, through the intermediary of the German Red Cross, asked for
information concerning civilian deportees "without distinction of race or religion", which was
plainly refused in the following terms: "The responsible authorities decline to give any
information concerning non-Aryan deportees." Thus, enquiries as a matter of principle
concerning the Jews led to no result, and continual protests would have been resented by the
authorities concerned and might have been detrimental both to the Jews themselves and to the
whole field of the Committee's activities. In consequence, the Committee, while avoiding useless
protest, did its utmost to help the Jews by practical means, and its delegates abroad were
instructed on these lines. This policy was proved by the results obtained.
Germany.Even when the German Wehrmacht was winning, the Committee's activities in behalf
of the Jews met with almost insuperable difficulties. Towards the end of 1943, however, the
German authorities allowed the Committee to send relief parcels to detainees in concentration
camps, many of them Jews, whose names and addresses might be known to it. The Committee
was able to collect a few dozen names, and by these slender means the system of individual and
then collective relief for political detainees was started, an account of which is given elsewhere
in this Report. Each receipt returned bore several names, and these were added to the list of
addresses: thus the receipts often gave the first news of missing persons. By the end of the war,
the Committee's card index for political detainees (Jewish and non-Jewish) contained over
105,000 names.
During the last year of the War, the Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp of
Theresienstadt (Terezin), which was exclusively used for Jews, and was governed by special
conditions. From information gathered by the Committee, this camp had been started as an
experiment by certain leaders of the Reich, who were apparently less hostile to the Jews than
those responsible for the racial policy of the German
{vol 1, p. 643} Government. These men wished to give to Jews the means of setting up a
communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete
autonomy. On several occasions, the Committee's delegates were granted authority to visit
Theresienstadt, but owing to difficulties raised by the local authorities, the first visit only took
place in June 1944. The Jewish elder in charge informed the delegate, in the presence of a
representative of the German authorities, that thirty-five thousand Jews resided in the town and
that living conditions were bearable. In view of the doubt expressed by the heads of various
Jewish organizations as to the accuracy of this statement, the Committee requested the German
Government to allow its delegates to make a second visit. After laborious negotiations, much
delayed on the German side, two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6, 1945. They
confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit, but ascertained that the camp
strength now amounted only to 20,000 internees, including 1,100 Hungarians, 1,1050 Slovaks,
800 Dutch, 290 Danes, 8,000 Germans, 8,000 Czechs and 760 stateless persons. They were
therefore anxious to know if Theresienstadt was being used as a transit camp and asked when the
last departures for the East had taken place. The head of the Security Police of the Protectorate
stated that the last transfers to Auschwitz had occurred six months previously, and had
comprised 10,000 Jews, to be employed on camp administration and enlargement. This high
official assured the delegates that no Jews would be deported from Theresienstadt in future.
Whereas other camps exclusively reserved for Jews were not open to inspections for
humanitarian purposes until the end, the Committee's activities were at least effective in several
concentration camps containing a minority proportion of Jews. During the final months, the
Committee, in urgent circumstances, took on a task of the greatest importance by visiting and
giving aid to these internees, providing food, preventing last-minute evacuations as well as
summary executions, and even taking charge during the critical hours, sometimes days, which
passed between the retreat of the German forces and the arrival of the Allies from the West or
the East.
{vol 3, p. 77} issue of articles of uniform to Greek detainees, on condition that all military
badges were removed.
Conditions in the concentration camps and prisons were appreciably better in Greece than in
Germany. All detained civilians, except prisoners under common law, were allowed to receive
parcels from home. In the spring of 1943, the Management Committee for Relief in Greece
granted double daily rations to all civilian detainees held in seven concentration camps and 37
prisons in Athens and the provinces. During the summer of 1943, Swedish vessels brought
40,000 standard parcels from overseas, and the delegation of the ICRC, with the help of the
Greek Red Cross, set up distribution centres in Athens and Salonika.
The delegates pressed the German and Italian authorities to improve conditions in the camps
they had visited. They were never allowed to enter the camp at Haidari, near Athens, which had
the worst reputation, and were only admitted to the camp at Goudhi shortly before the release of
detained and deported civilians in October 1944. The sub-delegation at Salonika managed to
make regular distributions of foodstuffs in the camps of Pavlo Mela and Vassiliades from 1944
onwards. In May 1944, a Greek medical officer wrote: "Your parcels are meeting a dire need and
becoming a vital source of strength to the exhausted civilian detainees."
Germany. As early as January 1941, the ICRC applied to the German Red Cross for permission
to send food to detained and deported civilians in the camp at Oranienburg, but this was refused.
Earlier a similar request made on May 20, 1940, concerning the camps at Drancy, Compiegne
and in North Africa, had already been turned down by the German Foreign Office. In the
summer of 1942, the ICRC was informed by this Ministry that parcels could not be sent to
German citizens in concentration camps. A little later, however, in August, a fresh request was
treated with more sympathy, and the delegate in Berlin was told that detained aliens, not only at
Oranienburg but at Dachau also, could receive small food parcels from their relatives, on
condition that the contents could be quickly
{vol 3, p. 78} consumed. Family parcels were thus at last authorized for detained and deported
civilians of enemy nationality, and were forwarded through the ICRC.
After further representations in October 1942, in behalf of detained civilians in Germany and
Alsace, family parcels of foodstuffs and clothing were allowed for persons detained in Haguenau
Prison; an exception was made in the case of those who had been arrested on the grounds of
political activities, or for imperilling the security of the State or of the authoritics in occupation.
From February 1943 onwards, this concession was extended to all other camps and prisons in
Germany.
The ICRC declined, however, to limit its action merely to that of an intermediary between the
detainees and their relatives. It claimed the right to send, itself, consignments of foodstuffs,
clothing and medicaments, and to supervise their distribution in the camps. The Committee
'moreover insisted on ascertaining the situation within these camps and the number of occupants,
by nationality. Its efforts were not entirely fruitless. In March 1943, the German Foreign Ofce
informed the ICRC delegation in Berlin that the Committee and the National Red Cross Societies
would henceforth be allowed to forward individual parcels to detained and deported aliens whose
names and addresses were known to them. This privilege was, however, withheld from those
accused of offences against the German State or the German forces. There was no limit to the
number of parcels, but the amount of foodstuffs sent to any one detainee could not exceed his
personal needs; any surplus would be distributed amongst fellow-detainees who received no
parcels. The ICRC delegates were not allowed access to the concentra- tion camps, and the
German Red Cross and camp commandants were forbidden to communicate lists of occupants,
or even camp strengths.
The concession granted by the German authorities was therefore very slight, and indeed more
apparent than real, since on the one hand, only individual parcels were permitted, whilst on the
other, the authorities made it impossible for the senders to obtain the necessary data for
consignments of this kind. Nevertheless, the ICRC was not deterred ...
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