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most of the authors point out the the number of victims in Romania was about 300,000 (half of the population), but
same authors state at the same time that the vast majority of this people were inhabitants of Bessarabia and
Transnistria (today's Republic of Moldova where I am from, while the Jews of so-called "old Kingdom" or Romania
in her 1914 borders survived. But the former territories were annexed by the USSR in 1940 and the Jews there
were counted by the Soviet statistics as Soviet citizens! The same is true for the Baltic States (almost 250,000
victims), and for Western Ukraine with Lvov that was the third largest Jewish city in 1939 Poland! I am not saying
about the Jews in Vilnius and its vicinity who were Polish citizens as of 09/01/1939, then they became Lithuanians
after Vilnius was transferred to Lithuania by the Soviets in October 1939, and after June 1940 they became Soviet
citizens when the Baltic States were annexed by the USSR. I roughly estimate the number of this double or triple
(as for Vilnius district)count as about 1M people even if we do not take in account those Polish Jews who
managed to escape to the Soviet Union after the German occupation and became Soviet citizens. I wrote about
this discrepancies to every Jewish organization, and to "The Jerusalem Post", but nobody even responded to me,
because of the reasons that wrote about in your book, I guess.
Again, thank you for your book and I hope to read a new book of yours soon!
Sincerely,
Ilya Girin, Ph.D., MBA
E-mail:
[email protected]
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:07:50 Beirut
Dear Dr.Finkelstein,
I thank you for all your efforts and I admire your courage and
humility. I am a secular Syrian which distances me from various religious dogmas be it
Islamic or Jewish.It is through Jews like you that there could be peace in the
Middle East.Jews who are proud of their roots but this pride has not prevented
their consciense from siding with the truth.
I was born in Germany and even as a child of eight it struck me how most
Germans treated Jews like semi Gods and Israel as God's personal state on
this earth.The problem lies as you have mentioned in your interview on
Al-Jazeera that we are between two extreemes.One side tries to deny the Holocaust
altogether(most of us Arabs belong to that category although I think it is
somehow understandable)which is simply not true.This is the sort of view
that the makers of the holocaust just fall in love with.What we need is to
educate people about the horrors of the holocaust on Jews as well as others without
using those lost lifes in blackmailing banks or in justifying the
oppression of the Palestinians or the killing of the Iraqi children.The Holocaust was a
dark mark in human history but it is an insult to all the victims of the
Holocaust when their lives are used to justify injustice.The other extreme is the
side you have thoroughly described in your book I can add no more, you have said
it all.
During my graduation from the American University of Beirut we as
students were honoured by the presence of Dr.Edward Said.In his speech he called on
us to be proud of our heritage without ignoring its downsides to learn from
all cultures and treat each person on this earth as a HUMAN.This is the sort of
religion we should be preaching the religion of tolerance and justice.Thank
you very much. It is after hearing people like you that one can actually be
proud of being a Homo Sapian.
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H.T.
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Dear Prof. Finkelstein:
I just read your book. A very interesting and more than well referenced work of literature. I just about concur with
all you are saying. It is nice to see some one as brave as yourself to vocally stand up against the system. I am
sure (and I know) there are many people, both Jewish and Gentile that have the same feelings as yourself.
Perhaps now more people will become vocal and end this Holocaust Industry before
ruin takes place. I also feel that the Holocaust revisionist movements that
we hear of have really gained momentum and have come about more in response
to the incessentness of the Holocaust Industry rather than in response to
the Holocaust history itself. I also feel that the Holocaust Industry
itself is unknowingly inspiring anti-Semitism as a reaction to it. I want
to thank you for a great book!
Sincerely
Dr. Joel Kaplan
Detroit, Michigan
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Congratulations for your book and your courage in speaking the truth.
it is high time these things are said.
My father, and my uncle, were deported to Buchenwald as french
"resistants". Indeed we don't understand why the sufferings of the christians
deported (and the slavs, and the tzigans among others ) are never accounted for. And
why the atrocities commited by the Japanese in the Far East never
mentionned. Or rather I should say we do understand to well...
Yes, you are right when you say that all this will bring anti-semitism,
in truth I believe it has already happened.
Thanks for your fight.
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9/13/00
Dear Dr. Finkelstein,
The NYT article and the ABC's 20/20 are investigating
journalism with an extraordinary "
tour the force
"
on two accounts : a./ Fagan was fingered out as a
scapegoat of the battered holocaust industry, omitting
totally the similar behavior of dozens of identical
class-action-suit law firms - the so called
holocaust-ambulance-chaser lawyers, as well as the
From:
[email protected]
Date:
Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:13:57 EDT
Subject:
Sans sujet
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total omission of the innumerable, unmandated,
intertwined and semi-secretive Jewish Holocaust
Restitution Organizations and b./ not even the
slightest hint is dropped on Norman Finkelstein's book
'The Holocaust Industry' an international history
bombshell which , in my view, was the trigger of this
initial attempt to deflect the mounting wrath of the
reduced number of genuine holocaust survivors.
Elie Wiesel, another genuine holocaust survivor, has
established (?) draconically restrictive criteria for
those who address Holocaust or Israeli issues : only
those who went through the former have the right to
speak, recall, address the ' inexpressible',
'incommunicable'and 'unique' tragedy, baptized by him
as "the Event", the awesomeness of the very word -
'Holocaust' - being as sanctified as 'God', thus
unpronounceable and untouchable ; 'The Event' and 'The
Creator' are - so he professes - the acceptable
alternatives to these two holy names. As for the
latter issue,according to E.W., only those with
extended Israeli residence have the right to speak on
and of Israeli matters.
Having survived the circuit of Auschwitz, Mauthausen
and other camps and also having spent 40 years of
active life in Israel, I can now disregard even Elie
Wiesel's stringent restrictions which he imposes with
his habitual solemnity on others, but on himself.
Not being a historian
myself but only an average history buff, it is rather
difficult for me to validate all your claims
pertaining to the anatomy of this industry, but,
a
priori
, I couldn't find in your study anything that
would contradict my longstanding understanding of the
post-holocaust machinery established over the last 50
years. There are, indeed, many-many facets of this
fascinating "
main basse
" on the restitution to
survivors, forced on the heirs and beneficiaries of
the perpetrators, and each of the numerous facets
could be the object of extended studies and
documentations.
One of them - maybe the most outstanding - should be
the (re)definition of the status of 'holocaust
survivor'. The unstoppable hyperinflation in the ever
growing number of h.s. serves - as you point out-
concrete and specific aims of the holocaust industry.
A linguist of the stature of N.Chomsky would be needed
to put some order in the nomenclature of the holocaust.
A preliminary attempt by me would look something like
this :
HOLOCAUST AVOIDERS : All those who have fled Germany
and Austria before 1939, mostly with the assistance
of the Nazis, sometimes without ( to Palestine, Great
Britain, USA, China , etc.) This group of people
amounts to about 3-400.000.
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PROTECTED FROM HOLOCAUST : 600.000 Romanian Jews never
extradited to Germany, 80.000 Bulgarian Jews, 400.000
Hungarian Jews (out of the 800.000) protected by
Horthy(finally) and several neutral countries'
representatives ,400.000 French Jews in Vichy -France
and/or hidden by the French, 40.000 Dutch Jews, 20.000
Belgian Jews, 6.000 Danish Jews.
BEYOND REACH (OF HOLOCAUST): 400.000 British Jews,
3.000.000 USA Jews, 3.000.000 Soviet Jews, 1.500.000
North African and Middle Eastern Jews and some 200.000
Jews in South America, Canada and Australia.
THREATENED BY HOLOCAUST : All the Jews of the world,
all the Romani, all the homosexuals, all the
communists, all the socialists, all the Slaves, all
clergy eventually, all the handicapped of the world
and on and on and on.
HOLOCAUST VICTIMS : 4.100.000 - 6.000.000 Jews
slaughtered by the Nazis.
HOLOCAUST GRADUATES : around 250.000 Jews exiting,
most of them barely, the concentration camps in 1945.
These were the holocaust survivors.
[ After the war an ever increasing number of
categories were generated :
Holocaust Deniers
(
Goering, Faurisson, Zundel, et al.),
Holocaust
Skeptics
( Irwing, LePen, Shoukeiry, et al.),
Holocaust Profiteurs
( Germany,Austria, Israel, Swiss
Banks, WJC, CC...etc.),
Holocaust Mysticists
( Elie
Wiesel, Katzetnik et al.)
Holocaust Emulators
( Khmer
Rouge, Hutus, Indonesians...etc),
Survivor Fakers
(Kosinski, Wilkomirski),
Collaborators to the
Holocaust
( Papon, Quisling, Degrelle, Szallasi,
Kastner, Rumkowski......followed by a very long list),
Holocaust Finger Pointers
(Rabbi Ovadia, Goldhagen,
et al.) ]
It is inconceivable, offensive and historically
fraudulent to increase year after year the number of
