- Norman G. Finkelstein of the City University of
New York on the Holocaust...
- (Excerpts from The Holocaust Industry by Norman
G. Finkelstein published by Verso in the year 2000)
- * 'The Israeli Prime Minister's office recently put
the number of "living Holocaust survivors" at nearly a million'
- * ' "The Holocaust" is an ideological
representation of the Nazi holocaust. Like most ideologies, it bears a
connection, if tenuous, with reality. The Holocaust is not an arbitrary,
but rather an internally coherent construct. Its central dogmas sustain
significant political and class interests. Indeed, The Holocaust has proven
to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one
of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human
rights record, has cast itself as a 'victim' state, and the most successful
ethnic group in the United States has likewise acquired victim status.
Considerable benefits accrue to this specious victimhood in particular,
immunity to criticism, however justified" (p 3).
- * 'If 135,000 former Jewish slave laborers are
still alive today, some 600,000 must have survived the war. That's
at least a half-million more than standard estimates.. If Jews only constituted
20% of the surviving camp population and, as the Holocaust industry implies, 600,000 Jewish
inmates survived the war, then fully 3 million inmates in total must have
survived. By the Holocaust industry's reckoning,concentration camp conditions
couldn't have been that harsh at all; in fact, one must suppose a remarkably
high fertility and remarkably low mortality rate.. If, as the Holocaust
industry suggests, many hundreds of thousands of Jews survived, the Final
Solution couldn't have been so efficient after all exactly what Holocaust
deniers argue. (pp127-8). '
- * 'Both my father and my mother were survivors
of the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps.. One of my father's
lifelong friends was a former inmate with him in Auschwitz, a seemingly
incorruptible left-wing idealist who on principle refused German compensation
after the war. Eventually he became a director of the Israeli Holocaust
museum, Yad Vashem. Reluctantly and with genuine disappointment, my father
finally admitted that even this man had been corrupted by the Holocaust
industry, tailoring his beliefs for power and profit. As the rendering
of the Holocaust assumed ever more absurd forms, my mother liked to quote
(with intentional irony) Henry Ford: "History is bunk." (ibid.
- * 'The Holocaust proved to be the perfect weapon
for deflecting criticism of Israel' (ibid p30).
- * 'Much of the literature on Hitler's Final Solution
is worthless as scholarship. Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is
replete with nonsense, if not sheer fraud.' (p 55).
- * 'Given the nonsense that is turned out daily
by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics'.
- * 'The Holocaust may yet turn out to be the "greatest
robbery in the history of mankind".. The Holocaust industry has clearly
gone berserk.'(p 138-9).
- Former Israeli Government Official speaks out on how
the Holocaust and the term 'anti-semitic' are used as Zionist tricks to
intimidate and discredit those who question or criticize Zionism or Israel.
- 'Anti-Semitism Charges Are Tricks, We Always Use Them' - Vid