A Factual Appraisal Of The 'Holocaust' By The Red Cross
: The Jews And The Concentration Camps
There's a survey of German concentration camps which is honest
and objective, Report of the International Committee of the Red
Cross on its Activities during 2nd World War, Geneva, 1948.
The Red Cross ( ICRC ) applied the Geneva convention to gain
access to civilian internees held by German authorities but was
unable to gain any access to Russian camps. The millions of
civilian and military internees held in USSR, whose conditions were
the worst, were cut off from international contact or
supervision.
They distributed food parcels to concentration camps in
Germany. (Vol. 111, p. 78). The ICRC established contact with camp
commandants and a food relief programme.
The Report states "9,000 parcels were packed daily. >From the
autumn of 1943 until May 1945, about 1,112,000 parcels weighing
4,500 tons were sent to concentration camps" (Vol. III, p. 80). In
addition to food, there were clothing and pharmaceutical
supplies.
### The ICRC complained that obstruction of their vast relief
operation for Jews came not from the Germans but from the tight
Allied blockade.
### The ICRC praised the liberal conditions at Theresienstadt up to
April 1945. This camp, "where there were about 40,000 Jews was
relatively privileged" (Vol. III, p. 75).
### From information gathered by the Committee, this camp had
started as an experiment by leaders of the Reich ... These men
wished to give the Jews the means of communal life in a town under
their own administration with almost complete autonomy. . . two
delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6th, 1945." (Vol. I,
p . 642).
### The ICRC complained that it never succeeded "in sending
anything to Russia" (Vol. II, p. 62).
### The same situation applied to German camps after "liberation"
by the Russians. The ICRC received a flow of mail from Auschwitz
until Soviet occupation, when internees were evacuated
westward.
###The most important aspect of the Red Cross Report is that it
clarifies the true cause of those deaths that occurred in the
camps.
### Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany during
the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at
all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims.
### Alarmed by this, the German Government informed the ICRC and
discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the
S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave decisive results. Relief could henceforth
be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was to stay in each
camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83).
### It is important to stress that delegates of Red Cross found
no evidence at camps in Axis occupied Europe of any policy to
exterminate the Jews.
### In its 1,600 pages the Report does not mention a gas chamber.
It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities,
suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the
planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million
legend.
### So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the
Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps
were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they
were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the
camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff)
### Claims that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers
disguised as shower facilities. The Report makes nonsense of this
allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for
baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They
often take action to have fixtures repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III,
p. 594).
### Volume III of the Red Cross Report, Chapter 3 (I. Jewish
Civilian Population) deals with the "aid given to the Jewish
section of the free population," and this chapter makes it plain
that not all Jews were placed in internment camps, but remained as
part of the free civilian population.
### In Slovakia, where Eichmann's assistant Dieter Wisliceny was
in charge, the Report states that "A large proportion of the Jewish
had permission to stay in the country, and Slovakia was a
comparative haven of refuge for Jews. Those in Slovakia were in
comparative safety.
### While the law of May 15th, 1942 brought the internment of
several thousand Jews, these people were held in camps where the
conditions of food and lodging were tolerable, the internees were
allowed paid work on terms almost equal to those of the free labour
market" (Vol. I, p. 646).
### Large numbers of the 3 million or so European Jews avoid
internment altogether and emigration of Jews continued throughout
the war via Hungary, Rumania and Turkey.
### Many Germans died of typhus. One account of a boy aged 12
described how he had typhus. He was in a hospital ward with dozens
of other typhus victims. He said a gas bottle was wheeled into the
ward and Zyklon gas was released in an effort to kill all lice,
etc, while the patients were in their beds.
### Zyklon gas was supposedly claimed by the Jews to be used in
the gas chambers.
Add the Red Cross
to the list of groups that have recently apologized for remaining
silent during the Holocaust.
" The director of archives for the International Red Cross,
George Willemin, acknowledged this week the organization's "moral
failure" at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in
Jerusalem. He also delivered 60,000 pages of Red Cross documents to
be given to three Jewish museums.
As reports of extermination camps began to spread in 1944, the
Red Cross visited the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia at
the invitation of the Nazis. The Nazis cleaned up the ghetto by
lessening overcrowded conditions by sending prisoners to Auschwitz
and adding a bank, shops and schools.
The ruse worked. The Red Cross reported that allegations of
extermination camps were unfounded.
In the latter stages of
the war, the Red Cross did work with Jewish organizations in
rescuing Jews........"
