Even the notorious Simon WIESENTHAL was a nazi GESTAPO COLLABORATOR!!
Now that there at least 52 proven instances, with more being revealed
each month, the world now sees what many victims have known for
more than 70 years!!
>> > >The Accusations
>> > >Briefly, the accusations against Kastner are as follows:
>> > >"Dr. Rudolf Verba, a Doctor of Science now serving at the British
>> > >Medical Research Council, was one of the few escapees from Auschwitz.
>> > >In his memoirs published in February, 1961, in the London Daily Herald,
>> > >he wrote:
>> > >'I am a Jew. In spite of that - indeed because of that - I accuse
>> > >certain Jewish leaders of one of the most ghastly deeds of the war.
>> > >This small group of quislings knew what was happening to their
>> > >brethren in Hitler's gas chambers and bought their their own lives with
>> > >the price of silence. Among them was Dr. Kastner, leader of the council
>> > >which spoke for all Jews in Hungary. While I was prisoner number 44070 at
>> > >Auschwitz - the number is still on my arm - I compiled careful statistics
>> > >of the exterminations...I took these terrible statistics with me when I
>> > >escaped in 1944 and I was able to give Hungarian Zionist leaders three weeks
>> > >notice that Eichmann planned to send a million of their Jews to his gas
>> > >chambers...Kastner went to Eichmann and told him, 'I know of your
>> > >plans; spare some Jews of my choice and I shall keep quiet.'
>> > >Eichmann not only agreed, but dressed Kastner up in S.S. uniform and
>> > >took him to Belsen to trace some of his friends. Nor did the sordid
>> > >bargaining end there.
>> > >Kastner paid Eichmann several thousand dollars. With this little
>> > >fortune, Eichmann was able to buy his way to freedom when Germany collapsed,
>> > >to set himself up in the Argentine..."(Ben Hecht, op.cit. pp261-2)
>> > >These accusations are confirmed by the 'Eichmann Confessions'
>> > >published in Life magazine, 28 November and 5 December 1960:
>> > >"I resolved to show how well a job could be done when the commander
>> > >stands 100% behind it. By shipping the Jews off in a lightning operation,
>> > >I wanted to set an example for future campaigns elsewhere...In obedience to
>> > >Himmler's directive I now concentrated on negotiations with the Jewish
>> > >political officials in Budapest...Among them Dr. Rudolph Kastner,
>> > >authorized representative of the Zionist Movement. This Dr. Kastner
>> > >was a young man about my age, an ice-cold lawyer and a fanatical Zionist.
>> > >He agreed to help keep the Jews from resisting deportation - and even
>> > >keep order in the collection camps - if I could close my eyes and let a
>> > >few hundred or a few thousand young Jews emigrate illegally to Palestine.
>> > >It was a good bargain. For keeping order in the camps, the price...was
>> > >not too high for me.
>> > >.We trusted each other perfectly. When he was with me, Kastner smoke
>> > >cigarets as though he was in a coffeehouse. While we talked he would
>> > >smoke one aromatic cigaret after another, taking them from a silver case
>> > >and lighting them with a silver lighter. With his great polish and reserve
>> > >he would have made an ideal Gestapo officer himself.
>> > >Dr. Kastner's main concern was to make it possible for a select group
>> > >of Hungarian Jews to emigrate to Israel...
>> > >As a matter of fact, there was a very strong similarity between our
>> > >attitudes in the S.S. and the viewpoint of these immensely idealistic
>> > >Zionist leaders....I believe that Kastner would have sacrificed a
>> > >thousand or a hundred thousand of his blood to achieve his political
>> > >goal...'You can have the others', he would say, 'but let me have this
>> > >group here'. And because Kastner rendered us a great service by helping
>> > >keep the deportation camps peaceful, I would let his groups escape.
>> > >After all, I was not concerned with small groups of a thousand or so Jews...
>> > >That was the 'gentleman's agreement' I had with Kastner" (Hecht, ibid, p.26ö-61)
>> > >Quite clearly these accusations, whether true or false, do not relate
>> > >merely to 'the purchase of Jewish lives for money and military
>> > >equipment', as Dr. Foster imagines, and the term 'collaboration' is the term
>> > >that would apply. It seems unlikely that if Dr. Foster had known what the
>> > >accusation actually was, he would have condemned 3CR saying 'In these
>> > >circumstances, to talk of collaboration is malicious and absurd'.
>> > >Are the accusations against Kastner true?
>> > >According to the Government of Israel, they are a lie. When Malchiel
>> > >Greenwald, a strongly pro-Zionist Israeli citizen published these
>> > >accusations against Kastner, the Israeli Government did rather more
>> > >than demand that his views should not be broadcast. Because a prominent
>> > >Zionist official (Dr. Kastner was a spokesman for the Ministry of Trade and
>> > >Industry) was involved, the Attorney General of the State of Israel
>> > >prosecuted Greenwald for criminal libel.
>> > >The Verdict
>> > >Let the verdict of Judge Benjamin Halevi in Israel's District Court of
>> > >Jerusalem speak for itself, given in criminal case No. 124 of 1953.
>> > >The Attorney General v. Malchiel Greenwald. This material should be
>> > >studied carefully, since a substantial extract from it, broadcast on 3CR,
>> > >has been complained about by the VJBD as allegedly offensive to the Jewish
>> > >community, likely to promote anti-semitism, likely to promote racism,
>> > >in bad taste and contrary to common sense.
>> > >It is the actual words used that are the subject of the Board's
>> > >complaint, not the manner of their representation by 3CR. Presumably
>> > >the Board itself was not aware just whose words they were when it made
>> > >its' complaint, which shows how complete suppression of information can
>> > >backfire on the censors themselves.
>> > >Here then are excerpts from the verdict of Judge Halevi, who later
>> > >became one of the panel of three judges that tried Eichmann:
>> > >"The masses of Jews from Hungary's ghettos obediently boarded the
>> > >deportation trains without knowing their fate. They were full of
>> > >confidence in the false information that they were being transferred to
>> > >Kenyermeze.
>> > >The Nazis could not have misled the masses of Jews so conclusively had
>> > >they not spread their false information through Jewish channels.
>> > >The Jews of the ghettos would not have trusted the Nazi or Hungarian
>> > >rulers. But they had trust in their Jewish leaders. Eichmann and
>> > >others used this known fact as part of their calculated plan to mislead
>> > >the Jews.
>> > >They were able to deport the Jews to their extermination by the help
>> > >of Jewish leaders.
>> > >The false information was spread by the Jewish leaders. The local
>> > >leaders of the Jews of Kluj and Nodvarod knew that other leaders were
>> > >spreading such false information and did not protest.
>> > >Those of the Jews who tried to warn their friends of the truth were
>> > >persecuted by the Jewish leaders in charge of the local 'rescue work'.
>> > >The trust of the Jews in the misleading information and their lack of
>> > >knowledge that their wives, children and themselves were about to be
>> > >deported to the gas chambers of Auschwitz led the victims to remain
>> > >quiescent in their ghettos. It seduced them into not resisting or
>> > >hampering the deportation orders.
>> > >Dozens of thousands of Jews were guarded in their ghettos by a few
>> > >dozen police. Yet even vigorous young Jews made no attemptt to overpower
>> > >these few guards and escape to nearby Rumania. No resistance activities to
>> > >the deportations were organized in these ghettos.
>> > >And the Jewish leaders did everything in their power to soothe the
>> > >Jews in the ghettos and to prevent such resistance activities.
>> > >The same Jews who spread in Kluj and Nodvarod the false rumor of
>> > >Kenyermeze, or confirmed it, the same public leaders who did not warn
>> > >their own people against the misleading statements, the same Jewish leaders
>> > >who did not organize any resistance or any sabotage of
>> > >deportations...these same leaders did not join the people of their community
>> > >in their ride to Auschwitz, but were all included in the Rescue train.
>> > >The Nazi organizers of extermination and the perpetrators of
>> > >extermination permitted Rudolf Kastner and the members of the Jewish Council
>> > >in Budapest to save themselves, their relatives, and friends. The Nazis did
>> > >this as a means of making the local Jewish leaders, whom they favoured,
>> > >dependent on the Nazi regime, dependent on its good will during the time of
>> > >its fatal deportation schedule. In short, the Nazis succeeded in bringing the
>> > >Jewish leaders into oollaboration with the Nazis at the time of the
>> > >catastrophe.
>> > >The Nazi chiefs knew that the Zionists were a most vital element in
>> > >Jewry and the most trusted by the Jews.
>> > >The Nazis drew a lesson from the Warsaw ghetto and other belligerent
>> > >ghettos. They learned that Jews were able to sell their lives very
>> > >expensively if honorably guided.
>> > >Eichmann did not want a second Warsaw. For this reason, the Nazis
>> > >exerted themselves to mislead and bribe the Jewish leaders.
>> > >The personality of Rudolph Kastner made him a convenient catspaw for
>> > >Eichmann and his clique, to draw into collaboration and make their
>> > >task easier.
>> > >The question here is not, as stated by the Attorney General in his
>> > >summation, whether members of the Jewish Rescue Committee were or were
>> > >not capable of fulfilling their duty without the patronage of the S.S.
>> > >chiefs.
>> > >It is obvious that without such S.S. Nazi patronage the Jewish Rescue
>> > >Committee could not have existed, and could have acted only as an
>> > >underground.
>> > >The question is, as put by the lawyer for the defense, why were the
>> > >Nazis interested in the existence of the Rescue Committee? Why did
>> > >the S.S. chiefs make every effort to encourage the existence of the
>> > >Jewish Rescue Committee? Did the exterminators turn into rescuers?
>> > >The same question rises concerning the rescue of prominent Jews by
>> > >these German killers of Jews. Was the rescue of such Jews a part of
>> > >the extermination plan of the killers ?
>> > >The support given by the extermination leaders to Kastner's Rescue
>> > >Committee proves that indeed there was a place for Kastner and his
>> > >friends in their Final Solution for the Jews of Hungary - their total
>> > >annihilation.
>> > >The Nazi's patronage of Kastner, and their agreement to let him save
>> > >six hundred prominent Jews, were part of the plan to exterminate the Jews.
>> > >Kastner was given a chance to add a few more to that number. The bait
>> > >attracted him. The opportunity of rescuing prominent people appealed
>> > >to him greatly. He considered the rescue of the most important Jews as a
>> > >great personal success and a success for Zionism. It was a success that
>> > >would also justify his conduct - his political negotiation with Nazis and
>> > >the Nazi patronage of his committee.
>> > >When Kastner received this present from the Nazis, Kastner sold his
>> > >soul to the German Satan. The sacrifice of the vital interests of the majority
>> > >of the Jews, in order to rescue the prominents, was the basic element in the
>> > >agreement between Kastner and the Nazis. This agreement fixed the division of
>> > >the nation into two unequal camps: a small fragment of prominents, whom the
>> > >Nazis promised Kastner to save, on the one hand, and the great majority of
>> > >Hungarian Jews whom the Nazis designated for death, on the other hand.
>> > >An imperative condition for the rescue of the first camp by the Nazis was that
>> > >Kastner will not interfere in the action of the Nazis against the other camp
>> > >and will not hamper them in its extermination. Kastner fulfilled this
>> > >condition. He concentrated his efforts in the rescue of the prominents
>> > >and treated the camp of the doomed as if they had already been wiped out
>> > >from the book of the living.
>> > >One cannot estimate the damage caused by Kastner's collaboration and
>> > >put down the number of victims which it cost Hungarian Jews. These are not
>> > >only the thousands of Jews in Nodvarod or any other community in the border
>> > >area, Jews who could escape through the border, had the chief of their
>> > >rescue committee fulfilled his duty toward them.
>> > >All of Kastner's answers in his final testimony were a constant effort
>> > >to evade this truth.
>> > >Kastner has tried to escape through every crack he could find in the
>> > >wall of evidence. When one crack was sealed in his face, he darted quickly
>> > >to another."
>> > >(Judgement of Judge Benjamin Halevi, Criminal Case 124/53; Attorney
>> > >General v. Malchiel Greenwald, District Court, Jerusalem, June 22, 1955).
>> > >Judge Halevi reverts to the meeting of Kastner with the S.S. officers
>> > >Becher and Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz at the time when the
>> > >'new line' of rescuing Jews was revealed by Hoess. He says:
>> > >"From this gathering in Budapest, it is obvious that the 'new line'
>> > >stretched from Himmler to Hoess, from Jutner to Becher and Krumey.
>> > >According to Kastner, however, these Nazis were all active in rescuing
>> > >Jews.
>> > >This meeting of these important German guests in Budapest exposes the
>> > >'rescue' work of Becher in its true light. It reveals also the extent
>> > >of Kastner's involvement in the inner circle of the chief German war
>> > >criminals.
>> > >Just as the Nazi war criminals knew they needed an alibi and hoped to
>> > >achieve it by the rescue of a few Jews at the eleventh hour, so
>> > >Kastner also needed an alibi for himself.
>> > >Collaboration between the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee and the
>> > >Exterminators of the Jews was solidifed in Budapest and Vienna.
>> > >Kastner's duties were part and parcel of the genral duties of the S.S.
>> > >In addition to its Extermination Department and Looting Department,
>> > >the Nazi S.S. opened a Rescue Department headed by Kastner.
>> > >All these extermination, robbery and rescue activities of the S.S.
>> > >were coordinated under the management of Heinrich Himmler". (ibid)
>> > >Judge Halevi continues:
>> > >"Kastner perjured himself knowingly in his testimony before this court
>> > >when he denied he had interceded in Becher's hehalf. Moreover, he concealed
>> > >the important fact that he interceded for Becher in the name of the Jewish
>> > >Agency and the Jewish World Congress.
>> > >As to the contents of Kastner's affidavit, it was enough for the
>> > >defense to prove Becher was a war criminal. It was up to the prosecution to
>> > >remove Becher from this status, if they wished to negate the affidavit.
>> > >The Attorney General admitted in his summation that Becher was a war
>> > >criminal.
>> > >The lies in the contents of Kastner's affidavit, the lies in his
>> > >testimony concerning the document, and Kastner's knowing participation in the
>> > >activities of Nazi war criminals, and his participation in the last
>> > >minute fake rescue activities - all these combine to show one overwhelming
>> > >truth - that this affidavit was not given in good faith.
>> > >Kastner knew well, as he himself testified, that Becher had never
>> > >stood up against the stream of Jewish extermination, as Kastner has
>> > >declared in the affidavit.
>> > >The aims of Becher and his superior, Himmler, were not to save Jews
>> > >but to serve the Nazi regime with full compliance. These is not truth
>> > >and no good faith in Kastner's testimony, 'I never doubted for one moment
>> > >the good intention of good Becher'.
>> > >It is clear that the positive recommandation by Kastner, not only in
>> > >his own name but also in the name of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish
>> > >World Congress was of decisive importance for Becher. Kastner did not
>> > >exaggerate when he said that Becher was released by the Allies because
>> > >of his personal intervention. The lies in the affidavit of Kastner and the
>> > >contradictions and various pretexts, which were proven to be lies, were
>> > >sufficient to annul the value of his statements and to prove that there
>> > >was no good faith in his testimony in favor of this German war criminal.
>> > >Kastner's affidavit in favor of Becher was a willfully false affidavit
>> > >given in favor of a war criminal to save him from trial and punishment
>> > >in Nuremberg.
>> > >Therefore, the defendant, Malchiel Greenwald, was correct in his
>> > >accusations against Rudolf Kastner in the first, second and fourth of
>> > >his statements." (ibid)
>> > >Judge Halevi's verdict found Malchiel Greenwald generally innocent of
>> > >libel against Kastner, but fined him one Israeli pound for the one unproven
>> > >accusation - that Kastner had actually collected money from his Nazi
>> > >partners for his aide to their slaughter program. The judge also
>> > >ordered the Government of Israel to pay Greenwald two hundred Israeli
>> > >pounds as court costs.
>> > >In fairness to Kastner it should me mentioned that as well as having
>> > >been unpaid, it was never established that he ever wore S.S. uniform.
>> > >Nevertheless, this verdict, and the evidence on which it was based,
>> > >completely establishes the truth of everything said on 3CR about the
>> > >matter.
>> > >If the story ended there, it would only prove conclusively that the
>> > >individual Kastner was a collaborator and the Israeli Government had
>> > >attempted to defend him, although facts brought out in the trial
>> > >pointed to much more than that.
>> > >But the story does not end there.