Connecting the dots:
Israel follows the path of Nazi Germany

by Lech Biegalski
Canada Watch
December 25, 2006

What amounts to spontaneous observations, made on the basis of isolated incidents, begins to emerge as a general pattern. Intentionally or not, Israel follows the Nazi path and falls into the same trap that compromised German political agenda at the end of World War II.

In a breath taking article, What are you going to do now, Israel?, Virginia Tilley[1] predicts a disastrous outcome of Israel's destruction of the Palestinian government, an outcome which will leave Israel with only one option - a systematic genocide of the entire Palestinian population. Tilley stops short from reaching this conclusion but the logic of it is overwhelming enough to assume that Israeli politicians must be fully aware of it and must be consciously working towards this end.

"Maybe you are sitting back in your national chair, rubbing your hands together in triumph, watching the Palestinians finally turn on each other, slowly becoming what you always claimed they were. Maybe you are repelled, secure in your sense of superiority.

"But have you thought about what you are going to do, if Palestinian leadership you despise finally disintegrates?

"You have brought them to this pass, of course. You worked for decades to achieve exactly this. You bribed, terrorized, expelled, maimed or killed their leadership, banned or killed their visionaries and philosophers, fanned and funded Hamas against Fatah or Fatah against Hamas, trashed their democracy, stole their money, walled them in, put them on a “diet”, derided their claims, and lied about their history to the world and to yourself.

"But what are you going to do, Israel, if five million Palestinians are finally living leaderless under your sovereignty? What will you do, when they lose their capacity to negotiate with you? Have you thought that, within the territory you control, they are as many as you? And that now you are destroying their unified voice? Have you thought about what will happen to you if they truly lose that voice?"

A striking similarity between Israel's strategy in Palestine and Nazi long-term policy of extermination and annexation in Poland during the Second World War is clearly demonstrated by the Nuremberg Tribunal Charges and the Nuremberg Tribunal Judgement against Hans Frank[2], the Nazi Governor-General of the non-annexed occupied Poland in 1939 - 1945. It is absolutely shocking to read the documents and to see how many objectives and tactics in these two occupation theatres can be compared as parallel.

The memory of Hans Frank, "the butcher of Cracow" and the overseer of extermination camps in occupied Poland, must still be deeply embedded in Jewish collective consciousness.

SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler (left) and Hans Frank, Nazi Governor of Poland,
at dinner during a visit by Himmler to Frank's residence in Cracow

At different occasions, Frank has made it clear that European Jews must be eliminated:

"We, National Socialists, have started with anti-Semitism in our fight to free the German people, to re-establish a German Reich and to build our entire German spiritual, cultural and social life on the indestructible foundation of our race. We started a gigantic battle in 1919. It took all the self-confidence of German manhood to withstand and to triumph in this fight to substitute the German spirit for Jewish corruption over the concerted attacks of powerful world groups of which Jewry is a representative." (...)

"Severe measures must and will be adopted against Jews leaving the Ghettos. Death sentences pending against Jews for this reason must be carried out as quickly as possible. This order according to which every Jew found outside the Ghetto is to be executed, must be carried out without fail."  (...)

"As far as the Jews are concerned, I want to tell you quite frankly, that they must be done away with in one way or another. The Fuehrer said once: should united Jewry again succeed in provoking a world war, the blood of not only the nations which have been forced into the war by them will be shed, but the Jew will have found his end in Europe." (...)

"Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews, wherever we find them and wherever it is possible, in order to maintain here the structure of the Reich as a whole. (...) We must find, at any rate, a way which leads to the goal, and my thoughts are working in that direction." (...)

Defendant Hans Frank (Nazi Governor of occupied Poland) in a witness box,
Nuremberg Trial, 1945 - 1946

In Frank's view, the goal of permanent annexation of Polish occupied territories could only be achieved by ruthless destruction of native political, economical, and human potential:

"It is not the task of the Administration to make Poland into a model province or a model state of the German order or to put her economically or financially on a sound basis. The Polish intelligentsia must be prevented from forming a ruling class. The standard of living in the country is to remain low; we only want to draw labour forces from there. Poles are also to be used for the administration of the country. However the forming of national political groups may not be allowed." (...)

"The Governor General is to give the Polish nation only bare living conditions and is to maintain the basis for military security." (...)

"Any tendencies towards the consolidation of conditions in Poland are to be suppressed. The 'Polish muddle' [polnische Wirtschaft] must be allowed to develop. The government of the territory must make it possible for us to purify the Reich territory from Jews and Polacks, too. Collaboration with new Reich provinces (Posen and West Prussia) only for resettlements." (...)

"In this country the force of a determined leadership must rule. The Pole must feel here that we are not building him a legal state, but that for him there is only one duty, namely, to work and to behave himself." (...)

"The situation in regard to Poland is unique insofar as on the one hand - I speak quite openly - we must expand Germanism in such a manner that the area of the General Government becomes pure German colonized land at some decades to come; and, on the other hand under the present war conditions we have to allow foreign racial groups to perform here the work which must be carried out in the service of Greater Germany." (...)

Hans Frank, post-execution photo

"It is understandable that in resettling this area . . .we did not make friends of the Poles. In colonizing this territory with racial Germans, we are forced to chase out the Poles. We are removing those who constitute a burden in this new colonization territory. Actually, they are the asocial and inferior elements." (...)

"Whenever there is the least attempt by the Poles to start anything, an enormous campaign of destruction will follow." (...)

Poles and Ukrainians were to be permitted to work for the German economy, as long as the war emergency continued. Once the war was won, Frank advocated:

"...then, for all I care, mincemeat [Hackfleisch] can be made of the Poles and the Ukrainians and all the others who run around here - it does not matter what happens."

The fact that similar circumstances often cause similar effects is rather obvious. Once put in motion, the spiral of events takes on a life of its own. Just like Nazi Germany in Poland, Israel is heading toward failure in Palestine. As the victims of holocaust 'deal' with their trauma by becoming perpetrators , history repeats itself with amazing accuracy. An unprecedented wave of public awareness and political will to stop Israeli atrocities is spreading around the world.

It does not really matter what Israel's intentions are, it does not matter what "excuses" Israel is using to justify its crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In politics intentions don't count, results do. Like Nazi Germany, Israel bears full responsibility for crimes committed in the occupied territories.

I strongly encourage everybody to read the Virginia Tilley's article and the Nuremberg Trial documents listed here. The impact that comparing these texts has on the understanding of the Israeli occupation of Palestine is tremendous.

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Endnotes:

[1] Virginia Tilley is a professor of political science, a US citizen working in South Africa, and author of The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (University of Michigan Press and Manchester University Press, 2005). She can be reached at tilley@hws.edu.

[2] Hans Frank was a former Bavarian Minister of Justice, Governor General of Poland (1939-1945), and General of SS. He was tried before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (1945-46).

The indictment which served as the basis for the Main Trial and for charging the defendants contained four counts:

  1. Count One - The Common Plan or Conspiracy to wage an aggressive war in violation of international law or treaties;

  2. Count Two - Planning, preparation, or waging an aggressive war;

  3. Count Three - War Crimes -- violations of the international rules of war (mistreatment of prisoners of war or civilian populations, the plunder of private property and the destruction of towns and cities without military justification);

  4. Count Four - Crimes Against Humanity - murder, extermination, enslavement of civilian populations; persecution on the basis of racial, religions or political grounds.

In the actual conduct of the trial, Counts one and two constituted "Crimes Against the Peace;" Count Three constituted "War Crimes," and Count Four constituted "Crimes Against Humanity."

Frank was charged under Counts 1, 3, and 4. The Tribunal found that Frank was not guilty on Count One but guilty under Counts Three and Four.

Frank was sentenced to death on October 1, 1946 and hanged on October 16, 1946.

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Reproduced gratefully from: http://canadawatch.org/articles2/israel-follows-nazi-germany.htm

 

 


 

 

 

 

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