Sign of the Times

Arbeit macht Frei - work sets you free








It's very convenient that just as the world is really waking up to the war crimes, corruption and inordinate influence that Israel has over a number of groveling governments that an opportunity arises to once again 'show and tell' who the real 'victims' are.

A symbol, a sign of the massive extortion racket that has allowed Israel to slither away from their own crimes against humanity is stolen. I think Abe Foxman and the ADL are preparing their statement of "I told you so" right now. Desecration of their 'holy site' is not something they take lightly and of course ever eager to use for their purposes of diversion and anti-semitic rhetoric.

If one was to look at this theft with a wary eye, one might think that this could be an 'inside job.' Deception is always the first option when looking for talking points to perpetuate the theme of 'neverending persecution.'


From the Times Online ...

“This is not only a theft but a horrible profanation in a place where more than a million people were murdered, in the biggest such site in this part of the world. It is a disgraceful act.”

Holocaust deniers {historians preferring facts} have long targeted Auschwitz in an attempt to demonstrate that the systematic murder of Jews has been invented or exaggerated. Deniers, seeking to bolster their arguments, have previously taken soil samples from the camp and made measurements in order to argue that the number of victims gassed and cremated were far smaller than claimed.

There has always been a danger – as Holocaust survivors and their Nazi murderers die out – that the authenticity of the sites themselves will be questioned.

Auschwitz is made up primarily of red-brick buildings that formed part of Habsburgian barracks – used initially to imprison Polish political prisoners – and the wooden prisoner huts of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Birkenau was the location of the gas chambers, but both parts of the old Nazi camp are showing signs of wear and tear as many hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the site, near Cracow, every year.

The critical question has been how far to restore the buildings and the crumbling personal possessions – the spectacles for example, removed from the corpses of those gassed to death, some 80,000 shoes, 3,800 suitcases – and risk opening up the museum to charges of falsification. In all there are 155 buildings – including crematoria - and some 300 ruins on the sprawling site.

The theft – if it is indeed politically motivated – could be linked to the decision this week by Germans authorities to pay half the cost of patching up the buildings. Some 60 million euros have been earmarked by Germany’s 16 federal states and by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s federal government. The Auschwitz-Birkenau International Memorial Foundation has appealed for a total of 120 million euros.

Jaroslaw Mensfelt, the Auschwitz museum’s spokesman says ...

“This is not only a theft but a horrible profanation in a place where more than a million people were murdered, in the biggest such site in this part of the world. It is a disgraceful act.” {more}

I wonder when there will be a sign put up at a memorial to remind us of another 'holocaust?'

Just about a year ago, wasn't it?