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Stalin’s government saw to it that the western Jews who had been
deported into the eastern areas and had survived the hardships of wartime
were removed without a trace and were unable to communicate
with friends or relatives. This meant, first of all, that they had to be
moved from the western regions of the USSR into eastern areas of the
country which were essentially hidden from the outside world. Such a
migration could easily be accomplished within the mass deportations of
1949 described by the American Jewish Yearbook. We do not believe
that these Jews were killed, but we assume that they disappeared in
camps they would never leave.
Such a step allowed Stalin to consolidate the myth of the extermination
of Jews in “gas chambers.” It thus killed two birds with one stone:
Stalin was able to take on the role of a savior who had freed half of Europe
from a monstrous dictatorship, while at the same time enabling the
foundation of Israel which he – erroneously – regarded as a Soviet outpost
in the Near East. 1105
If this hypothesis were correct, did the leaders of the Zionist movement
know about what was happening in the USSR? The only possible
answer is “yes,” because this organization had enough informants all
over the world to be kept abreast of what was going on locally. It would
be naïve to argue that the Zionists would surely have decried such an
inhumane policy of the Soviets. For these people, the main objective,
which dominated all other considerations, was the foundation of a Jewish
state in the Near East, and in order to reach that goal they were unhesitatingly
prepared to sacrifice tens or hundreds of thousands of their
own brethren.
We remind our readers of the fact that the Zionists fired up the anti-
Jewish atmosphere in Germany after Hitler’s ascent to power by
preaching a boycott of German products, in spite of the obvious repercussions
such an attitude would have for the Jews in Germany. The
Jewish writer Josef Gideon Burg has described the Zionist policy in the
following words: 1106
1105 In his book Fälschung, Dichtung und Wahrheit über Hitler und Stalin (Olzog, Munich
2004, p. 339), the late German historian Prof. Dr. Werner Maser expressed a similar hypothesis:
“It was no topic for many of them [Stalin’s propagandists] that Stalin representted
the up to two million[!] Jews, who after the war could no longer return to their places
of origin from the USSR because they had lost their way of life there, as victims of the
National Socialist regime contrary to the truth.” Editor’s remark.
1106 Josef G. Burg, Schuld und Schicksal. Europas Juden zwischen Henkern und Heuchlern,
Verlag K. W. Schütz, Pr. Oldendorf 1990, p. 75.