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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> 399<br />

and to insist that there had been no gas chambers in that camp. What<br />

would have been the use of such stubbornness? Not one out of a hundred<br />

readers of Stern would have believed him. Forty years of brainwashing<br />

had done their work.<br />

So, Frenzel does what countless other defendants have done in so<br />

many trials of “NS criminals.” He does not deny the accusation as such,<br />

the organized mass murder of the Jews, but claims a state of emergency<br />

for himself, “we had to do our duty,” denying his own involvement in<br />

specific crimes, like the shooting of the 15-year-old boy or the gassing<br />

of the 72 Dutch working Jews who had plotted a revolt. He is successful,<br />

like so many other “Nazi criminals” – the judges, while confirming<br />

the original sentence, grant him parole.<br />

We are sure that hundreds, nay thousands of German schools have<br />

dealt with this conversation between Frenzel and Blatt in their history<br />

or German language classes. It is an ideal example for implanting the<br />

image of the despicable German Nazi who does whatever he is ordered<br />

to do, unhesitatingly, regardless of what it is and then, coward at heart,<br />

either denies everything or places the responsibility on someone else.<br />

This is the way in which the soul of the young generation of Germans<br />

has been poisoned – and an end is not in sight.<br />

“Nazi monsters” becoming an increasingly rare species – for biological<br />

reasons – the show trial against John Demjanjuk may be the last<br />

chance to present such an ogre to the German public. The fact that this<br />

monster is not a German himself but a Ukrainian may be a slight blemish,<br />

but even this aspect can be used to advantage: the abject character<br />

of the German Nazis was such that these people did not hesitate to make<br />

use of the most evil scum of other European nations for the realization<br />

of their own murderous aims!<br />

The “<strong>Holocaust</strong>” Moloch must be fed – with the Ukrainians who<br />

faced the execution squads after the arch liar Alexander Aronovitch Pechersky<br />

“convicted” them through his testimony, with the former SS<br />

men Erich Bauer, Hubert Gomerski, and Karl Frenzel who withered behind<br />

bars for a total of 69 years; with Hermann Julius Höfle who was<br />

driven into suicide in a Vienna prison – or, which is much more likely,<br />

was simply liquidated; with Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan who spent 17<br />

years in jail for allegedly having selected Jewish children for the gas<br />

chambers at Majdanek, which, according to the findings of the Berlin<br />

court in 1950, never existed in the first place; with Gustav Wagner, who<br />

was knifed to death by a Jewish squad of killers after he had given him-

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