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Steppingstones
Silver Spring, Maryland
THE DRAMA OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS
by Professor Paul Rassinier
Translated from the original French
Steppingstones Publications
Box 612
Silver Spring, Maryland 2090 I
The original edition of this book was published in
France under the title of LE DRAME DES ]UIFS
E UROPEEN copyright by Les Sept Couleurs,
Paris, France 1964.
First American edition published by
Steppingstones Publications
Box 612
Silver Spring, Md 20901 USA
1st Printing: February 1975
2nd Printing: March 1975
3rd Printing: July 1976
Copyright© by Earl W. Thomas Jr. 1975
The map of pre-war Europe is from The Origz"ns of
the Second World War © Copyright 1961 by
A. J. P. Taylor (Hamish Hamilton, London).
PAUL RASSINIER
Dedicated to
James J. Martin and the late Harry Elmer Barnes
Pioneers in Revisionist History
CONTENTS
Foreword by Michael Hardesty ............................. . 9
Chapter
I. Mr. Raul Hilberg, His Doctrine And Methods ........ . 19
II. Witnesses, Testimonies And Documents ............ . 28
III. Statistics: Six Million Or. .. ? ..................... . 61
IV. Conclusion ................................... . 120
FOREWORD
PauLRassinier was a French Professor of history and geography who devoted the
las( twenty years of his life to a systematic study of one of the most crucial, contro
versial aspe.cts of World War II history: the atrocity question. More specifically the
study of the claim that the German National Socialist government deliberately exter
minated European Jewry to, the full exteht it was able to do so before the so-called
'Liberation'.
From 1933 to 1943, Rassinier was a professor of history in the College d' enseign
ement general at Belfort, Academie de Besancon. Durisg the war he engaged in non
violent resistahce activity until he was arrested by the Gestapo on October 30,
1943, and as a result was confined in the German concentration camps at Buchen
wald and Dora until 1945. At Buchenwald, towards the latter part of the war, he
contracted a species of typhus, which so damaged his health that he could not
resume his teaching. After the war, Rassinier was awarde~ the Medaille de la Resis
tance and the Reconnaisance Francaise. He was elected to the French Chamber of
Deputies but was subsequently ousted by the machinations of the French Com
munist Party in November 1946. At the age of 16, in 1922, Rassinier was very briefly
drawn into theCommunist Party by the anarchist, Victor Serge. Because he was a
. confirmed, total pa~iffst he was expelled from the' Party. After various attempts at
unifying the worker movement along the political lines of Souvarine, and the trade
union projects of Pierre Monatte, he joined the Socialist Party on the evening of
February 6, 1934. Secretary of the Socialist Union of Belfort, he attempted to
·popularize the pacifist viewpoints of Felicien Challaye, Rene Gerin, Madeleine Ver
net, and Louis Lecain. He was a Resistant from the first hour of the German Occu
pation and was one of· the founders of the 'Libe-Nord' movement. He tried to in
culcate into Resistance movements his non-violent, pacifist philosophy. He was as a
result condemned to death by the Communist faction of the Resistance and received
the customary coffin effigy warning.
A few remarks here concerning the general importance of a revisionist study of
the Second World War and the interrelated atrocity question would be in order.
Only the alleged urgency of the Hitler menace and the alleged extent of Hitler's
guilt could even begin to justify the enormous losses and the horrible consequences
of the war. Fifty million lives lost, twenty-five trillion dollars spent, half of Europe
under Communist rule, China under Communist rule, vast increases in taxation,
goverriment economic controls and the national d~bt, militarism as a permanent way
of life, the expenditure of one and one-half trillion dollars since 1946 on 'national
defense' to contain our former 'Allies' - the Communists, a foreign aid program of
close to two hundred billion dollars to allegedly 'contain' Communism since the end
of the war, the growth of various, vicious little 'national liberation' movements
around the world seeking to impose their ugly little brand of Marxist totalitarianism
on various countries, a massive American interventionism, meddling and economic
imperialism to allegedly contain those same movements, a growing world-wide eco
nomic crisis, galloping inflation, the total collapse of Great Britain as a world power,
the cutting of Germany in two, the increasingly widespread proliferation'of nuclear
arms, the enormous growth of racism world-wide and the undeniable fact that the
overwhelming majority of mankind today live under various dictatorships of one
brand or another.
Some of the Allies ('Good Guy') atrocities include: The Katyn Massacre of
Polish officers and intellectuals (the entire Polish officer corps) in early 1940, the
expulsion of about fifteen million Germans from their former homes in areas that
had been under their control for over 800 years, and the subsequent death of four to
six million German nationals in the process, the English initiation of civilian satura
tion bombing in May 1940, the militarily unjustified atom-bombing of the Japa-
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nese c1t1es (planned by Roosevelt), the forcible repatriation of several million
nationals back to the U.S.S.R. via 'Operation Keelhaul' in 1944-1947, the
Communist inspired 'Morgenthau Plan' which envisioned turning over
it1dustrial Germany into a pastoral land and contemplated with equanimity the pro-
bable death of thirty million Germans in the process and which was to a partial
extent enacted under JCS 106 7 by the Allied Occupation Forces in Germany after
the war. In addition the absurd 'unconditional surrender' program should be singled
out for special condemnation as a particularly vicious Allied war atrocity, because it
completely aborted the possibility of a negotiated peace in 1943, demoralized the
anti-Hitler opposition in Germany, and caused several million needless deaths. The
slogans and so-called 'principles' of the 'Atlantic Charter' and the 'Four Freedoms'
were not even proposed in good faith, much less was any effort made to implement
them into ~eality.
All these and many more Allied atrocities have been overlooked, ignored; white
washed and obscured by the alleged extermination of several million Jews by the
Nazis during the war. The figures have never been very precise on this alleged atroc
ity - they have ranged· from forty million to twenty-five million to nine million to
two million by supposedly reputable historians. The commonly cited figure is six.
million but the historians who have used this figure all come to it by different routes
and the discrepancies such as pertain to several countries such as Hungary, Poland,
Russia, Czechoslovakia are startling to say the least.
The German National Socialist policy relative to the Jews was one that favored
emigration, not extermination. The government of Adolf Hitler considered the Jew
ish Community in Germany to be a disloyal and avaricious element. The relatively
high percentage of Communists and leftist revolutionaries who were of Jewish back
ground tended to be translated by the Nazis into the idea that a high percentage of
Jews as such were Communists. This is of course an altogether different proposition
and it 'is not any intention of this writer to defend it. The key factor here is, that
believing of the Jews as they did, the Nazis' solution to the problem was to deprive
them of their influence within the nation by various legislative acts, and to encour
age their emigration from the country altogether. By 1939, the great majority of the
German Jews had emigrated with a sizable proportion of their assets.
However, there was a very determined effort made by liberal-leftists, Communist
and some Jewish sources to attempt to obliterate the difference in the two concepts
of emigration and extermination. Lion Feuchtwanger, Hans Beimler and other
assorted German emigres, produced several works along this theme in which the
emigration policy and the various legislative acts were being equated with actual
physical extermination. The various concentration camps in Germany at that time
never held more than 21,000 persons, of which the Jewish total was about 3,000.
The camps were principally used for the detention of political opponents, certain
types of hard-core criminals, and so-called subversives, principally Communists and
Marxist Social Democrats. Compared to the camps in the Soviet Union which held
many millions of persons, they were very small. The Nazi approach to Jewish emi
gration was not merely a negative policy of expulsion but was a more positive
approach along· the lines of modern Zionism. The founder of the Zionist movement
in the late nineteenth century, Theodore Herzl, in his work THE JEWISH STATE
had postulated the East African island of Madagascar as a national homeland for the
Jews, and this idea was seriously studied by the Nazis. The Nazis in fact advocated
this in one of their pamphlets, and believed Madagascar was a much more acceptable
homeland than the revival of 'Israel' as a Jewish state in the heart of the Arab World.
The Polish and the French governments were agreeable to the Madagascar idea but it
was torpedoed by the British government's refusal to accept the financial terms put
forward by the German government
A Polish Jewish refugee in England, Professor Rafael Lemkin, was the first to
make charges of 'mass extermination' in his 1943 wartime book, AXIS RULE IN
