Ukraine War Day #639: More Genocide For the Holidays!

Dear Readers:

Ho ho ho! Having dealt with the current Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people, it is now my turn to stick it to the Holocaust-Denial crowd; and you know who you are. Not only do you reject real history in your attempt to build a softer, gentler Hitler for the ages, you also reject a main, core piece of Soviet history in the process. Recall that the issue we are dealing with here is not random violence or the excesses of war, it is the legal concept of “Genocidal Intent”, as defined by legal scholars.

My starting piece is this very interesting historical piece from the Russian Dzen Magazine. The title is:

How The Fascists Distinguished Jews From Among the Russian Population

First invoking Godwin’s Law. Next, set your Wayback Machine to Hitlerite Germany of the 1930’s. The Germans had worked out an entire system for recognizing their own (German) Jews and separating them out from the herd. [Granted, the initial motivation was not necessarily to kill them right away, but just to prevent them from inter-breeding with Aryans. You know, in order to keep the race lines pure.]

After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, they found, disappointingly, that their system, based mainly on calipers and visual inspection, didn’t work nearly as well on Soviet soil. And so, they had to make some adjustments. Initially they were just scratching their heads, confused, because Russian Jews were not all that physically dissimilar from regular non-Jewish Russians. I mean, a lot of Russians have stocky builds and big noses, am I right?

Germany in the 1930s. The mom looks like your typical Jewish Aunt Fanny from down the street. But the cute little girl could be anything…

Holocaust-Deniers will be surprised to learn this fun fact: According to the author, the Germans started to massively kill Jews on Soviet territory from the very first seconds of their incursion. Deniers go, “But why would they waste their time with this side hobby when so many more important military objectives?” Well, like I said before, it goes to the notion of Genocidal Intent.

In fact, during the years of the German occupation of Soviet regions, it is estimated that the occupiers slaughtered almost 3 million people. Not all Jews, of course. But including up to 60% of Jews who happened to be citizens of the USSR. In the Russian Soviet Republic alone, it is estimated they killed around 400,000 Jews.

The peak of this slaughter occurred in the years 1941-43. In areas fully occupied by the Germans, up to 97% of all Jews perished. [Deniers go: Hey, what happened with the other 3%, you let ’em go, you Nazi slackers!] This was a far greater percentage than in any other country. Even in Poland, and even in Germany itself, such numbers were never seen.

This might be a good time to mention some stuff I have read in the past. There is a certain paradox whereby, of all the Jews in Europe, it seems like the German Jews themselves were the most protected. They were the last to be herded into the camps, and quite a lot of them survived. There was a certain phenomenon going on here: Sometimes it is safer to hunker down in the eye of the hurricane.

SCENE FROM A MOVIE: Baby Yar, 1941: Ukrainian Nazis invent a new sport, called “The Running of the Jews”

But How Do We Know Who Is Who?

Returning to the question: How do you know you’re killing an actual Jew, and not an Aryan, by mistake? Well, we have to remember that these events occurred in the dark past, where DNA analysis was not readily available. The only technology that people of the time possessed, was a pair of calipers, and a pair of eyes.

Having said that, the Germans did the best job they could, with the tools available. Which included:

• Property lists
• Local informers
• Checking out a guy’s package, to see if he is circumcised

If all of above failed, then the Nazi functionaries had to fall back on more primitive techniques. Like, for example, just eyeballing a person, checking out their nose, their build, etc. They had certain parameters to work with, including the shape of ears, fullness of lips, eye color, eyebrow shape, etc. A Max Blumenthal of that era might have passed these tests, for example, because Max is a blue-eyed blonde. As to whether or not Max is circumcised, I have no inside information on that issue…

Regarding that whole shape of lips thing: The Nazis on Soviet territory found themselves really flumoxxed here, because so many Slavs have thick pouty lips and Jew-shaped cheek-bones.

Next, let us wend our Wayback to Nazi-occupied Kharkov to see how these poor over-worked Germans dealt with this particular issue:

Palestinian refugees are forced through AI-monitored security gates. The modern equivalent of the tattoo or patch.

It’s December, 1941. The Nazi occupiers publish their latest declaration in three languages. Ordering the registration of the entire population. And this census must be completed before December 8.

[yalensis: I was reading that the Israeli Zionists, with their superior technology, have done an even better job at this sort of thing, than the Nazis themselves: When they ethnically-cleansed Northern Gaza, they forced all the Palestinians through an electronic gate which uploaded and recorded everything from their Smartphones!]

Point #8 of the Nazi declaration decreed that “the Jewish population will be registered separately from the other residents of the city. They were also charged 10 rubles as a registree fee whereas non-Jews only had to pay 1 ruble to register. [Deniers: “That’s because Hitler loved the Jews so much, he wanted to register them separately, so that he could send them to special luxury spas where they would be well-cared for until the end of the war. Their children got to attend special camps with many crafts and sports facilities, and hospitals employing the very best medical care…”]

The Germans were cunning: They knew very well that some Soviet Jews did not necessarily denote their ethnicity/religion on their passports. For example, a Russian Jew might just write “Russian” as his nationality on his passport, because, well, he lived in Russia. Or “Ukrainian” because he lived in the Ukraine. And so on. You get the picture. The Germans were no dopes, that knew that people were not always completely forthcoming, and so they needed a way to really ferret out who was who.

SCENE FROM A MOVIE: Nazis clear out what they think is a Jewish hideout. One of the commenters to the piece notes: “It’s clear from the photo that these are actually gypsies, Romani. No matter, their fate is the same.”

In Kharkov, the Nazis compiled their lists of Jews on yellow sheets of paper, this is where the term “yellow list” originated. Anyone on this list… well, let’s just say, they didn’t actually go to a spa. Usually, upon capture, they were simply taken away and shot. Ignorant of their fate, some gullible Jews simply waltzed into the office to register themselves. Let us not condemn such idiots. Knowing myself, a person who always follows the rules and likes my paperwork to be in order, I probably would have done the same.

For the more wily Jews, too paranoid to walk into the mousetrap, there were always plenty of informants on hand, willing to throw them under the bus. And, indeed, the intrusive Soviet system of apartment complexes, each building headed by a snoopy supervisor, was perfect for this, as the supervisors readily provided the local occupiers with the lists of tenants they needed. Many Jews were informed on by their own neighbors, and even by their friends!

As a result of this efficient system, by December 12, 1941, a total number of 10,271 Kharkov Jews had been revealed to the authorities, from the various lists. These Jews were ordered to pack their things and head for the ghetto that was being set up for them, in Region #10 of the city. [Deniers: I’m telling you, it was a luxury spa! They only needed to stay there long enough until Hitler could find the perfect real estate to move them to, somewhere in the Middle East…]

Ukrainians Be Ukrainians

This being Kharkov, Ukraine, it goes without saying that the ethnic Ukrainians were not all that cut up about seeing their Jewish neighbors driven away like cattle. On the contrary, there were quite a few Ukrainians who gloated and had a great time mocking their Jewish neighbors as they were herded off to [the spa]. Gloating is one thing. Even more disgusting is how these Ukrainians proceeded to descend, like vultures, on the property of the dispossessed, grabbing their last few items. Some of the Jews, pathetically, had tried to stuff their modest belongings into sleighs to drag alone. Which the Ukrainian Nationalists, roaring with laughter, overturned right there on the street. And then the scramble to grab their stuff.

Neighbor turned on neighbor. After the Jews were driven out, their modest homes and flats did not lie empty for long: They were quickly allotted to those Ukrainian families who displayed fealty towards the new regime.

How To Tell A Russian From A Jew

As the author already mentioned, the Germans had a tough time, and did a lot of head-scratching, trying to figure out the physical difference between Russians and Jews. In the end, they decided that their calipers were useless, Russians were simply too mongrelized. The only thing they could rely on were the words of the informants. All it took was a whisper: “This person is a Jew.” Sometimes the person was not actually a Jew, just somebody who had ticked off somebody else, and now is their chance to get rid of them. And once that person is led away, their flat, and their belongings, are also up for grabs.

Lenin: “Where would I be without my trusty sidekick? … Oh wait!”

The author concludes: “These facts from the Soviet era were suppressed. Because, according to the official point of view, all of the inhabitants of the USSR were brotherly peoples. All rose up as one to resist the German occupiers. There was also a certain factor, during the Stalin period, of keeping quiet about Jews, due to a certain latent anti-Semitism.”

Which is where I would have to diverge from the author’s opinion, on this point. Love him or hate him, Stalin was no anti-Semite. Towards the end, yeah, he distrusted everybody including his Jewish doctors. Heck, they probably were trying to poison him. Everybody was trying to poison him. Earlier in his reign, Stalin surrounded himself with members of the Mingreli tribe, they were the only people he trusted to prepare his food. Then he found out that they were trying to poison him too! None of this has anything to do with racism or anti-Semitism, it’s just the ethnic politics of a multi-ethnic empire.

And speaking of Stalin, well that is the end of the article, but in the comment section, one of the readers complains that Stalin was actually too Jew-friendly. Since he allowed Jews to jump ahead of the line when it came to evacuating Russian citizens from the front-line cities. Why should Jews get any preference over other Soviet citizens? the commenter complains.

The response from another reader: “It’s rather simple. The German fascists killed Jews on sight, or else sent them to concentration camps. They were all killed, women, children, old men, everyone. Whereas the rest of the peaceful civilians were not necessarily destroyed, unless they showed some kind of resistance to the occupiers.”

Which all goes to show that Stalin knew exactly what was what, and who was who. The Soviet leaders, and the modern Russian leaders who inherited these archives, are fully aware, exactly what happened, who done what, and roughly how many people died. Hint: There were no spas.