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"I was attacked by Jews in the street and hospitalized. I lost my friends. I had six heart attacks. I spent around $120,000 in my own defense. I remain in debt for tens of thousands of dollars incurred to defend myself against the gossip-based accusations of Simon Wiesenthal." � Frank Walus | |
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Lubomyr Prytulak Ukrainian Archive (UKAR) www.ukar.org [Address] 20 December 2003 |
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After the end of the Second World War, the former head of the Lviv Gestapo, P. Krause, replying to a question put by the writer V. P. Bieliaev, testified: "If on our side, in the Gestapo, there had not worked several agents from among the Zionists, we would never have been able to capture and destroy such a large number of Jews, who were living under false documents and assumed names." For example, in July 1941, Zionist Simon Wiesenthal, together with 39 other representatives of the Lviv intelligentsia, found himself in prison. Somehow, as a result of a "mysterious confluence of circumstances" all the arrested except for himself were shot, and he was freed. It is not surprising that after this, this Zionist provocateur became a regular Nazi agent. Polish journalists have established this as an indisputable fact. That is why the Hitlerites did not throw Wiesenthal into prison, which he frequently confirms, but rather sent him there to organize subsequent provocations. Evidently he was not lying when he said that he passed through 5 Nazi prisons and 12 prison camps. In any case, it is not difficult to imagine how many innocent victims are on the conscience of this impenitent Zionist provocateur. It is such loathsome services for the Fascist killers that were performed in the Yanivsky concentration camp, in which people of various nationalities found themselves � Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews.
L. A. Ruvinsky, The criminal conspiracy of Zionists and Fascists on the eve of, and during the years of, the Second World War, Ukrainian Historical Journal, 1985, No. 9, pp. 99-109, p. 105, translated from the Ukrainian by Lubomyr Prytulak. |
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I, on behalf of the Vancouver Sun, have had investigations made pertaining to the matters mentioned in your law suit, and I am pleased to advise you that the allegations that were made pertaining to you were untrue.
Peter W Butler, quoted in Lubomyr Prytulak letter to Sol Littman, 04-Dec-1999, Early attempt to terribalize a Ukrainian Ivan, at www.ukar.org/littma26.html |
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In 1976 Simon Wiesenthal, in Vienna, had gone public with charges that a Polish emigre living in Chicago, Frank Walus, had been a collaborator involved in persecuting Polish Jews, including women and children, as part of a Gestapo-led auxiliary police unit. Walus, charged Wiesenthal, "performed his duties with the Gestapo in the ghettos of Czestochowa and Kielce and handed over numerous Jews to the Gestapo."
Charles Ashman & Robert J. Wagman, The Nazi Hunters, 1988, p. 193 |
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Only later was the source of the "evidence" against Walus that had reached Simon Wiesenthal identified. Walus had bought a two-family duplex when he came to Chicago. In the early 1970s, he rented out the second unit to a tenant with whom he eventually had a fight. Walus evicted the tenant, who then started telling one and all how his former landlord used to sit around and reminisce about the atrocities he had committed against Jews in the good old days. Apparently one of the groups to which he told the story was a Jewish refugee agency in Chicago, which passed the information along to Simon Wiesenthal.
Charles Ashman & Robert J. Wagman, The Nazi Hunters, 1988, p. 195 |
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As a result of this insane gossip/hearsay "evidence" and the grooming of eleven perjurers from Israel, I was put on trial for 17 days. Prior to that time, I was assumed guilty by the news media and vilified publicly as a "Nazi war criminal". I was attacked by Jews in the street and hospitalized. I lost my friends. I had six heart attacks. I spent around $120,000 in my own defense. I remain in debt for tens of thousands of dollars incurred to defend myself against the gossip-based accusations of Simon Wiesenthal.
Frank Walus Letter to Germany 09-Apr-1985 Wiesenthal forged the drawing |
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And Wiesenthal was dead wrong � a second time. We know that Tscherim Soobzokov, a Circassian living in New Jersey, was also falsely accused of being a Nazi war criminal. The charge was disproved by a courageous journalist, my friend John Caster; but that did not save Soobzokov from assassination outside his home in 1985.
Pat Buchanan, The world has forgotten the Hitler-Stalin alliance, Ukrainian Weekly, 15-Feb-1987 at www.ukar.org/buhitler.htm |
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Last Aug. 15, Tscherim Soobzokov, 67, whom the Office of Special Investigations had sought unsuccessfully to deport, was lured out of his home in Paterson, N.J., at 4:30 a.m. by a ruse � a fire set in his car � and suffered massive injuries to his lower body as a bomb exploded at his doorstep. His wife, daughter, 4-year-old grandson and a neighbor were also injured. Accused by the Office of Special Investigations of having served in the German Waffen SS, the combat arm of Hitler's elite security force, Soobzokov had been a target of protests by the Jewish Defense League after the Justice Department dropped its charges for lack of evidence. Robert Gillette, Soviet Aide Warned U.S. on War Crime Evidence, Los Angeles Times, 28-Apr-1986 at www.ukar.org/gillet03.htm |
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The Commission has tried repeatedly to obtain the incriminating evidence allegedly in Mr. Wiesenthal's possession, through various oral and written communications with Mr. Wiesenthal himself and with his solicitor, Mr. Martin Mendelsohn of Washington, D.C., but to no avail: telephone calls, letters, even a meeting in New York between Mr. Wiesenthal and Commission Counsel on 1 November 1985 followed up by further direct communications, have succeeded in bringing no positive results, outside of promises.
Jules Deschênes, Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, 1986, p. 257, see www.ukar.org/littma05.html |
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Simon Wiesenthal's work in the Demjanjuk case was peripheral until his trial in 1987, when documents supplied by Wiesenthal, plus his expertise, proved helpful to prosecutors seeking to identify Demjanjuk as "Ivan the Terrible".
Alan Levy, The Wiesenthal File, 1993, p. 288 |
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First, truly spontaneous pogroms, free from Einsatzgruppen influence, did not take place; all outbreaks were either organized or inspired by the Einsatzgruppen. Second, all pogroms were implemented within a short time after the arrival of the killing units. They were not self-perpetuating, nor could new ones be started after things had settled down.
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 1985, p. 312 |
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"Incompetent," "unprofessional" and "tragic figure" were some of the milder terms used to describe Wiesenthal. He was accused of inflating his own role in the Mossad capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of Hitler's key henchmen, in Argentina, and of providing wrong and useless information in the hunt for Martin Bormann and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who performed gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp inmates.
[...] All of those interviewed are known to have waged long-running feuds and vendettas against Wiesenthal. They included Beate Klarsfeld, the French Nazi-hunter; Isser Harel, the retired Mossad chief who headed the Eichmann capture operation and has been angry for decades over Wiesenthal's perceived effort to take the credit for the spectacular kidnapping; and Eli Rosenbaum, the head of the U.S. justice department's office of special investigations, whose 1993 book, Betrayal, is an indictment of Waldheim and Wiesenthal's role in the Austrian scandal. Ian Traynor, Nazi-Hunter Becomes Target, Vancouver Sun, 10-Feb-1996, see complete story at www.ukar.org/trayno01.html |