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Shlomo Morel.  "I am a Jew," he told his German prisoners.  "I was at Auschwitz and swore that I�d pay you Nazis back."  He then beat the Germans to death with clubs, crowbars, stools and the Germans� own crutches.

Jewish Crimes Following WW II John Sack, whose book An Eye For An Eye is relied on extensively below in the section on Jewish Crimes Following WW II has a web site at www.johnsack.com which can be consulted for additional information on this subject.  The two photographs with captions opposite are from the John Sack web site page of photographs at www.johnsack.com/an_eye_for_an_eye_photographs.htm

Jacob Berman.  A doctor of philosophy, a man who wore tailored suits fit for Wall Street, he was the chief of the Office of State Security.  In his custody from 60,000 to 80,000 Germans died.

The Pre-German Slaughter of Ukrainians by the NKVD

Out of the voluminous material on the topic of Jewish war crimes and crimes against humanity under Communism, I will limit myself to a single event: the slaughter by the Jewish-dominated NKVD of non-Jews, primarily Ukrainians, in the summer of 1941 immediately prior to the occupation of Ukraine by German forces.

Concerning the pre-German slaughter of Ukrainians by the NKVD, there appears to be widespread agreement, the slaughter being widely acknowledged in a diversity of sources, and in particular detail in the Einsatzgruppen reports reproduced farther below:

While the movement to the East was taking place, the NKVD carried out mass arrests and executions, chiefly of Ukrainians � especially those who tried to avoid evacuation.  In the jails most prisoners whose period of imprisonment was more than three years were shot; others were evacuated if possible.  In several cities the NKVD burned prisons with prisoners in them.  (Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1963, Volume I, p. 878, Vsevolod Holubnychy and H. M. wrote this section)

The Bolsheviks succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of hostilities (massacres took place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv, Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.).  (Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Volume 1, p. 886)

Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia.  (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume 3, p. 222)

The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands of political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine.  Unable to evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether they were incarcerated for major or minor offenses.  Major massacres occurred in Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia, where about 10,000 prisoners died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in Volhynia, where another 5000 perished.  Coming on the heels of the mass deportations and growing Soviet terror, these executions added greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of the Soviets.  (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo London, 1994, p. 461)

Right after the entry [of German forces] we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail of Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off.  (Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)

In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails.  When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives.  Unimaginable atrocities had occurred inside.  The prisons looked like abattoirs.  It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome task before they fled.  (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)

We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great number of Lemberg [Lviv] citizens, Ukrainians and Polish inhabitants of other towns and villages had been killed in this prison and in other prisons.  Furthermore, there were many corpses of German men and officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and many of them were found mutilated.  There was a great bitterness and excitement among the Lemberg population against the Jewish sector of the population.  (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the killed people in Lemberg amounted to about 5,000.  It has been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg.  That was the reason why there was such an excitement against the Jewish population on the part of the Lemberg citizens.  (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

Chief of Einsatzgruppe B reports that Ukrainian insurrection movements were bloodily suppressed by the NKVD on June 25, 1941 in Lvov.  About 3,000 were shot by NKVD.  Prison burning.  Hardly 20% of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained.  (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 10, July 2, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 2)

Location: Lvov According to reliable information, the Russians, before withdrawing, shot 30,000 inhabitants.  The corpses piled up and burned at the GPU prisons are dreadfully mutilated.  The population is greatly excited: 1,000 Jews have already been forcefully gathered together.  (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 11, July 3, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 4)

Location: Zviahel (Novograd-Volynski) ... Before leaving, the Bolsheviks, together with the Jews, murdered several Ukrainians; as an excuse, they used the attempted Ukrainian uprising of June 25, 1941, which tried to free their prisoners. According to reliable information, about 20,000 Ukrainians have disappeared from Lvov, 80% of them belonging to the intelligentsia. The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered Ukrainians.  According to a moderate estimate, in Lvov alone 3-4,000 persons were either killed or deported. In Dobromil, 82 dead bodies were found, 4 of them Jews.  The latter were former Bolsheviki informers who had been killed because of their complicity in this act.  Near Dobromil an obsolete salt mine pit was discovered.  It was completely filled with dead bodies.  In the immediate neighborhood, there is a 6X15m mass grave.  The number of those murdered in the Dobromil area is estimated to be approximately several hundred. In Sambor on June 26, 1941, about 400 Ukrainians were shot by the Bolsheviks.  An additional 120 persons were murdered on June 27, 1941.  The remaining 80 prisoners succeeded in overpowerng the Soviet guards, and fled.  ... As early as 1939, a larger number of Ukrainians was shot, and 1,500 Ukrainians as well as 500 Poles were deported to the east. Russians and Jews committed these murders in very cruel ways.  Bestial mutilations were daily occurrences.  Breasts of women and genitals of men were cut off.  Jews have also nailed children to the wall and then murdered them.  Killing was carried out by shots in the back of the neck.  Hand grenades were frequently used for these murders. In Dobromil, women and men were killed with blows by a hammer used to stun cattle before slaughter. In many cases, the prisoners must have been tortured cruelly: bones were broken, etc.  In Sambor, the prisoners were gagged and thus prevented from screaming during torture and murder.  The Jews, some of whom also held official positions, in addition to their economic supremacy, and who served in the entire Bolshevik police, were always partners in these atrocities. Finally, it was established that seven [German] pilots who had been captured were murdered.  Three of them were found in a Russian military hospital where they had been murdered in bed by shots in the abdomen.  ... ...  Prior to their withdrawal, the Bolsheviks shot 2,800 out of 4,000 Ukrainians imprisoned in the Lutsk prison.  According to the statement of 19 Ukrainians who survived the slaughter with more or less serious injuries, the Jews again played a decisive part in the arrests and shooting.  ... The investigations at Zlochev proved that the Russians, prior to their withdrawal, arrested and murdered indiscriminately a total of 700 Ukrainians, but, nevertheless, included the entire [local] Ukrainian intelligentsia.  (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 24, July 16, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 29-33)

Location: Pleskau [Pskov]  ... The population is in general convinced that it is mostly the Jews who should be held responsible for the atrocities that are committed everywhere.  ... As it was learned that the Russians before they left have either deported the Ukrainian intelligentsia, or executed them, that is, murdered them, it is assumed that in the last days before the retreat of the Russians, about 100 influential Ukrainians were murdered [in Pleskau].  So far the bodies have not been found � a search has been initiated. About 100-150 Ukrainians were murdered by the Russians in Kremenets.  Some of these Ukrainians are said to have been thrown into cauldrons of boiling water.  This has been deduced from the fact that the bodies were found without skin when they were exhumed.  ... ...  Before leaving Dubno, the Russians, as they had done in Lvov, committed extensive mass-murder. ...  Before their flight [from Tarnopol], as in Lvov and Dubno, the Russians went on a rampage there.  Disinterments revealed 10 bodies of German soldiers.  Almost all of them had their hands tied behind their backs with wire.  The bodies revealed traces of extremely cruel mutilations such as gouged eyes, severed tongues and limbs. The number of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Russians, among them women and children, is set finally at 600.  Jews and Poles were spared by the Russians.  The Ukrainians estimate the total number of [Tarnopol] victims since the occupation of the Ukraine by the Russians at about 2,000.  The planned deportation of the Ukrainians already started in 1939.  There is hardly a family in Tarnopol from which one or several members have not disappeared.  ...  The entire Ukrainian intelligentsia is destroyed.  Since the beginning of the war, 160 members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia were either murdered or deported.  Inhabitants of the town had observed a column of about 1,000 civilians driven out of town by police and army early in the morning of July 1, 1941. As in Lvov, torture chambers were discovered in the cellars of the Court of Justice.  Apparently, hot and cold showers were also used here (as in Lemberg [Lviv]) for torture, as several bodies were found, totally naked, their skin burst and torn in many places.  A grate was found in another room, made of wire and set above the ground about 1m in height, traces of ashes were found underneath.  A Ukrainian engineer, who was also to be murdered but saved his life by smearing the blood of a dead victim over his face, reports that one could also hear screams of pain from women and girls.  (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 28, July 20, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p.38-40)

In closing this section on Jewish crimes against Ukrainians under Communism, it is important to underline two points.  First, although the above quotations provide considerable detail, they are far from exhaustive � volumes of similar detail are readily available on these same events.  Second, the above quotations concern events that took place within the space of a few weeks.  However, similar Jewish war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Ukrainians during the Communist reign had been taking place for decades, but are too numerous to detail here.

The Domination of the NKVD by Jews

Who was responsible for the 1941 pre-German slaughter of Ukrainians?  The NKVD, obviously, and it is frequently stated in the passages above that the NKVD was dominated by Jews.  But, was this claim, or this perception, of disproportionate Jewish participation in the Soviet secret police accurate?  Observations such as the following suggest that perhaps it was: Yoram Sheftel, John Demjanjuk's Israeli defense attorney, reports the following in connection with his visit to the Simferopol, Ukraine, KGB headquarters in 1990:

On the right-hand wall was a stone memorial plaque engraved with the names of about thirty KGB men from Simferopol who had fallen in the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets call World War II.  I was shocked and angry as I read the names: the first was Polonski and the last Levinstein, and all those between were ones like Zalmonowitz, Geller and Kagan � all Jews.  The best of Jewish youth in Russia, the cradle of Zionism, had sold itself and its soul to the Red Devil.  (Yoram Sheftel, The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a Show-Trial, Victor Gollancz, London, 1994, p. 301)

What Sheftel seems to be saying, then, is that out of thirty names of Simferopol KGB personnel who died in the war, all thirty were Jewish.  Of course Sheftel's sample of 30 is not necessarily a sample that is representative of the entire NKVD; however the Jewish domination of the entire NKVD is not a rare or dubious hypothesis, but is one, rather, that is upheld from more than one direction:

As a Jew, I'm interested in another question entirely: Why were there so many Jews among the NKVD-MVD investigators � including many of the most terrible?  It's a painful question for me but I cannot evade it.  (Yevgenia Albats, The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia, Past, Present and Future, 1994, p. 147)

Jews abounded [also] at the lower levels of the Party machinery � especially in the Cheka and its successors, the GPU, the OGPU and the NKVD....  It is difficult to suggest a satisfactory reason for the prevalence of Jews in the Cheka.  It may be that having suffered at the hand of the former Russian authorities they wanted to seize the reins of real power in the new state for themselves.  (Leonard Shapiro, The Role of Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement, Slavonic and East European Review, 1961, 40, p. 165)

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The Author

John Sack, author of An Eye for an Eye is Jewish, and is described on the back cover of the book as follows:

John Sack has been a journalist for fifty years.  He was a newspaper reporter in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia; a contributor to Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker; a contributing editor of Esquire; a writer, producer, and special correspondent for CBS News, and its bureau chief in Spain; a war correspondent in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq; and the author of seven nonfiction books, including M and Lieutenant Calley.

The Post-War War Criminals Were Jews

He was appointed chief of the Office of State Security for Silesia, opened an office in Kattowitz, put up a picture of Stalin, and put Jews in charge of Intelligence, Imprisonment, etcetera, and in three-fourths of the other officers' jobs.  But still, Josef was not the good fairy. The good fairy was Stalin.  Stalin's fondness for Jews wasn't strange to the Jews, who assumed that he wanted the Germans pursued by the hounds of hell: themselves.  ... Why then was Stalin so partial to Jews?  Stalin didn't say.  ...  On his orders, a Jew whose father had died at Treblinka would be chief of the Office of State Security, and Jews would be chiefs of all the departments, though from now on their names wouldn't be Jewish ones but "General Romkowski"s and "Colonel Rozanski"s.  In time, these people appointed all the security chiefs for Poland � including Josef, who now would be Jozef, and who'd never wonder, Why does Stalin like Jews?  (John Sack, En Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, pp. 52-53)

A friend in Prague was in Czechoslovakia's own Office of State Security, which ... Stalin had also packed with Jews.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 96)

On Wednesday, October 17, the President of Poland decreed that the Germans who weren't in prisons be thrown out of Poland and Poland-administered Germany, and, to the pealing of bells, the Polish police now rounded them up and herded them � ten million people � onto the trains, enforcing the biggest migration in all human history.  In Kattowitz, as in Kielce, Breslau, Stettin, and some other cities, the chief of police was a Jew.  Many were former partisans who, in August, 1944, had been celebrating in Lublin when the police chief of Poland, a Catholic ... made a Jew the police chief of Lublin and Jews all the precinct chiefs there.  The next year, 1945, these people became the chiefs in some of Poland and Poland-administered Germany. In Breslau, the biggest city in Poland-administered Germany, with 300,000 inhabitants, the chief of police, the chief of the Office's section for Germans, the chief of the Polish army's own Office (its Corps of Internal Security) and even the mayor of Breslau were Jews.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 138)

In places like Gleiwitz, the Poles stood against the prison wall as [the Jewish] Implementation tied them to big iron rings, said, "Ready!" "Aim!" "Fire!" shot them, and told the Polish guards, "Don't talk about this."  The guards, being Poles, weren't pleased, but the Jacobs, Josefs and Pineks, the Office's brass, stayed loyal to Stalin, for they thought of themselves as Jews, not as Polish patriots.  And that's why the Good Fairy Stalin ... had hired all the Jews ... and had packed them into his Office of State Security, his instrument in the People's Republic of Poland.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 139)

The police chief in Kattowitz was Pinek Pakanowski, and the police chief in Breslau was Shmuel "Gross," who used the Polish name Mieczyslaw "Gross."  Some other Jewish police chiefs in Poland and Poland-administered Germany were Yechiel Grynspan in Hrubieszow, Ayzer Maka in Bielsko-Biala, and an unidentified man in Zabkowice.  The partisans in Lublin � two hundred men, all Jews � were in the "Chiel Group" of the Holod Battalion: the group commander was Captain Yechiel "Chiel" Grynspan and the battalion commander ... was Captain Aleksander Skotnicki, known as Zemsta.  The police chief of Poland was Juzwak, known as General Witold....  "Gross" became the police chief of Lublin ... and one of his eight precinct chiefs was Sever Rubinstein.  According to "Gross," eighty percent of the police officers in Lublin and fifty percent of the policemen in Lublin were Jews.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 215)

Some of the Post-War War Crimes that Jews Committed

Day after day, the Germans in Shlomo's cellar went to the second and third-floor offices.  As many as eight interrogators, almost all Jews, stood around any one German saying, "Were you in the Nazi Party?"  Sometimes a German said, "Yes," and the boys shouted, "Du schwein! You pig!" and beat him and broke his arm, perhaps before sending him to his cell.... ... But sometimes a German wouldn't confess.  One such hard case was a fifty-year-old who was strolling along when a $200 informant said, "You were in the Party!  I know it!"  The man was brought to the gray building and to a third-floor interrogation room, and a boy asked him, "Were you in the Party?" "No, I wasn't in it." "How many people work for you?" "In the high season, thirty-five." "You must have been in the Party," the boy deduced.  He asked for the German's wallet, where he found a fishing license with the stamp of the German Anglers Association.  Studying it, he told the German, "It's stamped by the Party." "It's not," said the German.  He'd lost his left arm in World War I and was using his right arm to gesture with, and, to the boy, he may have seemed to be Heiling Hitler.  The boy became violent.  He grabbed the man's collar, hit the man's body onto the floor, and, in his boots, jumped on the man's cringing chest as though jumping rope.  A half dozen other interrogators, almost all Jews, pushed the man onto a couch, pulled off his trousers, and hit him with hard rubber clubs and hard rubber hoses full of stones.  The sweat started running down the Jews' arms, and the blood down the man's naked legs. "Warst du in der Partei?" "Nein!" "Warst du in der Partei?" "Nein!" the German screamed � screamed, till the boys had to go to Shlomo's kitchen for a wooden spoon and to use it to cram some rags in the German's mouth.  Then they resumed beating him.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 75)

She [Lola, the Jewish camp commandant] didn't intervene when her guards got drunk, opened the cells, pulled out the Germans, put blankets on them so the welts wouldn't embarrass the Polish courts, said, "Pigs!" and then used their guns like clubs.  At Auschwitz, the Jews weren't raped (the SS men could be hanged for it) but at Gleiwitz one ardent interrogator pulled off a German girl's clothes, pulled her onto his lap, and told her, "Let's do it!  I've got a Persian lamb coat for you!" but if Lola knew about it, she just ignored it.  In time, the Germans' screams seemed an attribute of the prison air, but Lola said nothing, and if any inner voice told the Jewish guards, You don't know he's guilty, then the Germans' blond hair, blue eyes, and the German's own German language attested that they were Hitler's hatchet men. One day, a German in pitch-black pants, the SS's color, showed up in Lola's prison.  ...  Some guards, all girls, then seized the incriminating evidence: the man's black pants, pulling them off so aggressively that one of his tendons tore.  The man screamed, but the girls said, "Shut up!" and they didn't recognize that the pants were part of a boy scout uniform.  The "man" was fourteen years old. The girls decided to torture him.  By now, the Office of State Security had 227 prisons for Germans, and each had its characteristic way of taking revenge for World War II.  The boys used sticks in Breslau but splinters in Frankenstein, forcing them up a German's nails.  The boys in Wunschelberg whipped a German, poured coffee into the whip-wounds, and told him, "You won't just die!  You'll croak!"  At the 800-person prison in Myslowitz, whose commandant was a Jew from Auschwitz, twenty years old, the boys dumped excrement on a German's head, told him, "Pick that shit up," and, when the German did, dumped it on his head again.  The boys in Glatz played accordians to drown out the "Nein"s as they knocked a German's teeth out, and one Jewish boy in Neisse made a German pull out his own gold tooth.... The girls in Gleiwitz used fire.  They held down the [fourteen-year-old] German boy, put out their cigarettes on him, and, using gasoline, set his curly black hair afire.  ...  At last released, the German went home, fell into bed, and, wrapping his arms around his head like a boxer who's on the ropes, continued screaming, "Don't do it!"  His scalp was a moth-eaten rug....  In time, he was sent to a mental ward, and he never left it.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, pp. 87-88)

The guards used clubs, bedboards, crowbars, and the Germans' own crutches, ... and at times blurred the distinction between corporal and capital punishment by seizing a German's arms and legs and swinging his head against the wall like a battering ram.  In the center ring, Shlomo used his pet birchwood stools on the Germans, but he was unsatisfied and his guards came back again and again on many marathon nights. The dead bodies went to the morgue every morning ... and the dead people's names went to Shlomo.  ... The body count was enormous....  ...  They got the Germans to beat each other: to jump on each other's spines and to punch each other's noses, and hit the Germans so hard that they once knocked a German's glass eye out.  The guards raped the German women � one, who was thirteen years old, got pregnant � and trained their dogs to bite off the German men's genitals at the command of "Sic!"  ... ... In time, three-fourths of the Germans in Shlomo's camp were dead, and Shlomo announced, "What the Germans couldn't do in five years at Auschwitz, I've done in five months at Schwientochlowitz."  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, pp. 106-107)

At Potulice, more Germans died than Jews had died there during the war.  ...  "You pigs!" the Jews cried, whipping the Germans, and one hundred died at Myslowitz every day.  At Grottkau, the Germans were buried in potato sacks, but at Hohensalza, they climbed right into the coffins, where the commandant wasted them.  At Blechhammer, the Jewish commandant wouldn't even look at the Germans, and they died sight unseen.  ...  In that vast area, the Office of State Security ran 1,255 camps for Germans, and twenty to fifty percent of the Germans died in virtually every one. But the word got out.  Taking trains to Berlin, the whistle-blowers reported this to the British and Americans....  [O]n Thursday, August 16, 1945, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons and said, "Enormous numbers [of Germans] are utterly unaccounted for.  It is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is unfolding itself behind the Iron Curtain."  Another member of the Commons said, "Is this what our soldiers died for?" and in Washington an American senator put in the Congressional Record of Friday, August 2, "One would expect that after the horrors in Nazi concentration camps, nothing like that could ever happen again.  Unfortunately...."  The senator then told of beatings, shootings, of water tortures, or arteries cut, of "brains splashed on the ceiling" in the Office's concentration camps.  ... The loudest objection was by the Red Cross � not the International one, in Geneva, but the American one.  Its people in Warsaw drove down to Kattowitz to speak with the Jewish boy who was Secretary of State Security: Pinek....  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, pp. 110-111)

In the next three years, from sixty thousand to eighty thousand would die in the Office's institutions, much, much less than the number of Jews who'd died at Auschwitz but more than the number who'd died at Belsen or Buchenwald or one thousand places the Jews of the world now proclaim, "We will never forget."  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 114)

Often the "Nazis" were well below the minimum membership age.  At one of Chaim's camps in Silesia was a German who'd just been born, and at a camp near the Baltic Sea was a whole barracks of white-striped cribs and of eight-pound prisoners.  They didn't have milk, for the red-headed doctor, a Jew from Auschwitz, didn't let the mothers in, telling the Polish inspectors, "It's enough if my papers say I did."  Of the fifty babies there, forty-eight died.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 128)

One day, the [Jewish] deputy [Czeslaw] started a fire in one of the German barracks, cried, "Sabotage!" and as the German women scooped up the sand, carried it in their skirts, and dumped it on the ferocious flames, he pushed the hysterical women in.  As for the guards, they once put a German's black beard in a vise, locked the vice solidly, and set the German afire. Every day the names of the Germans who'd died went to Czeslaw, who always said, "Why so few?"  In time, almost all of Bielitz was dead....  The wretchedest Germans there were the women of Gruben.  During the war, the SS had buried some Poles, five hundred bodies, in a wide meadow near Lamsdorf, but Czeslaw had heard there were ninety thousand, and he ordered the women of Gruben to dig them up.  The women did, and they started to suffer nausea as the bodies, black as the stuff in a gutter, appeared.  The faces were rotten, the flesh was glue, but the guards � who had often seemed psychopathic, making a German woman drink urine, drink blood, and eat a man's excrement, inserting an oily five-mark bill in a woman's vagina, putting a match to it � shouted at the women of Gruben, "Lie down with them!"  The women did, and the guards shouted, "Hug them!"  "Kiss them!"  "Make love with them!" and, with their rifles, pushed the backs of the women's heads until their eyes, noses and mouths were deep in the Polish faces' slime.  The women who clamped their lips couldn't scream, and the women who screamed had to taste something vile.  Spitting, retching, the women at last stood up, the wet tendrils still on their chins, fingers, clothes, the wet seeping into the fibers, the stink like a mist around them as they marched back to Lamsdorf.  There were no showers there, and the corpses had all had typhus, apparently, and sixty-four women of Gruben died.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, pp. 130-131)

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Geneva, it wasn't allowed to visit the camps for German POWs in Poland until the summer of 1946, and it was never allowed to visit the camps for German civilians.  At the order of the German Parliament, a secret study was made by the German Federal Archives and was delivered to Parliament on May 28, 1974.  The report concluded, "In the Polish camps and prisons, there were probably 200,000 or more people, with a death rate of twenty to fifty percent.  This would mean that 40,000 to 100,000 but certainly more than 60,000 people perished there."  Since at some camps the death rate was fifty percent, 40,000 would be too low, and since at some camps the death rate was twenty percent, 100,000 would be too high, and I've estimated that 60,000 to 80,000 died.  The number, in fact, may be higher, for though the report doesn't say so, the death rate at some camps was eighty percent.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 206)

Anne O'Hare McCormick, in her column in the New York Times of February 4, 1946, compared what the Poles were doing to the Germans to Nazi cruelties, and Congressman B. Carroll Reece, of Tennessee, in the House of Representatives on May 16 1957, called it genocide. Of the Germans who'd lived in Poland and Poland-administered Germany after the war, I calculate that by 1950 approximately 1,467,700 died.  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 215)

Specificity of the Eye For an Eye Evidence

John Sack provides detailed notes and sources, and lists a large number of the Jews who were involved in the above crimes.  Within Sack's documentation can be found the following note indicating the existence of vast archives testifying to Jewish war crimes and crimes against humanity following World War II, and whose analysis could keep a small army of Canadians in your Justice Department's war crimes unit employed for years:

Just as thousands of Jews made oral and written statements about their experiences in the Holocaust, so did thousands of Germans write statements about their experiences after the war.  Forty thousand of these are stored at the Bundesarchiv, the German Federal Archives, in Koblenz.  Of these, 748 are published in eight volumes....  (John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, Basic Books, New York, 1993, p. 218)

I might take this opportunity to ask whether you have directed your Justice Department to examine any of the above forty thousand eye-witness accounts, and if not, then why not?

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The Author

The quotations below are all from Norman G. Finkelstein, mainly from his The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996; and one from his Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Verso, London and New York, 1995.

Norman Finkelstein teaches international relations and political theory at City University of New York and New York University.  The glowing reviews appearing on the backs of his two books are too numerous to reproduce here.  Perhaps, however, the dedication in his Image and Reality provides valuable insight into his background:

To my beloved parents, Maryla Husyt Finkelstein, survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, Maidanek concentration camp and Zacharias Finkelstein, survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp. May I never forget or forgive what was done to them.

Let us begin by noting a few statistics that Finkelstein provides concerning the birth of Israel:

Between 1947 and 1949, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled as Israel declared its independence, and in June 1967 some 300,000 more Palestinians fled or were driven into exile as Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza.  Hundreds of villages were systematically razed and erased from the map.  In the course of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza after June 1967, over 1,000 Palestinians � including women and children � were deported without charges or trial.  Fully 50 percent of the land and 80 percent of the precious water reserves were confiscated by the Israeli government.  And as deported Palestinians languished in exile, some 100,000 Jews settled in the West Bank and Gaza.  All these measures � and many more routinely taken by Israel in the occupied territories � were, as one Israeli periodical euphemistically put it, "very far from the norms of international law" (Hotam, 4 August 1989).  (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, p. 52)

And also a few examples of the sorts of events that constituted Israel's War of Independence:

Atrocities escalated, "no doubt precipitat[ing] the flight of communities on the path of the IDF advance" (Birth, p. 230).  Consider the massacre at Ad Dawayima in late October.  A soldier eyewitness described how the IDF, capturing the village "without a fight," first "killed about 80-100 [male] Arabs, women and children.  The children were killed by breaking their heads with sticks.  There was not a house without dead."  The remaining Arabs were then closed off in houses "without food and water," as the village was systematically razed. One commander ordered a sapper to put two old women in a certain house ... and to blow up the house with them.  The sapper refused.  ...  The commander then ordered his men to put in the old women and the evil deed was done.  One soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her.  One woman, with a newborn baby in her arms, was employed to clear the courtyard where the soldiers ate.  She worked a day or two.  In the end they shot her and her baby. The soldier eyewitness concluded that "cultured officers ... had turned into base murderers and this not in the heat of battle ... but out of a system of expulsion and destruction.  The less Arabs remained � the better.  ... Morris reports the following (very partial) inventory of IDF atrocities committed in the October fighting, as presented to the Political Committee of Mapam: SAFSAF � "52 men tied with a rope and dropped into a well and shot.  10 were killed.  Women pleaded for mercy.  [There were] 3 cases of rape.  ...  A girl aged 14 was raped.  Another 4 were killed." JISH � "a woman and her baby were killed.  Another 11 [were killed?]." ... (Norman G. Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Verso, London and New York, 1995, p. 76)

Here is mention of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982:

Some two hundred Kuwaitis reportedly perished in the course of the Iraqi invasion.  Approximately twenty thousand Palestinians and Lebanese perished in the course of the Israeli invasion [of Lebanon].  There was fully a hundredfold difference between the two invasions.  And as the media waxed indignant over Iraq's use of horrific chemical weapons against Iran and the Kurds, they should have remembered as well Israel's use, probably illegal, of cluster bombs and phosphorus shells during the Lebanon War.  In his epic memoir, Pity the Nation, veteran British correspondent Robert Fisk described two Lebanese infant victims of the phosphorus shells: Dr. Shamaa's story was a dreadful one and her voice broke as she told it.  "I had to take the babies and put them in buckets of water to put out the flames," she said.  "When I took them out half an hour later, they were still burning.  Even in the mortuary, they smouldered for hours."  Next morning, Amal Shamaa took the tiny corpses out of the mortuary for burial.  To her horror, they again burst into flames. (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, pp. 45-46)

The remaining quotations concern themselves with the intifada, to which I allocate more space because it is truly contemporary:

In fact, every expression of Palestinian "violence" I witnessed during my stay in the occupied territories was little more than symbolic, though the same could not be said for the force used to suppress it.  Once, at Jalazoun refugee camp, children were burning a tire off the main road inside the camp when a car ... pulled up next to it.  The doors swung open, and four men (either settlers or the army in plainclothes) jumped out, shooting with abandon in every direction.  The boy beside me was shot in the back, the bullet exiting from his navel.  ...  Next day the Jerusalem Post reported that the army had fired in self-defense.  (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, p. 2)

In the afternoon, news arrived of a massacre in Bethlehem.  Infiltrating a crowd of protestors, an Israeli undercover squad disguised as tourists shot five Palestinians youths point-blank.  One lay dead; the four wounded were pulled by their hair along the pavement to the army depot.  As the terrified crowd dispersed, the civilian-clad assassins laughed and joked with the assassins in uniform.  (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, pp. 42-43)

A thousand-page Save the Children study, The Status of Palestinian Children during the Uprising, exhaustively documented the "indiscriminate beating, teargassing, and shooting of children."  More than 150 Palestinian children have been killed since the beginning of the intifada, including at least 37 below the age of six.  The average age was ten.  A majority, the study found, were not even participating in a stone-throwing demonstration when shot dead, and four-fifths of the gunshot victims were "obstructed or delayed by the army" as they sought emergency medical treatment.  Funerals were "violently disrupted or interfered with" by the army.  More than fifty thousand Palestinian children required medical attention for tear-gas inhalation, multiple fractures, and so on, during the first two years of the intifada; nearly half were ten years old or younger.  The study also found that "the vast majority of soldiers responsible for the child casualties have been neither censured nor punished."  Indeed, only the few cases that received press coverage were even being investigated. A B'Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) study, Violence against Minors in Police Detention, found that "illegal violence against minors, ... many [of whom] are innocent of any crime, ... occurs on a large scale."  Severe beatings, including "slapping, punching, kicking, hair pulling, beatings with clubs or with iron rods, pushing into walls and onto floors," were said to be "very common."  The study also highlighted more novel methods for interrogating minors: Beating the detainee as he is suspended in a closed sack covering the head and tied around the knees; tying the detainee in a twisted position to an outdoor pipe with hands behind the back for hours and, sometimes, in the rain, at night, and during the hot daytime hours; confining the detainee, sometimes for a few days, in the "lock-up" � a dark, smelly and suffocating cell one and a half by one and a half meters [five by five feet]; placing the detainee, sometimes for many hours, in the "closet" � a narrow cell the height of a person in which one can stand but not move; and depositing the tied-up detainee for many hours in the "grave" � a kind of box, closed by a door from the top, with only enough room to crouch and no toilet. Israeli press and human rights reports put flesh and blood on the data.  The 1 April 1988 issue of Hotam reported the case of a ten-year-old beaten so black and blue during an army interrogation that he was left "looking like a steak."  The soldiers "weren't bothered" even when they later learned that the boy was deaf, mute, and mentally retarded.  The 13 July 1988 issue of Koteret Rashit reported the "disappearance of 25 children" and jail threats to their parents for "annoying" the army about the children's whereabouts.  The 19 August 1988 issue of Hadashot featured three photos of a blindfolded six-year-old in an army jeep.  The caption reported that many children his age would be held in detention until "ransoms" of several hundred dollars were paid, and that, as they were carted away, the children often urinated in their pants "from fear."  Under the heading "Deliberate Murder," the August 1989 bulletin for the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights reported that the Israeli army (apparently sharpshooters from "special units") had targeted an "increasing" number of Palestinian children in leadership roles.  "Carefully chosen," the victim was usually shot in the head or heart and died almost instantaneously.  Dr. Haim Gordon of the Israeli Association for Human Rights reported the case of an eight-year-old tortured by soldiers after refusing to reveal which of his friends had thrown stones.  Stripped naked, hung by his legs and brutally beaten, the boy was then pushed to the edge of a rooftop before being released (cited in the January 1990 bulletin of the Israeli League).  The 15 January 1990 issue of Hadashot reported the case of a thirteen-year-old who was thrown into detention after his fingers were deliberately broken and who was then left without any medical treatment or food because his father was unable to pay the ransom of 750 dollars.  The 26 January 1990 issue of Davar reported the case of a sixteen-year-old girl who was beaten by a club-wielding policeman ("He even tried to push the club between my legs") and then thrashed in prison for refusing to sign a confession.  The 29 June 1990 issue of Hotam reported the case of a thirteen-year-old detainee who, refusing to supply incriminating evidence against his brother, was "smashed" in the face, had "bruise marks on his entire body," was not allowed to drink or eat "for hours," and was forced to "urinate and defecate in his pants." Reporting on the grisly fate of Palestinians as young as fourteen arrested on "suspicion of stone-throwing," the 24 February 1992 issue of Hadashot quoted an inside source at the Hebron detention center: What happened there ... was plain horror: they would break their clubs on the prisoners' bodies, hit them in the genitals, tie a prisoner up on the cold floor and play soccer with him � literally kick and roll him around.  Then they'd give him electric shocks, using the generator of a field telephone, and then push him out to stand for hours in the cold and rain....  They would crush the prisoners, ... turning them into lumps of meat. Another source inside the center was quoted to the effect that the "tortures recall what is being inflicted in the cellars of Damascus's prisons."  (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, pp. 47-49)

Israel's High Court proved to be a willing accomplice of the conquest regime in the West Bank and Gaza.  The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibited the destruction of private property except "where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military operations" and also explicitly forbade collective punishment.  Yet the High Court ruled that house demolitions in the occupied territories were permissible, even claiming that "there is no basis to the claim that house demolition is a collective punishment."  The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibited an occupying power from resettling its "own civilian population in territory it occupies."  Yet the High Court either ruled that Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza were legal or refused to hear challenges to their legality.  International law stipulated that an occupier could not institute new taxes in the territory under its control.  Yet the High Court ruled that the arbitrary value-added tax imposed on the occupied territories in 1976 was permissible.  ... Israeli military courts had jurisdiction over all "security-related" (and most significant civil) cases involving Palestinians in the occupied territories.  Suspects could be detained without trial for a period of eighteen days.  The decision to renew detention was typically based on information supplied by the military prosecutor.  Applications for release on bail were "almost never accepted."  Suspects had "absolutely no right of legal representation."  When representation was allowed, the lawyer was not permitted to visit his client until the interrogation had been completed.  Trial proceedings barely rose to the level of farce.  The "overwhelming majority" of convictions were decided on the basis of confessions "usually obtained under duress" and "almost invariably written in Hebrew," a language "few Palestinians could speak or read."  Administrative detention allowed for imprisonment without charge, evidence, or trial for as much as a year. Official Israeli rules of engagement allowed for the killing of a Palestinian simply for wearing a mask, hoisting a flag, erecting a barricade (which often consisted of no more than a few rocks and overturned garbage bins), or ignoring an order to halt.  They also allowed for the virtually unrestricted use of lethal plastic bullets and the summary execution of "wanted" Palestinians.  All these orders were in contravention of international law that sanctioned the use of lethal force only in life-threatening situations and then only if there was no recourse except to lethal force.  As Middle East Watch concluded, official Israeli policies and practices "effectively condone [] the unjustified killing of Palestinians." The guidelines just cited on the use of lethal force were the official ones.  The unofficial or de facto rules of engagement were yet more lax, as was evident from the record on investigations and convictions of Israelis accused of killings.  More than seven hundred Palestinians had been, in the course of the intifada through December 1989, shot dead by Israeli security forces.  Yet not one Israeli soldier was indicted on a murder charge, and only two were indicted on manslaughter charges.  A tiny handful were indicted on lesser charges such as illegal use of weapons.  The fewer than ten soldiers convicted in connection with killings of Palestinians received punishments ranging from an official reprimand to eighteen months' imprisonment.  ...  By way of contrast, Amnesty International reported that Palestinians received sentences of up to five years' imprisonment for simply throwing a stone. Reviewing the notorious case of a Gazan brutally beaten to death by Israeli soldiers (none of the accused was indicted on a major criminal charge or served more than five months in prison), the prominent Israeli advocate Avigdor Feldman concluded: "The illegality in the Territories is total.  Everyone � regardless of echelon, regardless of disagreement on every other conceivable topic � is of a mind on one matter: the value of an Arab's life is equal to zero."  (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, pp. 51-52)

Recalling his stint as a guard in Gaza Beach, "one of the best" Israeli internment camps for Palestinians, Israeli journalist Ari Shavit expatiated on [his experiences] with rare candor and insight: Most [Palestinians] are awaiting trial; most were arrested because they were throwing stones or were said to be members of illegal organizations.  Many are in their teens.  Among them, here and there, are some boys who are small and appear to be very young....  The prison has twelve guard towers.  Some Israeli soldiers are struck � and deeply shaken � by the similarity between these and certain other towers, about which they have learned at school....  ...  Maybe the Shin Bet [secret police] is to blame for this � for the arrests it makes and what it does to those arrested.  For almost every night, after it has managed, in its interrogations, to "break" a certain number of young men, the Shin Bet delivers to the [soldiers] a list with the names of friends of the young men....  [Then] the soldiers ... go out almost every night to the city and ... come back with children of fifteen or sixteen years of age.  The children grit their teeth.  Their eyes bulge from their sockets.  In not a few cases they have already been beaten....  And soldiers crowd together in the "reception room" to look at them when they undress.  To look at them in their underwear, to look at them as they tremble with fear.  And sometimes they kick them � one kick more, before they put on their new prison clothes....  Or maybe the doctor is to blame.  You wake him up in the middle of the night to treat one of those just brought in � a young man, barefoot, wounded, who looks as if he's having an epileptic fit, who tells you that they beat him just now on the back and stomach and over the heart.  There are ugly red marks all over his body.  The doctor turns to the young man and shouts at him.  In a loud, raging voice he says: May you die!  And then he turns to me with a laugh: May they all die!  Or maybe the screams are to blame.  At the end of the watch, ... you sometimes hear terrible screams ... from the other side of the ... fence of the interrogation section, ... hair-raising human screams.  Literally hair-raising....  In Gaza our General Security Services therefore amount to a Secret Police, our internment facilities are cleanly run Gulags.  Our soldiers are jailers, our interrogators torturers.  ...  Thus in the forty months of the intifada, more than ten thousand Israeli citizens in uniform have walked between the fences, have heard the screams, have seen the young being led in and out.  ...  And the country has been quiet.  Has flourished....  Ten thousand (if not fifteen thousand, if not twenty thousand) Israelis have done their work faithfully � have opened the heavy iron doors of the isolation cell and then closed it.  Have led the man from the interrogation chamber to the clinic, from the clinic back to the interrogation chamber.  They have looked close up at people shitting in terror, pissing in fear.  And not one among them has begun a hunger strike in front of the house of the prime minister.  Not one among them that I know of has said, This will not happen.  Not in a Jewish state. (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, pp. 71-73)

Just as Germans for generations to come would have to bear the burden of Nazism, so Jews for many generations to come would have to bear the burden of Israel's merciless assault against the Palestinian people.  Just as Germany's name was now inextricably linked, not just with Beethoven and Brecht, but with Hitler and Himmler, so the Jewish people's name would now be inextricably linked, not just with Marx and Menuhin, but with Sharon and Shamir.  Israel's terroristic war against the Palestinians had also besmirched the memory of the six million Jewish martyrs.  (Norman G. Finkelstein, The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 1996, p. 16)

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Third, the above materials suggest a motive for this political agenda � namely, that one reason that Jewish interests want to keep the issue of East European war crimes in general, and Ukrainian war crimes in particular, alive before the public eye is to mask the much greater war crimes that were committed by Jews in those same years, and � more importantly � that are being committed by Jews today.


Yours truly,


Lubomyr Prytulak