Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history Subject: LEST WE FORGET: The Jews Aren't Dying Fast Enough! Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Frank,Poland Archive/File: holocaust/poland frank.02 Last-Modified: 1994/02/21 "During the course of the war Hitler pursued his second aim, the total elimination of the Jews. They had lived in Poland, however hopelessly, for many centuries. They had come to interpret the word Poland (Polen) in its Hebrew etymology, Polin, `Here ye shall remain.' Hitler have as high a priority to elimination of its three and a half million Jews as he gave to the conquest of the land. Wherever his armies prevailed, the Jews were among the first victims. The resistance during those bitter war years could be described as circumvention rather than defiance. The Jews tended their own sick, devised ingenious forms of ersatz foods, and shared their shabby clothing and other possessions. Though the death rate edged toward annihilation, the Jews did not die quickly enough, or in large enough numbers, to satisfy their tormentors. In April 1942 the Governor General of Poland, Hans Frank, expressed his frustration: `I wish to state that we have sentenced two hundred thousand Jews to death by starvation; the fact that the Jews are not dying from hunger will only serve to speed up enactments of further anti-Jewish decrees.' To Frank, `speeding up' meant more direct action." <1> During his testimony at Nuremberg, Frank addressed his guilt obliquely, in an apparent attempt to mitigate his personal responsibility by raising the cloak of universal German guilt. "To Seidl's question, `Did you ever participate in the annihilation of Jews?' Frank responded: `I say yes; and the reason why I say yes is because, having lived through the five months of this trial, and particularly after having heard the testimony of the witness Ho"ss, my conscience does not allow me to throw the responsibility solely on these minor people. I myself have never installed an extermination camp for Jews, or promoted the existence of such camps; but if Adolf Hitler personally has laid that dreadful responsibility on his people, then it is mine, too, for we have fought against Jewry for years; and we have indulged in the most horrible utterances -- my own diary bears witness against me. Therefore, it is no more than my duty to answer your question in this connection with `yes.' A thousand years will pass and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased.'"<2> <1> "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1983. p. 49 <2> "JUSTICE AT NUREMBERG", Robert E. Conot (New York: Harper & Row, 1983. pp 379-380
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