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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 373<br />

Stalin’s government saw to it that the western Jews who had been<br />

deported into the eastern areas and had survived the hardships <strong>of</strong> wartime<br />

were removed without a trace and were unable to communicate<br />

with friends or relatives. This meant, first <strong>of</strong> all, that they had to be<br />

moved from the western regions <strong>of</strong> the USSR into eastern areas <strong>of</strong> the<br />

country which were essentially hidden from the outside world. Such a<br />

migration could easily be accomplished within the mass deportations <strong>of</strong><br />

1949 described by the American Jewish Yearbook. We do not believe<br />

that these Jews were killed, but we assume that they disappeared in<br />

camps they would never leave.<br />

Such a step allowed Stalin to consolidate the myth <strong>of</strong> the extermination<br />

<strong>of</strong> Jews in “gas chambers.” It thus killed two birds with one stone:<br />

Stalin was able to take on the role <strong>of</strong> a savior who had freed half <strong>of</strong> Europe<br />

from a monstrous dictatorship, while at the same time enabling the<br />

foundation <strong>of</strong> Israel which he – erroneously – regarded as a Soviet outpost<br />

in the Near East. 1105<br />

If this hypothesis were correct, did the leaders <strong>of</strong> the Zionist movement<br />

know about what was happening in the USSR? The only possible<br />

answer is “yes,” because this organization had enough informants all<br />

over the world to be kept abreast <strong>of</strong> what was going on locally. It would<br />

be naïve to argue that the Zionists would surely have decried such an<br />

inhumane policy <strong>of</strong> the Soviets. For these people, the main objective,<br />

which dominated all other considerations, was the foundation <strong>of</strong> a Jewish<br />

state in the Near East, and in order to reach that goal they were unhesitatingly<br />

prepared to sacrifice tens or hundreds <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> their<br />

own brethren.<br />

We remind our readers <strong>of</strong> the fact that the Zionists fired up the anti-<br />

Jewish atmosphere in Germany after Hitler’s ascent to power by<br />

preaching a boycott <strong>of</strong> German products, in spite <strong>of</strong> the obvious repercussions<br />

such an attitude would have for the Jews in Germany. The<br />

Jewish writer Josef Gideon Burg has described the Zionist policy in the<br />

following words: 1106<br />

1105 In his book Fälschung, Dichtung und Wahrheit über Hitler und Stalin (Olzog, Munich<br />

2004, p. 339), the late German historian Pr<strong>of</strong>. Dr. Werner Maser expressed a similar hypothesis:<br />

“It was no topic for many <strong>of</strong> them [Stalin’s propagandists] that Stalin representted<br />

the up to two million[!] Jews, who after the war could no longer return to their places<br />

<strong>of</strong> origin from the USSR because they had lost their way <strong>of</strong> life there, as victims <strong>of</strong> the<br />

National Socialist regime contrary to the truth.” Editor’s remark.<br />

1106 Josef G. Burg, Schuld und Schicksal. Europas Juden zwischen Henkern und Heuchlern,<br />

Verlag K. W. Schütz, Pr. Oldendorf 1990, p. 75.

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