Russia and the Jews

guidance of the Chekist Shakhne Epstein at the helm.
Solzhenitsyn makes no mention of the promotional tour
that two representatives of the group, Salomon Mikhoels
and Itzik Feffer, made in the U.S. in June and July 1943.
They showed a piece of soap “the Nazis manufactured
from Jewish flesh” and told more stories of the same kind.
They were able to collect [from gullible donors] more than
$2 million with their stories to be used for the Soviet-Jewish
combat troops.” [Gerard Israel, The Jews in Russia, p.
178-180] ✦
The Stahlecker Report
Solzhenitsyn here introduces the report by SS-Standartenführer
(Colonel) Dr. Walther Stahlecker of
October 15, 1941, in such as way as to conclude
from it that, as Solzhenitsyn paraphrases: “The
German plan consisted of creating the impression that it
was not the Germans but the local population that began
the extermination of the Jews.” [Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet
Union, p. 386]
However, here again Solzhenitsyn did not examine the
report, but simply takes it uncritically from the protocols
of the Allied military tribunal in Nuremberg of 1945/46
and from Jewish authors, who for their part refer back to
it and likewise promote it, unchecked for authenticity.
The entire problem (and the methodology of the Allied
“reeducation” policy with its mendacious claims, extorted
“confessions” and falsified documents) was obviously an
unknown area to him. In any case, he has not concerned
himself with it and did not consult any critical literature
while doing his scientific research.
The reader is invited to consider the relevant investigations
in Historische Tatsachen (No. 16, pp. 31-34) of an
alleged letter written by SS-Obergruppenführer (General)
Reinhard Heydrich on July 2, 1941, this in connection with
the so-called “Dr. Stahlecker Report,” in order to determine
for himself that the Allies, in their Protocol volume
37, p. 670, introduced a “document” into which several
pages were “smuggled” that corresponded to the version
they desired the world to read of what happened. ✦
Soviet Brutality in Estonia:
During the Soviet occupation of 1940-1941, 179
people were sentenced to death in Estonia by Soviet
courts and about 2,200 were killed in other ways. Most
were killed by the security police in the prisons in Tartu
and Kuressaare. To hide their crimes, the communists
in Tartu hid 190 bodies in a well in a police station yard.
(Some victims shown at left.) During the Soviet era, all
discussion of communist killings was prohibited. But in
1988, a newspaper in Saaremaa was able to publish
an eyewitness account of the Tartu massacre:
As far as I know, only three persons were shot to death
and later found in the well. All the others were tortured
to death. They numbered about a hundred. Nobody
knows the exact number. The methods of torture were
numerous. One man had his lips cut off, another his
nose, tongue and ears. Many had their feet boiled.
There were also victims from whose backs pieces of
skin were cut out and who had their hands bound behind
their backs with barbed wire. A few had their eyes cut
out. . . . I was there when the bodies were removed from
the cellars. During the day thousands of people came
to look for their loved ones. Many found them. It was a
horrible sight, one I will never forget.
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