Empire of Destruction, by Alex J. Kay. 2021. Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Nazi Germany Killed More Goyim Than They Killed Jews! So Reclaim Non-Jewish Victims
There are thousands of books on the Third Reich and its crimes. Almost all of them are centered on the Jews’ Holocaust. This one is refreshingly different. Demythologized industrial genocide, elaborated below, is one highlight.
British historian Alex J. Kay begins with the obligatory bow to the alleged unprecedented nature of the Holocaust (pp. 2-3), but then performs unusually-seen justice to the non-Jewish victims. While having “only” two chapters on the German-made Holocaust, he features detailed chapters on the handicapped, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, Polish intellectuals, and the Poles of the Soviet-betrayed Warsaw Uprising.
REPUDIATING THE USUAL ATTEMPTS TO DILUTE GERMAN GUILT
There is nowadays a tendency to dichotomize Germans and “Nazis” and to pay as much attention to the “collaborators” in various German-ruled European nations as to the “Nazis”. All this, of course, is in a Jewish-centered framework. Historian Kay rejects this. He wisely notes, “However, the Nazi mass-killing programs were a German project, conceived of, set in motion by and driven forward through the agency of Germans. Furthermore, the vast majority of perpetrators were German (Reich or ethnic) or Austrian, and the vast majority of victims were killed by them…” (p. 285. Emphasis added). Finally, some sanity!
IN 1939, POLAND’S NATIVE GERMANS ALONE MURDERED THOUSANDS OF POLISH INTELLIGENTSIA
Because there were too many Poles to exterminate in one fell swoop, the Germans did it in stages, beginning with the systematic destruction of Poland’s brightest and best. This genocidal (nation-destroying) act is sometimes called aristocide or “beheading”. This Polonocide was no small operation, and moreover the perpetrators were not only the invading Germans but also the VOLKSDEUTSCHE (native, Polonized Germans). Kay writes,
“Taken together, Operation Tannenberg, the Intelligentsia Operation and Operation AB claimed the lives of up to 100,000 Polish civilians in the space of one year.” (p. 54).
“…the elimination of the Polish elites: the Selbtschutz units that played such a prominent role in decimating the ranks of the Polish leadership were recruited from among ethnic Germans native to Poland…” (p. 285).
“…the newly-founded Volksdeutscher Selbtschutz; within a matter of weeks, these ‘self-defence’ units had recruited at least 100,000 men among ethnic Germans native to Poland…” (p. 43).
THE WOLA MASSACRES OF POLES: A LONG-OVERDUE PERSPECTIVE
British historian Kay compares three massacres, each of which took the Germans two days to accomplish. He remarks, “In terms of its death toll, the Wola massacres surpassed even the mass shooting of 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar on 29 and 30 September 1941 and were on the same scale as Operation Harvest festival, during which 42,000 Jews had been murdered in the Lublin area on 3-5 November 1943 in the single largest mass shooting of Jews during the war.” (p. 276).
In other words, the three massacres are comparable to each other. But need we guess which massacres are remembered and which one is forgotten?
RECLAIM NON-JEWISH VICTIMS. NAZI GERMANY KILLED MORE NON-JEWS THAN THEY KILLED JEWS!
Kay estimates that Nazi Germany killed a total of 13 million civilians (p. 1, 282, 294) independent of military action, which means that the Germans killed more goyim than they killed Jews.
The 13 million civilian death toll is apportioned as follows: 5.8 million Jews, 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war, 2 million Soviet urban dwellers, 1 million civilians in anti-partisan operations across Europe, 100,000 Polish ruling classes and elites, 185,000 Warsaw civilians as an outcome of the Soviet-betrayed Warsaw Uprising, 300,000 mentally and physically disabled all over Europe, and 200,000 European Roma. (p. 294). In addition, according to Kay, “More than 6 million additional Soviet civilians died directly or indirectly from the war as a result of starvation in rural and small-town settings and behind the Soviet front.” (p. 283).
Kay sees right through the German pretexts for the murders. He knows that the “preventing Polish resistance” excuse for killing Polish intellectuals (an excuse also repeated by Jews today to minimize the significance of the murders of Poles) did not prevent Polish children from being murdered. (p. 49). Children could hardly be plotting resistance to the German conquerors!
The Germans destroyed around 800 Polish villages. (p. 189). Kay realizes that German “anti-partisan” actions had little to do with actually fighting partisans. (pp. 177-180). They were a pretext for the collective murders of villagers, the destruction of rural settlements, the genocidal depopulation of large rural areas (p. 183), and for the German confiscation of tens of thousands of heads of livestock. (pp. 181-182).
However, Kay’s overall figures are not complete. Oddly enough, he does not mention the German murders of 3 or more million Poles overall.
RECLAIM NON-JEWISH VICTIMS: DO NOT REDUCE NAZISM TO ANTISEMITISM!
Historian Kay gives this atypical wisdom, “Antisemitism as a motivating factor cannot explain why German (and Austrian) perpetrators massacred Belarusian villagers, starved German psychiatric patients or gassed Austrian Roma.” (p. 287). In other words, German Nazism was radical evil all right–but it was radical evil directed at various peoples, and not only radical evil directed against Jews, as usually portrayed.
DEMYTHOLOGIZING INDUSTRIAL GENOCIDE
The Holocaust establishment keeps making a big deal of the “assembly-line” manner of killing of Jews even though the manner of death has no significance. Besides, the argument itself is flawed. Kay comments, “Indeed, the notion of ‘industrial’ German mass murder is somewhat misleading, given that half of the murdered Jews were not gassed, three of the five main extermination centers did not possess crematoria…New technologies or operational procedures for murder introduced at one of the killing centers did not necessarily lead to a change at the others. In Majdanek, another major site of mass killing, more people died from shooting than in the gas chambers there.” (p. 211).
REJECTING THE SELFISH JEWISH MONOPOLY OF AUSCHWITZ
Kay points out, “In view of Auschwitz’s pre-eminence in Holocaust memory, it is worth noting that the camp was not created for the annihilation of Jews.” (p. 213). That’s for sure!
He adds that:
“Indeed, it was decided that Auschwitz concentration camp would become a long-term detention and torture site for Poles, and the camp was expanded accordingly over the course of summer 1940.” (pp. 214-215).
“There were no signs yet that Birkenau would one day be central to the Holocaust. Contrary to some suggestions, Auschwitz did not became a death camp for European Jews as early as 1941. This function gradually emerged during 1942.” (p. 220). In fact, “…the new sub-camp at Birkenau was not built to murder the Jews of Europe but to exploit vast numbers of Soviet POWs.” (p. 221).
So it was Poles first, Russians second, and Jews third as victims of Auschwitz. Jews do not “own” Auschwitz. How long will Poles continue to cater to Jewish selfishness as, for example, by removing the Auschwitz Carmelite convent?
RECLAIM NON-JEWISH VICTIMS: THE RUSSIAN EXAMPLE OF REFUSING TO “DIVIDE THE DEAD”
Soviet and post-Soviet Russians, in striking contrast to the West, tend to resist allowing the Jews’ Holocaust to dominate their societies. They will certainly not allow their sufferings to be memory-holed by the Holocaust. Kay gives us a clue as to why this is so. He writes, “Alongside the 2 million starved inhabitants of Soviet cities and the 3.3 million Soviet POWs mentioned above, German forces murdered at least 17,000 psychiatric patients, 2.6 million Jews, 30,000 Roma and up to 600,000 rural-dwelling civilians in so-called anti-partisan operations.” (p. 283). The total Soviet death toll reaches 27 million (p. 169), and this dwarfs the 6 million Jews of the Holocaust.
