The Holocaust Historiography Project

Made in Russia: The Holocaust

Third revised edition, 2013

Compiled by Carlo Porter

Introduction

War crimes trials are characterised by the assumption that rules of evidence are a technicality designed to enable the guilty to evade punishment. In fact, their purpose is to protect tribunals from errors of judgment.

Centuries ago, it was common to prosecute women for performing sexual acts with the Devil. These acts were described in minute detail in thousands of trials, in millions of pages of sworn testimony. It was established, for example, that Satan’s ejaculatory fluid is cold.

Thousands of women stood fast in their confessions to the very foot of the stake, proving the truth of the matter stated; others recanted, proving the contumacy of the Tempter.

Thousands of men were burned for signing a Compact with the Prince of Darkness. This was a written contract, binding on both parties, the exact text of which was known to jurists for centuries; yet the original document was never found. Secondary evidence was accepted as to its existence and content.

Satan’s existence was proven by his many appearances in the form of a cat or goat; his failure to fulfill his contractual obligations was seen as a simple breach of faith.

Scientific experiments were performed. Women known to have participated in the Black Mass were found not to have left their beds during the night, proving that transportation is spiritual, rather than physical.

Professional witnesses denounced thousands of people; defendants were condemned on the basis of ex parte affidavits signed by unknown persons; hallucinations and dreams were introduced into evidence in sworn statements.

Persons defending the accused could only be motivated by secret sympathy with Satan’s conspiracy or Common Plan.

Respected people entered prison defiant, confident that God would prove them innocent; only to emerge a month later, prepared to confess publicly and be burned alive for kissing the anus of a goat.

Similar procedures and rules of evidence were used after the last war to convict Germans of killing millions of Jews in a technologically absurd manner, using an insecticide that required 24 hours to kill moths.

It is characteristic of modern thought that man is held to be progressing in some manner, a concept which was foreign to the medieval world.

Carlos Whitlock Porter
Editor, Made in Russia: The Holocaust Historical Review Press
1988


AS A “PROVEN FACT” PROTECTED BY SPECIAL LAWS NOT APPLICABLE TO OTHER “PROVEN FACTS”, THE HOLOCO$T MUST BE CONSIDERED AS SOMETHING OF AN ENDANGERED SPECIES.

ALL ONE NEED DO TO ENDANGER THE SPECIES A BIT FURTHER… OR PERHAPS EVEN DRIVE IT INTO EXTINCTION… IS TO GET THE NUREMBERG TRIAL TRANSCRIPT AND READ SOME OF IT.

IF GERMANS GASSED MILLIONS OF JEWS, DID THEY ALSO…

…STEAM PEOPLE TO DEATH LIKE LOBSTERS IN 10 STEAM CHAMBERS AT TREBLINKA?

…ZAP THEM TO DEATH WITH MASS ELECTRICAL SHOCKS?

…BLAST THEM INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONE WITH ATOMIC BOMBS?

…BEAT PEOPLE TO DEATH, THEN CARRY OUT AUTOPSIES TO SEE WHAT THEY DIED OF?

…FORCE PEOPLE TO CLIMB TREES, THEN CUT THE TREES DOWN?

…KILL 840,000 RUSSIAN POWS AT SACHSENHAUSEN AND BURN THE BODIES IN 4 PORTABLE OVENS?

…BASH PEOPLE’S BRAINS IN WITH A PEDAL-DRIVEN BRAIN-BASHING MACHINE WHILE LISTENING TO THE RADIO, THEN BURN THE BODIES IN 4 PORTABLE OVENS?

…TORTURE AND EXECUTE PEOPLE IN TIME TO MUSIC AT THE YANOV CAMP IN RUSSIA?

…SHOOT EVERY MEMBER OF THE ORCHESTRA?

…GRIND THE BONES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN PORTABLE BONE-GRINDING MACHINES?

…GRIND THE BONES OF 200 PEOPLE [3/4 TON] AT ONE TIME AS DESCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS WHICH HAVE DISAPPEARED?

…STUDY BONE GRINDING IN SPECIAL 10-DAY CRASH COURSE SEMINARS?

…WHUP PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL SPANKING MACHINES?

…MAKE LAMPSHADES OF HUMAN SKIN?

…CUT PEOPLE’S HEADS OFF AND THEN SHRINK THEM?

…MAKE POCKETBOOKS AND DRIVING GLOVES FOR SS OFFICERS OUT OF HUMAN SKIN?

…PAINT PORNOGRAPHIC PICTURES ON CANVASSES MADE OF HUMAN SKIN?

…BIND BOOKS IN HUMAN SKIN?

…MAKE SADDLES, RIDING BREECHES, GLOVES, HOUSE SLIPPERS, AND LADIES HANDBAGS OUT OF HUMAN SKIN?

…DRIVE JEWS TO CANNIBALISM IN ALL THOSE FREIGHT CARS?

…TORTURE PEOPLE IN SPECIALLY MASS-PRODUCED “TORTURE BOXES” MADE BY KRUPP?

…KILL PEOPLE FOR SLEEPING IN THEIR UNDERWEAR?

…KILL PEOPLE FOR WEARING DIRTY UNDERWEAR?

…WEAR UNDERWEAR STOLEN FROM GASSED PERSONS?

…KILL PEOPLE FOR HAVING ARMPIT HAIR?

…STUFF CHAIRS WITH HUMAN HAIR?

…MAKE SOCKS OUT OF HUMAN HAIR?

…COLLECT SEVEN TONS OF HAIR FOR HUMAN SOCK MAKING?

…COLLECT 293 HAIR BALES (NET WEIGHT SEVEN THOUSAND KILOGRAMS) AT AUSCHWITZ FOR MATTRESS STUFFING AND MAKING HAIR SOCKS?

…GAS PEOPLE TO DEATH, THEN DESTROY THE BODIES WITH QUICKLIME AT AUSCHWITZ?

…USE HUMAN ASHES FOR REPAIRING THE ROADS?

…MIX HUMAN ASHES WITH MANURE AND SELL IT?

…BURN HUMAN BODIES USING HUMAN FAT FOR FUEL?

…BURN HUMAN BODIES USING NO FUEL AT ALL AFTER REMOVING THEM FROM THE GAS CHAMBERS WITHOUT WEARING GAS MASKS?

…BURN 80,000 BODIES IN TWO OLD OVENS?

…BURN HUMAN BODIES IN HOLES DUG IN A SWAMPY PLAIN WHICH IS FROZEN IN JANUARY WHERE IT RAINS AND SNOWS CONSTANTLY AND THERE IS MUD EVERYWHERE?

…KILL PEOPLE WITH POISONED SOFT DRINKS?

…SHOOT 135,000 PEOPLE IN SMOLENSK AND BURY THEM KATYN-STYLE?

…SHOOT 200,000 PEOPLE IN THE LISENITZ FOREST?

…USING THE SAME METHODS OF CONCEALMENT THEY USED AT KATYN?

…SHOOT THE POLISH OFFICERS AT KATYN?

…FRAME THE RUSSIANS FOR KATYN?

…TORTURE “WITNESSES” INTO SIGNING STATEMENTS WRITTEN BY GESTAPO INTERROGATORS AND “INTERPRETERS” TO FRAME THE RUSSIANS FOR KATYN?

…TORTURE “WITNESSES” INTO TESTIFYING FALSELY BEFORE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATIONS

TO FRAME THE RUSSIANS FOR KATYN?

…TORTURE “WITNESSES” INTO SIGNING “STATEMENTS” WRITTEN IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

TO FRAME THE RUSSIANS FOR KATYN?

…TORTURE “WITNESSES” INTO SIGNING “STATEMENTS” THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO READ?

…TORTURE “WITNESSES” INTO RAISING THEIR RIGHT ARM AND SWEARING FALSELY UNDER OATH TO FRAME THE RUSSIANS FOR KATYN?

…DIG UP THE BODIES AT KATYN AND PUT FALSE DOCUMENTS IN THEIR POCKETS TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THE RUSSIANS DID IT, THEN BURY THEM AGAIN?

…TRANSPORT THOUSANDS OF BODIES FROM MASS GRAVES ALL OVER POLAND AND BURY THEM AT KATYN TO FRAME THE RUSSIANS FOR KATYN?

…BOIL THE FAT FROM 40 MALE AND FEMALE HUMAN BODIES FOR 3–7 DAYS TO GET 25 KILOS OF SOAP?

[…]

Holocaust accusations fall into three categories: the impossibly ridiculous; the ridiculously impossible; and the hopelessly insane.

To accuse an industrialized nation of killing millions of people with Diesel exhaust and insecticide to obtain hair socks, hair mattresses, dirty underwear, human soap, and a pack-rat’s nest of old watches and used false teeth which were kept in a bank vault (!) must surely be the product of a lunatic asylum.

It remains to suggest a motive for the fabrication of these impossible crimes.

Discussion of German treaty violations runs to thousands of pages in the Nuremberg trial transcript. The prosecutors were obsessed with the notion that German lack of “guilt” over WW1 led to violations of the Versailles Treaty which “caused WW2, and that the key to world peace lay in giving Germans a guilt complex.

If one believes the Versailles Treaty to have been justified… that West Prussia was “Poland” and not “Germany”… then this is logical and has been entirely successful. The lobotomized paraplegic which is the Bundesrepublik today is its own worst enemy.

The Germans were well aware of Allied war crimes and atrocities… the mass expulsions, mass rapes, indiscriminate population bombings, slave labour agreements, and Katyn… and felt no guilt for anything in May 1945.

Under our system of justice it is not enough to find some violation of some law, and it is not enough to prove that the defendant has a bad moral character. The prosecution must prove every element of the offense charged beyond reasonable doubt and may not shift the burden of proof to the defense in any way.

A defendant on trial in a criminal case under U.S. law is not required to testify, to present evidence, to call witnesses, to defend himself or to prove his innocence at any time.

The first thing the defense attorney does in a criminal trial under our system of law is to remind the jury (there is a jury even in military trials) that accusations are not evidence; that the prosecutor’s opening and closing statements to the jury are not evidence; and that he and the defendant are not required to do anything or prove anything. In the words of one trial lawyer, “Not one word you have heard up to now, including the last word I just said, is evidence of anything.”

No one has ever been convicted of a criminal offense under U.S. law on the basis of a “soap dish” accompanied by a “confession” which has disappeared, said to have been signed by an “accomplice” no one has ever heard of, and which was simply “quoted” by the prosecutor.

No one has ever been convicted of a criminal offense under U.S. law on the basis of a “report” written by the prosecutors: if that were possible, there would be no need for a trial, because the indictment would suffice for conviction.

No one has ever been convicted of a criminal offense under U.S. law on the basis of a “shrunken head” accompanied by an “affidavit”.

[…]

THE INCREDIBLE PEDAL-DRIVEN BRAIN-BASHING MACHINE

or

HOW I HELPED KILL 840,000 RUSSIANS BY “FEET POWER” AND BURNED THE BODIES IN FOUR PORTABLE OVENS

(Translation from the original Russian of excerpt of “confession” of Paul Waldmann, Document USSR-52, Nuremberg Trials, emphasis added)

At the end of 1941, the Sonderkommando of the Security Police, which was directly subordinate to the State Office of the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, killed 840,000 Russian prisoners of war in the Sachsenhausen Camp. I have the following to report on this “Special Action”:

The Russian prisoners of war arrived at Sachsenhausen Station on overcrowded goods trains. Every day, 8-10 trains arrived, each of them carrying 1,800. So every day, 28,000 Russian prisoners of war arrived. Execution continued for 30 days. It was interrupted because of an outbreak of typhus. The camp was closed. The execution detachment with their apparatus left Sachsenhausen Camp. I did not hear whether the extermination was continued in some other place, because I was held in quarantine with suspected typhus.

Execution of the prisoners

From the station to the camp, the line of Russian prisoners of war stretched for about a kilometer. They stayed in the camp for one night without food. The following evening, they were taken out for execution.

All the time, the prisoners were being taken from the inner camp on three trucks, one of which I was driving. The inner camp was about three quarters of a kilometer away from the execution yard. The execution itself took place in a barracks, which had been equipped for this purpose not long before. One room was for undressing, and another was the waiting room. In the rooms, a radio was playing quite loud music, to prevent the prisoners from guessing that death awaited them. From the second room, they went one by one through a passage into a small screened-off room, on the floor of which was an iron grating; under the grating, a drainage canal had been made. As soon as a prisoner had been killed, the corpse was carried away by two German prisoners, and the blood was cleaned off the grating. In this small room, there was a slit measuring about 50 centimetres. The prisoner stood with the back of his head to the slit, and a gunman who was behind the slit shot him. In fact, this arrangement was unsatisfactory, because the gunman often failed to hit the prisoner. After eight days, a new system was introduced. They stood the prisoner against the wall, as before, and then slowly lowered an iron plate onto his head. The iron plate contained a hammer, which came down and hit the prisoner on the back of the head, so that he fell down dead.

The iron plate was controlled by means of a foot- operated lever located in the corner of this room. The attendants were from the above mentioned Sonderkommando. At the request of the officials of the execution detachment, I, too, operated this apparatus. I will speak about this below. The prisoners of war who were killed in this way were burnt in four mobile crematoria, which were transported on a truck trailer.

All the time, I had to drive from the inner camp to the execution yard. At night, I had to make 10 trips at intervals of about 10 minutes. During these intervals, I witnessed the execution. One of the members of the execution detachment, whose surname I never knew, suggested that I should operate the apparatus. I agreed. In each interval I killed 8-10 people. So in one night I killed 80-100 people. During the period of execution I personally killed 2,400-3,000 Russian prisoners of war, some of whom I shot with a pistol, and others I killed with the apparatus described above. Once more I repeat that out of a total of 840,000 Russian prisoners of war I personally killed 2,400-3,000 people. I myself expressed a wish to operate this apparatus. The official of the execution commission could not compel me to do so, because he was not my superior. There were no other methods of execution apart from these …

I can now make no further statements. I have described everything. If I remember anything later, I shall voluntarily report it.

I have compiled and written the present supplement myself, and I confirm this with my signature.

[Statement is printed in Russian.]

[Name “Paul Waldmann” is printed in Russian.] Paul Waldmann,

Poznan, 10 June 1945.

[Handwritten] I hereby confirm that these documents are true copies of the originals which are kept among the proceedings of the Special State Commission in Moscow.

Authorized representative of the Special State Commission, D. Kuzmin, 7/1/1946.

[Stamp] Special State Commission

THESE TRANSLATIONS ARE NOTARIZED.

Index

Affidavits…67, 162-173, 281-289, 402-406, 414

Air pumps…382, 384

Armpits…72

Atomic bombs…11

Bone-grinders (portable)…20, 23-25

Bone-grinders (non-portable)…21-22

Books (human)…50

Booties (of human hair)…75-78, 377

“Certified true copies”…67, 257, 368, 371, 376-377, 380, 414

Chairs (stuffed with human hair)…73

Chemistry…78, 357

Concentration camps (for extermination)…381-386

Concentration camps (as health resorts)…332-334

Confessions…109-114, 187-194, 273-275, 414

Credibility of witnesses…234, 251

Cremations (with fuel)…49, 88, 346-356

Cremations (without fuel)…87

Cremations (in swamps)…89-96

Cross-examination…237, 240

Cyanide poisoning…171, 343-345, 357, 389, 398

Dachau (gas chamber at)…55, 339-340

Documents, authentication of…67, 160-161, 231, 290-305, 321, 324, 327

Dirty pictures (on canvases of human skin)…49

Electrical chambers…8-10, 381

Forensic evidence…120, 337-364

Foreskin collections…36

Gas chambers…93, 339-345

Gloves (human)…48

Handbags (human)…47, 53-54

Heads (shrunken)…40-46

Hearsay…277-280

Hollywood…308-319

Illegalities…176, 201-202, 229-329, 337-338, 365-366

Katyn…100-120; see also Appendix I

Lampshades (of human skin)…35-40, 49, 51-52

Leading questions…277

Mattresses (stuffed with human hair)…74, 159

Offices…210-212, 354

Ovens (portable)…14, 16, 27, 144, 379

Ovens (non-portable)…49, 228, 350-356

Orchestras…17-19, 89

Pedal-driven brain-bashing machines…15-16, 378-380

Photocopies…290-296, 415

Pig cards…231-233

Quicklime…81-82, 385

Ritual murder…184

Saddles (human)…53-54

Slippers (human)…53-54

Soap (human)…73, 121-130, 367-377

Socks (of human hair); see “booties”

Soviet “evidence”…290-298, 305, 321, 368-380

Steam chambers…2-7, 198, 382

Torture boxes…65-67

“Translations”…186-197, 247, 259, 262-264, 285, 369-372, 376, 380

Copyright © 2013 Carlos Whitlock Porter. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-4717-2138-0

Source: CWPorter.com

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