Potemkin
I simply don't understand why Jews still worship Churchill. He was responsible for the Holocaust ffs.
No, he wasn't. Hitler (and the entire Nazi state apparatus) was responsible for the Holocaust. Churchill was a brutal imperialist, but he can hardly be blamed for the genocide of European Jews.
Yes, he was. When Britain declared war on Germany (3 Sep 1939) follow German invasion to Poland two days before, hapless desperate Jews were gathering outside British Embassy in Warsaw to thank Britain. They put all their hope on British protection, they had no one else. Instead Britain abandoned them.
"During the first two years of the war, when the German authorities bent their efforts to securing the exodus of the Jews from the Reich and from Nazi occupied territory, it was the British Government which took the lead in barring the escape routes from Europe against Jewish refugees." ("Britain and the Jews of Europe," 1939-1945, p.345)
Of course there need also to blame the Zionist leadership who ignore opposition advise (that is the Stern Group) to demand some concessions for Jewish support (i.e. to change British Palestine's White Paper policy meaning allowing more Jewish refugees to enter Palestine.) Nothing was made. After the war, many British were astonished why the Palestinian Jews turned against them after all they had just liberated Bergen Belsen. But than there were almost no one to liberate.
During the war, Churchill was afraid of Mosely's propaganda ("this is a Jewish war"), and did little to aid the trapped Jews (unlike other local resistance groups and exiled "govermemts" ). Despite the blockade, thousands of tons of foodstuffs' were sent to Greece between 1943 and 1945 while no relief was provided the Jews in occupied Europe; and there was an extraordinary effort to provision the Polish Home Army in its Warsaw rising a year after the Allies' total abandonment of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Britain even refused Jewish begging to bomb Auschwitz railways and delaying the creation of Jewish force (in British Army) made by Palestinjian Jews, when the force was finally created they were not allowed to be too active. And saw little action let along to liberate the Jews or to sabotage Nazi machine.
Thus by allying themselves with Britain, the Jewish leaders outside occupied Europe (in Palestine, US and UK) betrayed their own people interests.
The Holocaust: why the Allies stayed mum
During WWII the Allies were afraid that if their struggle were in some way identified with the rescue of Jewish people, they would be accused by their own home constituency of fighting for the Jews and not for themselves.
This is the context in which Britain received, and suppressed, hard evidence that the Nazis were perpetrating systematic massacres of Jews. Marion Milne, co producer of a BBC documentary called “What did you do in the war, Auntie?â€, wrote "The Holocaust was the best-kept secret of the war. " Suspicions of Jews continued during the war, when the government was apprehensive about the level of anti-Semitism in Britain and feared it could turn into anti-war and pro-Fascist sentiment. "It did everything to avoid the impression that Britain was at war on behalf of the Jews".
1939 July 16 Sir Oswald Mosley declares that one million British Fascists will refuse to fight in a "Jewish war." Or to ‘offer to fight in the quarrel of Jewish finance’. His campaigns carried through into World War II, requiring the British government ostentatiously to demonstrate that it was not fighting a "Jews' war." During the war itself, an obsessive fear of "fifth columns" and "enemy aliens" existed alongside a perceived linkage of Jews with black-marketeering, spying, and subversion. Fascists still scrawled "This is a Jewish War" on some of the walls which still stood, and anti-semitic feeling in the shelters was always a problem. This undercurrent of anti-Semitism probably contributed to Britain's refusal to undertake any serious rescue effort to save the remnants of European Jewry during the Holocaust. Britain's policy of blocking Jewish immigration to Palestine beginning in 1938, and especially from the end of the war until 1948, though mainly driven by realpolitik and imperial strategy, cannot plausibly be detached from anti-Jewish sentiment.
British Fascist WW2 Propaganda
Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay was a British Army officer. From the late 1930s he developed increasingly strident antisemitic views. In 1940 his involvement with a suspected spy at the United States embassy led to his internment under Defence Regulation 18B, the only British MP to suffer this fate.
On the second day of World War II (September 4, 1939), Ramsay sat in the Library of the House of Commons writing a poem which was later to be printed and distributed by the Right Club. It ran:
"Land of dope and Jewry" ( to the tune of Elgars classic)
Land of dope and Jewry
Land that once was free
All the Jew boys praise thee
Whilst they plunder thee
Poorer still and poorer
Grow thy true-born sons
Faster still and faster
They're sent to feed the guns.
Land of Jewish finance
Fooled by Jewish lies
In press and books and movies
While our birthright dies
Longer still and longer
Is the rope they get
But — by the God of battles
'Twill serve to hang them yet.
In addition to "Land of dope and Jewry" rhyme, the slogans included "War destroys workers" and "This is a Jews' War"; some of the leaflets asserted "the stark truth is that this war was plotted and engineered by the Jews for world-power and vengeance".
Archibald Ramsay, Peeblesshire and South Midlothian Advertiser (13th January, 1939)
There was not the smallest doubt that there was an international group of Jews who were behind world revolution in every single country at the present time. That fact a great many people in this country were inclined to pooh pooh, but it was more or less generally accepted over the whole of Europe. People had come to the conclusion that a menace did actually exist, and that the Third International was unquestionably mainly controlled by Jews. They did not agree in this country with Hitler's methods with regard to the Jews, but he must, she said, have had his reasons for what he did. Did it not strike them that a man of Hitler's ability would not turn out an enormous section of the people from his country, and have half of Europe howling at him, unless he had some reason for doing so? The dictator States had discovered the terrible menace that they were facing at the present time.
- By Steve Melton
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