Fake Holocaust Survivors: David Hersch

Continuing on with my series of articles discussing the stories of so-called ‘Holocaust Survivors’; we have a jew from Hungary named David Hersch that has been showcased recently in the UK’s Daily Mail.

To wit:

‘David Hersch was 18-years-old when he was taken from his hometown of Dej in Hungary to Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria in June 1944.

After 10 months in captivity, with the Americans approaching, the prisoners were put on a 30 mile death march to Gunskirchen Concentration Camp.

He made his first escape after concealing himself in a group of refugees who crossed paths with the march, but was swiftly recaptured after an old Austrian woman told on him.

[…]

Hersch's first escape took place when his march crossed paths with a group of refugees at an intersection.

He used the diversion to sneak into their group, putting on a raincoat which one of them had dropped on the ground to blend in.

Hersch walked with the refugees to the next village where he knocked on the door of a house.

An elderly Austrian lady invited him inside and gave him food, but while he was lying on the grass in her back garden she reported him to two SS officers who had been patrolling the streets.

The SS officers came to the house, took Hersch and dragged him to the local police station but the gendarme took sympathy on him and let him stay in a cell overnight, even bringing him scrambled eggs.’ (1)

Right so according to Hersch he was put on a ‘death march’ from Mauthausen concentration camp to Gunskirchen concentration camp in March/April 1945, but this sort of forgets that if the intention of the German authorities was to kill the prisoners – which the concept of a ‘death march’ necessarily implies – then they would have simply machine gunned them down at Mauthausen not force marched them thirty miles in order to kill.

That’s the simple reality of the situation: the jews were sent on a forced march because they were a labour source and therefore a production asset to the Third Reich’s war effort. You don’t maltreat your production assets. Hence why SS Judge Konrad Morgan was given sweeping powers to stamp out misuse and ill-treatment of jews in the German concentration camp system during the Second World War.

What I also love about Hersch’s narrative is that it was only he who ‘escaped’ and then managed to ‘conceal himself in a group of refugees’ but got reported by an old Austrian woman. The problem with this is obvious in that Hersch would have almost certainly been wearing the famous concentration camp uniform – the blue and white stripes with the yellow star badge of jewish prisoners – but yet he fails to tell us how he managed to ‘fall in with a group of refugees’ who seemingly didn’t notice he was an escaped prisoner while an old Austrian woman did and reported him – as was her patriotic duty – to the proper authorities who then fed him scrambled eggs.

The Daily Mail continues Hersch’s narrative as follows:

‘Hersch expected to be executed on the spot but a sympathetic guard saved his life and he was returned to the concentration camp where he was put on another march days later.

Miraculously, he was able to escape again, bolting down a path while the SS officers were looking away and hiding in the bushes until He crossed paths with a kindly Austrian couple who at great risk to themselves hid him in their home, where billeted SS officers were also staying, until the end of the war.

Hersch's amazing tale is told for the first time by his son Jack who has retraced his footsteps for his new book, Death March Escape.’ (2)

Now this is where Hersch’s story begins to contradict the established narrative as well as stretches itself beyond the realms of credibility even for a ‘Holocaust Survivor’ story. I mean why on earth would an SS guard be ‘sympathetic’ to his escape attempt when standing orders were to execute all deserters – jewish and otherwise – and yet Hersch then immediately runs into the bushes to get away from his second ‘death march’ which just so happened to be occurring nearby. Then he found an Austrian couple sheltering SS officers also sheltered him.

None of that sounds even remotely plausible.

Then it we learn that Hersch’s account actually comes from his son Jack:

‘Jack, 60, from New York, US, said: 'There have been very few instances where a prisoner was able to escape a death march but my father was the only person to escape once, get recaptured and then a few days later be put on another death march, to escape again.' (3)

This is perhaps why we read other pieces of sheer lunacy in Hersch’s account like:

‘Hersch hid in the bushes until nightfall and then put on the raincoat of a dead prisoner who was on the road.’ (4)

So, the jewish prisoners had raincoats?

Yet we are supposed to believe the Germans were systematically maltreating and murdering them so why on earth would the German soldiers guarding the ‘death march’ not confiscate the valuable rain coat in a socio-economic situation of mass food shortages let alone clothing shortages?

Then we learn that:

‘After the conflict ended, Dave spent 18 months in hospital recuperating from multiple diseases before he returned to his home town of Dej.’ (5)

So, in other words David Hersch had multiple diseases, the luck of the gods and more or less claims that the SS troops were nice to jews while marching them around Germany in order to kill them.

Sounds very plausible: doesn’t it?

References

(1) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6151327/Incredible-story-POW-escaped-TWICE-Nazi-concentration-camp.html

(2) Ibid.

(3) Ibid.

(4) Ibid.

(5) Ibid.