Swinging around to our next bit of ‘Remarkable Holocaust Nonsense’ we have a story courtesy of @rabbit_noticed on X who sent me the following story from 9th June 1961 edition of ‘The Spokesman-Review’ which documents the story of Eichmann Trial witness – and thus one of the secondary major
Can you imagine the leader of the entire camp fretting “oh no, who will unload these potatoes?! Why….egads! We’re about to gas 1000 Jews when we don’t have anyone to unload these potatoes!? I must PERSONALLY inspect all the prisoners to find the MOST FIT among them to unload potatoes or the entire eastern front will collapse! Then Hitler will REALLY be mad at me! Master race, unable to unload potatoes…my name will be mocked for eternity!”
“Sir we have 1000 prisoners already disrobed and inside the extermination chamber.”
“YOU FOOL! Have you not heard?!”
“The Russians?!! Are they here?!”
“Worse! The potatoes! We need every able body we can get! Let them out!”
Wonderful realistic counter to what is believed by most. You win.
I have a question when folks spout "German=demons" belief. I ask as though it was an oversight or just not known. "Why didn't the Germans just eat the jews when they had food problems instead of burning all those meaty corpses? Imagine being hungry and smelling thousands of pounds of pork being roasted and you can't eat it? Would have been good with potatoes?
Can you imagine the leader of the entire camp fretting “oh no, who will unload these potatoes?! Why….egads! We’re about to gas 1000 Jews when we don’t have anyone to unload these potatoes!? I must PERSONALLY inspect all the prisoners to find the MOST FIT among them to unload potatoes or the entire eastern front will collapse! Then Hitler will REALLY be mad at me! Master race, unable to unload potatoes…my name will be mocked for eternity!”
“Sir we have 1000 prisoners already disrobed and inside the extermination chamber.”
“YOU FOOL! Have you not heard?!”
“The Russians?!! Are they here?!”
“Worse! The potatoes! We need every able body we can get! Let them out!”
“I need 50 elite men for a top secret mission”
Wonderful realistic counter to what is believed by most. You win.
I have a question when folks spout "German=demons" belief. I ask as though it was an oversight or just not known. "Why didn't the Germans just eat the jews when they had food problems instead of burning all those meaty corpses? Imagine being hungry and smelling thousands of pounds of pork being roasted and you can't eat it? Would have been good with potatoes?
more like James Dean than James Bond
Your “appearance” on NNR was very illuminating, especially your observation about the jewish sense of time!
Hail Victory!