Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

• The chief of the suppressed Holocaust facts: The Nazis never actually tried to kill all the Jews. Even at the height of the Holocaust itself (1942-1944), Hitler personally approved the release of Jews for money (Wasserstein 2014; See also Loeb 2008, Porat 1990, Shulman 1982).
• Quite a few German Jews were deliberately re-defined by the Nazis as non-Jews. They were declared “Honorary Aryans” (Rigg 2004).
• Furthermore, and contrary to the claim that Nazis were absolute enemies of everything Jewish, certain Germans with significant Jewish blood could “earn off” their Jewishness by meritorious service to the Third Reich (Bukey 2011).
• If the Nazis sought the death of every accessible Jew, they were totally incompetent. Fully 200,000 Jews remained alive in German concentration camps at the end of the war (Waxman 2006).
• In fact, two to three million Jews, within range of the Third Reich, were left alive. (Jensen 2003) If the Nazis were serious about destroying all European Jews, shouldn’t they have done better than that?
• Suppressed Holocaust facts: Individuals in Nazi Germany suspected of being Jews, but having an uncertain paternity, were given the benefit of the doubt and not recognized as Jews. (Pegelow 2006).
• Furthermore, the Nazis sometimes accepted outright legal fiction–of Jewish petitioners who said that their Jewish fathers were not their real fathers (Marwell 2020; Pegelow 2006). This gentile-father fiction redefined these Jews as Mischlinge, sparing them the full consequences of being Jews.
• Jewish-American and Jewish-British POWs, in German captivity, were never put to death (Morris 2006). Evidently, practical matters were more important to the Nazis than killing all possible Jews.
• Furthermore, Jews in the Third Reich, who were foreign nationals, were not put to death (Berg 2007). They were even exempt from wearing the Star.
• The Nuremberg Laws had a built-in leniency towards Jews, imposing a more restrictive definition of a Jew than that by the Jews themselves! That is why a significant fraction of Nazi-designated First- and Second-Degree Mischlinge were halachically Jewish (Rigg 2004).
• It is very doubtful if the Nazis ever had an ultimate aim of conquering the whole world, and to even theoretically be in a position to kill all the world’s Jews (Ferguson 1997).
• In fact, even in his wildest fantasies, Hitler never envisioned a Jewish-free world. He acknowledged that Jews would still exist 200 years in the future. (Cameron 2000).
• The Nazis had no self-consistent policies regarding the Mischlinge (half- and quarter-Jews). Some Nazi policies actually became less discriminatory with time. (Noakes 1989).
• And, no, the Nazis did not harm themselves economically or militarily by conducting the Holocaust (Aly 2003).
• CONCLUSION: The Holocaust was not special. It deserves no more attention and recognition in the classroom than any other genocide. Enough suppressed Holocaust facts. Genocide-Recognition Equality Now!

Sources: jewsandpolesdatabase.org (this site)